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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 #
— Sam Henri-Gold on the MacBook Neo and how beginners get creative, pushing imperfect machines past their limits #
— compare the key images used to illustrate a topic in 300+ different language Wikipedia editions around the world via Web Curios #
— like Clive Thompson’s NYT feature yesterday, this talks about why many devs are experiencing AI differently than other industries #
— 40 channels with a TV guide and fixed daily schedule via Kottke #
March 12, 2026
— from 10k Drum Machines, which recently featured drum machines made from Donkey Kong, billiards, and the current time via 10kdrummachines.com #
— you can get it 80% clean but not much more, making this extremely unsatisfying #
March 7, 2026
— prompt an “ai” for answers and drawings, or fulfill prompts yourself for more credits #
March 6, 2026
— help these intrepid researchers find all positive integers; they should team up with Brooklyn Integers #
— win points by calling from one of California’s remaining 2,203 payphones #
February 26, 2026
— Nolen Royalty made a massively-multiplayer Snake game played over SSH #
February 25, 2026
— from Lyra Rebane, creator of CSS Clicker and the brilliant Antonymph music video #
February 23, 2026
— charming personal archive of memories with photos, videos, and posters collected from around the web via @andymcmillan #
February 20, 2026
— the anonymous creator used the archiving site to DDOS a blogger and tampered with screenshots to hide their identity #
February 19, 2026
— over half of all adult women are excluded from standard size ranges #
— Marcin Wichary launched a new blog about “software craft and quality” last month and it’s excellent #
February 13, 2026
— it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web #
February 11, 2026
— Cabel Sasser tells the full behind-the-scenes story of one of the best XOXO talks ever #
January 16, 2026
— like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry via Web Curios #
January 4, 2026
— infinite multiplayer word search #
— a 365-word video essay on the perception of time, told one word per day through all of 2025 #
December 31, 2025
— count down to 2026 in every time zone #
December 30, 2025
— an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 via MetaFilter #
December 24, 2025
— tap space to sing along #
December 21, 2025
— 86 million songs in 300TB representing roughly 99.6% of listens, the metadata alone is 4TB compressed #
— spin the dog via b3ta #
December 20, 2025
— the New Year’s Eve ball is currently 2,301,120 feet above Times Square with 993,130 seconds to go #
December 17, 2025
— works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more via Cory Doctorow #
December 10, 2025
— definitely experience this on desktop for the dynamic cello soundtrack, which gets more complex as the lifeforms grow #
December 8, 2025
— the latest from animation duo WZRDLORE, I love their animated shorts on TikTok #
December 4, 2025
— funded in 2011, the Kickstarter project overcame a host of problems, including securing the rights, finding a site, and the sculptor’s battle with colon cancer #
November 29, 2025
— creative technologists share their desktops, which seem to fall into extreme minimalism or utter chaos via Web Curios #
November 28, 2025
— Randall Munroe reflects on the anniversary of his then-fiancée’s 2010 breast cancer diagnosis, as he did at year two, seven, and 10 #
November 25, 2025
— I love that they’re still making these in Flash, played with the Ruffle emulator via @strongbadnofoolin #
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