Junited is a no-pressure blog post sharing event that takes place every June. It was invented in 2024 by Robert Birming, and here is his index page for 2026.

While I usually consider my posts ready once published for the first time and only fix typos or such, this particular post I intend to update with new links throughout the month. To keep it light, I won’t be providing much context or commentary, but these will be posts that I have read and enjoyed. Without further ado, let’s get the list started!

  1. Gmail Thinks I’m Stupid, So I Left. Jeremy got fed up with Gmail and it’s AI “assistance” and switched to Fastmail.
  2. European Software 🇪🇺. In similar spirit to Jeremy above, Niq is also ungoogling or de-googlifying his digital life.
  3. Canvas-ing the Web. With 30+ years of web developer experience, Eric A. Meyer is quite a wizard.
  4. Using Claude Code to Personalise the Xteink X4. Tom Usher demonstrates that with coding agents you can nowadays even customize your hardware.
  5. Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions. Jim Nielsen goes back to basics for web design. I dig it.
  6. The Curious Case of Enum and Map Serialization. Nice, well explained deep dive into how Java handles hashcodes.
  7. Stop Using Conventional Commits. Sumner Evans argues Conventional Commits are an actively bad standard. Comments section is heated.
  8. Why I turned off comments. Talking about heated comments, Alex Hsu explains why he turned commenting off in his blog.
  9. Missing Miles. Dr. Drang took a bike ride and started wondering, with the help of the Mathematica application, why the mile markers reported different distances than the fitness app they were using. Sounds like something I could’ve done as well! 😅
  10. #41: ATC 105 — Phraseology. Air traffic controller Don Brown explains in this post from 2004 why standardized communication is vital to his work. All of his other posts are very interesting as well!
  11. I Could’ve Rickrolled the Entire FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID. BobDaHacker discovered a stupid but very serious security issue in FIFA’s systems.
  12. The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. A great idea & execution by Wouter Groeneveld. I have also turned some of my Instagram posts into photo books because you never know when Meta decides to pull the plug from your account.