2025-11-10 01:28:21
Sunset in Bellagio
Photo taken on Sat, 01 Nov 2025
Sunset in Bellagio, Italy.
2025-11-09 08:00:00
Lecco's Bell Tower
Photo taken on Sat, 08 Nov 2025
Bell tower of St. Nicholas’ Basilica in Lecco, Italy.
2025-11-08 00:38:56
In July 2024, I started gathering cool links from around the web, with the best stuff I’ve read or watched during each month. Since then, I’ve been posting them monthly, always at the last day of the month.
I’ve been really enjoying doing that, it’s the perfect opportunity to write a few words about stuff without having to commit to a full blog post. Plus, it keeps the spirit of the web alive!
The process of saving links and organizing them was always very manual and it still is to some extent, but a couple months ago I did the responsible thing and started organizing my archive of links. Which means I can reference them, sort, filter, and whatever else I want.
The next logical evolution of that was making that archive available on this very website — and it is now, on the new Cool Links page !
Links are added there automatically as I save them, which means they’ll be added throughout the entire month. I’ve even added them to the RSS feed, if you’re into that.
Of course, the monthly posts (and newsletters) with Cool Links will still exist. I feel like a compilation of multiple links is still the best way to read them. But now you can also find them on their own little room, too.
There’s already some there that haven’t been posted on the blog yet. So if you’re too impatient you can go check it out!
2025-11-05 08:00:00
Just use a button, by Chris Ferdinandi
The “div vs button” debate was never really a debate because one of the sides is objectively wrong, but this is still a good post to remind you of why it was never a debate in the first place.
2025-11-02 20:00:00
Gone Girl
2014, David Fincher
My rating: I like it
I had no idea what to expect from this movie and it kept surprising me over and over. It’s already pretty long but I wish it kept going for a bit longer.
2025-10-31 08:00:00
Hey there, Happy Halloween 🎃 ! As I enjoy my favorite season and prepare for my first winter in the northern hemisphere, I gathered just treats, no tricks, for you this month.
Edit Photo, by Pintura Labs
Okay, this is pretty cool. This lil’ website allows you to do quick image edits right on your browser. Nothing new there - except for the fact that it actually works with no account, no ads, no popups, no upsell. Truly a marvel!
Edit Video, by Pintura Labs
The same as Edit Photo, but for Videos!
Another cool little web utility. This one lets you squoosh your image files to greatly reduce their file size without any significant loss in quality. Especially useful if you have a website of your own and want to optimize your images.
Notebook Navigator - Modern File Explorer for Obsidian, by Johan Sandberg
This is beautiful. This Obsidian plugin completely overhauls the file navigation and makes it actually usable. It fixes one of the app’s biggest problems for me: navigation. I’ve been using it pretty much everyday since finding it and it just made Obsidian exponentially better to use.
You can add custom icons to folders as well, which I used to need a separate plugin for.
A cartoonist’s review of AI art, by The Oatmeal
A really fun web comic of an artist explaining his thoughts about AI art. I think I agree with all the points there.
CSS HDR Gradients, by Adam Argyle
A really cool CSS gradient generator that supports all the new CSS color stuff that’s been coming out in the past years (and that I honestly don’t know much about).
Aside from the cool UI and easy-to-understand code it generates, it can generate HDR and SDR gradients; which means that on supported browsers and devices, your gradient might pop out with higher dynamic range (and have the SDR as a fallback). Great if you really want the colors to pop.
Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs, by Jim Nielsen
Really cool thoughts on the tradeoffs between control and performance in web development, and how whatever you build will never outperform the browser’s built-in APIs.
AI can code, but it can’t build software, by Matias Heikkilä
Yes! Any good developer will tell you that coding is the easiest part of the job. Making software actually go beyond a feature demo is what’s really hard. It’s something I’ve been taught ever since I began working on the field, actually. Learning to code is essential, but learning where to put the code and how to foresee all the hundreds of complexities is my actual job.
Expectations, feature scalability and security are very much human components of the job and can’t be properly done by something that’s not human.
Thanks for reading once again, and see you next month!
