April 2026 blend of links

If you read this via your RSS reader, you won’t notice the tiny design refresh of the site: nothing major, just a new header, a new icon/logo, an improved HTML structure, and an overall simplification and further reduction in weight to be, you guessed it, as light as possible. I’m very pleased with the new look, and I have a feeling that this one will stick for a while. Anyway, moving on to the links I found interesting in the last few weeks.

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto – The Onion, still the best website on the internet.

Architypes, by Anthony Nelzin-Santos – A lovely collection of photos of old storefronts. (via People and Blogs)

The Song of LinkedIn – “The song confirms your existing beliefs with words that are brave and controversial because, man, they just don’t get it. They’re so dumb! Their whole business is lagging behind! Whose business? Behind whom? Who knows! The Song of LinkedIn doesn’t care. All it cares about is making you feel like insights are happening to you when really I’m just being a dick by making you feel like a dick for not being as big a dick as me. Synergy!”

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. – Deleting my LinkedIn account a few years ago is still one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life, and today when I’m asked why I am not on LinkedIn, I tend to answer with “Why are you on LinkedIn?”, and the words “pile of garbage website” may come out too, if I’m being polite. (via 82MHz)

delphitools – The kind of website that absolutely deserves a spot on my “JavaScript allowed” list. Excellent. (via Rodrigo Ghedin)

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – “The actual path to seniority isn’t learning more tools and patterns, but learning when not to use them. Anyone can add complexity. It takes experience and confidence to leave it out.” (via Violet Pixel)

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an A.I. chatbot! – “I've learned that when a client says simple, they don't mean easy to use. They mean not impressive enough. They mean what will people think. A lean, fast website doesn't look like it cost anything. It doesn't signal effort. It doesn't say: we take this seriously.”

Dept. of Enthusiasm – Not sure when the next issue of this newsletter will be released, but reading this extremely well-written entry got me sold. I’m also very envious of that prose. (via Meanwhile)

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death – If you’re familiar with my list of favourite songs, you can have an idea of what Prince means to me. His sudden death in April 2016 still hurts, as if I had lost a part of me, or an old friend. Scottish comedian Robert Florence, then, shared a thought that I think about often: “You'll always be the angel and the devil on my shoulders.”