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June 3, 2025
— Cat Graffam continues to torture herself with obscure drawing tools on old gaming systems for our entertainment #
— after a year away, I’m returning as a judge for my favorite little internet award, along with a bunch of my favorite internet people #
May 31, 2025
— 600k of 25 million Picross puzzles have been solved so far, with 1,400 people currently playing via @joelriley.com #
May 22, 2025
— for over eight years, it was a powerful educational tool and playground for web experimentation #
May 15, 2025
— Bad Lip Reading turns in another Star Wars musical gem, alongside “Bushes of Love” and “Seagulls! (Stop It Now)” #
May 12, 2025
— dig up little planets in a relatively short clicker game via MetaFilter #
May 11, 2025
— charming student film from this year’s CalArts Character Animation Program #
May 6, 2025
— multiplayer street view where everyone votes on where to go, changing the radio station, and honking the horn #
April 28, 2025
— inspired by his One Million Checkboxes project, Nolen Royalty made a chaotic chess MMO with no waiting between turns #
April 21, 2025
— “what you see is what you hear!” the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #
April 18, 2025
— the handmade web presented as scheduled daily programming across nine channels, go add some more #
— desktop browsers only, try Las Vegas if where you are isn’t very windy right now #
April 17, 2025
— Homestar Runner celebrates 25 years online with an ode to the days when the internet wasn’t “the same four websites on your phone” #
April 14, 2025
— I wrote about There a year before its 2003 launch and didn’t know it’s still kicking with a tiny tight-knit community of about 30 players #
— incredible deep dive into a “not serious” mystery of computer history, with a detour into ZZT and the ASCII art scene via MetaFilter #
April 10, 2025
— twenty Snake variations from Pippin Barr, a sequel to SNAKISMS from 2017 #
— xkcd’s annual belated April 1 project plays with browser push notifications #
April 4, 2025
— if you grant webcam permission, it’ll snap a photo and show you a collage of everyone else who agreed before you #
— adopt a few monkeys and see if they write Shakespeare via Web Curios #
April 1, 2025
— incremental game themed around making a website, made entirely in HTML/CSS without JS #
March 24, 2025
— Mihai also added a bunch of new old software to the Infinite HD library to play with #
March 20, 2025
— slide the blocks to unscramble your face #
— my favorite internet journal put out a fourth issue of experimental web writing via @maxy #
— experimental poetry project published exclusively through iCalendar files and read in your calendar app via @javier #
March 19, 2025
— turn any location into a sliding tile puzzle via @bothness #
— I was born 13BWWW (Before World Wide Web), Waxy.org was started in 4AB (After Blog) #
— new Infocom fan site with a bunch of great details, including interactive status bar, playable Infocomics, a deep article archive, and very good 404 page via Andrew Plotkin #
— finally, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo via @jeffgreco.com #
— you can play it yourself at asteroids.wiki #
March 11, 2025
— The Pudding’s Vivian Li compares our words for animal sounds between languages #
— Brian Moore made a website anyone can change by calling a phone number, what could go wrong? #
March 10, 2025
— very clever Twine-based murder-mystery inspired by deduction games like Her Story and Return of the Obra Dinn via mssv.net #
March 5, 2025
— I’m skeptical, but it’d be hilarious if Reddit users migrated back to Digg after a series of community-hostile decisions via Kottke #
March 2, 2025
— a hyper-specific collection of movie clips with binocular POVs depicted as two overlapping circles via Naive Weekly #
March 1, 2025
— long 🐈 is long via @maxbittker #
February 27, 2025
— the only person thanked more than God was Peter Jackson in the 2000s #
— turning a dollar store fiber optic glow wand into a low-resolution display #
— a tricky puzzle box made with inline CSS and no Javascript, updated with new puzzles and a detailed breakdown of how it works #
February 26, 2025
— Wikipedia visualized as a nearly-endless virtual museum via @may.as #
February 25, 2025
— John Oliver’s whirlwind guide to Section 230, Meta’s new “fuck it” policy changes, and how to make yourself less valuable to them via techdirt.com #
— coming March 14, a free iOS app that blocks apps until computer vision detects you’ve touched grass #
— Matt Round’s latest game for Vole.wtf is an addictive physics-based tower builder; don’t miss his long thread on its development from start to finish #
— Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Hans Zimmer, New Order, Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn were all part of the project via The Verge #
— clever daily web game to reveal a historical news headline by answering nested clues of bracketed words via @george #
— the winner of a contest by Anna’s Archive to explore the shadow library’s collection of nearly 100 million books #
February 21, 2025
— another Nolen Royalty banger #
February 18, 2025
— MapQuest is one of the few U.S. mapping companies that hasn’t caved to Trump’s name change yet #
— Marcin Wichary’s beautifully visual and interactive history of a 135-year-old typeface that’s somehow everywhere and largely unknown at once #
— one story of what it’s like to be forced out of a job you love at a federal agency filled with talented public servants as it’s dismantled by fascists #
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