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16 Jun 17:56 • Andy Baio

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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16 Jun 17:32 • Andy Baio

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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Waxy.org
16 Jun 16:37 • Andy Baio

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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16 Jun 16:25 • Andy Baio

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

via MetaFilter #

Waxy.org
16 Jun 16:14 • Andy Baio

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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16 Jun 16:11 • Andy Baio

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

via @gdc #

Waxy.org
16 Jun 16:00 • Andy Baio

Firewood Splitting Simulator

screen.toys/firewood/

more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys

via Hacker News #

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12 Jun 15:01 • Andy Baio

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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11 Jun 17:31 • Andy Baio

A Million Times

milliontimes.vercel.app/

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

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10 Jun 20:30 • Andy Baio

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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10 Jun 19:55 • Andy Baio

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

via Garbage Day #

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10 Jun 19:49 • Andy Baio

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

via usermag.co #

Waxy.org
10 Jun 16:55 • Andy Baio

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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10 Jun 16:28 • Andy Baio

we were online

wewere.online/

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

via @spencer.place #

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10 Jun 16:23 • Andy Baio

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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10 Jun 00:34 • Andy Baio

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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09 Jun 16:32 • Andy Baio

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.

Waxy.org
08 Jun 17:19 • Andy Baio

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.

Waxy.org
08 Jun 15:15 • Andy Baio

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 […]