The Curious Engineer

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2023–2026

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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
  9. Starlog is back after 17 years
  10. Starlog is back after 17 years
  11. Texturing 3D models in real-time with oil painting
  12. Texturing 3D models in real-time with oil painting
  13. The Pudding’s early history of U.S. restaurant dining
  14. The Pudding’s early history of U.S. restaurant dining
  15. Legibility of Effort
  16. 4 x 3
  17. 4 x 3
  18. Moss Moss
  19. Moss Moss
  20. How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people
  21. How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people
  22. You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower
  23. You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower
  24. cssQuake
  25. cssQuake
  26. Marcin Wichary on designing finger-friendly interactions
  27. Gerrymandle
  28. Gerrymandle
  29. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
  30. Neal.fun’s Wiki Spy
  31. Neal.fun’s Wiki Spy
  32. Town Square, a cute little chat space for webpage footers
  33. Town Square, a cute little chat space for webpage footers
  34. The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map
  35. The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map
  36. It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests
  37. It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests
  38. Bubbles.town
  39. Bubbles.town
  40. A history of web browsers on video game consoles
  41. A history of web browsers on video game consoles
  42. Fontificator
  43. Heikki’s Garden of Flowers
  44. Heikki’s Garden of Flowers
  45. Firewood Splitting Simulator
  46. Firewood Splitting Simulator
  47. Rolling Stone
  48. Rolling Stone
  49. A Million Times
  50. A Million Times
  51. Simone Giertz asks Hank Green anything
  52. Simone Giertz asks Hank Green anything
  53. This song has no instruments in it
  54. This song has no instruments in it
  55. Futurism on a new bounty marketplace paying people to humiliate themselves
  56. Futurism on a new bounty marketplace paying people to humiliate themselves
  57. Beth Mathews on the history of vacuum-formed signage in L.A.
  58. Beth Mathews on the history of vacuum-formed signage in L.A.
  59. we were online
  60. we were online
  61. Ethan Mollick on working with Claude Fable
  62. Molly White launches Tech Influence Watch to track AI spending in politics
  63. Big Walk and the magic of proximity chat
  64. Tiny Awards 2026 nominations are open
  65. LEGO Batman’s Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg
  66. Cloudflare CEO says AI bots now exceed human traffic on the web
  67. Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi, dead at 56
  68. Ted Chiang on the question of LLM consciousness
  69. Joanna Stern on the cottage industry removing Meta’s Ray-Ban recording lights
  70. Companies are using Reddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI search
  71. How Mihai Parparita reads social media via RSS
  72. The Bluesky firehose if everyone was messaging you
  73. The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum
  74. Hallucinate.site
  75. A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS

May 2026

  1. JS Crossword
  2. The AI Bubble
  3. Last.fm goes independent after 19 years at CBS Interactive
  4. off the map
  5. More than 340 local news outlets are now blocking the Internet Archive
  6. Number Gacha
  7. Launching a permanent archive for XOXO

April 2026

  1. Rngdle
  2. Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?
  3. NYC Street Clock
  4. Cursor Camp
  5. Launching XOXO Explore, the complete XOXO archive
  6. The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
  7. Dan Sinker on the time Notre Dame students fought the Klan
  8. TasteBuds NYC
  9. Daniel Linssen’s Print Gallery Of An Artist
  10. Razor 1911’s 40-year retrospective for Revision 2026
  11. Transfer Point

March 2026

  1. As Slow As Possible
  2. the html review 05
  3. the entire beatles album discography but it’s just numbers
  4. “This Is Not The Computer For You”
  5. In Every Language
  6. Anil Dash on coding after AI
  7. Channel Surfer, watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
  8. Bubble Sorted Amen Break
  9. Glasses Cleaning Simulator
  10. your ai slop bores me
  11. Number Research Inc
  12. Payphone Go

February 2026

  1. ssh snakes.run
  2. X86CSS, an x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
  3. Lynn Fisher’s Concert Archive
  4. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
  5. The Pudding looks at women’s clothing sizes and body types
  6. Unsung
  7. An AI agent published a hit piece on an open-source maintainer
  8. Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural

January 2026

  1. Game Poems
  2. words.zip
  3. Year Span

2025 207

December 2025

  1. New Year Zone
  2. 45×45 Connections
  3. alliwantforchristmas.is
  4. ssh tiny.christmas
  5. Jmail.world adds tools to explore the new Epstein dump
  6. Anna’s Archive backed up Spotify
  7. DOGSPINNER
  8. Infinite Ball Drop
  9. Public Domain Day 2026
  10. Neal.fun’s Size of Life
  11. Car Park
  12. 15 years after a viral tweet, Detroit has its RoboCop statue

November 2025

  1. Desk Stops
  2. xkcd’s 15 Years
  3. Strong Bad Email returns after a 3.5 year break
  4. Fran Sans
  5. Investigating a possible scammer in journalism’s AI era
  6. America’s polarization has become the world’s side hustle
  7. How To Use the Internet (1995)
  8. How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life
  9. Microsoft open-sources Zork I, II, and III under MIT license
  10. Can you draw a Cool S?
  11. Stonking News
  12. Jmail.world
  13. Color Palette Pro
  14. DOCTYPE Magazine
  15. alive internet theory
  16. The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies
  17. The Art of Interacting Incorrectly

October 2025

  1. Egg
  2. Space Type Generator
  3. Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition
  4. Channelvue
  5. My First Months in Cyberspace
  6. The Collector
  7. 50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
  8. Ghost Waltz

September 2025

  1. DFACE.app
  2. Steamed Hams but it’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
  3. Find My Parking Cops
  4. TV Simulator Says
  5. Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker’s Guide prop from junk
  6. A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay’s The Clock
  7. I’m Not A Robot
  8. Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas
  9. HushCrasher’s taxonomy of videogame production scope
  10. Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project
  11. Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years
  12. Hosting a website on a disposable vape
  13. how to use the subway
  14. chyrons
  15. goodbye, computer.
  16. More Objects from Films
  17. Fill Harmonics
  18. Interviewing the couple in the Will Smith AI crowd video: “The sign was real. The emotions were real too”
  19. DOOMscroll
  20. Gina Trapani returns to blogging after a decade away
  21. Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
  22. Vole.wtf’s Reload Clicker
  23. Kowloon Walled City in Minecraft

