Hank Green on the hidden beauty of maintenance and infrastructure

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys

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

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

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

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

extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 […]

over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics

a friend said she “died of sadness” after losing her husband last year, her memorial for him on Instagram says it all

I agree this is true right now, and the horrific implications if it wasn’t, but he’s more certain about the future than I am

modders are widely advertising the service on, where else, Facebook Marketplace