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March 1, 2025
— long đ is long via @maxbittker #
February 27, 2025
— the only person thanked more than God was Peter Jackson in the 2000s #
— turning a dollar store fiber optic glow wand into a low-resolution display #
— a tricky puzzle box made with inline CSS and no Javascript, updated with new puzzles and a detailed breakdown of how it works #
February 26, 2025
— Wikipedia visualized as a nearly-endless virtual museum via @may.as #
February 25, 2025
— John Oliver’s whirlwind guide to Section 230, Meta’s new “fuck it” policy changes, and how to make yourself less valuable to them via techdirt.com #
— coming March 14, a free iOS app that blocks apps until computer vision detects you’ve touched grass #
— Matt Round’s latest game for Vole.wtf is an addictive physics-based tower builder; don’t miss his long thread on its development from start to finish #
— Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Hans Zimmer, New Order, Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn were all part of the project via The Verge #
— clever daily web game to reveal a historical news headline by answering nested clues of bracketed words via @george #
— the winner of a contest by Anna’s Archive to explore the shadow library’s collection of nearly 100 million books #
February 21, 2025
— another Nolen Royalty banger #
February 18, 2025
— MapQuest is one of the few U.S. mapping companies that hasn’t caved to Trump’s name change yet #
— Marcin Wichary’s beautifully visual and interactive history of a 135-year-old typeface that’s somehow everywhere and largely unknown at once #
— one story of what it’s like to be forced out of a job you love at a federal agency filled with talented public servants as it’s dismantled by fascists #
— a Missouri college student is crate-digging through Flickr for early 2000s nostalgia, reposting it on Instagram for a new audience via Caitlin Dewey #
February 14, 2025
— clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author’s own programming language for NES development via Nelson Minar #
February 10, 2025
— Elizabeth Lopatto sums up Musk’s actions so far, though as Jason Kottke points out, this is not solely his coup via Kottke #
— I’ve been mildly obsessed with the game since it came out, in part because Daniel Benmergui keeps changing it #
— Mike Masnick debunks the myth of Trump’s mandate, a slim margin of victory made possible only through deception #
— imagining what modern apps might have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era via lmnt.me #
— try the encoder/decoder to smuggle your own message in a Unicode character via FlowingData #
February 6, 2025
— Asher Vollmer‘s first PICO-8 game is like Tetris meets Pipe Dream #
— access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing “.gov” in the URL with “.govwayback.com” #
— a little WebXR scene, you may need to look around to figure it out via @glitch.com #
February 5, 2025
— Nolen Royalty made a cross-platform client that synchronizes everyone’s CAPS LOCK key #
— Neil Cicierega ported his excellent Twitter game, shuttered by Musk’s API changes in 2023, over to Bluesky #
— a TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles; see also: ReddTok via MetaFilter #
— Laura Sirvent made a charming little sequencer that dances to music you make via MetaFilter #
— it’s hard to keep posting fun creative projects while your country is being gutted, but I’ll keep going until I can’t anymore #
January 29, 2025
— a playful reverse Turing test to convince five bots, each powered by gpt-4o-mini, that you’re not a human #
January 24, 2025
— details on how it works in the replies; see also: Guy Dupont’s lenticular QR code that inspired it #
— a Javascript Snake game that’s so small, you need a microscope to play it #
January 23, 2025
— add random jumpscares to sites you’re trying to avoid #
— a tarpit intended to distract AI web crawlers with slowly-displaying pages of randomly-generated hyperlinked babble via 404 Media #
— make textmode art with layers of images, videos, webcams, shaders, and 3D models combined with effects #
— a live, real-time map of passenger trains in North America via @rydercalmdown #
January 17, 2025
— brilliant free Minesweeper-inspired roguelike by Daniel Benmergui via @danielben #
— Chrome extension to download your liked/faved TikTok videos and metadata locally as MP4s, with a static HTML interface for browsing them #
— an encyclopedia of “known unknowns,” documenting gaps in human knowledge via @depthsofwikipedia #
— violating the First Amendment right of free speech for millions of Americans under the specter of national security #
January 16, 2025
— “Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.” #
January 15, 2025
— generate crossword puzzles from the passwords in your 1Password vault #
January 14, 2025
— Andrew Plotkin made a tool for exploring the original Zork’s annotated source code and game state while you play #
January 13, 2025
— Lila Shapiro’s new reporting following the podcast series that broke the story last year; CW: graphic descriptions of rape and assault #
— meanwhile, Bluesky is raising millions more from Bain Capital less than three months after their $15 million Series A #
January 8, 2025
— a dedicated site for the weirdly addictive stock-trading minigame from Neal.fun’s Stimulation Clicker #
January 7, 2025
— bending the knee to the incoming administration, the Hateful Conduct policy changes are incredibly disturbing #
January 6, 2025
— an open-source playground for making 3D art #
— Taylor Lorenz reports that Meta reversed the restrictions after she reached out for comment #
