2026

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

AI kill switch in Firefox. As expected, Firefox 148 comes with a button that turns off all AI features in the browser. Now available.

I played it. App to manage your “backlog” or the list of video games you want to play. Free, for iOS/iPadOS, and developed by reader Hugo dos Anjos.

Letters to a young creator. The Steve Jobs Archive has released a new free book, Letters to a young creator, featuring letters from public figures telling “What it takes to make something great.”

Experiment with Pixels. Neal's new game is a simulator of everything, with materials that react like in real life, with a pixelated appearance.

Hacker Typer. A fake terminal that is filled in from any key pressed. Except for F, which (de)activates full screen. Press Alt three times to receive an access granted message.

Firefox 148, released on Tuesday (24th), features a kill switch for the browser's AI features. Below it are selective controls for specific features. All of them are located in a new area in the settings (about:preferences), called “Artificial Intelligence Controls.”

This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby

With the success of Meta's camera glasses, there is now a risk of being recorded without consent or knowledge and ending up exposed in a crude video on TikTok or Instagram.

The manufacturers claim that a subtle light on the frame indicates when they are filming. It is not always easy to see the light, and anyway it is trivial to disable it.

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Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links, Ars Technica. The people behind archive.today did some nasty things to a blogger who tried to identify them: they launched a DDoS attack against the blog and altered archived pages to tarnish his reputation. When an archive becomes susceptible to tampering, it ceases to be reliable.

Meta director of AI safety allows AI agent to accidentally delete her inbox, 404 Media. This is the person responsible at Meta for ensuring that AI does not do things that are harmful to people.

Ente Locker. New app from Ente for storing important documents. The code is open source, and you can store up to 100 items for free. (Paying subscribers have a higher limit of 1,000 items.)

Cine. A new, attractive player for Linux (Gnome/GTK). Under the hood, it's the reliable mpv that does the heavy lifting.

Global Animal Consumption. Using data from official sources, this website displays the growing numbers of animals slaughtered for human consumption. (The numbers are frightening.)

Accessibility for Everyone. This and other books from the late A Book Apart are being distributed free of charge by the authors. They seem to be a little outdated, but there are some timeless titles.

Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app?

Anthropic's Claude desktop app is built using Electron, a technology that combines a web app with an instance of Chromium in a cross-platform executable.

Several apps use this technology: Microsoft Teams, Slack, Signal, Discord, Spotify, VS Code. Electron facilitates the creation and maintenance of apps for multiple operating systems using a common language, the same as the web version of these apps.

The negative side effects, however, are just as significant. Each open app consists of an additional Chromium running, which can saturate the computer's resources, slowing it down or crashing it. And although it is possible to make adjustments so that the application feels at home on each OS, few bother to do so. It looks like… a website, just in a separate window from the browser.

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Confirming the rumors, the upcoming iOS 26.4 is expected to bring end-to-end encryption to messages exchanged between iPhone and Android using the RCS standard. There’s more: as this feature depends on a newer version of RCS, 3.0, other welcome additions are also expected to arrive: editing and deleting sent messages, reactions (tapback) without duplicating messages, and replying to specific messages.

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

AsteroidOS 2. There is a Linux-based operating system for smartwatches. And the second version has just been released.

Chrome gets split viewing and PDF annotations. Does anyone here still use Chrome?

Hello, Mario! A Nintendo app for kids to play with the face of the famous Mario. (Reminiscent of the Super Mario 64 home screen, right?) Free for Android and iOS.

CleanSweep. Private and offline app to review photos from your gallery in a Tinder-style UI. FOSS, for Android. I haven't tested it; use at your own risk.

CSS optical illusions. They're kind of obvious (I guess?), but it's cool to see them implemented in CSS.

WikiCommute. Enter your commute time (or anywhere else) and this site returns Wikipedia entries that can be read in that time. Just don't do it while driving!

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

KDE Plasma 6.6. One of those updates full of small new features, fixes, and improvements. Coming soon to your favorite distro.

Apple begins testing end-to-end encryption for RCS in iOS 26.4 beta. e2ee messages will be identified by a padlock, which will also appear in iMessage.

macOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 bring back compact tab layout in Safari. Yes, please! We've been missing this layout. (Thanks for the tip, Gabriel!)

Current. The RSS feed app from the guy who asked a few weeks ago why all apps of this type look like email apps. Behind the scenes. For iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, one-time purchase of USD 9.90.

Searching for birds. One of the most beautiful and well-designed pages I've seen in recent times. “An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations.”

Reaction time test. My record was 55ms. Tip: it's easier to lower your time using a computer keyboard.

