Recent links from Phil Gyford

"I have been searching for a bright line, one where I can say that this subset of AI usage is ethical, or at least ethical enough for me to use.

A nice new site for this archive of thousands of old photos of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

"A register of the products that became the default in their trade."

For possible future reference.

List of film clips used in Christian Marclay's The Clock.

A new macOS photo editor and library app.

Good summary by Brendan O'Connor.

Nice work, for a recent repeat of a Red Dwarf episode on BBC 2.

Nicely-worded post banning use of AI in r/Linocuts, r/printmaking and r/lithography.

For the long bit about the pros and cons of risks versus rules, comparing New York and Tokyo.

More for the reminiscing about forums of the early 2000s than the fashion lessons.

After a three year hiatus Buckslip is back with a lovely essay reflecting on the past, present and future of the internet and what it's done.

A code editor that started as a fork of Zed, but without its AI and telemetry.

I haven't tried this but it's nice to see new interesting tools/services for bloggers in 2026.

So good.

I always enjoy these and this is a good one.

I hadn't thought of just using Wagtail as a replacement for Django admin, but might give that a try.

Carryology has been doing some great posts about clothing and accessories over the past couple of months since changing their direction.

Lovely idea - a box that streams the two NTS live channels and outputs via 3.5mm jack or AirPlay, Google Cast, etc.

"In sum—as new technology, AI acts as a creator of new risks; as a capitalist instrument, it acts as an amplifier or accelerator of existing risks and trends in the capitalist system."

Stuart Murdoch on the design and photos used for their album covers.

An interesting walk to all the locations on the Monopoly board.

Entertaining thread about making early websites.

Rather him than me, but I enjoyed Matt's post about cautiously letting agents handle a specific email task.

The two essays Simon links to are interesting, and I really like the video too, a calm, thoughtful format.

Sounds familiar.

An app for browsing your Apple Photos library.

Adrian Hon interviews Katrine Wind about her larp that teaches Danish teenagers about how seductive fascism can be.

Good interview with David Foster Wallace's sister.

Not sure if I've seen this before.