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. Itās great to learn about new genres you might like or to find something similar to what you already know!
Cool Links
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.

168 links
Adrift is a quiet space where doubts become paper boats and drift together across a shared sea.
What a neat lilā 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. Thereās some background music too.
Make individual choices that make your life better. TakeĀ collectiveĀ action to make society better.
Cory has such a nice way with words ā he can express complex thoughts so simply.
This one is a banger. Itās both encouragement to do more against evil and reassurance for when you feel like giving up.
I think itās widely known that the JS dev community relies too much on dependencies, especially through npm packages, and that itās 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 moreā¦).
But I think I never stopped to think of how easy it is to publish a package there. Which also means, itās 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 capitalismās greatest successes is that itās 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 donāt exist. They never will. But I refuse to accept this system we toil underāwhile better than monarchies and fiefdomsāis as good as it gets.
Are peopleās bosses really making them use AI tools?
Time and time again, weāve been seeing companies that go all-in on AI in hopes of not falling behind or standing out while the bubble doesnāt burst. This article has some real life testimonies of employees that are being forced to use AI in their work - even if it makes things harder and makes the results worse.
Obsidian, my note-taking, second-brain, CMS app just got a huge feature: Notion-like databases, here simply called Bases. You can use them with any files in your vault and in my initial testing, itās pretty powerful!
Iām already using it to manage Cool Links, and looking forward to use it for more of my stuff in the future.
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
I always have trouble understanding SVGs, but thanks to this article, I will have teensy bit less trouble than before. Joshās articles are always a gem with all the interactivity and this is no exception.
5 Useful CSS functions using the new @function rule
CSS is finally getting functions! And if youāre struggling to think of good use cases for them or thinks they donāt make sense at all Una will change your mind real quick.
Too bad theyāre still only supported in Chromium and are probably ways off from being usable in production. But itās nice to get a glimpse of what the future holds.
Better CSS layouts: Time.com Hero Section
Sharing Ahmad Shadeedās posts here kinda feel like cheating at this point. Theyāre always a gem!
This one goes extremely in-depth into redesigning the hero layout of Time.com. Ahmad explains his thought process on every step of the way, and dives into a lot of fun, new-ish CSS principles like container and style queries, :has, grid and even text wrapping!
A masterclass, really.
uBlock Origin Lite for (iOS) Safari
Finally! Iāve been using uBlock Origin on my desktop browsers since itās existed, and it makes the commercial web usable. Now itās finally available for iOS Safari (maybe on the Mac too?)
Safari has had some ad blockers for a while, but none were as good as this one. This one blocks ads, trackers, and even allows hiding some page elements you select, just like the desktop version.
A must-have in all my web browsers.
Como eu salvo links e preservo conteúdos no mundo pós-Pocket
This article (in Brazilian Portuguese) was a huge inspiration to me in reworking how I save my Cool Links, starting this month. Iām using the Obsidian Web Clipper instead of the custom solution the author had, but the principles are still the same.
Building up a weekly routine to organize things has also been a good change, as I donāt have a lot to do at the end of the month when Iām putting this post together.
This is what the web was made for. Just draw a fish. Then watch your creation swim with fishes from all over the world. Beautiful.
Neat article in which Jim explains why a seemingly harmless CSS transition property (using height) was spiking up CPU usage. It goes through the thought process of identifying the issue, understanding it, and solving it. (spoiler: animating transform is much cheaper!)
A Friendly Introduction to SVG
I know SVGs are amazing, and Iāve done some cool things with them. But I never really knew what I was doing. This fantastic post by Josh Comeau goes over the basics and focuses on SVGs you can create yourself through code, instead of relying on vector editing softwares like Figma or Illustrator.
I havenāt tried these tips in practice yet, but hopefully Iāll have a neat idea I can use them on soon š
This article talks a bit about the Netstuck effect, you when feel forced to use a service or platform just because everyone is there, and how thatās different from a monopoly.
As someone with no commercial social media accounts, I relate to this a lot. And even though I can live without a Facebook or Instagram account, I tried not using WhatsApp in Brazil for a couple years and just had to concede at some point, because thereās just no way of getting in contact with anyone (especially businesses) in here without it.