November 11, 2025
DOCTYPE Magazine
— Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand #
November 7, 2025
alive internet theory
— 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) #
The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies
— a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data (via) #
The Art of Interacting Incorrectly
— Isabel Fish made 12 animated horses from Excel, Google Maps routes, desktop icons, GarageBand, screen fingerprints, and more (via) #
October 30, 2025
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Channelvue
— new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings #
October 16, 2025
My First Months in Cyberspace
— Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then #
October 15, 2025
The Collector
— made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies (via) #
October 14, 2025
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Steamed Hams but it’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
— from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more #
September 23, 2025
Find My Parking Cops
— Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day #
TV Simulator Says
— a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips #
September 22, 2025
Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker’s Guide prop from junk
— plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off #
September 20, 2025
A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay’s The Clock
— the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay's unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them #
September 16, 2025
September 15, 2025
Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas
— YouTube's best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas #
HushCrasher’s taxonomy of videogame production scope
— instead of subjective terms like "indie" or "AAA," they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits #
Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project
— after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging #
Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years
— constructed alone in his basement, the 50' x 30' model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings #
Hosting a website on a disposable vape
— the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later (via) #
September 12, 2025
September 11, 2025
goodbye, computer.
— a little tune by April Clucks that's "dedicated to the first machine i loved, before they were unloveable" #
September 10, 2025
More Objects from Films
— Marcus Merritt's ongoing series of ink drawings of lamps, phones, televisions, and other objects found in movies (via) #
Fill Harmonics
— Parker Higgins made a crossword puzzle-inspired drum machine for 10k Drum Machines #
September 9, 2025
DOOMscroll
— a game you play just by scrolling, the NYT headlines ripped from their homepage are a clever touch #
Gina Trapani returns to blogging after a decade away
— Lifehacker's founding editor, Thinkup cofounder, former Postlight CEO, and one of my favorite people (via) #
September 5, 2025
Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
— great Verge feature on how Wikipedia evolved policies to resist attacks on its neutrality (via) #
September 4, 2025
Vole.wtf’s Reload Clicker
— a clicker game designed to implode any web server, try it before Matt Round takes it offline #
September 2, 2025
Kowloon Walled City in Minecraft
— a detailed approximation based on books, photos, and videos (via) #
August 27, 2025
After 22 years, Typepad shutting down with one month’s notice
— they turned off new signups at the end of 2020, but were still reassuring users as recently as last March #
August 22, 2025
Bluesky blocks all of Mississippi over new age verification law
— 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
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August 12, 2025
Kristie De Garis on community protest and solidarity in Wplace
— their server has been down for days, but the pixel-art layer drawn over the world map tells a thousand stories #
“I’ve got a solution: wolves”
— improve every stupid newspaper op-ed headline with this one simple trick #
August 11, 2025
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
— they say because AI companies are scraping data from the IA instead of paying Reddit directly #
August 8, 2025
Ben Holmen spent six years building a 1,000 pixel wooden display anyone can draw on
— go to kilopx.com to watch it recreate the most upvoted 40x25 pixel images (via) #
Wplace, paint the world
— 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
The Bluesky Dictionary
— Avi Bagla is tracking every unique English word posted to Bluesky, 33% out of 275k dictionary words in 24 hours #
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath
— identifying obscure typefaces with help from commenters over the last 10 years #
August 1, 2025
Storyterra
— 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) #
July 31, 2025
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
— 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 #
Time Flies is out now
— charming minimalist game where you play as a housefly, trying to cross items off your bucket list before you die #