Web Wanderings (October 2026)

Just a few links this month, but still worth sharing. For future me, if nothing else! Niche Museums lets you find tiny museums near you. I'm keen to see Jukebox London next time I'm in The Smoke, and The New York Earth Room and Rex's Dino Store when I pop over to the Big Apple. RemoveMacAI is an open source app to de-bloat macOS by selectively turning off Apple Intelligence, analytics, ads and pop-ups. It only works on macOS 26+ so I've no need for it yet (I'm holding onto Sequoia), but I'm glad it exists for when I'm forced to upgrade. Quxnet is a web community that "restores the internet era counterculture that made the web worth caring about in the first place". Delightful! My general rule is not to bother resizing images for my blog unless they're particularly large (5MB+ or 4000px+ etc), but I'd recommend spending 30 seconds running them through ImageOptim if you're on a Mac. Worth reading Dave Kiss’ “a eulogy for the software engineer“. Hard times in the world of software, for…