Articles
- No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031 — Blog | Filipe Brito Ferreira — Front-End Engineer
A depressing article about where the tech industry is headed thanks to short-sighted CEOs replacing junior positions with incompetent AI. (via Les Orchard)
Software/Services
- GitHub - mplsllc/macsurf: A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC
Someone ported the lightweight Netsurf web browser to classic Mac OS, so if you're still rocking your Clamshell iBook like it's 1999, then first of all you're awesome, and you can now visit modern websites on it again. - Releases · reinauer/WinUAE · GitHub
And someone else ported the Amiga emulator WinUAE to MacOS and Linux, which is interesting because the emulator started it's life as UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator), with WinUAE being the most popular fork of it, and now it's coming full circle and back to *nix systems again. - GitHub - itsjunetime/tdf: A tui-based PDF viewer · GitHub
A PDF viewer for the terminal, for those who prefer living without a GUI. Written in Rust. (via Raffaele)
Videos
- The Close | Adult Animation Comedy Short Film - BBC - YouTube
I already shared this on Mastodon, but it's just too funny not to share it here as well. (via Armin)
Around the Small Web
- Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed
"If you're just going to present me with prompt-generated content, I hate to break it to you but I have access to ChatGPT, and I can do that myself."
This is the clearest explanation I have read so far for why AI-generating your content is just completely stupid. - Little Bits: Issue #37 For May 2026
Adam has a new issue of his Little Bits link post out, and as usual it's packed full of interesting stuff. He releases one every month while I release one every week, but in terms of sheer number of links he still has me beat :) - Gmail Thinks I'm Stupid, So I Left | moddedbear.com
JP does the sensible thing and leaves Gmail behind because the (AI)-enshittification is getting out of hand. - Worse on Purpose
This blog dives into how everyday products got worse over the years thanks to corporate mergers, acquisitions, cost cutting measures and everything else the corporate world has to offer. Very America-centered, but still a fascinating read and thanks to globalisation also relevant in other parts of the world. (via Lazy Reading) - Gemini Quickstart!
Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS · brennan.day
Recently, Jon has been getting more into Gemini and he shared these two posts about this alternative version of the web, which I highly recommend checking out if you're into this kind of thing.
Misc
- Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code - AlphaPixel Software Development
The Juggler is one of the earliest and most famous demos of the Amiga's graphics capabilities, and here's a story about recovering it's source code. It's a bit weird that the author directed an AI to write an extractor for Amiga disk images for him when there are plenty of tools available already, but it's still a fascinating read and he even got the blessing from the demo's original author to publish the sources online.