Links archive
2026
Febuary
- — Current
- — Notes on working in the open
- — A look at search engines with their own indexes
- — list animals until failure
- — Sandwich Bill of Materials
- — veggiekarte.de
- — Vouch
- — Everything eventually sorta becomes mail
- — American Data Centers
- — Frans Sans
- — AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar for easier account identification
- — Phantom Obligation
January
- — I'm swearing off APIs entirely
- — UHT wijziging Besluit capaciteitsverdeling (militair transport)
- — Opinionated?
- — One million (small web) screenshots
- — Duct-Tape Typographer Shuetsu Sato Honored With Design Award
- — Het dooit: hoe krijgen we zo snel mogelijk weer een normale dienstregeling?
- — miniflux v2.2.15
- — A new series of short-form posts: the Elephant Memory Systems entries
- — JeffGeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo
- — The original Mozilla 'Dinosaur' logo artwork
2025
December
- — Coop beliefert Zürich neu per Güterzug und reduziert jährlich 58 000 Lastwagenfahrten
- — They Droned Back
- — Lighthouse Directory
- — The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation
- — Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
- — Busy Simulator
- — Waarom ProRail onbeveiligde overwegen in een steeds hoger tempo sluit
- — The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks
- — Austria's Christmas tree gift to the European parliament
November
- — Modernisering van RRReis-treinstellen op Valleilijn loopt vertraging op
- — It's your fault my laptop knows where I am
- — Sketchy Boats
- — About KeePassXC’s Code Quality Control
- — The worst city in the Netherlands.
- — Tags is not folksonomies and Tags is not Flat name spaces
- — I effing love Dex Mode
October
- — Jedberg on avoiding daylight savings time at reddit
- — AZ IDs
- — The Race for Cheap, Quick Data in Africa
- — Working out what Eurostar is going to do – based on the numbers, not what the company says
- — NS zet alle stationsborden standaard op 'dark mode': 'Het bord sprong ineens op zwart'
- — Bye bye Kerberos FTP
- — I'm Singapore's Guerilla Wayfinder
- — zine - personal websites and the law
- — BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou
- — Line scan camera image processing
- — Getting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts - technical implementation details for servers
September
- — Getrokken ICR-rijtuigen maken vandaag afscheidsrit door Nederland en België
- — Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
- — Reading my blog
- — Git diagramming 'The Weave'
- — If the moon were only 1 pixel
- — Who does your assistant serve?
- — Purrli
- — Cloud Gazing Online
- — The Benefits Of A Support Ticket To Documentation Lifecycle
- — Famed streetcar in Lisbon, Portugal, derails and crashes, killing 15 people
- — What if you could search every visible word on New York City's streets?
- — IRS is canceling its layoff plans, will ask some it fired or pushed out to return
- — Ruben Schade on fault tolerance
August
- — Real Time Lightning Map
- — The AI boyfriend ticking time bomb
- — Brandstichting aan de Oeverlandenweg in Amsterdam
- — snitch
- — Draw a fish
- — Top picks — 2025 July
- — UAE's Madari Space to pilot sending data centers into space in 2026
- — If you're remote, ramble
- — methaphone
- — This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
July
- — Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
- — The Death Generator
- — Overcoming friction, gearing up for #Blaugust
- — Making Metroboard | The Pilot Run
- — Manually download .vsix files form VS Code Marketplace
- — Logging
- — No Days Off
- — Centaur Slider - Alvaro Montoro
- — Export Youtube subscriptons into RSS
- — Home PLC - Cursed Controls
- — Don’t publish your podcast only on Spotify
- — TI-20250709-0001: IPv4 traffic failures for Techaro services
- — Vystery
- — Observability Primer
- — YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
- — You MUST listen to RFC 2119
- — Use Subdomains
- — Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
June
- — You're not a front-end developer until you've... - Nic
- — Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI - Nikhil Suresh
- — AI Angst - Tim Bray
- — My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts - Thomas Ptacek
- — Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) - Simon Willison
- — Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom - Stefano Marinelli
- — Heavyweight
- — Better Bacteria Game
- — Stack overflow is almost dead - Gergely Orosz
- — udm14
- — Pret-A-Spider
- — Just a QR Code
- — Things you should know about The European Sleeper from Brussels to Prague - gilest
- — Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? | Jon Worth
- — Inside the Arnett, OK tornado - May 18, 2025
- — Add playlist feeds - yt-rss
May
- — NS stopt met X
- — HTML is like a camera.
