2026-04-10 20:00:00
The Devil Wears Prada
2006, David Frankel
My rating: I like it
A classic is a classic for a reason. Andy’s friends are a pain in the butt though, she’d be better off without them 😅
2026-04-10 08:00:00
One of the small things that surprised me the most after moving from Brazil to Italy is how the seasons of the year are very clearly defined over here. Back where I lived we had summer and winter, yes, but none had their boundaries clearly set. It is not unusual to get 30ºC in June (winter) and also to get 10ºC in February. It is also not unusual at all to have both of those temperatures happen in the same day, especially in the fall and spring.
Here, it’s been a bit uncanny. Spring officially started on March 21st and within that same week, the weather got much sunnier, the temperatures rose at least 10 degrees, the trees changed from brown to green, and so many flowers started popping up on the previously-dry trees and on the grass.
Back home, the four seasons were more like suggestions, never truly taken seriously by the weather. Here, they seem to be real. Vivaldi was italian, after all.
2026-04-04 20:00:00
Dune Part One
2021, Denis Villeneuve
My rating: Loved it!
Fantastic. Incredible. The soundtrack alone would make any movie good, but pair with amazing visuals and an incredibly interesting story? Heck yeah!
2026-03-31 08:00:00
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:
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.
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!
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.
Thanks for reading, hope to have more cool links next month!
2026-03-30 08:00:00
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