August 2025

  1. After 22 years, Typepad shutting down with one month’s notice
  2. Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
  3. Bluesky blocks all of Mississippi over new age verification law
  4. Vtv
  5. How to Draw a Space Invader
  6. ldial.org
  7. Kristie De Garis on community protest and solidarity in Wplace
  8. “I’ve got a solution: wolves”
  9. Reddit will block the Internet Archive
  10. Vote on the 2025 Tiny Awards Finalists
  11. Ben Holmen spent six years building a 1,000 pixel wooden display anyone can draw on
  12. Wplace, paint the world
  13. The Bluesky Dictionary
  14. The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath
  15. CloudGazing
  16. Storyterra

July 2025

  1. Curate your own newspaper with RSS
  2. Time Flies is out now
  3. I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
  4. HTML Day 2025
  5. SmallBu reclaims rights to Baman Piderman, planning new episodes
  6. Book Saboteur
  7. Google’s goo.gl URL shortener closing on August 25
  8. Draw A Fish
  9. The Pudding analyzes all the words found on NYC streets
  10. Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail
  11. Ozzy Osbourne, dead at 76
  12. Heavyweight.cc, an art project about lawyer vibes
  13. Please Fix This Site
  14. It’s DOOM but you can Cut, Copy and Paste
  15. Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign
  16. EmojiTracker is back after two years of inactivity
  17. Fascism For First Time Founders
  18. Daniel Linssen’s Typing Challenge
  19. Word Search Drum Machine
  20. Lettervoxd
  21. Frame of preference
  22. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
  23. Bears Will Be Boys
  24. Weather Watching
  25. The American system of democracy has crashed
  26. Primesweeper

June 2025

  1. The Plot of the Phantom
  2. MMOndrian, multiplayer Mondrian editor
  3. Pathfinder
  4. Internet Archive updates GifCities, their GeoCities animated GIF search engine
  5. Wiki Radio
  6. The weird zombie existence of The Family Circus
  7. The Pudding’s 30 minutes with a stranger
  8. Stochastic Drum Machine
  9. Dr. Demento retiring this October after 55 years
  10. How Muppets Go Outside
  11. Pet Names
  12. WeatherStar 4000+
  13. Engadget reviews the first week of Playdate’s Season 2
  14. Recreating Edward Hooper’s Nighthawks with uDraw for the Wii
  15. Tiny Awards 2025 nominations are now open

May 2025

  1. Every 5×5 Nonogram
  2. Glitch to end web app hosting on July 8
  3. Bedtime Thoughts
  4. Little Dig Game
  5. Leftover Pasta
  6. Neal.fun’s Internet Roadtrip

April 2025

  1. One Million Chessboards
  2. Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music
  3. Hypertext TV
  4. a cursor is a kite
  5. Back to a Website
  6. Spending 30 days in the nearly-empty virtual world of There.com
  7. Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437?
  8. SNAKISTS
  9. xkcd’s Push Notifications
  10. Comic Sans Maps
  11. allow.webcam
  12. monkeys.zip
  13. CSS Clicker

March 2025

  1. Infinite Mac can now emulate early OS X
  2. Selfie Shuffle
  3. the html review 04
  4. PoetiCal
  5. Any Map Puzzle
  6. Improved Relative Time
  7. Invisiclues.org
  8. Columboxd
  9. Turning real-time Wikipedia edits in an Asteroids-inspired arcade cabinet
  10. Onomatopoeia Odyssey
  11. 715-999-7483.com
  12. Type Help
  13. Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian team up to relaunch Digg
  14. Binocular Shot
  15. wide emoji maker

February 2025

  1. Analyzing nearly 2,000 Oscar speeches to see who winners thanked the most
  2. The Fibrovisor
  3. CSS Puzzle Box 2.0
  4. The Museum of All Things
  5. Last Week Tonight tackles Facebook and content moderation
  6. touch grass
  7. Styscraper
  8. Over 1,000 UK musicians release silent album to protest AI training legislation
  9. Bracket City
  10. Visualizing all the books in the world
  11. Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs
  12. Gulf of Anything
  13. The hardest working font in Manhattan
  14. Ethan Marcotte on leaving 18F
  15. Molly Soda interviews tvwishes
  16. Little Sisyphus
  17. Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government
  18. Kyle Orland on the genius of Dragonsweeper
  19. No, The People Didn’t Vote For This
  20. (mac)OStalgia
  21. Hiding data in emoji
  22. Plumbsum
  23. GovWayback
  24. I’ll save it myself
  25. GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY
  26. Endless Jeopardy
  27. WikiTok
  28. Dancing Boss
  29. Jason Kottke on his shifting focus to covering the U.S. coup

January 2025

  1. botsbotsbots
  2. QR code that goes to two different sites, depending on the angle it’s scanned
  3. Subpixel Snake, the web’s smallest game
  4. Tabboo
  5. Nepenthes
  6. textmode.art
  7. trains.fyi
  8. Dragonsweeper
  9. myFaveTT
  10. Wikenigma
  11. Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law slated to start Sunday
  12. David Lynch, dead at 78
  13. 1Crossword
  14. The Visible Zorker
  15. NY Mag exposé on Neil Gaiman’s sexual abuse allegations
  16. Mastodon announces transition to non-profit ownership
  17. Dumb Trading
  18. Casey Newton on Meta ending fact-checking and loosening limits on hateful speech
  19. Bauble
  20. Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months
  21. Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money
  22. The Truth About January 6th
  23. Elon Musk is not Adrian Dittman
  24. Stimulation Clicker
  25. Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks
  26. DOOM: The Gallery Experience
  27. Happy Public Domain Day 2025!

