FeedCity: Waxy.org

After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely.

Waxy.org
03 Aug 17:51 • Andy Baio

Ikea Complexity Index

ikea.greg.technology/

I wonder how many people know they’ve committed to a 10 hour build when buying a $700 kitchenette

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Waxy.org
31 Jul 20:48 • Andy Baio

Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org

Continuing my series of updating old side projects, I gave Supercut.org a big refresh, plus some notes on the sad state of Vimeo.

Waxy.org
30 Jul 21:33 • Andy Baio

A Little Waxy Refresh

I updated Waxy.org's design over the last few weeks, part of a series of updates to some of my long-dormant projects.

Waxy.org
30 Jul 19:39 • Andy Baio

Boxsquad

spacetypegenerator.com/boxsquad

new from the creator of Space Type Generator, be sure to turn on the “twerk” option

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Waxy.org
26 Jul 18:30 • Andy Baio

Restaurants are leaning into handmade/DIY aesthetics as AI slop grows

eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash

we’re going to see this backlash everywhere to the polished blandness of generated imagery

via Caitlin Dewey #

Waxy.org
23 Jul 15:54 • Andy Baio

How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline

stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all

an escalating flood of agentic traffic, plus attempts to hack the server to manipulate prediction markets

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Waxy.org
23 Jul 15:54 • Andy Baio

3D gaussian splat tour of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral

vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/

many nice touches from the the cutaway view to the cars and ambient audio, try WASD movement inside with Shift to sprint

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Waxy.org
21 Jul 17:42 • Andy Baio

NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.A1LZ.AwMkNDLrNcPc&smid=url-share

starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit

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Waxy.org
16 Jul 22:12 • Andy Baio

Jennifer Daniel previews the new emoji coming in Unicode 18.0

jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/why-do-some-new-emoji-look-familiar

cracked face, pickle, eraser, lighthouse, and more

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Waxy.org
16 Jul 21:12 • Andy Baio

dustin.works

dustin.works/

a very good personal homepage by Dustin Mierau

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Waxy.org
16 Jul 18:12 • Andy Baio

Hack reveals Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and more

404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

even if courts decide AI training is fair use, companies may still be liable for illicitly acquiring copyrighted works

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Waxy.org
16 Jul 18:12 • Andy Baio

Animator Zane Little tries to find the first smear frame in animation

youtube.com/watch?v=cH_K0u80tS0

his entertaining research found examples 30 years earlier than cited on Wikipedia, which was quickly updated

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Waxy.org
16 Jul 18:12 • Andy Baio

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming

Pigeons & Planes’ Eden DaSilva on the heyday of Oink’s Pink Palace and What.cd

via Hacker News #

Waxy.org
16 Jul 17:42 • Andy Baio

Kashmir Hill tries to find her AI-generated slop biographer

nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.z1KA.DrCnzeLK-QyO&smid=url-share

she talked to one “author” who published 445 ChatGPT-authored books on Amazon

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Waxy.org
14 Jul 23:45 • Andy Baio

How Evil Trout aims to turn a cult free game into a Steam hit again

gamesindustry.biz/how-evil-trout-aims-to-turn-a-cult-free-game-into-a-steam-hit-again

The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now

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