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Legibility of Effort

http://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort/

Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort

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4 x 3

hankgreen.com/fourbythree

I’m enjoying this Connections variant made by Hank Green, the scoring provides some additional challenge

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Moss Moss

noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss

charming PICO-8 platformer by Noel Cody

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How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people

thedissident.news/exclusive-how-the-new-york-times-changed-its-coverage-of-trans-people/

analysis of 3,242 articles over the last 12 years shows a clear shift from affirming to skeptical framing starting in 2022

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You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower

youtube.com/watch?v=1v2g3GLaJtE

Hank Green on the hidden beauty of maintenance and infrastructure

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cssQuake

cssquake.com/

Quake in the browser without WebGL, it uses PolyCSS to render textured 3D meshes in the DOM with CSS

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Marcin Wichary on designing finger-friendly interactions

aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

an interactive essay demonstrating all the ways interfaces can interfere with our motor skills

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Gerrymandle

gerrymandle.cc/

daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results

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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.

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Neal.fun’s Wiki Spy

neal.fun/wiki-spy/

explore nearly 40,000 images of isolated objects from Wikipedia in chaotic collages

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Town Square, a cute little chat space for webpage footers

townsquare.cauenapier.com/

“turn your site into a place people can bump into each other”

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The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map

youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ

People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels

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It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests

404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches

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Bubbles.town

bubbles.town/

a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source

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A history of web browsers on video game consoles

vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers

Nintendo and Sony decided not to release browsers for any console since the Wii U and PlayStation 4

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Fontificator

unsung.aresluna.org/fontificator/

Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options

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Heikki’s Garden of Flowers

garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?essay

a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now

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Firewood Splitting Simulator

screen.toys/firewood/

more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys

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Rolling Stone

mifsud.org/stone/

part of 10K Drum Machines, click the rock faces to change the sounds and then release it down the hill

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A Million Times

milliontimes.vercel.app/

a remake of Humans since 1982’s beautiful kinetic clock sculptures

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Simone Giertz asks Hank Green anything

youtube.com/watch?v=8irhCqM7XUo

two of my favorite internet people chat about ranking their biggest worries, publicly navigating illness, and organic produce

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This song has no instruments in it

youtube.com/watch?v=_Rk-hmIMv6I

Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ

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Futurism on a new bounty marketplace paying people to humiliate themselves

futurism.com/future-society/meme-coin-man-tattoo-name-forehead

extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform

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Beth Mathews on the history of vacuum-formed signage in L.A.

bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting

I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look

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we were online

wewere.online/

the live cursor trails are from real people with the browser extension installed, currently 28 people across 19 timezones

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Ethan Mollick on working with Claude Fable

oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos

he published several projects it generated, including three games and a detailed interactive isochrone map

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Molly White launches Tech Influence Watch to track AI spending in politics

citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year’s elections

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Big Walk and the magic of proximity chat

Big Walk is out on August 4, the new game from Untitled Goose Game creators House House, an open world inspired by pandemic lockdowns and the constraints of proximity voice chat.

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Tiny Awards 2026 nominations are open

For the fourth time, nominations for this year's Tiny Awards celebrating the "best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" are open.

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LEGO Batman’s Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg

Cabel Sasser found a great easter egg in the new Lego Batman game. (Audio on!) For anyone who grew up with a Commodore 64, this is perfect nerd sniping. I transcribed the C64 BASIC code from Cabel’s video for you to try yourself. Just copy the code below and paste it into your emulator of […]