
Cool Links Vol. 20: February, 2026
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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of February, 2026
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. 20: February, 2026
4 min read
Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of February, 2026
Miss the feeling if watching TV as a kid? This site allows you to surf channels on a retro TV, and you can even choose the decade you want!
Unfortunately it seems it only has US TV, so I canāt really relate to anything there. Would love a Brazilian version of this!
Fantastic video essay about loneliness, technology, and the loss of our ability to do.
Beware that thereās some (I assume mild?) spoilers of Death Stranding 1 & 2 in there.
Frankenstein
Reviewed on Feb 22, 2026
Thereās a great movie in here but I feel the pacing is really off. Each act takes waaaay too long to get going, and by the time they got there I was tired of it already, and ended up not caring as much. Good ending though.
Sandboxels - Experiment with Pixels
This is amazing! This is a pixelated sandbox that allows you to experiment with all kinds of materials and elements, and see how they interact with each other. Each material interacts with others differently, as they would in real life. For example, oil wonāt mix with water, but ink will.
A lot of time-consuming potential here, so donāt open it if you have something else to do š
This is pretty cool! Terry built a RSS reader that rethinks how to approach a continuous feed ā or rather, a current ā of articles and links. I particularly love how it aims to solve the noisy feed problem, where a source that posts 20 news items a day might drown a really cool article from someone who doesnāt post often, which is a problem Iāve had on every single RSS reader Iāve used (and that I āsolvedā by unsubscribing from noisy feeds).
Itās a one-time-purchase and on iOS/iPadOS/macOS only, and I havenāt tried it out yet because I just renewed the annual plan for another RSS reader š
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
This is both funny and incredibly infuriating. A PR was declined on GitHub for an open-source project because it was made by an AI agent and⦠the AI agent (or the anonymous person behind it) wrote up a defamatory blog post targeted specifically at the projectās maintainer.
If being an open-source maintainer was already a thankless job, now thereās one more hell to endure.
If I Had Legs Iād Kick You
Reviewed on Feb 14, 2026
One more for the āitās good but Iāll never watch it againā group. The movie is great at portraying negative emotions and Roseās acting is top notch. What it chooses not to show is just as important as what it does.

I have a new favorite coding font
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Maple Mono is free, easy to read, has ligatures, and most importantly is incredibly cute.
Stop generating, start thinking
Fantastic piece wielding the power of common sense and highlighting all the struggles that software engineers have with using generative AI on our jobs.
I also use LLMs as a spicy autocomplete (or even a spicy search) and they can be very useful at times. But I canāt replace my thinking with machines, because machines donāt think.
Sinners
Reviewed on Feb 08, 2026
While the movie takes its time to get going, it is so well worth it. It keeps reinventing itself every few minutes and just keeps getting better and better.
The soundtrack, though, is just on another level. It is so good. One particular scene is gonna stick in my mind for a while, it was freaking amazing. If you watched it, you know which one it is.
Snow Day
A very cool way to spend the afternoon, just 30min away from home. Lots of kids and dogs playing in the snow!
Taken in Piani Resinelli, Lecco, Italy.
More invoker commands, and more reasons not to use JavaScript please
HTML is getting more powerful! Now you can add some predefined commands to HTML elements that can do things like open (or close) modals, for example, without a single line of JS. This article explains really succinctly how that works. The custom commands thing is neat as well.
Bugonia
Reviewed on Feb 02, 2026
Gosh I loved this movie. A thriller that managed to make me both really tense and laugh out loud in the same scene without any of these reactions contradicting each other. Itās absolutely ridiculous in the best way.
The Secret Agent
Reviewed on Feb 01, 2026
As a Brazilian Iām extremely proud of this movie, and itās extremely good in pretty much all regards. Trying to avoid spoilers here, but⦠it feels like itās missing a huge part though? With the historical context I have I can kind of imagine why itās missing, but it felt frustrating, unlike the rest of the movie thatās actually there.