NYT’s Flash visualizations are working again — using the amazing Ruffle Flash emulator, naturally #

brr.fyi goes home — is this the end for the best blog ever written about life in the South Pole? stay tuned for part two #

Using the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to uncover disinformation networks — Bellingcat made a lightweight tool for scraping current and historic Google Analytics data  #

How Google’s search algorithms reshaped the web — The Verge's Mia Sato breaks down, step by step, the homogenizing effect of optimizing for search traffic #

diagram.website — an incomplete map to regions of the handmade, personal, indie internet (via) #

Fixing Macs Door to Door — entertaining stories from working as an Apple subcontractor in Chicago doing on-call repairs in the late 2000s #

American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year is “enshittification” — Cory Doctorow coined the perfect word for the lifecycle of online platforms, from rapid growth to extractive death (via) #

Making a Nintendo PlayStation — the jankiest homebrew gore I've ever seen, courtesy of a twisted genius with an angle grinder, drill, and a whole lot of hot glue #

New study finds coin flips aren’t 50/50 — after 350,757 coin tosses, partly livestreamed on Twitch by volunteers, the researcher found a slight bias toward the same side facing up #

“Can you teach me your favorite dance move?” — Belgian dancer Ed People travels the world recording people teaching him dance moves with charming results #

Mobile ALOHA — Stanford researchers open-sourced a spendy robotics kit made with off-the-shelf parts that can perform complex tasks like cooking and cleaning #

Ars Technica on the Vectrex’s cult following and newly-discovered games — there's a reason my logo is a Vectrex; it's a weird and beautiful console, a commercial failure but wildly innovative (via) #

Building A Marble Clock — Ivan Miranda's four-part series is worth watching from the beginning as he iterates and improves the design #

Paku Paku, one-dimensional one-button Pac-Man — weirdly addictive, my high score is 2,689 #

arcc, the Apocalypse Recovery Computing Cluster — Matt Round's latest is a deep multiuser simulation of a fictional Cold War-era computer network and hardware, currently £10.02 to join #

13-year-old becomes first person to ever “beat” Tetris for the NES — don't miss the video where he hits the kill screen after 38 minutes of play and nearly passes out #

Tom Scott and the formidable power of escalating streaks — Simon Willison writes about using streaks in life and work, but they're at their best when they leave room for iterative improvement #

Portal demake for the Nintendo 64, now out of beta — the first 13 test chambers are playable with source code and ROM patcher available (via) #

Mickey-1928 — fine-tuned image model trained on newly-public domain images of Mickey Mouse from 1928 #

After 10 years, Tom Scott quits making weekly videos — an amazing run of thoughtful work, ending on his own terms and with tremendous style #