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June 29, 2026
— another brilliant guide to the movies by internet cinephile Neil Cicierega #
June 26, 2026
— a quirky WebGL port by a high school student, check it out before it disappears via Web Curios #
June 25, 2026
— a blogger’s blogger, Om was always so kind and supportive of my projects via Kottke #
June 24, 2026
— On-Together: Virtual Co-Working sits at the bottom of your desktop while you work with others via Aftermath #
— with my old friend Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief! #
— if you like that, he did followups on dynamic lighting and shaders for 3D objects with oil-painted textures #
— don’t miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL’s Buttolph collection #
June 23, 2026
— Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort #
— I’m enjoying this Connections variant made by Hank Green, the scoring provides some additional challenge #
June 22, 2026
— charming PICO-8 platformer by Noel Cody via Michael Eades #
June 21, 2026
— analysis of 3,242 articles over the last 12 years shows a clear shift from affirming to skeptical framing starting in 2022 #
June 20, 2026
— Hank Green on the hidden beauty of maintenance and infrastructure #
June 19, 2026
— Quake in the browser without WebGL, it uses PolyCSS to render textured 3D meshes in the DOM with CSS via Today in Tabs #
June 18, 2026
— an interactive essay demonstrating all the ways interfaces can interfere with our motor skills via Marcin Wichary #
— daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results #
— explore nearly 40,000 images of isolated objects from Wikipedia in chaotic collages via @neal.fun #
June 17, 2026
— “turn your site into a place people can bump into each other” #
June 16, 2026
— People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels #
— the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches #
— a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source #
— Nintendo and Sony decided not to release browsers for any console since the Wii U and PlayStation 4 via MetaFilter #
— Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options #
— a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now via @gdc #
— more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys via Hacker News #
June 12, 2026
— part of 10K Drum Machines, click the rock faces to change the sounds and then release it down the hill #
June 11, 2026
June 10, 2026
— two of my favorite internet people chat about ranking their biggest worries, publicly navigating illness, and organic produce #
— Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ via Garbage Day #
— extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform via usermag.co #
— I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look #
— the live cursor trails are from real people with the browser extension installed, currently 28 people across 19 timezones via @spencer.place #
— he published several projects it generated, including three games and a detailed interactive isochrone map #
June 9, 2026
— a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year’s elections #
June 5, 2026
— over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics #
June 4, 2026
— a friend said she “died of sadness” after losing her husband last year, her memorial for him on Instagram says it all #
June 3, 2026
— I agree this is true right now, and the horrific implications if it wasn’t, but he’s more certain about the future than I am via MetaFilter #
— modders are widely advertising the service on, where else, Facebook Marketplace via The Verge #
— 404 Media reports on companies specializing in AEO, AI-engine optimization, the evolution of SEO scum #
— his Stream Spigot tool now supports Mastodon, Bluesky, and X/Twitter using Nitter’s reverse-engineered private endpoints #
June 2, 2026
— extremely anxiety-inducing via @spencer.place #
— excellent new video from Emily Zhang’s Rabbit Hole, now over 200k subscribers with only three videos since its February launch via Marcin Wichary #
June 1, 2026
— a massively-multiplayer online rave via @mattround.com #
— Misty De Méo writes about a 1994 Japanese BBS preserved forever on CD-ROM and browsable in Infinite Mac #
May 28, 2026
— for the JavaScript sickos, a cursed crossword puzzle where every clue is an eval of its answer #
May 27, 2026
— disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One’s Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog via Marcin Wichary #
— no info about how the ownership change happened, though they say it will be run by the same team #
May 26, 2026
— first new Bill Wurtz song in almost four years #
May 21, 2026
— Nieman Lab continues to report on news orgs blocking the Archive’s crawlers over fears of AI training #
May 13, 2026
— like RNGdle, a minimalist experiment in addictive game mechanics #
April 30, 2026
— what’s the least amount of interactivity you can have in a game and still have it feel like a game? #