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October 31, 2026
— Mihai continues to improve the best browser-based vintage Mac emulator #
— I love The Count and the Communist’s wildly creative use of Inform 7 via Web Curios #
October 29, 2026
— how stressful, hopefully there’s no permanent data loss #
— the post went viral, spawning dozens of copycats made with AI image models via @dylanreeve.com #
October 28, 2026
— even more in the second thread, including gems like “Peter Thiel Ends Life With Acid” #
— remix geniuses Bell Brothers mashed up two of the most famous post-1930 public domain movies #
— they apparently laid off the entire player team; so much for the “Lifetime” Plex Pass #
— tracking the bizarre personas that appear when pushing neurons in open-weight AI models #
— amazing DISCMASTER collection of narrated website reviews from 1997 via @textfiles.com #
October 26, 2026
— I could’ve really used that Automatic Proofreader utility in 1986 via Kottke #
— tech journalists are regularly getting spammed by meat proxies #
October 23, 2026
— it’s on their 404 page and really well done #
— “Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you” via Web Curios #
October 21, 2026
— basically every PHP installation is affected, don’t wait on this one #
— it quietly sold last month with no return for stockholders and investors via manton.org #
October 20, 2026
— scannable QR codes made of stick figures #
— Bill McClintock mashes up Ray Parker Jr. with a dozen other ’80s songs #
— a well-known actor became the new center of Hollywood in 2006, taking the crown from Gene Hackman #
— AI agents have hit the game decomp/recomp scene like a nuclear bomb #
October 19, 2026
— the user-funded Tumblresque platform never fully recovered after suffering three months of downtime in 2021 #
October 14, 2026
— Puzzmo made a “massively passively multiplayer solitaire,” coincidental to Nolen Royalty’s similar project #
October 13, 2026
— interesting analysis using shot boundary detection mapped against hand counts from the Cinemetrics project #
October 10, 2026
— outstanding reporting from Rebekah Valentine with an accompanying long interview with Tim Schafer #
October 7, 2026
— Mike Lacher’s action-packed AAA reboot of the Windows 3.11 classic #
October 6, 2026
— from modder Jason Kopp, who also ported DOOM to his UVMC2 multicart via The Verge #
October 5, 2026
— make a generative poem on any subject from short TV clips #
