October 2025 blend of links
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web.
Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich・Very interesting and informative video, to the point that I wish it were a full series. Who knew I would one day be so fascinated by the topic of… checks notes… economics?
jsfree.org・Yes, a thousand yes to this collection of sites that work without needing any JavaScript. I don’t know if it’s the season or what, but these days I’m blocking JS every chance that I get. I even use DuckDuckGo again as a search engine because other search engines often require JavaScript to work.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages・Just to be safe, I’ve immediately added a redirection on StopTheMadness so that the grokipedia domain is replaced by wikipedia.com (even if Wikipedia has its problems, especially in French). Also, what’s up with this shitty name? Why not Grokpedia? I would still not care, but at least it wouldn’t sound as silly.
POP Phone・I don’t know for whom yet, but I will definitely put one of these under the Christmas tree this winter. (Via Kottke)
PolyCapture・The app nerd in me is looking at these screenshots like a kid looks at a miniature train. (Via Daring Fireball)
Bari Weiss And The Tyranny Of False Balance・“You don’t need to close newspapers when you can convince editors that ‘balance’ means giving equal weight to demonstrable lies and documented facts.”
light-dark()・Neat and elegant new CSS element that made me bring back the dark mode on this site, just to have an excuse to use it in the CSS.
Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate・Another link to add to your bookmark folder named “conversation starters.” (Via Dense Discovery)
Why Taste Matters More・“Taste gives you vision. It’s the lens through which you decide what matters, and just as importantly, what doesn’t. Without taste, design drifts into decoration or efficiency for efficiency’s sake. Devoid of feeling.”
Tiga – Bugatti・I recently realised that this truly fantastic song is already more than 10 years old, and I still can’t wrap my head around this fact. The video, just like the song, hasn’t aged one bit; I had forgotten how creative and fun it is.
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