Links For You (9/20/26)
Happy "Football is Back" season to those of you who celebrate. I'm currently watching my Saints take on the Ravens (who are also a favorite of mine) and hoping for our first win. The last few weeks have been incredibly busy (I feel like I always say that, sorry) with a trip for work that then morphed into a short vacation with my wife and I which included my first Blizzcon (which is freaking cool as hell) and our first visit to Disneyland. (We've been to Disney World a few times.) I think we both agreed that Disney World is cooler, but the crowds and - most importantly - the weather - was much better in California.
RSS Lookup
First up for the links today is RSS Lookup, a simple web site that lets you paste in a URL and see if it has a RSS feed. Not every site does a good job of letting you know about their RSS options so this can make it easier. Most likely I think the bookmarklet will be more useful to folks.
If your curious, here's the meta tag used to signify a site's feed:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="Your Site Title - RSS Feed" href="https://example.com" />
Interfaces, a collection by Ron Domingue
Ron is someone I've known for a while, a local down here in Louisiana, who has done some incredibly stunning visual works. His Interfaces is a collection of various UI interfaces for different types of data. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite, but Landfall is a stunning visualization of hurricane tracks and their landfall.
Remember Imagemaps?
Imagemaps are one of those old web techs that used to be everywhere, and then disappeared. In case you don't remember, the idea was that one image on a web page, when clicked, could have multiple different destinations based on where you clicked. Typically this was defined in HTML with coordinates mapping to URLs. But you could also handle the location on the server side as well. In that form, the coordinates are included in the URL and your server side tech has to handle figuring out what goes where.
This post, "Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs", by Dan Q explores how he attempted (and succeeded) in scraping a bunch of Gif icons for an old directory.
Not gonna lie - kinda miss the old web. :)
Just For Fun
Ok, usually I share cool music videos here, but today I want to share something different. My father-in-law shared this short with us and while it's marked as comedy, it's a pretty deep 30-ish minute short staring Jane Kaczmarek. It's definitely worth your time!