Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music — "what you see is what you hear!" the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #

Hypertext TV — the handmade web presented as scheduled daily programming across nine channels, go add some more #

a cursor is a kite — desktop browsers only, try Las Vegas if where you are isn't very windy right now #

Back to a Website — Homestar Runner celebrates 25 years online with an ode to the days when the internet wasn't "the same four websites on your phone" #

Spending 30 days in the nearly-empty virtual world of There.com — I wrote about There a year before its 2003 launch and didn't know it's still kicking with a tiny tight-knit community of about 30 players #

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437? — incredible deep dive into a "not serious" mystery of computer history, with a detour into ZZT and the ASCII art scene (via) #

SNAKISTS — twenty Snake variations from Pippin Barr, a sequel to SNAKISMS from 2017 #

xkcd’s Push Notifications — xkcd's annual belated April 1 project plays with browser push notifications #

Comic Sans Maps — finally #

allow.webcam — if you grant webcam permission, it'll snap a photo and show you a collage of everyone else who agreed before you #

monkeys.zip — adopt a few monkeys and see if they write Shakespeare (via) #

CSS Clicker — incremental game themed around making a website, made entirely in HTML/CSS without JS #

Infinite Mac can now emulate early OS X — Mihai also added a bunch of new old software to the Infinite HD library to play with #

Selfie Shuffle — slide the blocks to unscramble your face #

the html review 04 — my favorite internet journal put out a fourth issue of experimental web writing (via) #

PoetiCal — experimental poetry project published exclusively through iCalendar files and read in your calendar app (via) #

Any Map Puzzle — turn any location into a sliding tile puzzle (via) #

Improved Relative Time — I was born 13BWWW (Before World Wide Web), Waxy.org was started in 4AB (After Blog) #

Invisiclues.org — new Infocom fan site with a bunch of great details, including interactive status bar, playable Infocomics, a deep article archive, and very good 404 page (via) #

Columboxd — finally, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo (via) #

Turning real-time Wikipedia edits in an Asteroids-inspired arcade cabinet — you can play it yourself at asteroids.wiki #

Onomatopoeia Odyssey — The Pudding's Vivian Li compares our words for animal sounds between languages #

715-999-7483.com — Brian Moore made a website anyone can change by calling a phone number, what could go wrong? #

Type Help — very clever Twine-based murder-mystery inspired by deduction games like Her Story and Return of the Obra Dinn (via) #

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian team up to relaunch Digg — I'm skeptical, but it'd be hilarious if Reddit users migrated back to Digg after a series of community-hostile decisions (via) #

Binocular Shot — a hyper-specific collection of movie clips with binocular POVs depicted as two overlapping circles (via) #

wide emoji maker — long 🐈 is long (via) #

Analyzing nearly 2,000 Oscar speeches to see who winners thanked the most — the only person thanked more than God was Peter Jackson in the 2000s #

The Fibrovisor — turning a dollar store fiber optic glow wand into a low-resolution display #

CSS Puzzle Box 2.0 — a tricky puzzle box made with inline CSS and no Javascript, updated with new puzzles and a detailed breakdown of how it works #

The Museum of All Things — Wikipedia visualized as a nearly-endless virtual museum (via) #

Last Week Tonight tackles Facebook and content moderation — 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) #

touch grass — coming March 14, a free iOS app that blocks apps until computer vision detects you've touched grass #

Styscraper — 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 #

Over 1,000 UK musicians release silent album to protest AI training legislation — Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Hans Zimmer, New Order, Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn were all part of the project (via) #

Bracket City — clever daily web game to reveal a historical news headline by answering nested clues of bracketed words (via) #

Visualizing all the books in the world — the winner of a contest by Anna's Archive to explore the shadow library's collection of nearly 100 million books #

Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs — another Nolen Royalty banger #

Gulf of Anything — MapQuest is one of the few U.S. mapping companies that hasn't caved to Trump's name change yet #

The hardest working font in Manhattan — Marcin Wichary's beautifully visual and interactive history of a 135-year-old typeface that's somehow everywhere and largely unknown at once #

Ethan Marcotte on leaving 18F — 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 #

Molly Soda interviews tvwishes — a Missouri college student is crate-digging through Flickr for early 2000s nostalgia, reposting it on Instagram for a new audience (via) #

Little Sisyphus — clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author's own programming language for NES development (via) #

Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government — Elizabeth Lopatto sums up Musk's actions so far, though as Jason Kottke points out, this is not solely his coup (via) #

Kyle Orland on the genius of Dragonsweeper — I've been mildly obsessed with the game since it came out, in part because Daniel Benmergui keeps changing it #

No, The People Didn’t Vote For This — Mike Masnick debunks the myth of Trump's mandate, a slim margin of victory made possible only through deception #

(mac)OStalgia — imagining what modern apps might have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era (via) #

Hiding data in emoji — try the encoder/decoder to smuggle your own message in a Unicode character (via) #

Plumbsum — Asher Vollmer's first PICO-8 game is like Tetris meets Pipe Dream #

GovWayback — access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" #