- — XKCD's 'Is It Worth the Time?' Considered Harmful
- — The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything - raf
- — P&B: Anh
- — Owls in Towels
- — My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth - Bill Gates
- — Reading RSS content is a skilled activity - David Oliver
- — biocubes
- — Chicken Pics
- — 368 Chickens
- — The most important part of every sports broadcast - Geerling Engineering
April
- — Idiosyncra
- — Collectie Nederlands Transport Museum
- — Upcoming Experiment for Commenting
- — Everything Wrong with MCP - Shrivu Shankar
- — The Intermodal Container Web Page - Matts Place
- — Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font...
- — Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline - Dan Carton
- — The 800-pound gorilla - Johnny Rodgers
- — How I install personal versions of programs (on Unix) - cks
- — Alle Amsterdamse bruggen
- — How Silica Gel Took Over the World - Spencer Wright
- — The secret life of the first millennial saint - The Economist
- — Two powerful investments to make in your career - Jeff Bridgforth
- — Trenitalia is Eurostar’s most serious rival yet - inews
- — Mensen over de metro - Vervoerregio Amsterdam
- — Alle Amsterdamse bruggen
- — What If We Made Advertising Illegal? - Simone
- — Talk to Meta AI on WhatsApp
- — PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory - Hall of Impossible Dreams
- — Train bien. - Present & Correct
- — The candid naivety of geeks - Ploum
- — Landelijke storing informatieborden NS-stations weer voorbij - AD Nieuws
March
- — Why we are still using 88x31 buttons - ultrascience labs
- — Introducing the Ikea Train - Taras Grescoe
- — Don't bring slop to a slop fight - Seth Larson
- — The small web is rehabilitating how I write - dr molly tov
- — CAN I PLEASE EAT DINNER IN THE COMPUTER ROOM? - Nicole Nikolich
- — PEP 701: Syntactic formalization of f-strings
- — Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision - Mozilla
- — Bicycles for the mind - minimax
- — Silly Mastodon apps - halcy
- — #19: Blogging vs. blog setups - Rakhim
- — Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think - Tom Usher
- — Moon - Bartosz Ciechanowski
- — Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow - alexwlchan
- — One of the reliable things about Mastodon... - Matt Blaze
- — How personal should a personal site be? - Manuel Morale
- — The things we can learn from terrible people (CW: Musk)
- — Decade of blogging - Paweł Grzybek
- — Colombo Skylines - Team Watchdog
- — The Graphing Calculator Story
- — Changes for 2025 - CRYSSITE
- — Gough's Tech Zone
- — JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back - Allen Pike
- — This ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi - Jeija
- — The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars - Max Woolf
Febuary
- — Likes* are the best - Hagen Terschüren
- — The vatican needed a latin word for tweet - marlies
- — How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – And Why - Michael Miszczak
- — WikiTok
- — Using a Tailscale exit node [on an Apple TV] with GitHub Actions - Simon Willison
- — Every day is Coffee Cheese Day at our place - Ruben Schade
- — The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps - Martijn Hols
- — How long does it take me to write a blog post? - Juhis
- — Presenting ActivityBot at FOSDEM - Terence Eden
- — Prorail sleept met Unimog beschadigde Virm-6 weg na aanrijding met kraan op 20-01-2025 in Bunnik. - Tinovr6
- — Versioning versus Coordination
- — Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again - Mert Bulan
- — De NIEUWE ICE-L overgebracht naar Nederland! - Dylans Depot
- — Chick-fil-A Supply Taps Union Pacific for First Rail-Served Distribution Center
January
- — A "section" without an accessible name is nothing but a "div" - Stefan Judis
- — Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program - USDOT FRA
- — Microsoft Copilot Manager roasted, doesn't understand Confidentiality - Leonard French
- — Saving the planet, one EMWA conference at at time - Adam Jacobs
- — Three pillars of my blogging philosophy - Arun.is
- — Stimulation Clicker
- — The Millennial Captcha
- — AB Testing — So You Know What Really Works - Adrian Cockroft
- — The people should own the town square - Mastodon
- — What RSS Needs - Mark Nottingham
- — Time to move on from bootable backups, whether you like it or not - Riccardo Mori
- — First VIRM begins ETCS installation
- — The Powerful Density of Hypertextual Writing - Kottke
- — Strooikaart - Rijkswaterstaat
- — Bending of a 140m wind turbine tower 2.0 - Sääsch Bääsch
- — Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain - The Guardian
- — Wendover Productions, LLC v. PayPal Inc
2024
December
- — Lens - Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds - Robb Knight
- — The phycological [sic] impact of surveillance - Rubenerd
- — Spacetime maps - Václav Volhejn
- — Europlug Compatibility - Wikipedia
- — Transit Costs Project
- — 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or 'My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash.' - Matt Might
- — Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam - MegaLag
- — Law of triviality
- — It's probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics
- — NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K
- — Why Are Slovak Trains a Design Disaster?
