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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 #
— improve every stupid newspaper op-ed headline with this one simple trick #
August 11, 2025
— they say because AI companies are scraping data from the IA instead of paying Reddit directly #
August 8, 2025
— go to kilopx.com to watch it recreate the most upvoted 40×25 pixel images via Web Curios #
— like r/Place on a world map, zoom out to find your city and zoom in to see what people drew there #
August 6, 2025
— Avi Bagla is tracking every unique English word posted to Bluesky, 33% out of 275k dictionary words in 24 hours #
— identifying obscure typefaces with help from commenters over the last 10 years #
August 1, 2025
— draw images in clouds and share the results via b3ta #
— a world map indexing when/where media is set, so you can explore movies that takes place in 1970s NYC or games set in Tokyo via Web Curios #
July 31, 2025
— great Molly White explainer on how and why everyone should use a feedreader, which remains the best way to reliably follow blogs, newsletters, and publications that you love #
— charming minimalist game where you play as a housefly, trying to cross items off your bucket list before you die #
July 29, 2025
— Benn Jordan turned a drawing into audio, which a starling was able to mimic, reproducing the image waveform #
July 26, 2025
— a celebration of HTML at local events around the world next Saturday, August 2 #
— so happy for Alex and Lindsay, their animated series is one of my all-time favorites #
July 25, 2025
— sabotage any EPUB ebook in your browser with random capitalization, grammar mistakes, and other text transformations #
— if you have an old blog, now’s a good time to replace those old links before Google needlessly breaks them #
July 24, 2025
— using Yufeng Zhao’s all text in nyc project, which scraped 138 million text snippets from 8M Google Street View images between 2007–2024 #
July 23, 2025
— or, at least, all 102 listed in the International Bartenders Association’s official list #
July 22, 2025
— just weeks after the final Black Sabbath concert, what a legend #
July 21, 2025
— generate important-looking lawyer-ish letters on fake legal letterhead, made for Rhizome’s Seven on Seven #
— inspired by xkcd 3113, Avi Bagla made a deliberately-broken website you can pay to fix #
— artist Kate Bingaman-Burt interviewed a roof/gutter cleaner putting up colorful hand-painted signs around Portland #
July 20, 2025
— now powered by Emojipedia data, it stopped working in 2023 after Elon killed the Twitter API #
July 17, 2025
— Mike Masnick punctures the fashionable idea in tech that democracy is bad for innovation #
July 15, 2025
— bullet hell with letters, I also loved Wordward Draw and Leap Year from the same creator #
July 13, 2025
— match words to drum sounds to turn books like Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, and Little Women into drum patterns #
— Josh Sucher made a glossary of esoteric “one-in-a-billion” words spoken in over 25,000 films via Naive Weekly #
July 8, 2025
— Marcin Wichary made an astounding history of Mac settings using 10 different embedded emulators, including easter eggs and bonus tasks via Kottke #
July 7, 2025
— Adrian Holovaty added ASCII tab importing to Soundslice to avoid user complaints and confusion, but has mixed feelings about it via Simon Willison #
— The Pudding looks at animal gender in 300 children’s books #
July 4, 2025
— Riley Walz made the world’s least efficient weather report, using object detection of short sleeves, shorts, and umbrellas on a webcam to guess NYC weather via Web Curios #
— Sarah Jeong and Elizabeth Lopatto with “some patriotic reflections on this Independence Day” #
— Minesweeper with prime numbers; my best time is 62 seconds #
June 26, 2025
— 40 years later, Scott Andrew finished a text adventure game he started making at age 14 #
June 24, 2025
— click to change colors, resize the lines, or zoom out to see the whole thing #
— explore the space between two concepts, try dragging them on top of each other via @thepudding #
June 20, 2025
— now with semantic search and size filters #
— random sounds uploaded to Wikimedia Commons via b3ta #
— nearly every comic is now recycled from decades-old strips, with minor updates like changing TVs, cameras, and adjusting for inflation via MetaFilter #
— Alvin Chang visualizes the results of a 2023 study pairing hundreds of strangers in video calls and tracking how their moods change via @stefan #
— drum machine with probabilities deciding whether a sample is played or not, part of the 10,000 Drum Machines project #
— his show ended radio syndication in 2010, but he’s continued broadcasting online weekly for the last 15 years #
— Alex Boucher breaks down the various imaginative ways Jim Henson and friends hid themselves #
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