2024 463

December 2024

  1. DOOM CAPTCHA
  2. Joe Rogan and the Black Keys Diorama
  3. Howtown lab-tests the Hot Ones sauces
  4. Moon
  5. What happened to the world’s largest tube TV?
  6. Liz Pelly’s exposé on Spotify’s internal program to promote fake artists to minimize royalties to real ones
  7. Cat Graffam breaks the iPhone Notes app recreating a da Vinci painting
  8. Anti-Tag Clouds
  9. Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  10. Six hours under martial law in Seoul
  11. The Verge adds a subscription
  12. Alphabet Soup for Picky Eaters

November 2024

  1. The Verge on an Amazon influencer suing a rival for mimicking her vibes
  2. Crossword Calendar
  3. Toronto runner turns four months of Strava runs into a flipbook animation
  4. Hundreds of Beavers, streaming free on YouTube in the U.S.
  5. Hank Green on populism, media revolutions, and our terrible moment
  6. Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users
  7. All I Want for Christmas Is Home Alone
  8. The Sound of Sorting
  9. Pi Plays Pokémon Sapphire
  10. Erin Kissane pushes back on the dark forest theory of the internet
  11. Sill, find trending links from your Bluesky and Mastodon network
  12. The Long Context
  13. Ytch
  14. Memento Movi, A Cinematic Progress Bar for Life
  15. Find the Net Elevation of Dead People
  16. Foursquare open-sources its places database
  17. Playdate Podcast: True Crime Edition
  18. Anil Dash on why you should quit Substack while you still can
  19. Pokémon Go players have unwittingly trained an AI model to navigate the world
  20. IMG_0001
  21. The first virtual meeting was in 1916, linking 5,100 engineers across eight cities
  22. Bluesky Firehose 3D
  23. Half Life 2 turns 20
  24. Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/month
  25. The Rise of the Golden Idol sets the standard for point-and-click mysteries
  26. Fake AI albums on Spotify are damaging real artists
  27. Andrew Dana Hudson’s “Any Percent”
  28. IMG_0416
  29. The Pudding analyzes 65 years of love songs on the Billboard charts
  30. Tim Maughan’s “Not My Problem”
  31. Sky Follower Bridge
  32. For the first time, every incumbent party in 10 major countries lost vote share this year
  33. Oasis, a playable real-time AI model trained on Minecraft video footage
  34. NYT Tech Guild goes on strike the day before U.S. election
  35. Auto-Texting STOP to unknown numbers
  36. Infinite Mac adds native support for the Macintosh Garden
  37. Over the Garden Wall’s 10th anniversary short
  38. 3D Workers Island
  39. Moida Mansion
  40. Cruftbox’s Halloween 2024 costume data
  41. Panic announces Playdate season 2 coming next year
  42. PacCam, play multiplayer Pac-Man with your face
  43. BLIB’s “Silent Love”

October 2024

  1. When does Instagram decide a nipple becomes female?
  2. Graham Nash breaks down “Our House” for Song Exploder
  3. Google is getting even worse for independent sites
  4. Nintendo Alarmo can run custom code via USB without opening it up
  5. The RIP Off
  6. Boing Boing launches ad-free paid version on Substack, shuttering discussion forums
  7. Ghost founder/CEO John O’Nolan on how they’re structured and funded
  8. Anti-government militias using Facebook to recruit and organize in plain sight
  9. Vanishing Culture, the Internet Archive’s “Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record”
  10. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
  11. The Pudding’s interactive explainer on Crokinole
  12. This Must Be The Place lyric tattoos
  13. 2004 Week on The Verge
  14. The XOXO 2024 Talks
  15. Cabel Sasser’s XOXO 2024 talk
  16. Who gets shipped and why?
  17. Aftermath’s list of discussion forums
  18. Dookie Demastered
  19. Scripting News turns 30
  20. Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival
  21. 31 Days of Halloween

September 2024

  1. Bop Spotter
  2. Rest of World’s Digital Divinity
  3. Guided by Vices
  4. Making 8-bit music from scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC prompt
  5. DOOM in the iOS Photos app
  6. The data on extreme human ageing is flawed
  7. all text in nyc
  8. How to Monetize a Blog
  9. Cohost to shut down at the end of the year
  10. Celebrity Number Six was found
  11. The Bumpin’ Sticker
  12. 404 Media on the anarchist collective teaching people to DIY expensive medicine
  13. TechDirt’s Mike Masnick on the Internet Archive decision
  14. Internet Archive loses its appeal against book publishers
  15. Song Pong
  16. The rise and fall of OpenSea
  17. The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
  18. Departure Mono

August 2024

  1. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
  2. SNAKEBYTE
  3. Shutterbug
  4. Kind of Bloop 15th Anniversary Vinyl
  5. Sun vs. Moon
  6. Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From
  7. One Million Screenshots
  8. La Sentinelle
  9. Eyechat
  10. Tulip Creative Computer
  11. The Mystery of Detective Barbie’s Audio
  12. Beyond the C

July 2024

  1. Destroying LEGO Towers
  2. Adding humans to Minecraft
  3. How Portland’s Sports Bra kicked off a women’s sports bar movement
  4. The AI Keeps the Score
  5. Public Work
  6. The Many Lives of Null Island
  7. Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650,000,000 checks
  8. anagrams.io
  9. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit
  10. The best video game documentary ever just got better
  11. Imitating the surreal transitions of AI-generated videos in real-life
  12. Crawlspace
  13. The bizarre secrets found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
  14. Aggressive AI crawlers leads to surprise bandwidth bills
  15. NYPD Coppelgänger
  16. Prompt Airlines
  17. Elizabeth Lopatto on the moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
  18. Reddit blocks all crawlers in robots.txt, gives exclusive access to Google with AI deal
  19. Tiny Awards finalists announced
  20. Button Stealer
  21. Making a jigsaw puzzle solving robot in 15 months
  22. Weird Al’s Polkamania!
  23. Christina’s Bliss
  24. Follow the Crypto
  25. What Beats Rock?
  26. Hackers steal text and call records of “nearly all” AT&T customers
  27. Exploring an old computer store that shuttered in 2001, frozen in time
  28. MetaFilter owner Jessamyn West interviewed on the community’s evolution and moderation challenges
  29. Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
  30. Internet Phone Book
  31. TUAW relaunched as zombie content farm with AI articles under the names of its old staff
  32. Ironic Sans on StripWare, short-lived 1980s method of scanning code from paper
  33. Ghost federates its first newsletter
  34. large.horse
  35. Pixel Mirror
  36. shindigs’ thread of unique vtubers
  37. Scalpers work with hackers to reverse-engineer Ticketmaster’s “non-transferable” tickets
  38. Anna’s Archive faces millions in damages and a permanent injunction
  39. Scientific American podcast on Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace
  40. Lindsay Ellis on Yoko Ono and the Beatles
  41. Chappell Roan spent 7 years becoming an overnight success
  42. What should an electric car sound like?
  43. Kowloon Walled City cross-section illustration
  44. Cloudflare launches one-click button to block known AI scrapers and crawlers
  45. In defense of an old pixel

