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June 18, 2026
— an interactive essay demonstrating all the ways interfaces can interfere with our motor skills via Marcin Wichary #
— daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results #
— explore nearly 40,000 images of isolated objects from Wikipedia in chaotic collages via @neal.fun #
June 17, 2026
— “turn your site into a place people can bump into each other” #
June 16, 2026
— People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels #
— the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches #
— a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source #
— Nintendo and Sony decided not to release browsers for any console since the Wii U and PlayStation 4 via MetaFilter #
— Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options #
— a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now via @gdc #
— more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys via Hacker News #
June 12, 2026
— part of 10K Drum Machines, click the rock faces to change the sounds and then release it down the hill #
June 11, 2026
June 10, 2026
— two of my favorite internet people chat about ranking their biggest worries, publicly navigating illness, and organic produce #
— Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ via Garbage Day #
— extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform via Taylor Lorenz #
— I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look #
— the live cursor trails are from real people with the browser extension installed, currently 28 people across 19 timezones via @spencer.place #
— he published several projects it generated, including three games and a detailed interactive isochrone map #
June 9, 2026
— a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year’s elections #
June 5, 2026
— over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics #
June 4, 2026
— a friend said she “died of sadness” after losing her husband last year, her memorial for him on Instagram says it all #
June 3, 2026
— I agree this is true right now, and the horrific implications if it wasn’t, but he’s more certain about the future than I am via MetaFilter #
— modders are widely advertising the service on, where else, Facebook Marketplace via The Verge #
— 404 Media reports on companies specializing in AEO, AI-engine optimization, the evolution of SEO scum #
— his Stream Spigot tool now supports Mastodon, Bluesky, and X/Twitter using Nitter’s reverse-engineered private endpoints #
June 2, 2026
— extremely anxiety-inducing via @spencer.place #
— excellent new video from Emily Zhang’s Rabbit Hole, now over 200k subscribers with only three videos since its February launch via Marcin Wichary #
June 1, 2026
— a massively-multiplayer online rave via @mattround.com #
— Misty De Méo writes about a 1994 Japanese BBS preserved forever on CD-ROM and browsable in Infinite Mac #
May 28, 2026
— for the JavaScript sickos, a cursed crossword puzzle where every clue is an eval of its answer #
May 27, 2026
— disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One’s Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog via Marcin Wichary #
— no info about how the ownership change happened, though they say it will be run by the same team #
May 26, 2026
— first new Bill Wurtz song in almost four years #
May 21, 2026
— Nieman Lab continues to report on news orgs blocking the Archive’s crawlers over fears of AI training #
May 13, 2026
— like RNGdle, a minimalist experiment in addictive game mechanics #
April 30, 2026
— what’s the least amount of interactivity you can have in a game and still have it feel like a game? #
— Anil Dash on Flickr Commons‘ enduring legacy as a home for public domain photos from institutions around the world #
— telling the time using more than 20,000 Google Street View images found around NYC #
April 29, 2026
— you’ll want to try Neal Agarwal’s latest on desktop #
April 23, 2026
— we’re making a bunch of limited-run XOXO merch to celebrate, including new shirts, pins, stickers, LEGO kits (!), and more #
April 20, 2026
— Stephen Totilo writes about what happened when Panic started prompting players who finished the games they published to send them a SASE #
April 17, 2026
— another 100-year-old story that rhymes with today’s current events #
— every week, two guys spin a wheel of countries and find a restaurant in NYC serving that cuisine, random joy ensues #
April 9, 2026
— mind-bending recursive game inspired by 3Blue1Brown’s recent video on the math behind Escher’s Print Gallery #
April 6, 2026
— a whirlwind tribute to the legendary warez/demo group, this PC demo touches on a lot of scene history since 1985 #
April 2, 2026
— a new point-and-click text adventure made with World Builder, a game creator for the Mac first released in 1986 #
March 30, 2026
— Pippin Barr tests your attention span with weirdly meditative slowed-down remakes of Pong, Breakout, and Missile Command #
March 20, 2026
— 15 new pieces of experimental web poetry and art, my personal faves are milkfish, Banner Highway, and Cursor Park #
March 13, 2026
— the same creator also made supercuts of every name, color, animal, vehicle, “she“, “girl“, “love“, “yes” and “no” in every Beatles song #
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