Hello and happy…Thursday? Listen, it's a busy week over here are Birchtree headquarters, and I got time to make this so it's going out early. I hope you'll forgive me 🙂

The Links

• What better way to respond to banned books than to read them? Here's 14 to choose from.
• This is a great theme for Ulysses, and is what I'm now using on all devices.
• All your favorite cartoon characters are black.
• clay.css is a super-fun CSS library!
• "Endemic" has become a buzzword recently, but if I may, you keep using that word…I do not think you know what it means.
• There are tons of Wordle clones and variants and that's a good thing, actually.
• Spotify has a podcast problem (and it's not about Joe).

The Tweets

The Videos

First up is how Resident Evil 4 transformed horror games (and became my favorite game of all time???).

I had no idea this was a thing, but I love the story and love the level-headed (ahem…Joe Rogan, take notes) coverage of it.

Storytelling isn't just for filmmakers, this is good advice for literally anyone.

Mrwhostheboss is just awesome.