June 2024

  1. Pikimov, free web-based motion design and video editor
  2. Perplexity’s grand theft AI
  3. Code Galaxies
  4. Examining Jane Appleseed’s emails from an Apple Store demo computer
  5. One Million Checkboxes
  6. Recreating Georg Nees’s “Schotter,” iconic generative art from 1968
  7. Woodworm
  8. Major record labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio for mass copyright infringement
  9. NYT Magazine profiles Trevor Rainbolt, professional GeoGuessr champion
  10. How small claims court became Meta’s customer service hotline
  11. Chris Fenton made a 1/25-scale Cray Supercomputer wristwatch
  12. How will your city feel in the future?
  13. Fast Crimes at Lambda School
  14. 500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library after publisher lawsuit
  15. Ars Technica’s oral history of text games and interactive fiction
  16. Anil Dash on the “New Alt Media”
  17. FromSoft Word
  18. Infinanana
  19. 1,500 videos of someone quietly flipping through old magazines, cover to cover
  20. Duran Duran’s Rio cover model identified 42 years later
  21. Moondrop Isle
  22. Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
  23. Louie Mantia on designing icons for dark mode
  24. Crying About My Cancer Comedy
  25. Sony Pictures buys Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest, first major Hollywood studio to own a theater in 75 years
  26. pn0gstr0m
  27. TerminalTextEffects
  28. Ginger Root’s “No Problems”
  29. Badness 0
  30. Walnut and Me
  31. How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
  32. The unlikely black market for Taco Bell art
  33. Qlock, a Javascript quine clock
  34. Tiny Awards is back!

May 2024

  1. Gmail will break your heart
  2. Brr.fyi on engineering for slow internet at the South Pole
  3. How do they know dogs are colorblind?
  4. Internet sleuths find origin of the photo that inspired “The Backrooms”
  5. $400k worth of stolen Playdates mysteriously returned
  6. Neven Mrgan on how it feels to get an AI email from a friend
  7. Aaron A. Reed on wordplay as a game mechanic in interactive fiction
  8. Teresa Ibarra analyzed 83,000 text messages with her ex-boyfriend
  9. Why Old Heads Hated Kendrick vs. Drake
  10. Sympawnies, pet portraits in sheet music
  11. Golden Gate Claude
  12. The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
  13. The Kleptones remastered “Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots” and “A Night At The Hip-Hopera
  14. Osamu Tezuka’s “Jumping” from 1984
  15. &udm=14
  16. The launch lineup for XOXO 2024 is out!
  17. Ten Blue Links
  18. City in a Bottle, how a magical 256-byte city generator works
  19. Cabel Sasser digs into a forged Apple employee badge on eBay
  20. The Graying Gig Workers
  21. AI art bots are killing DeviantArt
  22. Nilay Patel interviews Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of Google Search, and the fate of the web
  23. Coding My Handwriting
  24. The story behind the kid who went 1940s viral for his “lost week” at the movies
  25. Twitter.com is officially X.com now
  26. Archie, the internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
  27. Retro tech in anime supercut
  28. Fabio and the Goose
  29. Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default
  30. Pink Floyd’s “Any Colour You Like” on the Famicom Disk System’s Family Composer
  31. Replace your Windows cursor with a cat paw
  32. OpenAI announces GPT-4o
  33. A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
  34. Matt Sephton digs into the early history of Japanese emoji
  35. Development notes from xkcd’s “Machine”
  36. Pop Culture Detective’s Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie
  37. Exploring Hacker News by mapping 40 million posts and comments
  38. Food for Fish
  39. Apple’s “Crush” iPad ad sparks backlash
  40. Indie rock legend Steve Albini dies at 61 of heart attack
  41. Pokémon Go players are vandalizing OpenStreetMap to cheat the game
  42. Meet Me at the Workers’ Club
  43. 404 Media investigates the “zombie internet” of Facebook’s AI spam
  44. Washed Out’s “The Hardest Part”
  45. We can have a different web, if we want it

April 2024

  1. Printing music with CSS Grid
  2. Doom Scroll
  3. Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code gets updated for 2024
  4. Famous paintings recreated with emoji
  5. Moviecart, full-length movie cartridges for the Atari 2600
  6. Mystery 1980s pop song “Everyone Knows That” finally found
  7. McSweeney’s Millennial CAPTCHA
  8. Super Moxio Bros.
  9. FCC votes to restore net neutrality
  10. As The Crow Flies
  11. The Man Who Killed Google Search
  12. musicForProgramming();
  13. NYT’s incomplete guide to how TikTok has changed America
  14. KRAZAM OS
  15. The Flipbook Experiment
  16. Christmas shopping online in 1996
  17. Bizarre traveling flame discovery
  18. NASA fixes Voyager 1 glitch, resuming communication after five months
  19. Ghost joining the fediverse, will adopt ActivityPub
  20. Equinox
  21. LatentScape
  22. The Read, Write, Own Web of the 1990s
  23. I Hope This Email Finds You
  24. Do Not Reply Cards now selling sticker packs
  25. 2024 AI Elections Tracker
  26. Post.News shutting down
  27. Lola Dupre
  28. Hands-on with Delta, the first console emulator officially allowed on the Apple App Store
  29. We Need To Rewild The Internet
  30. 404 Media on Spy Pet, an underground service secretly scraping thousands of Discord servers
  31. On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
  32. The Cloud Under the Sea
  33. Molly White on generative AI
  34. NYT profiles Today In Tabs’ Rusty Foster
  35. Tavi Gevinson’s “Fan Fiction: A Satire”
  36. Early 1990s clip art captured an era
  37. The Markup investigates sites blocked by school web filters, finds gross overreach
  38. Mario Meets Pareto
  39. 20 years and a million postcards later, a reflection on PostSecret
  40. One Minute Park
  41. The Playdate Story
  42. The Verge reviews the Humane AI Pin
  43. Dark Visitors
  44. How OpenAI, Meta, and Google cut corners to harvest training data
  45. telnet mapscii.me
  46. Corridor Crew recreates the sodium vapor process, a proto-greenscreen used in Mary Poppins
  47. xkcd’s Machine, a community-contributed mega Rube Goldberg device
  48. world_sim
  49. 500 Mile Email
  50. The wi-fi only works when it’s raining
  51. Cars

