Cool Links Vol. 12: June, 2025

Hey there! Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈!

I hope you're comfortable and keeping chill/warm depending on which side of the world you are. This month, aside from finally launching v5 of my website, I've gathered up a few cool links for you to read.

Fun

Nic Chan's Website

Came across this website on Mastodon and oh wow, it's so nice! I've seen a bunch of websites trying to mimic the old Windows vibes, but this one did it in a way that makes sense. Content is well laid-out and it doesn't go too far into the "mimicking Windows" aspect.

Deep Reads

The Internet Used to Be a Place, by Sarah Davis Baker (video)

Amazing video about the internet we’ve lost (or rather, was taken from us), and how we can rebuild it.

Absolute fan of Sarah’s storytelling here, the way she weaves through the topics and links (hah!) them to that Hypnospace game is amazing!

Dev

The New Separation of Concerns, by Brad Frost

I learned about separation of concerns over a decade ago, when I was still learning how to code. On the web side, it would very often be related to what language you were using; HTML is for markup, CSS for styles, JS for interactivity, whatever-backend-language-you-use for business logic. That made sense back then but now the lines have become much blurrier.

Brad Frost goes a bit into what a more modern version of that separation of concerns might look like. I haven't tried out his course, so I can't comment on how good it is. But I'm a big fan of his atomic design principles so I'd say it might be a good one!

Web Weekly newsletter, by Stefan Judis

I've been subscribed to this newsletter for over a year and it never occurred to me to recommend it here. Stefan Judis does a weekly roundup of web dev-related things and puts them out in a nice, easy-to-read, lighthearted newsletter. It's been one of my favorites for a while and if you're reading this, chances are you'll enjoy his content too!

Wrapping up

This is volume 12 of Cool Links, which means I've been gathering links like this for a year!

It was the first step in my plan to write more. I figured that by commenting on what other people wrote, I'd feel more comfortable with writing myself. Even though I haven't actually written more posts here during the last year, I feel like it's working. I have a few drafts that I haven't developed enough to post, and some that I just discarded after a bit. But what matters is that I actually wrote something; posting it is just a consequence. 😅

Overall it's been fun collecting links like these every month, and it's a way of keeping the spirit of the web alive. It is, after all, a bunch of sites that link to each other. And if at least one person discovers a neat website because of posts like these, then it's mission accomplished. 🫡

See you next month!