Welcome to the fourth annual The Weekly Wrap… Wrap!

For this last post of 2024, I’m resharing the most popular links of this year. Below, you’ll find the top click for each weekly issue. It’s a smorgasbord of excellent things to check out again.

I hope you all had a wonderful year and I will see you in 2025!

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TWW #143 - You don't own digital and insert rant from your friendly local librarian about DRM. [Lifehacker]

TWW #144 - How to write emails people will read. [LinkedIn]

TWW #145 - A good list of life lessons. [Annie Macmanus]

TWW #146 - A Tie!

• Excellent Long Read: Finding their names. [Dagbladet]

• The algorithm wins with this recommendation. [@_andi_rae_]

TWW #147 - A "hack" to communicate more effectively. [HBR - may be paywalled]

TWW #148 - Ha! I love me some font humor. [@ellecordova]

TWW #149 - Thing of the Week: A co-worker shared Cat Bounce in our internal chat and it amused us all. It’s designed to teach physics but is mostly just absurd fun. Make it rain!

TWW #150 - A Tie!

• Hard to believe these are made from glass. [Colossal]

• Morbid but fascinating data about death. [WaPo - may be paywalled]

TWW #151 - A bakeware 🤯[@savkaypierce]

TWW #152 - I think all that chopping can make some sandwiches tastier. [EATER]

TWW #153 - "It seems I’ve reached a tipping point, where the digital detritus of my personal life has exceeded the once-unimaginable boundaries of online storage." [The Atlantic - gift link]

TWW #154 - The joy of Kevin Bacon's Instagram. [Culture Study]

TWW #155 - Too much sauce? [The Takeout]

TWW #156 - Thing of the Week: The Curricula is a niche search tool that develops a syllabus of material on a topic you want to learn. It breaks things down into topics, lays out an order of learning, and suggest books/articles/videos/courses to help you develop your understanding. You can search for your own topic or look at some of the popular, premade ones.

TWW #157 - Thing of the Week: Postcard Past / Present Photo lines up a historical postcard with a modern day photograph. It’s a cool way to look at the past. You can scroll through the posting or see things overlaid on a map. Most of the images are of the Chicago area, but there are a few other cities as well.

TWW #158 - A Tie!

• Lots of illustrated cooking tips. [Real Simple]

• Sunshine guilt is a thing I've experienced but didn't have a name for. [PopSugar]

TWW #159 - Wash day. [CNN - may be paywalled]

TWW #160 - Some delightfully playful pictures. [Colossal]

TWW #161 - This should please many genealogists. [WaPo - may be paywalled]

TWW #162 - Signs your identity may have been stolen. [Lifehacker]

TWW #163 - How to take a workcation. [Career Contessa]

TWW #164 - A different kind of traffic interchange. [NPR]

TWW #165 - I don't care if they're shy. No, thank you. [WaPo - may be paywalled]

TWW #166 - A Tie!

• Tips for better small talk. [Real Simple]

• How to clean your (probably filthy) reusable water bottle. [WaPo - may be paywalled]

TWW #167 - Packaging size and why we buy. [Planet Money]​

TWW #168 - A Tie!

• Do we all speak Phone now? [The Atlantic - gift link]

• The problems with jeans. [Culture Study]

TWW #169 - Thing of the Week: I found One Million Checkboxes after reading a WaPo story. It’s a silly little site but, also, weirdly community oriented.

TWW #170 - Using the sun as a prop. [PetaPixel]

TWW #171 - My money is on this photo winning the Pulitzer for breaking news. [The Atlantic - gift link]

TWW #172 - Don't put these things down the drain. [Real Simple]

TWW #173 - Capturing Olympic moments in photos. [PetaPixel]

TWW #174 - A Tie!

• The diet of one Olympian in these games. [The Guardian]

• Myths about cooking steaks. [The Takeout]

TWW #175 - A syllabus for generalists. [The Syllabus Project]

TWW #176 - I can't DNF books but these are good tips. [The Atlantic - gift link]

TWW #177 - I've never seen this before and I've lived in some old homes. [Apartment Therapy]

TWW #178 - This seems like something simple to try. [Apartment Therapy]

TWW #179 - I love a list of practical tricks. [The Guardian]

TWW #180 - I love this and I might need to steal it as an idea. [The Atlantic - gift link]

TWW #181 - Small ways to make your home feel more luxurious. [WaPo - may be paywalled]

TWW #182 - Here there be pirate libraries. [built in]

TWW #183 - Oven roasted autumn medley [Budget Bytes]

TWW #184 - I've been vacuuming the wrong way. [Lifehacker]

TWW #185 - CharBOOterie board [Boarderie]

TWW #186 - Thing of the Week: If you, like me, have concerns about preparing for the worst, this thread from Rahaeli on Bluesky is a good place to start.

TWW #187 - "Every woman is the wrong woman." [The Atlantic - gift link]

TWW #188 - Some useful productivity reminders. [Josh Spector]

TWW #189 - Stunning images of sunsets in broken mirrors. [Colossal]

TWW #190 - *laugh-crying in academic* [McSweeney's]

TWW #191 - One of my favorite round ups of the year. [What does this mean to me, Laura?]

TWW #192 - Yup. This. [The Atlantic - gift link]

Bring it on 2025!