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Five Links #85
February 19, 2026
1. delphitools A great collection of tools that don’t require registration/login. 2. Is AI the Paperclip? The result, Bostrom wrote, is “a superintelligence...
Five Links #84
February 12, 2026
1. iPod Sock icons Absolutely glorious hard drive icons for macOS. 2. Times New Resistance A new entrant to the catalogue of disruptive typefaces. It’s Times...
Five Links #83
February 5, 2026
1. Actua11y Accessibility testing with real people at reasonable prices. 2. Notchie Use your Mac’s notch as a teleprompter. 3. The Authoritarian Stack Under...
Five Links #82
January 29, 2026
1. Just the Browser Configuration files for Chrome, Firefox and Edge to “remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product...
Five Links #81
January 22, 2026
1. Making a great Readme A great README can be the difference between someone moving on or choosing to engage with your project. When developers land on your...
Five Links #80
January 15, 2026
1. How to use Pooh case It’s easy to confuse Pooh case with Title Case. For example: “Hundred Acre Wood” is clearly written in Title Case. But “My spelling...
Five Links #79
January 8, 2026
1. I work for an evil company, but outside work, I’m actually a really good person Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the...
Five Links #78
December 18, 2025
Hi folks, This is the last newsletter of the year, resuming on 8 January – no-one wants a newsletters on 25 December or 1 January, right? Thanks for sticking...
Five Links #77
December 11, 2025
1. The f*** off contact page …when I see a button that says ‘talk to our sales team’, I treat the entire region of the page with the same trepidation as...
Five Links #76
December 4, 2025
1. Fluck A website builder for artists, designers and creatives, arriving in 2026: We reject everything Big Tech represents: black boxes, invasive...
Five Links #75
November 27, 2025
1. Merlin's Wisdom Project Good advice helps you find the solution to your problem. Great advice helps you find you were solving the wrong problem. 2. We...
Five Links #74
November 20, 2025
1. Busy Simulator “Feign importance with repeating app sounds!” 2. Peascod Relief Panels Full disclosure: I worked with Peascod to redesign their site in...
Five Links #73
November 13, 2025
1. Ratio Buddy A little tool to help when calculating aspect ratios. 2. Retcon Rewriting Git history is something I generally avoid at all costs, but it...
Five Links #72
November 6, 2025
1. Why are we talking about superintelligence? In one of the more head-turning moments of their interview, when Klein asked Yudkowsky about critics– such as...
Five Links #71
October 30, 2025
1. The Majority AI View People worry that not being seen as mindless, uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move in the current environment of...
Five Links #70
October 23, 2025
1. Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI? To me, these are the acts of a company that poured tens of billions of investment dollars into creating what...
Five Links #69
October 16, 2025
1. Typo.town Lovely new project from Nick Simson, putting together typeface collections from the overwhelming selection on places like Adobe Fonts and Google...
Five Links #68
October 9, 2025
1. Why I hate the MVP car My first real issue is that the wheel → chassis → convertible → car is way closer to the way you actually build a car from an...
Five Links #67
October 2, 2025
1. This is where I write my Journal on my iPhone I love this idea of storing a little note in a photo’s caption. 2. Where’s the AI design renaissance? Don’t...
Five Links #66
September 25, 2025
1. Palette generator This useful tool from Erik Kennedy lets you generate a colour palette using colour stops that are visually equidistant. Creating...
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