Web Wanderings, March 2026
Links of note, unearthed from web surfing over the last few weeks.
- π° Check out what the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes are looking at, in real time. https://spacetelescopelive.org
- ποΈ A collection of beautiful web user interface designs, components and pages. Wonderful! https://detail.design
- π©βπ¨ See how to write modern CSS vs the old way with this collection of snippets. Quaint, given that typing code into a text editor is quickly becoming a dying art. https://modern-css.com
- π± Oat is an ultra-lightweight, semantic UI library with zero dependencies. I love stuff like this.
- π» Uh oh. The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored is an excellent long read.
- β Charli XCX has a blog (on Substack tho', boooo)
- π£οΈ Phanpy (don't like the name, soz) is a very nice minimalist theme for Mastodon
- π Flickrβs URLs scheme is the subject on the excellent Unsung heroes blog
- π΅ The Bandcamp Bluesky feed is an excellent source of new music recommendations
- π€ Chinese humanoid robots are very impressive. They're the H2 model from Unitree I think.
- π€π€ The Guardian published an excellent long read about this. Inside Chinaβs robotics revolution
- ο£Ώ I liked this documentary from WSJ. Inside Appleβs Multibillion-Dollar Push to Make Chips in the U.S.
- π§βπ¨ Another excellent resource of UI components. https://component.gallery
- π Pagecord uses Cloudflare Turnstile but perhaps Friendly Captcha is a better alternative? It promises "Truly Invisible CAPTCHA".