Links

grillitype.com/blog/in-use/bixi-montreal-Bike-Rental

I love GT Maru and looks great here on the branding for Montréal’s bike sharing scheme. Very cool they have trailers for hire too, London should do that.

unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys

I’ve been really enjoying Marcin Wichary’s new blog about quality software craft and this post on screenshots is exemplary. I use screenshot shortcuts all the time but I had no idea about the alt/ctrl modifiers to send it to clipboard or remove shadow — so useful!

garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Great roundup of the Epstein stuff from Garbage Day, it feels like it should be proper crackpot conspiracy stuff but Epstein and Banon definitely believed they’re own hype/impact. It’s all so awful, so cringe and yet has made things materially worse for everyone... not to mention all sex trafficking which is properly grim.

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/instagram-reels-and-the-new-era-of-desocialized-media.html

Good article, short form video really is a poison. Instagram has been getting worse for a long time but reels were something I have always tried to avoided entirely, something which just gets harder. I gave up recently and just deleted Instagram. I’m sad because I deffo get FOMO from missing out on friends post/story updates but that diminishing all the time as more people give up posting.

puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-01-29/ribbit

I’m a big fan (and paying subscriber) of Puzzmo and I really like their new game Ribbit, I guess it’s a little like NYT’s Spelling Bee (which I never got into) but anyway it’s fun.

starsofthelidforever.com

Stumbled on this today, what a wonderful site. I vividly remember the first time I heard SotL - at a sleep over (lol) at my friends when I was 16, and I loved it. Looking forward to digging into all the wonderful content here.

observer.co.uk/style/restaurants/article/the-best-chef-youve-never-heard-of

Really enjoyed this profile on Seb Myers of Planque, I still haven’t been but would love to. Shame it wasn’t there 13 years ago when I lived 2 minutes away.

londoncentric.media/p/waymo-london-self-driving-taxis

I’m conflicted about autonomous taxis coming to London. Downsides I can imagine, more congestion, it’s impact on people using public transport and the concentration of wealth in large corps who don’t pay taxes here (and removing paid work from people who contribute to the local economy). BUT when I used it in Austin it was a very calm and pleasant experience... I find cab drivers tend to drive more erratically (maybe they’re in a hurry because they don’t get paid enough). Anyway, crazy to imagine they might be normal soon.

maggieappleton.com/gastown

Maggie makes a lot of good points about what is and isn’t useful about Gastown. I tried to read the original medium article a bunch of times but could not get past a few paragraphs. I also cannot imagine working with agents and not ever looking at the code... that just feels sad.

theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/15/the-crisis-whisperer-how-adam-tooze-makes-sense-of-our-bewildering-age

Interesting to learn of Tooze’s backstory. I loved his analogy, that if the climate crisis is our WWII, then partnering with China is the way to beat it, in spite of the fact we understand it’s a brutal regime (just like the war couldn’t have been won without Russia). I also enjoyed his scathing remarks upon the Biden administration.

enclose.horse

A fun little game, a colleague shared today on slack. Excellent URL too.

robinsloan.com/lab/manic-technology

“I’m starting to think language models are a fundamentally manic technology”, hard agree.

aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes

Oof what a throwback, I’ve used Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot every day since discovering via RSS when I was at uni and my laces have never accidentally come undone since.

jasmi.news/p/bio-acc-dictionary

Jasmine Sun again on 2026 being a big year for biotech. It’s scary but also quite fancinating

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147

This looks really cool, I was totally unaware this was coming. I’m sure people will find some good/fun things to use it for.

gt-canon.com

Another banger of typeface from Grilli. The minisite is incredible too.

garbageday.email/p/the-rise-of-the-troll-state

Good to have Garbage Day back after the holidays. The bit with Pete Hegseth with x.com on monitor behind him... cringe/awful.

kernelmag.io/5/reddit

Great/grim read, I have no idea why so many men think this is an acceptable way to behave.

nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html

Scary... “the techies were the first on this because of the willingness to take ridiculous risks.” Aside: every time Frontier Tower is mentioned something awful follows.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins

On a similar theme to Henry’s post above but with more Montaigne.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites

A call to action, full of great historical references with a beautiful and inspired design. I love it.

robinsloan.com/winter-garden/agi-is-here

Not the AI hype post the title hints at. The first in a short series from Robin Sloan.