
Cool Links Vol. 10: April, 2025
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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of April, 2025
A chronological view of everything I've posted here, since the beginning of time (or the blog's inception, whichever comes first).

Cool Links Vol. 10: April, 2025
3 min read
Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of April, 2025
404s — gallery of error 404 page designs
This site collects all kinds of designs for 404 pages found in the wild. Pretty cool source for inspiration or to admire other people’s creativity!
The author here worries that so many people on Reddit are interacting with posters that are nothing more than robots, without any idea of that being the case. Even worse, some people are aware of that, but don’t care.
I saw a comment in a brazilian forum that deeply resonated: “Maybe the biggest pain this realization causes is that, deep down, almost nobody cares about anything. We’re the ones who are wrong for searching for meaning in environments dominated by chaos”.
Amazing step-by-step explanation on building Card components, with a special focus on accessibility. I love this kind of articles that explain the thinking behind every step and every line of code!
Card elements are everywhere and we all do them a bit differently. I’ll pay much more attention to the things mentioned here to ensure they’re as accessible as possible.
European alternatives for digital products
We rely too much on software companies nowadays, and most of the popular ones are USA-based. With the USA becoming increasingly less trustworthy on an almost daily basis, people have started gathering EU-based alternatives to the most popular services.
This is interesting even if you’re not based in Europe, as companies there are forced to respect your data and privacy by law.
Faster Rendering with the content-visibility CSS Property
It’s like image lazy loading, but for page elements! I’ve got to try this out sometime and measure the effectiveness of this technique. Depending on the results, this might end up as its own blog post ;)
This website simulates a TV schedule (with CRT-style filters!) with multiple channels, each featuring an interesting indie website. The programming changes often (just like shows on a tv channel), so it’s an interesting site to keep on your bookmarks and visit a few times a day.
On TikTok, YouTube, X, and everywhere, views are a meaningless number
Great article pointing out that “Views” are an useless metric and that the platforms that count it have zero incentive to not lie about them.

Setting up Storybook on an Astro project
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I really, really thought this was gonna be easy.
Supernatural (Season 7)
Reviewed on Apr 20, 2025
This one was a tough watch. After the good surprise that Season 6 was, this one never really stuck the landing. It gives up the plot that Season 6 sets in like 15 minutes and then just drags on for 23 episodes. I never really knew if I should take a scene seriously or if it was meant to be a comic relief - and to be honest, if feels like the show didn’t know either.
I gotta say the Bobby arc on the second half of the season was pretty good, though.
The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
Reviewed on Apr 20, 2025
Has some pretty amazing moments and is overall very good, but just like the first one, it overdoes the action scenes, with one after another. So it ends up feeling bloated. Not enough to make it a bad movie, far from it! I never understood why the Hobbit movies are so underrated.
The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug
Reviewed on Apr 13, 2025
The first time I watched this one back in 2013, I remember not enjoying it as much as I enjoyed the first. But now, I think it’s much better.
I think it could be a bit goofier overall, but I pretty much enjoyed everything in this rewatch (except for the out-of-place romance). Smaug’s scenes are simply amazing, too.
Severance (Season 2)
Reviewed on Apr 05, 2025
An overall disappointing season, but the ending was fantastic.
It feels like they had enough story for 4 episodes but were forced to make 10. So the good things are stretched out between a lot of plots that don’t really go anywhere (and that I honestly didn’t care about).