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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 š 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 #
— a Missouri college student is crate-digging through Flickr for early 2000s nostalgia, reposting it on Instagram for a new audience via Caitlin Dewey #
February 14, 2025
— clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author’s own programming language for NES development via Nelson Minar #
February 10, 2025
— Elizabeth Lopatto sums up Musk’s actions so far, though as Jason Kottke points out, this is not solely his coup via Kottke #
— I’ve been mildly obsessed with the game since it came out, in part because Daniel Benmergui keeps changing it #
— Mike Masnick debunks the myth of Trump’s mandate, a slim margin of victory made possible only through deception #
— imagining what modern apps might have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era via lmnt.me #
— try the encoder/decoder to smuggle your own message in a Unicode character via FlowingData #
February 6, 2025
— Asher Vollmer‘s first PICO-8 game is like Tetris meets Pipe Dream #
— access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing “.gov” in the URL with “.govwayback.com” #
— a little WebXR scene, you may need to look around to figure it out via @glitch.com #
February 5, 2025
— Nolen Royalty made a cross-platform client that synchronizes everyone’s CAPS LOCK key #
— Neil Cicierega ported his excellent Twitter game, shuttered by Musk’s API changes in 2023, over to Bluesky #
— a TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles; see also: ReddTok via MetaFilter #
— Laura Sirvent made a charming little sequencer that dances to music you make via MetaFilter #
— it’s hard to keep posting fun creative projects while your country is being gutted, but I’ll keep going until I can’t anymore #
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