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waxy.org

Waxy.org is the personal sandbox of Andy Baio. I made XOXO, Upcoming, Belong.io, Playfic, Kind of Bloop, helped build Kickstarter, and a bunch of other stuff too.

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October 2026

  1. Annie Rauwerda collects old newspaper headlines about people with the same names of future celebs
  2. It’s A Wonderful Night of the Living Dead
  3. Samuel East writes about getting laid off from Plex, only 60 days in
  4. Neuron Persona Library
  5. PC Magazine’s screencam archive
  6. Anil Dash’s guide to installing apps on your Commodore 64
  7. ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems
  8. Apple Music’s iPod easter egg
  9. Local Wikipedia
  10. Local Wikipedia
  11. Critical PHP remote code exploits patched, update now
  12. Critical PHP remote code exploits patched, update now
  13. Dennis Crowley on the end of Foursquare
  14. Dennis Crowley on the end of Foursquare
  15. qrsticks
  16. qrsticks
  17. Ghostmashers
  18. Ghostmashers
  19. The Pudding finds “The Real Kevin Bacon”
  20. The Pudding finds “The Real Kevin Bacon”
  21. ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ is the new wild west of AI
  22. ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ is the new wild west of AI
  23. Pillowfort closing in December
  24. Pillowfort closing in December
  25. (not) solitaire
  26. (not) solitaire
  27. How many shots are in the average movie today?
  28. How many shots are in the average movie today?
  29. Inside the failed fight to unionize at Double Fine
  30. Inside the failed fight to unionize at Double Fine
  31. Triple-A Minesweeper
  32. Triple-A Minesweeper
  33. VECOS, a vector desktop OS for the Vectrex
  34. VECOS, a vector desktop OS for the Vectrex
  35. TV Simulator’s TV Poetry
  36. TV Simulator’s TV Poetry
  37. StrawPage Explore
  38. StrawPage Explore

September 2026

  1. Destroy Any Website
  2. Destroy Any Website
  3. Solitaire Alone Together
  4. Solitaire Alone Together
  5. Thinky Dailies
  6. Thinky Dailies
  7. I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning
  8. I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning
  9. 9/11 in Realtime
  10. 9/11 in Realtime
  11. Modern Day Typographer
  12. Modern Day Typographer
  13. Usenet-Rewind
  14. Usenet-Rewind
  15. Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader
  16. Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader
  17. Kids Trends
  18. Kids Trends
  19. Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards
  20. Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards
  21. Unusual Suspects
  22. Unusual Suspects
  23. Inflight Simulator
  24. Inflight Simulator

August 2026

  1. The Internet Archive’s Vintage AI collection
  2. The Internet Archive’s Vintage AI collection
  3. Vote for the 2026 Tiny Awards winner
  4. Vote for the 2026 Tiny Awards winner
  5. Katamari Object Library
  6. Katamari Object Library
  7. Relay Tetris
  8. Relay Tetris
  9. Walkable Cities
  10. Walkable Cities
  11. Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone
  12. Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone
  13. Nitter, XCancel shut down after X sends cease-and-desist
  14. Nitter, XCancel shut down after X sends cease-and-desist
  15. Amazon shuttering Mechanical Turk after 21 years
  16. Amazon shuttering Mechanical Turk after 21 years
  17. Type
  18. Type
  19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in alphabetical order
  20. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in alphabetical order
  21. Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today
  22. Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today
  23. Marcin Wichary on the Mac’s quirky drag-install app windows
  24. The Pudding’s lawn mowing experiment
  25. The Pudding’s lawn mowing experiment
  26. House House’s Big Walk out now
  27. House House’s Big Walk out now
  28. Waxy Refresh: The End of Playfic
  29. Ikea Complexity Index
  30. Ikea Complexity Index

July 2026

  1. Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org
  2. A Little Waxy Refresh
  3. Boxsquad
  4. Boxsquad
  5. Restaurants are leaning into handmade/DIY aesthetics as AI slop grows
  6. Restaurants are leaning into handmade/DIY aesthetics as AI slop grows
  7. How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline
  8. How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline
  9. 3D gaussian splat tour of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
  10. 3D gaussian splat tour of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
  11. NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web
  12. NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web
  13. Jennifer Daniel previews the new emoji coming in Unicode 18.0
  14. Jennifer Daniel previews the new emoji coming in Unicode 18.0
  15. dustin.works
  16. dustin.works
  17. Hack reveals Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and more
  18. Hack reveals Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and more
  19. Animator Zane Little tries to find the first smear frame in animation
  20. Animator Zane Little tries to find the first smear frame in animation
  21. The Lost Joy of Music Piracy
  22. The Lost Joy of Music Piracy
  23. Kashmir Hill tries to find her AI-generated slop biographer
  24. Kashmir Hill tries to find her AI-generated slop biographer
  25. How Evil Trout aims to turn a cult free game into a Steam hit again
  26. How Evil Trout aims to turn a cult free game into a Steam hit again
  27. The Shape of Apps
  28. The Shape of Apps
  29. clipart.studio
  30. clipart.studio
  31. Buddy List
  32. Buddy List
  33. KamTape
  34. KamTape
  35. Not your keys, not your songs
  36. Not your keys, not your songs
  37. Wired on NYC’s Summer of Ludd festival
  38. Wired on NYC’s Summer of Ludd festival
  39. Jim’s QR Code Font
  40. Jim’s QR Code Font
  41. Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training
  42. Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training
  43. Double Fine is independent once again as Xbox lays off 3,200
  44. Double Fine is independent once again as Xbox lays off 3,200
  45. People and Blogs interviewed me
  46. People and Blogs interviewed me
  47. The Verge on 25 years of BitTorrent
  48. The Verge on 25 years of BitTorrent
  49. Hank Green interviews Ze Frank
  50. Hank Green interviews Ze Frank

June 2026

  1. Horrorfan1’s Guide to Horror
  2. Horrorfan1’s Guide to Horror
  3. Half-Life 2 in the browser
  4. Half-Life 2 in the browser
  5. GigaOm founder Om Malik has passed at age 59
  6. GigaOm founder Om Malik has passed at age 59
  7. Teen Vogue on focus gaming apps as digital third spaces
  8. Teen Vogue on focus gaming apps as digital third spaces

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