{"id":20361,"date":"2026-09-04T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.20i.com\/blog\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:32:39","slug":"link-round-up-014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.20i.com\/blog\/link-round-up-014\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Round-Up (014)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to Link Round-Up, our series where we share the interesting, useful and fun things on the web that grab our attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this edition we\u2019ve got a deep well of web design inspiration<\/a>, an enormous library of curated sound effects<\/a>, privacy recommendations<\/a> and much more!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Starting with design, Bento Grids<\/a> is a gallery devoted to layouts built around boxes, a style that has spread across product pages, portfolios and software websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can browse examples by design type, switch between light and dark treatments, and follow each entry back to its original source. It\u2019s useful for more than collecting attractive screenshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking across dozens of examples shows how different designers group features, create hierarchy and make complicated product stories easier to scan. There is a free template too, if inspiration has arrived, but the blank frame is still winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good layout helps visitors see what matters. Privacy is partly about deciding what everybody else gets to see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Privacy Guides<\/a> is a directory covering recommendations for browsers, email, VPNs, password managers, cloud storage, operating systems, security keys, self-hosting and much more, that is completely ad-free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The context around each recommendation is as useful as the shortlist: the project publishes its criteria and puts threat modelling front and center. That is much more useful than pretending three fashionable privacy apps make anybody invisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tools you choose, of course, depend on what you need to protect, who you need to protect it from, and which compromises you can live with. Once you start tightening privacy settings, it\u2019s not a huge leap to wonder what else is installed and running on your own machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kudu<\/a> collects more than 15 maintenance tools into one free desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. Released under the MIT license, it covers system and browser cleaning, startup analysis, performance monitoring, software updates, privacy controls, scheduled scans and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kudu says its cleaning and scanning operations happen locally, while network access is reserved for update checks and optional cloud features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the housekeeping done, we can give our GPUs something interesting to do.<\/p>\n\n\n \n \n

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