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Photography: Mont Blanc from Punta Helbronner

2026-10-24 20:58:21

A gorgeous cable car ride up to 3466m rewards you with a stunning view of Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco), the highest peak in the Alps at a whopping 4807m, and the Italian Alps surrounding it. Down below lies the tiny but charming village of Courmayeur, where the cable car departs from.

Photo taken on Thursday, 22 Oct 2026

Panoramic view from Punta Helbronner, with jagged granite spires in the foreground, Mont Blanc's snow-covered peaks on the right, and a hazy sun over a sea of distant alpine ranges.

Cool Link: ASCII Animations Library

2026-10-21 01:01:36

by Kailash

A library of ASCII art, but animated! You can browse a ton of scenes and data built with ASCII characters of your choice and even generate your own.

Cool Link: Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?

2026-10-16 22:08:55

by Nolan Lawson

This complements the previous link I shared nicely: most developers don’t properly use the platform, but why? This goes into possible reasons without being judgemental, and to me they make a lot of sense. When I first started going all-in into front-end development I’ve been a part of all of those cases, I guess. In a way, writing less code and relying on the platform are signs of development experience (or battle scars).

Cool Link: “Getting off the Modernization Treadmill”

2026-10-16 21:42:37

by Jim Nielsen

Jim gives his notes on an amazing talk by Alexander Petros, and the topic is super relevant for any web dev.

It goes into how many of us, when modernizing our tech stack just for the sake of modernizing it, end up with objectively worse results than we’d have if we stuck to the tried and true.

HTML’s ideological goal is to make websites good for their users. React’s ideological goal is serving Facebook, which mostly wants to serve you ads. Both have completely different priorities.

(I’m linking to Jim’s notes instead of the talk directly because Jim makes great points too! But you should definitely watch the talk if the subject interests you)

Quick Review: The Wailing

2026-10-10 20:00:00

The Wailing
2016, Na Hong-jin

My rating: I like it

There is so much in this movie that is great, and it’s a rare horror movie where the second half is better than the first. The scenes with supernatural elements were superb to watch and the horror is really there.

Too bad the tonal whiplash in some of its scenes, where it goes super silly and almost slapstick, didn’t go well with me. And since none of the characters bear any semblance of likability, I didn’t really care what happened to them in the end (though I was all in for the mystery).

Cool Link: Destroy Any Website

2026-10-07 17:43:31

by Hugo Duprez

This is absolutely incredible! Pick any website you want and control a stick figure while you destroy absolutely everything on it. A good way of getting revenge on the bad websites that have failed you in the past.