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September 15, 2026
— charming ever-changing collection of free daily puzzles, now in its fourth season #
September 14, 2026
— creepypasta in the form of a forum thread, don’t miss the “what’s new!” at the very end #
September 10, 2026
— impressive archival project synchronizing TV broadcasts, radio traffic, pagers, newsgroups, and more #
September 9, 2026
— “Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum” via actsofvolition.com #
— new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981 #
— Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them #
— Riley Walz analyzed 100 million children’s drawings over 20 years, try searching for your own name #
September 4, 2026
— in a week, a swarm of 3,700 agents made 13k edits with disposable email addresses to collude on tasks via Simon Willison #
September 2, 2026
— Neal.fun’s latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony via @mrgan.com #
September 1, 2026
— like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser #
August 28, 2026
— Worms, Alter Ego, MacJesus ProGold, Portal (1986), and many more via Web Curios #
— this year’s 11 nominees are all great via Web Curios #
— sort by triangle count to see the simplest and most complex models in the game via @lifewinning.com #
— play Tetris using 1,465 relays on 248 simulated Minivac 601s #
August 27, 2026
— the dev made a fun postmortem on how the game was made and later went viral in Japan #
August 26, 2026
— an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator #
— the privacy-friendly X/Twitter frontends were a helpful way to view a post without an account #
— three years after it launched, I asked Turkers to send me selfies for cash #
August 8, 2026
— one of several playful web experiments by Joohyun Park #
August 5, 2026
— the latest submission to Supercut.org, inspired by Of Oz The Wizard via supercut.org #
August 4, 2026
— “‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, ‘in the city of Allendale, California.'” via @aaronmeyers #
— some of the many ways designers encourage you to drag an icon into the Applications folder #
— 30,954 mowed a virtual lawn, but the best mowers thought about it first #
— I played the first hour of the game with three friends at Panic HQ last month and it’s brilliant #
August 3, 2026
— I wonder how many people know they’ve committed to a 10 hour build when buying a $700 kitchenette via b3ta #
July 30, 2026
— new from the creator of Space Type Generator, be sure to turn on the “twerk” option #
July 26, 2026
— we’re going to see this backlash everywhere to the polished blandness of generated imagery via Caitlin Dewey #
July 23, 2026
— an escalating flood of agentic traffic, plus attempts to hack the server to manipulate prediction markets #
— many nice touches from the the cutaway view to the cars and ambient audio, try WASD movement inside with Shift to sprint #
July 21, 2026
— starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit #
July 16, 2026
— cracked face, pickle, eraser, lighthouse, and more #
— a very good personal homepage by Dustin Mierau #
— even if courts decide AI training is fair use, companies may still be liable for illicitly acquiring copyrighted works #
— his entertaining research found examples 30 years earlier than cited on Wikipedia, which was quickly updated #
— Pigeons & Planes’ Eden DaSilva on the heyday of Oink’s Pink Palace and What.cd via Hacker News #
— she talked to one “author” who published 445 ChatGPT-authored books on Amazon via @kashhill #
July 14, 2026
— The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now #
— Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons #
July 13, 2026
— make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF #
— an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary #
July 12, 2026
— parallel-universe video sharing community in the style of 2009-era YouTube via Web Curios #
— fascinating postmortem of blockchain music startup Nina Protocol, which is shutting down this week via AUX #
— run by anonymous organizers and promoted without social media, the whole thing sounded great #
— OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes #
July 9, 2026
— I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 #
July 6, 2026
— the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it #
July 5, 2026
— thanks to Manu for asking me to be the second-to-last blogger in his interview series #
— seems like the company failed precisely because the protocol was so successful in achieving its goals #
July 1, 2026
— as a huge fan of The Show, I’ve been anxiously waiting for this episode of Hank’s new podcast #
June 29, 2026
— another brilliant guide to the movies by internet cinephile Neil Cicierega #
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