- — Austria's Christmas tree gift to the European parliament
- — Dependency (2347) - XKCD
- — Ensuring Hachyderm's Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure
November
- — mobilithib - L'EuroCity Bruxelles - Paris s'arrêtera aussi à Creil et à Aulnoye-Aymeries
- — Railforum - RE13 Maas Wupper Express
- — Candost - On Good Software Engineers
- — joshua stein - Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
- — Oh no, my cow just fell over—but I can reboot
- — I'm very Disappointed In Marquees Brownlee...
- — sqlite-vec - A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere!
- — NS - 'Strike at ProRail, disruption greater than just strike area'. But why?
- — Robb Knight - Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should
- — Morsle
- — alexwlchan - Using static websites for tiny archives
- — Bicycle Dutch - Watching the Amsterdam ferries (again)
- — Rasmus Bååth - Climate Impact Sorting Challenge
- — Ruben Schade - Figuring out water
October
- — The Traffic Calming Effect of Delineated Bicycle Lanes
- — Brucknerite - The mechanics of derailment
- — Wes Bos - How is this Website so fast!?
- — Weet Je Dat Ook Weer - This ultra-secret NATO headquarters was hidden in Maastricht
- — The Secret Knots - Remind me later
- — Pedestrian Observations - Mass Transit on Orbital Boulevards
- — The Verge - File not found
- — Blake Watson - HTML for People
- — Terence Eden - Styling links based on their destination
- — Simon Willison - Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
September
- — Train Cab Ride NL - Test Ride 'Airport Sprinter'
- — Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
- — Web Design Museum
- — This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5
- — There is no EU cookie banner law
- — Mean Time To Reorg; Writing as Resilience
August
- — A healthy publicly owned rail company
- — Adding Maps to hugo with uMap and OpenStreetMap
- — Don't. Even. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.
- — More than you ever wanted to know about tape
- — COVID-19 Signage Archive
- — Reserving .INTERNAL for Private-Use Applications
- — Mobility
- — The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
- — Chapter 3: Belt and Road Initiative
- — HORG: The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
July
- — Iceberger - Draw n iceberg and see how it will float.
- — A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows
- — A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
- — How India electrified 45% of its railway network in just five years
- — Chrono Piano
- — Cursor Museum: A (very) brief history of pointing devices
- — BUKMARK.CLUB
- — masto-thread-renderer
June
- — One Million Checkboxes
- — Rotating Sandwiches
- — Tracking Maritime Attacks in the Middle East Since 2019
- — Explain that Stuff
- — Internet Artifacts
- — Optimizing SQLite settings for Django
- — Quoting Matthew Graybosch on LinkedIn
- — Complexity vs simplicity
- — Finding The Perfect Christmas Tree With USFS Motor Vehicle User Map Data, QGIS, & SedonaDB
May
- — tinyworldmap - a tiny world map for offline-first and low-bandwidth web apps
- — Conversational English in 1586
- — Tags: Database schemas
- — Why you should take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers
- — The Cloud Under The Sea
- — Tf-Idf and Cosine similarity
- — Lorem RSS
April
- — How we built JSR
- — Atom vs. RSS
- — Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure - Stephen Wolfram
- — Treinposities - Spooragenda
- — Eisenbahn-Planer
- — Optimizing SQLite for servers
- — Video Stabilization With FFmpeg and VidStab
March
- — Eveyrthing I Know About the Xz Backdoor - Evan Boehs
- — An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
- — An Introduction to SQL for Weary Data Scientists
- — JIT WireGuard Peers
- — List resources across all regions using the AWS CLI
- — In defense of simple architectures
- — IAM Policy Evaluation Logic
- — SVG Tutorial: Learn how to code images in HTML with SVG
Febuary
- — TimeGuessr
- — The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
- — How Yeman's Houthi rebels are carrying out attacks on the Red Sea ships