December 26, 2025 Categories Reading time: 5 minutes

Last Linkdump of 2025! And maybe last post of this year too, I don’t know yet. I just checked, and this is the 108th blog post I’m writing this year. I’m too lazy to do it now, but if I stitched them all together I would get at least a small book out of it. Which means I’ve written a book this year! Granted, a very confusing and disjointed book, but still. I always wondered how people write books, because it takes so long to write anything and a book is a lot of text. Well, this is how. Write consistently over a long period of time. In fact, this is how you do anything worthwhile, isn’t it? Do it consistently over a long period of time. Wait, did I just learn a life lesson here? Anyway, I think this is a good opportunity to say a big thank you to you all for reading my ramblings week after week, and for getting in touch with me via e-mail or Mastodon. Writing this blog has become one of my favourite hobbies, and this is in no small part thanks to the community of fellow bloggers, readers and online friends that has developed around it. Thinking about it, this year I received messages from people in both North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia/New Zealand, which is absolutely mind-blowing! I hope you’re all having a great holiday season wherever you are in the world, and I’m looking forward to continuing this in 2026.

Articles

• Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog I guess most of you have seen this, but in case you missed it - these people managed to scrape almost the entire Spotify library, which is an insane amount of music. Their goal is to build an archive of all of the world’s music. Unrelated question, what’s the cheapest way to store 300TB worth of data? Asking for a friend...
• AI chatbots share climate disinformation to susceptible users | Global Witness You know how social media services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. put you in an echo chamber by only showing you things that fit into your view of the world? Well good news, AI chatbots do that, too. AI really is becoming more human, by adopting our worst traits. (via)
• When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates - The Old New Thing Here’s what the Microsoft service hotline did back in the day when an angry customer demanded to speak to Bill Gates.

Software/Services

• GitHub - coffe/ytrss2 Like me, Coffe likes following YouTube channels via their RSS feed, but unlike me he’s also good at writing user-friendly software, so he created a command line feed reader for this exact purpose. Here’s his post about it on Mastodon.
• Test Ad Block - Toolz This is a service that lets you test the effectiveness of your adblocking solution. I run PiHole in my network and a few adblocking plugins in the browser and I get a 97% block rate, which is pretty good. (via)
• GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit. Are you nostalgic for the text editor from MS DOS? I’m not, but if you are then this is the project for you, a reimplementation of the old editor that works on modern systems and adds a few useful features. (via)

Videos

• I Made My Own Frying Pan From Scratch - YouTube If you enjoy watching people make things from scratch, Odd Tinkering has a video where he makes a frying pan out of tabs he collected from old soda cans.

Around the Small Web

• A false history This post raises an important question - if you generate fake family photos now with AI, will you remember that these are not real in a few decades? And will you care?
• 🔗 Link Stash | 21 December 2025 | zkbro Zak’s Link Stash keeps growing, and he has a ton of interesting stuff in there, like an online shop where you can order coffee through SSH, which is a fascinating idea.
• Tools for discovering the IndieWeb – Andrew Doran This is a nice collection of tools and services that allow you to browse and discover blogs on the indie web. (Thanks, Matto!)

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