
Cool Links Vol. 15: September, 2025
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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of September, 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. 15: September, 2025
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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of September, 2025
Grab your headphones and get ready to lose some hours. This website compiles every subgenre of music and algorithmically sorts them out in relation to one another. It’s great to learn about new genres you might like or to find something similar to what you already know!
Adrift is a quiet space where doubts become paper boats and drift together across a shared sea.
What a neat lil’ website. You can write your own doubts or self-care notes and let them float out in a virtual sea, alongside the notes of many others. There’s some background music too.

A Madman's Ramblings on Craft and Obsidian
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Why won't my brain ever give me a break?
Make individual choices that make your life better. Take collective action to make society better.
Cory has such a nice way with words — he can express complex thoughts so simply.
This one is a banger. It’s both encouragement to do more against evil and reassurance for when you feel like giving up.
Mother!
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2025
Watching this movie feels like a nightmare. Things happen and you really don’t have much say in it, then they start spiraling out of control and you’re completely unable to do anything. You can’t run, yell or fight.
The religious allegories are quite obvious and are great, but that nightmarish feeling was really something I hadn’t felt with a movie before.
I think it’s widely known that the JS dev community relies too much on dependencies, especially through npm packages, and that it’s really hard to avoid this problem (I use as few packages as possible, but each dependency has its own hundreds of dependencies which also have hundreds more…).
But I think I never stopped to think of how easy it is to publish a package there. Which also means, it’s too easy to publish a malicious or compromised package, that gets downloaded and executed on our computers with no proper vetting. Scary.
Why I still prefer ems over rems
Neat short article that goes over a bit of the differences between ems and rems in CSS, with nice examples.
… is just to be alive.
Beautiful reminder of why chasing goals and meaning only leads us away from them. A bit related to my longterm goals post from last year.
One of capitalism’s greatest successes is that it’s robbed us of imagination.
We struggle to imagine what life could look like under a different system. How it would be better. How it would be worse. How it would be different.
Utopias don’t exist. They never will. But I refuse to accept this system we toil under—while better than monarchies and fiefdoms—is as good as it gets.