Links #161

Matthias on the importance of curating the web in the age of AI. I agree. (Thus these link posts.)

Isaac Kolding on how reading is good for you and how it expands your effective freedom. I also enjoyed the post on inefficient books and very much agree.

BDM on how sometimes books are hard to read. “Being easy to read is not the only virtue a book must possess to be enjoyable. If something is not easy to read, that is not a sign that the reader is stupid. Sometimes it is the knowledge that you will need to return to a text over and over that forms the basis of your enjoyment. You are encountering something that cannot be grasped in a single experience.”

Mat Marquis on the end of responsive images. “I’ve been waiting for fourteen years to write this article. Fourteen years to tell you about one relatively new addition to the way images work on the web. For you, just a handful of characters will mean improvements to the fundamental ergonomics of working with images. For users, it will mean invisible, seamless, and potentially massive improvements to front-end performance, forever stitched into the fabric of the web. For me, it means the time has finally come to confess to my sinister machinations — a confession almost a decade and a half in the making.” A fun read.

Sal on cleaning scratches off ceramic dinnerware. I did not know this was possible.

Justin Parpan on painting loose at first. Also enjoyed the post on thinking about texture.

Marco on putting custom firmware on the Xteink X4. I haven’t gotten 0ne yet but it’s getting more and more tempting. (Mostly because of the size, I think. And the weight — 74 grams! My phone is 171 grams, for comparison.)

Ben introduces Bubbles Briefing, a finite-edition blog aggregator. I’ve been subscribed for the past week or two and have found the form factor to be nice.

JTR on writing emails to other bloggers. I need to do more of this.

Jim Grey on how your blog is like a radio station. “Every time you publish a post, you are programming your station. You are choosing what goes into rotation. Some post types are your familiars, the topics and themes readers already associate with you. Some are deeper cuts, things that matter to you but may not matter to everyone. Some are experiments, signals sent into the dark to see if anyone recognizes them.”