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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Revisiting Facebook<\/a>. If Zuckerberg himself admits that Facebook is much more than a site (or app) for connecting people, since \u201cseeing friends\u2019 status updates\u201d became something from the \u201cOG Facebook,\u201d the question remains: what is Facebook today?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on your phone, Jo\u00e3o?<\/a> Every week, I publish the phone’s home screen from a blog reader.<\/p>\n

How to remove \u201cstuck\u201d iCloud Tabs in Safari<\/a>. Things at Apple work great until the day they don\u2019t. A silly example that really bugs me is \u201cstuck\u201d iCloud tabs on Safari \u2014 a glitch in Apple\u2019s tab syncing feature that lets me access tabs from one device on others.<\/p>\n

Big list of free, non-AI generated stock images<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flashword<\/a>. An app to save and review unknown words. Free, for iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.<\/p>\n

Logoipsum<\/a>. Fake logos you can drop into mockups.<\/p>\n

Web materials map<\/a>. A sort of \u201cmind map\u201d of the elements that make up web pages. Click the yellow items for interactive demos.<\/p>\n

Email is easy<\/a>. Think you know everything about email? Take this quiz. (I got 14 out of 21.)<\/p>\n

DigiPaws<\/a>. Android app with a bunch of tools to cut down on screen time. If the one that blocks only YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels actually works, it might be worth it. (Haven\u2019t tested it.)<\/p>\n

Which Year<\/a>. The challenge: guess the year the photo shown was taken. The closer you are, the more points you get.<\/p>\n

HappyCow<\/a>. A search engine for vegan and vegetarian restaurants. Listings seem to be up to date (at least the ones in my city).<\/p>\n

The State of CSS 2025<\/a>. The annual survey results are out, highlighting trends in web development. (Still haven\u2019t used :has()<\/code>.)<\/p>\n

The mathematically optimal way to cut an onion<\/a>, The Pudding<\/cite>. A neat example of how something ordinary can be looked at in an absurdly complex (and brilliant) way.<\/p>\n

The lyrics to the Jaws<\/cite> theme song<\/a>. Deep.<\/p>\n

Helium<\/a>. A new browser based on ungoogled-chromium. Still experimental and macOS-only, but it promises to be \u201cusable\u201d as a daily driver.<\/p>\n

copyparty<\/a>. A portable, feature-packed file server. \u201cInverted Linux philosophy: do all the things, and do an okay job.\u201d \ud83d\ude01 (Looks pretty fun!)<\/p>\n

Straw.Page<\/a>. Yet another site builder, this one with a \u201cweb 1.0\u201d vibe but adapted for mobile. Free with a premium plan at USD 49\/year.<\/p>\n

Quoted posts coming to Mastodon<\/a>. It\u2019s happening.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mozilla testing web apps in Firefox<\/a>. If you\u2019re on Firefox 142 for Windows (not from the Microsoft Store), you can try it out. The feature has to be enabled in \u201cLabs\u201d inside browser settings.<\/a><\/p>\n

corner-shape superellipse() generator<\/a>. You can do some wild stuff with CSS these days.<\/a><\/p>\n

domain-check<\/a>. A command-line app that checks whether domains are available.<\/a><\/p>\n

Croissant<\/a>. A new feed reader by David Bushell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revisiting Facebook. If Zuckerberg himself admits that Facebook is much more than a site (or app) for connecting people, since \u201cseeing friends\u2019 status updates\u201d became something from the \u201cOG Facebook,\u201d the question remains: what is Facebook today? What\u2019s on your phone, Jo\u00e3o? Every week, I publish the phone’s home screen from a blog reader. How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59560,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59556\/revisions\/59560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}