Spring equinox link roundup
Fran Crossley makes the case for
why the spring equinox makes the best new year
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Have a Fucking Website, by merritt k.
Screenshotting Web Pages Without Cookie Banners, by larsi.
Issue 05 (Spring 2026) of the html review, via Andy Baio.
Manu Moreale interviewed Melanie for his People & Blogs series. Yay!
Dan asks Yes, but is it the web?
The WNBA’s New Pay Deal Is Huge—And Still Not Enough, by Meena Jalloh.
The Last Quiet Thing, by Terry Godier, via Gruber. Speaking of whom:
People are spending less and less time on the web because websites are becoming worse and worse experiences, but the publishers of websites are almost literally trying to dig their way out of that hole by adding more and more of the reader-hostile shit that is driving people away.
Tech’s empiricism problem, by Iris Meredith.
How to do the work, by Mike Monteiro, via Eryn.
Via Shawn Medero: Signboard is a kanban app that writes Markdown files.
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Via Matt: Arnis transforms real-world geographical data into playable Minecraft worlds.
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Charlie Jane Anders: Let Firefly Stay Dead!
I recently finished two very different queer historical fantasy novels: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, and The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White. I enjoyed both! N.B. be sure to heed each’s content warnings.
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater, by Betsy Golden Kellem, via Kottke.
Every LEGO Color, Born and Died, built by sheets.works, via Eric Bailey.
Also via Eric: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems, by Andrew Murphy.
We Lost the Battle Against Misinformation, by Justin Ling
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower, by Avery Pennarun.
You should invite people over to your home regularly, by Matt Glassman, via Fran Crossley.
Also via Fran: Mistress, Miss, Mrs or Ms: untangling the shifting history of titles, by Amy Erickson PhD.
Calculating a rolling average without keeping all the numbers around, by Stuart Langridge.
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14, by Elizabeth Ginexi PhD, via Kottke.
On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of the Broken U.S. Health Care System, by Jordan Gass-Pooré, via Aram.
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog, by Martin Gelin, via Kottke.
To Americans Who Don’t Like America, and Those Who Want to Leave It, by John Pavlovitz, via Anna.
Natalie Y. Moore asks, What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?
We Have a Winner for Most Grotesque Supreme Court Audition Yet, by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, via Chris Geidner.
Nepal Elects Its First Trans Woman Member Of Parliament, by Margaret Hetherman.
Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence, by Erin Reed.
We’re trying to protect the children. That’s why we took their rights, by Patrick Silvanic, published by Luke O’Neil.
Quest House is a Bay Area post-op recovery home where transmasculine people having phalloplasty and metoidioplasty can heal together in community. We are on a mission to provide safe and affordable lodging and wraparound support to trans folks recovering from these surgeries, in pursuit of a world where nobody has to heal alone.