What I found interesting this time - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

“Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help,” n.d. https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

Rant about icons in menus. I agree with the author. The idea that every item in the menu should have one causes them to be not readable at all.
What is really important whenever you make menu is to understand which menu options are actually mostly used. Such options should have key shortcuts and icons. Also, groups of settings should have an icon.
Nowadays, maybe due to AI enhancement, where you can generate any icon you want, it’s easier to shit it here and there. It’s not a good idea and it will confuse your users.

“Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D,” n.d. https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/.

“2025 Year in Review,” n.d. https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review

PornHub year review shown that people either use Steam Deck to watch porn or they really use Linux. Other than that it looks like power users still use Firefox.
Aaaa and extreame number of people watch porn with VR on.
YEAH OF LINUX. I’M TELLING YA. YEAR OF LINUX.

“McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery,” n.d. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-commercial.

“How Google Maps Quietly Allocates Survival across London’s Restaurants - and How I Built a Dashboard to See through It,” n.d. https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates

Project, which allows you to filter restaurants in London with higher granularity than Google Maps.The author took data from Google Maps and then enhanced it with machine learning.

“The HTML-First Approach: Why Htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizing Web Development,” n.d. https://www.danieleteti.it/post/html-first-frameworks-htmx-revolution-en/#building-with-html-instead-of-fighting-with-javascript-layers-

2024 and developers discover that SSR and pure HTML is actually the better approach then SPA Hahahahahaha
I won’t be surprised if they reinvent PHP Hahahah

“Being a SysAdmin Is Hard,” n.d. https://about.tree.ht/blog/treehut-outages-december-2025

Small blog post about issues when you host software for your own company. I really like how kind and truthful the authors was.I had similar issues when I was hosting servers for my friends without static IP address. It can’t be a real pain in the ass especially that usually what you need is a simple "restart" tunneling button which is not available when tunnel is down XD