March 2024

  1. Hidden Agenda, an effects pedal for your mouse and keyboard
  2. a proper cup of tea
  3. NYC’s AI chatbot tell businesses to break the law
  4. American Prospect on how Boeing execs drove out longtime engineers for short-term profit
  5. 8BitDo’s new C64-inspired mechanical keyboard
  6. Two-thirds of NYT articles on anti-trans legislation quoted zero trans people, 18% contain misinformation
  7. Models All The Way Down
  8. How Bellingcat geolocated fugitive U.S. militant Ammon Bundy to southern Utah
  9. John Herrman investigates the origin of X’s pornbot reply spam deluge
  10. 404 Media adds full-text RSS feeds for subscribers
  11. Infinite Mac adds NeXT emulation
  12. Dog Poo Golf
  13. Google starts pushing AI-generated text above search results without an opt-in
  14. Nilay Patel interviews Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on federation and the future of social media
  15. Making a Macintosh Studio
  16. Henry Heffernan’s homepage
  17. Online age verification laws are dragging us back to the dark ages of the internet
  18. 15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum
  19. Picotron
  20. In a twist ending, the final uncleared Super Mario Maker level revealed to be a tool-assisted run
  21. Hank Green announces We’re Here, a weekly newsletter of “good and cool stuff from around the internet”
  22. PencilBooth
  23. The Brewintosh
  24. The Oral History of Pitchfork
  25. Threads rolls out one-way fediverse sharing
  26. U.S. sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
  27. The HTML Review 03
  28. Researching a bizarre 2000s sitcom with ChatGPT
  29. Is Mario Maker Beaten Yet?
  30. Moses Supposes
  31. BreakTime
  32. Michael Tan plays a palindromic duet with himself
  33. The Pudding analyzes how Rolling Stone’s Top 500 album list changed over two decades
  34. Drawing for Nothing
  35. After 28 years, UbuWeb is no longer active
  36. New York Times files copyright takedowns against hundreds of Wordle clones
  37. Downpour
  38. XOXO 2024
  39. Why Line Chart Baselines Can Start at Non-Zero
  40. The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock
  41. Google is starting to squash more spam and AI in search results
  42. Inside the world of AI TikTok spammers
  43. Dinosaurs Park
  44. Hank Green interviews Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge
  45. Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
  46. Full of Themselves
  47. Mastodon for the Apple II
  48. TinyLetter, in memoriam
  49. Behind the scenes of There I Ruined It’s voice cloning remixes
  50. DONOTREPLY.CARDS
  51. Weird Fucking Games
  52. Kottke.org redesigns with 2024 vibes
  53. Celeb Clock
  54. EMO: Emote Portrait Alive
  55. Frog Chorus
  56. the minecraft soundtrack but it’s midwest emo

February 2024

  1. Textpattern turns 20
  2. DOOM on a toothbrush
  3. The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
  4. Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
  5. 404 Media reports Tumblr and WordPress plan to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI
  6. 50 years later, David Cassel revisits a 1974 magazine’s predictions for 2024
  7. Inside the underground floppy disk music scene
  8. SDXL Lightning
  9. Airfoils and the physics of flight
  10. How Comics Were Made
  11. Pogi
  12. How Ben Ashforth photographed roads named after every day of the year
  13. LED Matrix Earrings
  14. When does a journalist become a hacker?
  15. Bellingcat investigates a secretive global network of non-consensual deepfake porn apps
  16. Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
  17. Does bribing or threatening ChatGPT make it generate better text?
  18. Google tests removing News tab from search
  19. Vice Media lays off hundreds, abandons Vice.com
  20. Bluesky begins limited data federation
  21. Television
  22. “You’re calling it Slack?”
  23. AI search is a doomsday cult
  24. The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
  25. Robin Rendle’s new homepage is a Hypercard-inspired mini-manifesto
  26. Billy Joel’s “Turn the Lights Back On”
  27. Three students read the first passages from a 2,000-year-old scroll burned in Vesuvius eruption
  28. 20 Small Mazes
  29. Persistence of vision in black-and-white noise
  30. Password Basket
  31. Video generation models as world simulators
  32. OpenAI announces Sora, their first text-to-video model
  33. How The Cut’s financial advice columnist was scammed out of $50,000 cash
  34. Building Slack, Day 1
  35. Suite 2412
  36. The Grannies
  37. Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
  38. Why it was almost impossible to make the blue LED
  39. The Pudding analyzes the “diva-ness” for 138 performances of the National Anthem
  40. Playdate is now widely available
  41. Social Media Warning Stickers
  42. Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologies
  43. After eight years, social app Peach sold to sketchy “YouTube growth platform”
  44. The Verge’s Mia Sato on the rise of AI-generated obituary spam
  45. Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, dies at 94
  46. Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream
  47. Special Fish
  48. Antonymph
  49. GOODY-2
  50. Bluesky opens publicly and plans to start federating later this month
  51. Spoutible’s API leaked personal data, including 2FA secrets and password hashes, for every user
  52. Why Quora isn’t useful anymore
  53. Google Search’s cache links are officially retired
  54. Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

