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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 #
— 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 #
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