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February 10, 2025
— 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 #
January 29, 2025
— a playful reverse Turing test to convince five bots, each powered by gpt-4o-mini, that you’re not a human #
January 24, 2025
— details on how it works in the replies; see also: Guy Dupont’s lenticular QR code that inspired it #
— a Javascript Snake game that’s so small, you need a microscope to play it #
January 23, 2025
— add random jumpscares to sites you’re trying to avoid #
— a tarpit intended to distract AI web crawlers with slowly-displaying pages of randomly-generated hyperlinked babble via 404 Media #
— make textmode art with layers of images, videos, webcams, shaders, and 3D models combined with effects #
— a live, real-time map of passenger trains in North America via @rydercalmdown #
January 17, 2025
— brilliant free Minesweeper-inspired roguelike by Daniel Benmergui via @danielben #
— Chrome extension to download your liked/faved TikTok videos and metadata locally as MP4s, with a static HTML interface for browsing them #
— an encyclopedia of “known unknowns,” documenting gaps in human knowledge via @depthsofwikipedia #
— violating the First Amendment right of free speech for millions of Americans under the specter of national security #
January 16, 2025
— “Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.” #
January 15, 2025
— generate crossword puzzles from the passwords in your 1Password vault #
January 14, 2025
— Andrew Plotkin made a tool for exploring the original Zork’s annotated source code and game state while you play #
January 13, 2025
— Lila Shapiro’s new reporting following the podcast series that broke the story last year; CW: graphic descriptions of rape and assault #
— meanwhile, Bluesky is raising millions more from Bain Capital less than three months after their $15 million Series A #
January 8, 2025
— a dedicated site for the weirdly addictive stock-trading minigame from Neal.fun’s Stimulation Clicker #
January 7, 2025
— bending the knee to the incoming administration, the Hateful Conduct policy changes are incredibly disturbing #
January 6, 2025
— an open-source playground for making 3D art #
— Taylor Lorenz reports that Meta reversed the restrictions after she reached out for comment #
— if this 12 minute version isn’t enough, there’s an hour-long version compiling 2,800 clips from 206 videos #
— on its fourth anniversary, Jason Kottke revisits the attempted coup and attack on Congress #
— even if you don’t care about this conspiracy theory, Maia and Ryan’s OSINT research is an interesting read #
— Neal.fun‘s latest is an overstimulating idle game borrowing every form of online sludge and engagement bait via @neal.fun #
— Maggie Appleton reflects on “the strange experience of growing a human from scratch” in her new visual essay #
— sip wine, eat hors d’oeuvres, and peruse art from The Met’s Open Access collection in a reimagined version of E1M1 via MetaFilter #
January 1, 2025
— books, films, songs, and art published in the 1920s are now in the public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924 #
December 31, 2024
— kill three monsters to prove you’re human #
— the latest Bobby Fingers video is a wild ride of lost data, broken bones, and pitch-perfect parody #
December 24, 2024
— all but one of the sauces’ Scoville units are lower than their on-screen numbers, with Da Bomb 2.8 times hotter than The Last Dab #
— another amazing Bartosz Ciechanowski interactive explainer, this time on the motion, phases, and gravitational effects of the Moon #
— wild quest to rescue the last surviving Sony 43″ CRT, tracked down from one of only two known photos of the 440-pound behemoth #
— in other news, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is now richer than any musician, more than 4x Taylor Swift’s net worth via Paul Bausch #
— the app grew increasingly unstable, randomly drawing a black tire mark through the entire image on day four #
December 18, 2024
— the most common English words that never appeared in a book, like “woman” in Winnie the Pooh or “difficult” in Moby Dick via Web Curios #
December 9, 2024
— Nolen Royalty’s postmortem of the challenges making EveryUUID.com #
December 4, 2024
— Sarah Jeong was on vacation in South Korea (and pretty toasted) when their president declared martial law in a coup attempt #
December 3, 2024
— $50/year seems like a good deal for some of the best tech journalism around, plus full-text RSS feeds and a limited-edition print magazine #
— a simple but tricky puzzle game to find a word that makes every picky eater happy #
November 26, 2024
— Mia Sato talks to two women whose similar aesthetic was shaped by Amazon product options, social media algorithms, and other larger influencers via @miasato #
November 25, 2024
— Adam Aaronson made a printed calendar where each month is a crossword grid where each day is a square #
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