January 2024

  1. Never Post
  2. Project Tapestry
  3. Infinite Craft
  4. Nilay Patel’s Apple Vision Pro review for The Verge
  5. shelby.cool
  6. The Museum of Screens
  7. ASCII Theater
  8. Pong Wars
  9. Who’s living inside this volcanic crater in Madagascar?
  10. Correcting flutter in Steamboat Willie’s audio
  11. Improbable Island
  12. kala.watch
  13. John Herrman on the future impact of Google adding an AI text generator to Chrome
  14. Where’s Madeleine?
  15. How beloved indie blog The Hairpin turned into an AI clickbait farm
  16. Deadpubs
  17. Lumiere
  18. iFixIt’s CES Worst in Show 2024
  19. The Living New Deal Map
  20. Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
  21. YouTube deletes 1,000+ deepfake celebrity scam ads after 404 Media investigation
  22. Buzzfeed’s “dire” debt problem
  23. The voice-cloned George Carlin special was not written by AI
  24. People Make Games explains Jubensha, the murder-mystery social deduction game that took over China
  25. F.a.l.J’s mathgames
  26. VICE talks to Lyle the Therapy Gecko, the internet’s unofficial therapist
  27. Mixed reality vacuuming
  28. OpenAI quietly scraps promise to disclose governing documents to the public
  29. The NSA Furby Documents
  30. Neon Knives
  31. 90% of top news outlets now block AI bots, right-wing sites mostly allow them
  32. Feedle
  33. Discmaster rises again
  34. Old’aVista, a guide to the old internet
  35. Ode to Internet
  36. How platforms killed Pitchfork
  37. Conde Nast is folding Pitchfork under GQ, with layoffs
  38. The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams
  39. Researchers find Google search really has gotten worse
  40. Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons’ Sixteenth Birthday
  41. Ken Fritz spent years building a $1 million stereo, but the real cost was unfathomable
  42. From-To
  43. Molly White’s guide to migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost
  44. Instagram co-founders shutting down Artifact after less than a year
  45. George Carlin’s daughter seeking legal action against voice cloned “comedy” special
  46. Who hosts the fediverse?
  47. Internet Archive now hosts DatPiff’s hip-hop mixtape collection
  48. Seen
  49. Tom Coates on how Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
  50. Why Platformer is leaving Substack
  51. NYT’s Flash visualizations are working again
  52. brr.fyi goes home
  53. Using the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to uncover disinformation networks
  54. How Google’s search algorithms reshaped the web
  55. diagram.website
  56. Fixing Macs Door to Door
  57. American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year is “enshittification”
  58. Making a Nintendo PlayStation
  59. New study finds coin flips aren’t 50/50
  60. “Can you teach me your favorite dance move?”
  61. Mobile ALOHA
  62. Ars Technica on the Vectrex’s cult following and newly-discovered games
  63. Building A Marble Clock
  64. Paku Paku, one-dimensional one-button Pac-Man
  65. arcc, the Apocalypse Recovery Computing Cluster
  66. 13-year-old becomes first person to ever “beat” Tetris for the NES
  67. Tom Scott and the formidable power of escalating streaks
  68. Portal demake for the Nintendo 64, now out of beta
  69. Mickey-1928
  70. After 10 years, Tom Scott quits making weekly videos
  71. uBlacklist
  72. The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

2023 568

December 2023

  1. New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI models on their work
  2. The best articles Rest of World didn’t publish in 2023
  3. How Big is YouTube?
  4. Untangling Threads
  5. Substack embraces Nazis
  6. Kurzgesagt’s Ultimate Size Comparison
  7. Largest dataset powering AI images removed after discovery of child sexual abuse material
  8. Clickbait Remover for YouTube
  9. 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
  10. Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain
  11. Facebook is being overrun with stolen, AI-generated images people think are real
  12. Minesweeper Twist
  13. How much Hank Green makes from Shorts, Reels, and TikTok
  14. The ’90s art collective that smuggled subversive art into episodes of Melrose Place
  15. After 22 years, Google Groups ending support for Usenet
  16. Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo! Pipes
  17. E3 is officially dead
  18. The Great Scrollback of Alexandria
  19. The Year Twitter Died
  20. Animation vs. Physics
  21. Hiding a Mike Wazowski shrine in a public library
  22. Ed Yong on how reporting on long Covid made him a better journalist
  23. The Pudding Cup 2023
  24. Motion Extraction
  25. Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special’s HD remaster is now free on YouTube
  26. Big Walk
  27. World of Goo 2
  28. Tom Whitwell’s 52 things I learned in 2023
  29. Psychedelic Cryptography, making messages only visible to people on psychedelics
  30. Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
  31. Twitter users solve a 25-year-old mystery about a country song from the X-Files
  32. First trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI
  33. Plantarium
  34. Plagiarism and You(Tube)

November 2023

  1. draw fast
  2. The 88×31 GIF Collection
  3. Paste Magazine acquires Jezebel after G/O closure
  4. AI Garage Sale, haggle with AI personalities to buy real products
  5. Brickception
  6. It’s Black Friday, Charlie Brown!
  7. Vector to 3D
  8. Source code for Infocom’s original interpreters released
  9. Dr Ludwig and the Devil
  10. Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
  11. Half-Life celebrates 25th anniversary with new documentary and big updates
  12. Tumblr is betting big on going small
  13. TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama bin Laden
  14. Vivaldi’s Summer on Commodore-based instruments
  15. draw my ui
  16. Ferrofluid Synth
  17. Gwern searches Wikipedia for unused three-letter acronyms
  18. Simon Willison explores OpenAI’s new GPTs
  19. Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat
  20. GitHub releases Monaspace font family
  21. A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
  22. YouTube will require labeling “realistic” AI-generated content, let music partners request removal of deepfake vocals
  23. Internet sleuths search for a mystery pop song from a 17 second clip
  24. NailStudio
  25. Connections with James Burke returns 45 years after it first aired
  26. Recursive Recipes
  27. G/O Media shutters Jezebel after 16 years, lays off staff
  28. Omegle shuts down after 14 years over sexual abuse litigation
  29. Barack Obama talks to The Verge’s Nilay Patel
  30. Ex-Kotaku staffers launch Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported videogame news site
  31. When NYC Put a Celebrity in Every Taxi
  32. Decker
  33. DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
  34. DreamerJazz covers “Now And Then” like the early Beatles
  35. Making “Now and Then,” the final Beatles song
  36. Muted.io
  37. Photo preservationist saves 4,000 glass plate negatives from the trash
  38. Let’s Get Creative
  39. Blank Space (Johnny’s Version)
  40. Searching for Humanity in Fortnite

