Manual do UsuárioCool links of the week
Editor's note: This week issue arrives a little later and after a mistake that triggered last week's sent over the newsletter. My apologies for that! “We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.” In a moment of euphoria in which even Mozilla — which would have the most to gain from caution around reckless adoption of generative AI — at least one web […]
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Revisiting Facebook. If Zuckerberg himself admits that Facebook is much more than a site (or app) for connecting people, since “seeing friends’ status updates” became something from the “OG Facebook,” the question remains: what is Facebook today?
What’s on your phone, João? Every week, I publish the phone’s home screen from a blog reader.
How to remove “stuck” iCloud Tabs in Safari. Things at Apple work great until the day they don’t. A silly example that really bugs me […]
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My favorite mouse costs less than USD 10. Who needs a MX Master?
Ductts. A diary for crying and tears. For iOS.
Baseline. A nice theme for Obsidian.
Just Buy Nothing. A fake online store to scratch that shopping itch. According to the creator of the site, “this is either the dumbest idea of all time or something that will actually help people stop giving their money to these corporations that are actively trying to make their sites as addicting as possible while the quality goes down and […]
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Web browsers with AI assistants built-in are coming. Are they the future of browsing the web?
Vibechart. Did OpenAI use ChatGPT to create the charts used on GPT-5 announcement?
Rumicat. A newsletter service “for small audiences.” The free plan supports up to 300 subscribers.
Letter Club. A kind of “email club,” where participants commit to writing about a theme and, on the scheduled day, everyone receives everyone’s writings. As far as I can tell, it’s free.
DSEG Font. A font […]
Manual do UsuárioCool links of the week
This option disables Meta AI and increases privacy in WhatsApp conversations.
TrackWeight. An app (FOSS) that turns the MacBook trackpad into a scale.
Moe Counter. The old web 1.0 visitor counters persist.
A medieval king’s daily life. Kind of an ancestor to Instagram’s “morning routine” videos.
elle’s homepage. elle’s website is a room in isometric perspective “decorated” with HTML.
Social media specifications. Always useful to have a page like this handy.
Blip. A new app for […]
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What’s on my phone. I started a series on the Portuguese version of the blog where readers and friends show what they have on their phones. The first one is mine.
Don’t publish your podcast only on Spotify. I’ve been coming across small or personal podcasts that can only be listened to on Spotify. Intrigued by this trend, I created a new podcast on Spotify to find out what’s happening.
The new emojis in Unicode 17.0. They arrive in the second half of the year.
Where’s Firefox going […]
Cool links of the week
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in weekly posts. Hope you enjoy!
Petrichor. New offline music player for macOS. Reminds me of iTunes from the good old days. And it’s open source.
Blanket. A Linux app (Gnome/GTK) that creates sounds and noise. On macOS? Try Blankie.
Abdisa Dev. I have a soft spot for websites that simulate terminals.
Export YouTube subscriptions into RSS. Much easier than adding channels one by one to a feed aggregator.
A […]
Cool links of the week
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in weekly posts. Hope you enjoy!
Six years of Gemini. The protocol, not Google’s AI.
New Ensō, first public beta. A text editor without editing, which made some noise on the internet years ago.
zenta. Mindfulness without leaving the terminal. […]
Rodrigo GhedinAs soon as you open the site allow.webcam, it requests permission from your…
As soon as you open the site allow.webcam, it requests permission from your browser to access your webcam. If you grant it, the site takes a picture of you and displays the pictures of all the other people who have also allowed themselves to be photographed. If you decline, you’ll be left with a black screen.
Tiny Emulators brings together a handful of emulators for classic operating systems and games
Tiny Emulators brings together a handful of emulators for classic operating systems and games, running directly in your browser. To play the games, use the arrow keys and the spacebar. Some OSs have special commands, which are listed here. I just spent a good few minutes playing the original Prince of Persia.