Teacher Paloma Gussani’s bag

In this series, readers showcase what they carry in their backpacks on a daily basis. Check out the other backpacks that have been published and submit yours — the this series depends on you.

Black and white photo of a woman with curly hair, smiling.I finally decided to do this tag, and I swear, my teenage self is very excite right now!

I always saw this type of post on blogs and thought, “I want to do my own version too.” But at the time, my bags weren't that great. And, to be honest, I didn't want to show school supplies. (Just between us, when I decided to create the blog, I was about 19 years old and was taking prep courses.)

However, time passed, I started working in my field, and when I was able to earn relatively well, I finally invested in a bag and wallet that I had always dreamed of.

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Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Sony WF-1000XM6 review: Facing tougher competition (in English), Engadget. Billy Steele, from Engadget, was not impressed with the new version compared to its competitors. And it got more expensive, USD 330.

App for Google Messages. Clarissa (my business partner at Célere) created a wrapper around Google Messages that puts it on system tray to monitor unread messages and opens the service's website in a window outside the browser. Tested only on Windows 11.

Voice on duck.ai. DuckDuckGo's private AI chatbot, duck.ai, can now receive voice commands.

Roomy. An open alternative to Discord, compatible with ATproto (Bluesky) and, soon, ActivityPub. Still in alpha, though.

Mouse Finder. Set the parameters and this site will return mouse models compatible with the size of your hand. (The recommendations are for the US market, but some are available in Brazil.)

Fediverse Near Me. A filter for OpenStreetMap that displays instances of the fediverse (ActivityPub) around the world.

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3, MacRumors. I’ve heard those silly misaligned anchors to resize windows are fixed. All other Apple’s OSs were updated as well.

Information Superhighway. A super simple app that displays random Wikipedia entries for you to read. Just words, nothing else. Free for all Apple platforms.

Backgroundese. A typographic font that makes no sense, suitable for use in games. Free and with a permissive license, even for commercial use.

The Startup Graveyard. A directory of startups that would change the world, but went bankrupt before they could.

A critical flaw has been discovered in Notepad (CVE-2026-20841). That once simple Windows editor that only displayed plain text, you know? The one that Microsoft tainted with Markdown (the vector for this flaw), Copilot, and who knows what else? An attacker could place a malicious link in a Markdown file that, when clicked by the victim, would execute code remotely. A fix was made available by Microsoft in routine updates released on Tuesday (10th).

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Selfie video: a new, simple, and secure way to recover your Google Account (pt_BR). Is it worth handing over your soul, I mean, your face to Google to make it easier to recover your account if something bad happens to it? Brazil is the first country to get this new feature.

Telegram: New design, gift making, and more. The “massive redesign” is for the Android app, which has been given a Liquid Glass revamp. The gifts, on the other hand, have to do with the NFT scheme — the questionable part of Telegram. If you can, avoid it.

Digital Carrot. Another app that promises to tame digital compulsions, but with a different approach: it grants access upon completion of tasks, such as walking a certain number of steps or finishing your daily to-do list. Available for various operating systems.

CSS Stats. Enter a website URL and the system returns a super detailed objective analysis of the CSS files. (My goodness, the Manual's is a mess!)

Tone3310. Web editor for composing and recalling ringtones from the old Nokia brick phones.

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Busy months in KDE Linux. The KDE project is about to release the beta version of KDE Linux, their own distribution. The post reports on several developments, highlighting delta updates and the new plasma-setup and plasma-login-manager packages.

Discord launches teen-by-default settings globally. Starting in March, adults will have to confirm that they are of legal age (what age? The press release does not specify) to use Discord without the limitations intended for teens. Verification can be done through facial recognition or by sending ID documentation.

The biggest update ever for Ente Photos. The flagship feature is the ability to comment and like photos. There are several other useful new features, such as downloading albums in a compressed file and the shared album administrator function.

Jellyfin for Samsung TVs with Tizen. The official app is now available in the Samsung store.

NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS. After the macOS version, now it's iOS (and iPadOS) turn to receive the revamped NNW with Liquid Glass. Free and FOSS.

Mecha Comet, Omg! Ubuntu. A modular, pocket-sized device that runs Linux. Available for pre-order — through crowdfunding — starting at USD 189.

Brazilian Alternatives. Directory of Brazilian technology services — LGPD compliant, customer service in Portuguese, payments in Brazilian real.

The Gemini protocol (not to be confused with Google's AI) continues to exist. On Sunday (8th), it got a significant boost on Apple devices with the launch of Lagrange, a browser for the small web that took 4.5 years to complete. In addition to Gemini, the browser also works with classic protocols such as Gopher and Finger, and other hobbyists. Free, for iOS/iPadOS.