Notes on Week 18 of 2026

The <a download> attribute lets you hint to the user agent that a link should be downloaded, and furthermore what filename it should use when saving the linked content to disk.

Hank Green did some incredible work collating and sorting all the publicly available photos from the Artemis Ⅱ mission and built a website to browse through them in chronological order. Here he is talking about it on YouTube too.

Anil Dash answered a question I’d had about why NASA kept uploading their images to Flickr.

Stepping back a few decades to the Apollo era, there was apparently some mid-century style moral hand-wringing about the astronauts’ colorful word choice. Honestly, I’m more than willing to cut anyone landing themselves on the friggin’ moon quite a bit of slack in that department.

musicForProgramming(); is a website that curates playlists of electronic music for when you need to focus.

OmniTools is another web-based collection of free tools that do all kinds of useful things.

Sophie built a Hue light switch out of a rescued door opener button from the London Underground. Via Tess.

As part of Type West 2025, Flora de Carvalho developed a new typeface inspired by those used on science fiction book covers and named Ursula after Ursula K. Le Guin.