Things of interest (July 2026)

Here’s a smattering of things I found interesting lately. Tools, articles, bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.

SVG Backgrounds

SVG has slowly, steadily become one of my absolute favorite web technologies. This set of free SVG-based web graphics by Matt Visiwig will instantly improve your project with a copy/paste.

Email.md - responsive emails, written in Markdown

I don’t write an email newsletter anymore. But if I were ever to start one again, I would 100% use this.

CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?

Cool mini-site that does its best to determine your machine’s capabilities (via browser APIs) and tells you which models will run:

[great | well | decent | tightly | barely | nope]

It actually guessed my processor wrong, but you can also just fill out the details to ensure it’s…