March 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.

Has Search Become Just a Feature?・“The traditional web — with its banners, pop-ups, and paywalls — increasingly feels like a relic from a less sophisticated era.” If you aren’t already aware of the potential consequences of A.I. for the web, Om Malik’s post is a great — if a little optimistic — way to catch up. I wonder if websites, as we know them today, i.e. public-facing, are doomed to become mainly source material for A.I. apps or, worse, purely confidential points of reference in their databases.

A young Sam Altman in The Alienist, 2018・Speaking of A.I., this Bluesky post from old internet acquaintance Daniel Benneworth-Gray is just chef’s kiss.

QuickGPT・While we are on the topic if A.I., do you know this very simple yet very useful Mac app by Sindre Sorhus? I use ChatGPT for various tasks at work, and I find QuickGPT to be, yes, quicker to use than OpenAI’s ChatGPT app, more stable than MacGPT, and better integrated into the system.

Sigma BF・You’ve probably seen this camera everywhere already, but I had to include it in this month’s list. Sometimes an object is so beautiful that its primary function becomes secondary. I don’t care if the pictures this device takes are good or not; I just want to hold it.

ChangeTheHeaders・“ChangeTheHeaders is a Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS that allows you to customize HTTP request headers such as Accept, Accept-Language, Cookie, and User-Agent.”

Valesuchi & Matias Aguayo – Nasty Woman・An eight-year-old brilliant remix that I really enjoyed then, which feels even more essential today. From the article on Remezcla: “The track samples a speech from actress Ashley Judd, who recites 19-year-old Tennessee poet Nina Donovan’s spoken word missilery launched at ‘a man whose words are a distraction to America.’”

Train bien: a collection of Tokyo transit tickets from the 80s・My train tickets have never looked this good, and it’s not even close. For print, I can hear and understand the excuses, but for digital tickets? Why isn’t there more art around the plain QR codes?

The New Swiss Passport・Obviously, there is some Helvetica involved. (via Kottke)

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know・I also laughed to tears reading this one.

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