Cool Links Vol. 24: June, 2026

Hey there! Last month I mentioned we were at the tail end of a heatwave, but little did I know, June's heatwave has been much worse 🥵

This month, I've taken a week off work and wrote about my trip to Veneto, as well as attended an amazing Iron Maiden concert in Milan (which I also wrote a bit about).

As for cool links, there's a fair selection this month.

Fun

TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites, by Caue Napier

This is so cool! TownSquare adds a small virtual square at the footer of a website, on which visitors can walk around, jump, high-five and talk to each other. And this can connect multiple websites together!

I actually added it to my website's Digital Garden, if you wanna check it out ;)

WordPress Museum, by Jan Jakeš

A 3D museum in which you can walk on all about the history of WordPress, with displays for each release, some of the history behind them, all that. Really cool!

Dev

Gap decorations: Now available in Chromium

Yesss! I've waited for this for so long! One of the worst parts of my job is trying to implement those kind of separators (really common in designs) without this functionality being an actual thing yet. So many hacks, complex calculations, for something so visually trivial.

And even if it takes a while to get to other browsers, it's mostly a visual drawback if not supported; so I can already start thinking about using it.

Games

Overworld, by Brendon Bigley & Pablo Marti Cordero

This is so good! Overworld is a gaming news aggregator that is actually usable. It groups together all news for a single topic under a single headline, and also curates gaming-related stuff (that's not necessarily news) in a "worth your time" section. And it looks great too!

web hl2, by Slqnt and 98006

Half Life 2 running fully through your browser? Sure! Why not?

Definitely not the best way to do it, but walking around in one of the best games ever on my browser is a pretty cool concept. Especially since there's no way to run it natively on a Mac nowadays.

Misc

Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious, by Jim Nielsen

I often look at my own posts and think, "There's nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?"

Yes! Me too! Lots of drafts got abandoned because I eventually caught myself thinking that while writing it. Past couple years I've been trying to detach myself from that way of thinking but it's a slow process.

Sometimes a blog post will only have a target audience of one (the writer) and that is perfectly fine.

Deep Read

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s, by The New York Times

Incredible visual demonstration of how the absurd size of modern SUVs turns them into even deadlier machines. Not only the hood height makes them deadlier in a possible collision, but the vastly increased blind spots make collisions more likely to happen.

Wrapping up

Thanks for reading, I hope the first half of 2026 has been good for you and that the second half is even better 🤗