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November 25, 2025
— Emily Sneddon made a typeface inspired by the destination signs on SF light rail trains #
— yet another challenge for freelance journalists is the rise of AI hustlers competing for jobs at legitimate publications #
November 24, 2025
— 404 Media on how inauthentic overseas accounts pushing divisive/hateful content in the U.S. are largely the result of social media monetization programs #
November 21, 2025
— a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin’s Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC #
— profile of a burned-out facilities manager who changed careers after meeting a 92-year-old typewriter repair expert via MetaFilter #
— kudos to Stacey Haffner, Scott Hanselman, and Jason Scott for making this happen via Andrew Plotkin #
— easier on mobile than desktop, my best score is 5.34 #
— unrelated to meme stocks, this is a link aggregator built on Bluesky’s firehose in the style of Hacker News via Web Curios #
— Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a Gmail clone for reading and searching the Epstein emails #
November 18, 2025
— Ryan Feigenbaum made “a synthesizer for color“ #
November 11, 2025
— Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand #
November 7, 2025
— Spencer Chang used millions of files from the Wayback Machine to make a chaotic (sometimes NSFW) collage of the personal web of the last 22 years via @spencer.place #
— a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data via Nick Heer #
October 30, 2025
— VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer #
October 29, 2025
— don’t miss the “Select” menu at the top for many more options via MetaFilter #
October 24, 2025
— always worth checking out via Web Curios #
October 23, 2025
— new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga’s Prevue Channel software for the listings #
October 16, 2025
— Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then #
October 15, 2025
— made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies via b3ta #
October 14, 2025
— click for a helpful interactive chart #
October 1, 2025
— Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song #
September 26, 2025
— Adam Harvey made a face redaction app that’s entirely private with photos never leaving your device, and can hide up to 1,000 faces in a single crowd shot via @adam_harvey #
September 24, 2025
September 23, 2025
— Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day #
— a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips #
September 22, 2025
— plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off #
September 20, 2025
— the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay’s unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them #
September 16, 2025
— Neal.fun’s latest is a game of increasingly ridiculous CAPTCHAs #
September 15, 2025
— YouTube’s best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas #
— instead of subjective terms like “indie” or “AAA,” they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits #
— after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging #
— constructed alone in his basement, the 50′ x 30′ model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings #
— the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later via Hacker News #
September 12, 2025
— a minimalist chill subway system simulator #
September 11, 2025
— Riley Walz extracted live lower thirds found on ten TV news channels #
— a little tune by April Clucks that’s “dedicated to the first machine i loved, before they were unloveable” #
September 10, 2025
— Marcus Merritt’s ongoing series of ink drawings of lamps, phones, televisions, and other objects found in movies via @marcusjmerritt.com #
— Parker Higgins made a crossword puzzle-inspired drum machine for 10k Drum Machines #
September 9, 2025
— a game you play just by scrolling, the NYT headlines ripped from their homepage are a clever touch #
— Lifehacker’s founding editor, Thinkup cofounder, former Postlight CEO, and one of my favorite people via @ginatrapani.org #
September 5, 2025
— great Verge feature on how Wikipedia evolved policies to resist attacks on its neutrality via @molly.wiki #
September 4, 2025
— a clicker game designed to implode any web server, try it before Matt Round takes it offline #
September 2, 2025
— a detailed approximation based on books, photos, and videos via jwz #
August 27, 2025
— they turned off new signups at the end of 2020, but were still reassuring users as recently as last March #
August 22, 2025
— the next stage of the Splinternet: every social site must now somehow verify the identity of every user or block entire states/countries #
August 20, 2025
— Matt Round made music video channel for Vole.wtf with “the weirdest and worst novelty songs ever created” #
— another fun interactive explainer from Stanko Tadić via MetaFilter #
August 14, 2025
— some of the best independent radio stations streaming online on a single page via Kottke #
August 12, 2025
— their server has been down for days, but the pixel-art layer drawn over the world map tells a thousand stories #
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