October 2023

  1. AI Seinfeld is broken, maybe forever
  2. CGP Grey’s interactive Rock, Paper, Scissors game on YouTube
  3. Amiga ASCII Art
  4. Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
  5. Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
  6. This woman on TikTok is building a tunnel system under her house
  7. Separating fact from fiction on social media in times of conflict
  8. The restaurant nearest Google
  9. Neal.fun’s Internet Artifacts, an online museum of artifacts from the early internet
  10. SANANDREAS.TXT
  11. Interviewing Dracula Daily’s Matt Kirkland at Powell’s Books
  12. Simon Willison’s primer on embeddings
  13. subpar pool
  14. Comic Anhs
  15. An art critic reviewed TikTok’s most-followed visual artist, spawning a parasocial pile-on
  16. Puzzmo
  17. Tom Cardy and Brian David Gilbert’s Beautiful Mind
  18. Trust & Safety Tycoon
  19. Katie Notopoulos on how decentralized federated networks can rebuild the social internet
  20. Ghost Swing
  21. What the deal with juggling in animation?
  22. Meta in Myanmar
  23. Whole Earth Index
  24. Qx82
  25. Satoshi Kon: The Lost Interview
  26. Is Laufey jazz?
  27. Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival
  28. The Great Zelle Pool Scam
  29. Control Panel for Twitter
  30. 31 Days of Halloween
  31. Honk
  32. Rolling Stone’s oral history of School of Rock
  33. The Curse of Dialup World
  34. Songs That Stop on the Word “Stop”
  35. Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
  36. Folding Ideas’ “This Is Financial Advice”

September 2023

  1. Restoration Magic
  2. Epic Games sells Bandcamp amid 16% workforce layoff
  3. On its 5th anniversary, Dropout drops the CollegeHumor brand
  4. 24 hours in the loneliness epidemic
  5. The new WGA contract will change how Hollywood works
  6. Eternal September
  7. Wired on the cottage industry of YouTube obituary reading videos
  8. 404 Media on a viral TikTok account doxing random people with facial recognition for clout
  9. Conlextions
  10. The world’s oldest active torrent turns 20 this week
  11. There I Ruined It deepfakes Red Hot Chili Peppers
  12. Legal Eagle on the copyright issues with reaction streamers
  13. Photographing NYC’s singular independent storefronts
  14. Surviving and Dying in the Comics Industry
  15. Mastodon releases major improvements to search, onboarding, and more
  16. Sept 21
  17. Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can’t
  18. Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth on being targeted by Trump and Musk
  19. 10 Years of Emulation at the Internet Archive
  20. How facial recognition apps are used to identify sex workers with little recourse
  21. The Tree In Our Backyard
  22. OpenAI announces DALL·E 3
  23. Dream Scenario trailer
  24. With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways
  25. Well Wishes My Love, Your Love
  26. Casey Newton on lessons learned in three years of running Platformer
  27. Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
  28. A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
  29. The Rise of Tech, According to Sandra Bullock Movies
  30. It’s Nice That talks to designers behind fictional brands for TV and film
  31. ramen.haus
  32. Elon Musk’s X continues to throttle links to competitors
  33. Spiral Town and Checkered Village
  34. The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World
  35. Boss Fight 3D Render Challenge
  36. 21st Century Roguelike Pac-Man
  37. URL Poetry Club
  38. Major publishers sue Libgen for “staggering” copyright infringement
  39. River, a visual connection engine
  40. British Seaside Simulator
  41. a clock where the time is made of news headlines
  42. Reddit activity plummeted since API changes and moderator protests
  43. Taylor Lorenz on Julia Allison’s vilification as an early influencer
  44. The George Lucas Eggsperience
  45. Irene
  46. Elon Musk’s DIY Twitter datacenter migration disaster
  47. Adrian Holovaty’s Melodic Guitar Music
  48. Looking back at Aardvark’d, the Fog Creek Documentary, 18 years later
  49. Harry Styles fans debate the authenticity of possibly AI-generated leaked demos
  50. Nour: Play With Your Food
  51. Absorber
  52. How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?
  53. Kagi Small Web
  54. AI emoji generator
  55. Postmarks
  56. Wavacity
  57. Teaser trailer for The Boy and the Heron
  58. DJ Phonetic
  59. Mr. Platformer
  60. Endless Thread finds the previously-unknown illustrator for A Wrinkle In Time’s cover art
  61. Badger Badger Badger Turns 20
  62. Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row
  63. EXPI by @p01
  64. The Glitch Gallery
  65. You Say Potato, I Say Fuck You
  66. Cliquart

August 2023

  1. The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
  2. Searching for Maura, an investigative journalism graphic novella
  3. Singapore in Colour
  4. a clock where the time is mentioned on YouTube
  5. Utopia Clicker
  6. The end of the Googleverse
  7. Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee
  8. Rewriting wipEout from leaked source
  9. Nikita Diakur’s avatar learns to backflip
  10. Internet Archive’s Manuals Showcase
  11. Threads launches on the web
  12. Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
  13. 404 Media launches
  14. Thank Goodness You’re Here!
  15. South Pole Electrical Infrastructure
  16. Internet Archive will remove publishers’ commercially-available titles from online lending program
  17. Good Tape
  18. a clock where the time is in a song title
  19. Two grad students unravel a widely believed math conjecture
  20. Little Rat
  21. Textfx
  22. The unusual success of the harpejji, a hybrid guitar/piano/harp invented in 2007
  23. This London cookbook store tests recipes by cooking for customers
  24. Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
  25. Clone-a Lisa
  26. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records
  27. Gary Brolsma recreates Numa Numa, 19 years later
  28. The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year from 1973-2023
  29. the uncolouring book
  30. always return your shopping carts
  31. Polygon’s video essay on the history and future of VTubers
  32. How to donate and help support Maui communities
  33. How climate change made Hawaii more vulnerable to wildfires
  34. Wildfire decimates Lahaina, once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom
  35. Billionaires gifted Clarence Thomas at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, box seats, and more
  36. CNET deletes thousands of old articles to try to game Google search rankings
  37. The Nib made all 15 issues free for PDF download this month
  38. AI Boyfriend
  39. LCD, Please
  40. Feuds amplified on social media may be fueling homicides among young Americans
  41. Tom Scott on the Swiss town that banned all private cars
  42. Cabel Sasser on “Turn-On,” a hyperactive 1969 sketch comedy show unseen for 54 years
  43. Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart
  44. Myst demake for the Atari 2600
  45. Kagi Search Stats
  46. Adam Savage tours the prop house that makes Hollywood’s printed products
  47. New Word Order
  48. The Life and Death of an Internet Onion
  49. Casey Newton on how the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk
  50. Paul Reubens Never Got the Critical Reappraisal He Deserved
  51. It’s So Over/We’re So Back
  52. AI Concerts remixes songs with deepfake AI cartoon voices
  53. Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
  54. Infinite Mac adds CD-ROM Library, external discs, and custom instances
  55. EXP TV
  56. Anita Sarkeesian closing Feminist Frequency after 15 years

