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Cool Link: How AI Poisons Creativity

2026-07-17 00:03:31

by The Art of Storytelling

There will be at many points in your creative process opportunities to bypass the struggle of working and learning, but availing yourself of those shortcuts will gradually undermine your work in subtle ways that you cannot foresee.

So sure, go ahead and use generative fill to clean up your image. No one’s watching. I won’t tell anyone and no one will ever know. But you will pay a very small price in relieving yourself from the duty of learning some new Photoshop skills. You might not need those skills in this precise moment, but as you grow into your craft, those skills might come in handy in other ways that you do not presently anticipate.

While focused on people who do creative work, this video easily applies to everyone. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of letting the sparkles do something for you, and just as easy to prevent yourself from learning and improving because of that.

Even as someone who tries to limit and police my own usage of AI tools, I could see myself in a lot of these examples. Process isn’t only important to creative work; it’s important to our own personal development. AI can produce generic output that anyone else could, but only you, with your unique combination of skills and experiences accumulated over the years, can produce something unique.

Cool Link: Getting Started with Anchor Positioning

2026-07-16 15:21:42

by Josh W. Comeau

Another amazing Josh Comeau post that explains a new concept in a super easy to understand manner and makes me wanna try it out right now? Yes please.

The last time I saw the anchor positioning API, it looked kinda intimidating. Now it sounds so simple! I know there was work on the browser standards side to simplify it, so kudos to them for arriving at what seems to be a really sensible API.

Quick Review: Obsession

2026-07-11 20:00:00

Obsession
2026, Curry Barker

My rating: Loved it!

One of the best (if not THE best) horror movies I’ve ever seen! Nikki is probably the most terrifying character I’ve seen in a movie, and so much of it is due to Inde’s acting and the amazing sound design.

This is Curry Barker’s first movie and I can’t wait for the next ones.

Cool Link: Abject Praise

2026-07-08 21:17:07

by Alex Russell

There’s hardly a working day in which Safari doesn’t make my life harder. I’m not the only one who feels like that. Alex Russell goes in great detail on how shitty the situation of Apple’s browser is especially because they block any sort of competition in their main platform.

Apple is consistently out-engineered and out-invested by a non-profit with 1/40th the web-derived revenue.

These large, persistent gaps matter to the mobile and web ecosystems because Apple is unique in denying access to more capable, less-buggy engines and actively erecting unlawful barriers to choice when forced by legislation to enable it.

Cool Link: Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix

2026-07-06 07:20:15

by Sophie Koonin

Don’t let the title turn you off in case these words mean nothing to you — Sophie’s website is a joy to open every time, with multiple fun themes to choose from. And she added a new dynamic element to one of them, making the background reflect the sky of the current time of day.

She noted it was hard to get to this result, but reading it, it feels pretty simple to understand. Which is the mark of a good developer and writer.

Photography: Bergamo

2026-07-05 04:40:18

Cool people and nice views, lots of things to like in Bergamo.

Photos taken on Saturday, 04 Jul 2026

Aerial view of Bergamo from Città Alta, with the historic upper town's towers and cathedral domes in the foreground and the flat Po Valley stretching to the horizon.

Hillside villas and gardens scattered among dense trees on the slopes of Bergamo's Città Alta, with mountains visible in the distance.

Looking up at the Campanone, Bergamo's medieval stone bell tower in Piazza Vecchia, with its decorative clock face and open bell chamber against a bright blue sky.