Back to work, back to school, back to the links posts.

Tools

  • How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO: deep dive about Obsidian with Steph Ango and why they're not rushing to add AI buttons everywhere.

  • D2 ASCII output: pretty neat! A bit dry output in 2025 but in certain cases so useful.

  • PixiEditor: multiplatform, free and versatile 2D editor. Cane be used for pixel art and animated gif.

  • Qwen-Image-Edit: apparently impressive for local AI-assisted image editing. I need to try!

  • The DHH video promoting Omarchy 2.0 is pure art. It speaks to all the geeks out there looking for minimalism and efficiency. I’m not sure the project will stand the test of time, but it’s giving me ideas for customizing (and simplifying) my Ubuntu setup.

  • A tool to upgrade your GH actions steps easily

  • I used nnn, now mostly the regular terminal or the Ubuntu explorer but superfile is extremely nice. Installed it: another set of shortcuts to remember, of course.

  • A set of background patterns for your website. Love the idea of offering so many variations.

  • Plenty of inspiring designs (via sidebar.io).

  • I know you would say "What's the point of having a gigantic cursor on your screen?" but I have a colleague like this so here is how to get a Wii-like cursor in any OS.

  • ohshitgit: I knew about this webiste, popped up when browsing again, and man it's still so funny.

Opinions and articles

There’s also the question of what compromises make possible. Eddie describes big corporate clients as a kind of “Robin Hood mechanism” – the money from bigger players can be the very thing that lets a studio take on riskier, more mission-driven work later.

  • An long essay full of insighful, haunting thoughts: Why I cannot be technical by Cat Hicks. A must-read, even if Idon't know what to take out of it, apart that being human is a lot of suffering, in Tech or anywhere else.

That idea of mapping a terrible world and solving some of it is beautiful. Creating safety in someone else’s life is perhaps among the greatest of possible human activities.

All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

  • A good article on being a manager. I've done all the mistakes, paid a few times the price after, and I'm now much in favor of horizontal hierarchy (if any) and mutual empathy.

Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm.

The real question isn’t whether you’ll make mistakes; it’s what you do after.