Cool links are a collection of interesting things I find around the web. They can range from fun dumb websites to deep thought-provoking essays, or more commonly something in between. The feed here updates frequently, and I compile everything into a blog post on the last day of each month.
8 links from 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.
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.
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.