Katamari Object Library
— sort by triangle count to see the simplest and most complex models in the game via @lifewinning.com #Walkable Cities
— the dev made a fun postmortem on how the game was made and later went viral in Japan #Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone
— an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator #Nitter, XCancel shut down after X sends cease-and-desist
— the privacy-friendly X/Twitter frontends were a helpful way to view a post without an account #Amazon shuttering Mechanical Turk after 21 years
— three years after it launched, I asked Turkers to send me selfies for cash #Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in alphabetical order
— the latest submission to Supercut.org, inspired by Of Oz The Wizard via supercut.org #Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today
— “‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, ‘in the city of Allendale, California.'” via @aaronmeyers #Marcin Wichary on the Mac’s quirky drag-install app windows
— some of the many ways designers encourage you to drag an icon into the Applications folder #The Pudding’s lawn mowing experiment
— 30,954 mowed a virtual lawn, but the best mowers thought about it first #House House’s Big Walk out now
— I played the first hour of the game with three friends at Panic HQ last month and it’s brilliant #Waxy Refresh: The End of Playfic
Like I mentioned last week, I spent the last few months quietly updating several projects of mine, like my blog and Supercut.org.
Today’s refresh is a bit different: after 14 years, I decided to finally retire Playfic, the community for writing and sharing interactive fiction games that I launched in 2012 with my then-teenaged nephew, Cooper.
Why Now?
Why shut it down after 14 years? Two main reasons: maintenance and obsolescence.