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Cool Links Vol. 21: March, 2026

2026-03-31 08:00:00

If anything looks wrong, read on the site!

Hey there! March has been a busy month for me, so I wasn’t able to grab a lot of cool links, sadly. I do think all 3 are pretty cool, though! With no further ado, here are the links:

Fun

A Map Of Us, by Gabe Szeto

A world map where people can anonymously write about memories they’ve had in specific places. You can write your own or just roam around reading the memories of other people. It’s fun to look around places I know and see what kind of experiences people had there.

your ai slop bores me

in a world looming with the threat of ai stealing your job, save humanity by stealing ai’s job.

Fun little website where you can play the part of an AI answering prompts made by humans. Remember to tell people they’re absolutely right!

Dev

Sneaky Header Blocker Trick, by Josh Comeau

Another great article by Josh explaining a neat little trick on how to make the header of a website dynamic… by having it not do anything at all. Don’t worry, it’s quite simple and he explains it way better than I ever could.

Bonus points for not requiring a single line of JavaScript.

Wrapping up

Thanks for reading, hope to have more cool links next month!

Give any website a two-pane layout with this new Vivaldi feature

2026-03-30 08:00:00

If anything looks wrong, read on the site!

I’ve been using Vivaldi since I wrote about it last year, and been having a good time with it. Since then it’s received a few new features but they were mostly refinements on the existing experience, rather than actually new things (which is fine, refinement is exactly what it needs).

Last week’s version 7.9 brought the auto-hide feature, so you can hide the tab bar/address bar to have a “full screen” experience, and only show those on hover. That’s cool and works well in my experience, but there was something extra on the release notes that flew under my radar because I didn’t really understand the point: “Follower” tabs.

What is a follower tab?

It’s a weird name, and even after figuring out why it exists, the name still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Alas, the feature is much better than the name implies.

Let’s say you find a website that has a lot of Cool Links in it. You wanna click on them all, but you just know that opening 30 tabs means you will never go through them all. It’d be useful if you could check out the links while scrolling the page, and not losing your positional/context awareness. Just like maybe your RSS reader, or any two-pane layout app.

No problem. On that page, right click on a link and open it in a New Tiled Follower Tab. This will open that link in a tile right beside the page you’re on. But now, once you want to open another link, you can just click on any other link in the original page, and that will replace the Follower Tab with the link you just clicked! It’s just like swapping between links on a RSS reader, or notes in a notes app, or even files in a file manager.

Hopefully the paragraph above made sense to you, but if not, here’s a screen recording that will clear things up:

Screen recording showing how you can break my website into two-panes, opening a list of cool links on the left with all the links opening on a tab pane to the right.

And you can do that anywhere! It fixed one of my biggest gripes with Basecamp, a tool I use on my daily job. It has the very annoying pattern of having everything be a full page, which makes going through a long list of tasks a chore. With Follower Tabs, it’s now finally manageable.

It’s also great for looking up search results, looking up product pages in an e-commerce, or even hotel listings.

Screen recording with the same feature, but on TripAdvisor

Wrapping up

I called Vivaldi’s auto-stacking of new tabs feature “portable rabbit holes” in my first post about it, so I’m trying to think of another name for this one. In a way, it avoids rabbit holes by ensuring you open just one at a time. What would a good name be? Maybe thread keeper, since if keeps your thought thread intact? Doesn’t sound as nice.

If you have a good idea, let me know by writing an email or sending a message on Mastodon.

Quick Review: Project Hail Mary

2026-03-29 20:00:00

Project Hail Mary
2026, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

My rating: I like it

There’s a bunch of good sci-fi movies out there, but very few that lean so much into the “sci” part of it. Everything that happens in the movie feels believable* even if they’re completely alien to us (it is a space movie, after all), and there’s a pretty good story in there too. If you liked The Martian or Interstellar, you’re gonna love this one.

*except for the idea of humanity working together to save itself, which is obviously never gonna happen.

Cool Link: Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

2026-03-25 23:17:37

by Josh Comeau

Another great article by Josh explaining a neat little trick on how to make the header of a website dynamic… by having it not do anything at all. Don’t worry, it’s quite simple and he explains it way better than I ever could.

Bonus points for not requiring a single line of JavaScript.

Quick Review: House

2026-03-21 20:00:00

House
2004–2012, David Shore

My rating: Loved it!

One of my favorite series, I loved rewatching it. From the case-of-the-week episodes in the first seasons to the bigger arches in the later seasons, it is overall a fantastic show with very few blunders.

What surprised me this rewatch is how much I liked the last season, which was the worst one for me before. Now I think it’s one of the best!

I’d rank the seasons 1 = 4 > 2 > 8 > 3 > 6 > 5 > 7.

Cool Link: A Map Of Us

2026-03-11 22:07:32

by Gabe Szeto

A world map where people can anonymously write about memories they’ve had in specific places. You can write your own or just roam around reading the memories of other people. It’s fun to look around places I know and see what kind of experiences people had there.