July 2023

  1. Paul Reubens dies at 70 after private bout of cancer
  2. NYT profiles Keita Takahashi, 20 years after Katamari Damacy
  3. Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t
  4. CrowdView
  5. Wordward Draw
  6. Arcade collector rescues a roadside Discs of Tron
  7. The little search engine that couldn’t
  8. Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
  9. You Are Atlas
  10. snes.party
  11. Arc browser for Mac now available publicly
  12. Notes on Everything
  13. Sinéad O’Connor dead at 56
  14. I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)
  15. Attenzione, Pickpocket!
  16. Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
  17. Gwern’s Internet Search Tips
  18. Textual Paint
  19. The World’s Last Internet Cafes
  20. The Tiny Awards Winner Is…
  21. A brief tour of South Pole Station through signage
  22. Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft
  23. Nikolas Bentel makes wallets that look like Mac/Windows folders
  24. identiFIVE
  25. Geoguessr expert Rainbolt shows how he geolocates a photo in minutes
  26. Human Shader
  27. Reddit brought back r/Place and it’s going as well as expected
  28. Quiznos brings the Spongmonkeys back
  29. The Pudding’s analysis of hit songwriters by gender over the last 64 years
  30. TechCrunch writer tries to buy a post on TechCrunch from Fiverr SEO scammers
  31. Hacker legend Kevin Mitnick, dead at 59
  32. Aaron A. Reed on the short life of 1980s type-in computer game books
  33. How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country
  34. Applying high voltage to kids’ toys
  35. Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
  36. Otamatone cover of Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life”
  37. Vole.wtf’s Big Ben
  38. ooooooooo.ooo
  39. Storehouse-A
  40. West of House, a Zork-inspired cross-stitch
  41. Chip Player JS
  42. Viola the Bird
  43. Playing Wordle from the Firefox address bar
  44. Adam Pickets Everything
  45. Zoo asks guests to stop showing gorillas their device screens
  46. The Romance Scammer on My Sofa
  47. Searching for a Search Engine
  48. Tiny Awards, a celebration of the small, playful, and heartfelt web
  49. Fudge
  50. Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl”
  51. Hank Green has some good news
  52. Anil Dash on the radicalization of tech tycoons
  53. Legal Lullabies
  54. The Blob Toy
  55. Super Aja 64
  56. Understanding SVG Paths
  57. How to Blow Up a Timeline
  58. The Free Movie
  59. Rest of World talks to outsourced workers forced to adopt generative AI to stay competitive
  60. Animation vs. Math
  61. Windows Defender
  62. Tiny Awards finalists announced, public voting open until July 20
  63. Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour”

June 2023

  1. Supreme Court’s ruling on online harassment outrages victims, advocates
  2. Jelani Cobb on the End of Affirmative Action
  3. Same-sex marriage website request at center of just-decided Supreme Court discrimination case was fabricated
  4. The Verge on who killed Google Reader, and what might have been
  5. Reddit is forcing protesting moderators to reopen private subreddits
  6. After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background
  7. How retro computer fans revived the NABU, an obscure ’80s Canadian PC and network service
  8. Neal.fun’s Password Game
  9. AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
  10. Backstage Disneyland
  11. Goodnight Phone
  12. Inside the AI Factory
  13. Hank Green on your obligation to your former self
  14. My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes
  15. Architectural Digest’s tour of the Barbie Dreamhouse set
  16. A storefront for robots
  17. Max Read on MrBeast’s clickbait altruism
  18. Bad Waitress
  19. Psynwav’s Musical Tangents
  20. Reddark
  21. Byline
  22. Jason Scott is scanning Computer Shopper
  23. b3ta’s Expand Art image challenge
  24. Tiny Awards
  25. Computers that live two seconds in the future
  26. Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest 2023
  27. The Origins of the Right’s War on Target
  28. The Last Egg
  29. Supreme Court unexpectedly rejects racially gerrymandered maps
  30. Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
  31. Mineplacer
  32. Miniatua’s tiny handcrafted replicas of vintage computers
  33. Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
  34. New Yorker on the Ed Sheeran/Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” copyright suit
  35. Fast Company on the rise, fall, and rebirth of Snopes
  36. Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
  37. Array Game
  38. Careless Whisper’s lick on 100 instruments
  39. CVS BANGERS 5: BANGRIM
  40. ProPublica’s guide to rights the Supreme Court has established and could take away
  41. Defiant teens stage LGBTQ play independently after Indiana high school cancels it
  42. Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock

May 2023

  1. Reddit’s new API pricing would cost Apollo $20 million annually
  2. Lisa’s Final Act
  3. CJR profiles Defector, “the last good website”
  4. TimeGuessr
  5. Terrible Terms and Conditions
  6. Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
  7. Two fans spent over 7,000 hours recreating Disneyland from scratch in Dreams
  8. Exploring an abandoned home largely untouched since the 1960s
  9. Adel Faure’s text mode art
  10. Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years
  11. Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don’t Exist
  12. Guitar Slinger Reconstructed
  13. 1980s arcade game designers hid their names in high score tables
  14. Gandalf, a game of prompt injection
  15. Slide to Unlock
  16. Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats?
  17. Arc’s new Boosts feature lets you change the way any website looks
  18. DayBrix
  19. Conner Griffith’s “Still Life”
  20. Better Living Through Algorithms
  21. Mel’s Loop
  22. GEN-Z-SPAN
  23. Kenny Log-Ins
  24. The Nib is shutting down
  25. Visualization of data breaches that have exposed your identity over time
  26. Simone Giertz tries to make a robot out of stained glass
  27. Hank Green talks about his cancer diagnosis
  28. TikTok users sue Montana, calling state ban unconstitutional
  29. Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol in copyright dispute over Prince portrait
  30. Montana governor signs total ban of TikTok in the state
  31. Aboard
  32. Rooms.xyz
  33. The Last Recording Artist
  34. How readers asked Platformer to cover artificial intelligence
  35. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD
  36. Google to start deleting accounts that haven’t logged on in two years
  37. 50 years after release, Disney’s Robin Hood is still a life-changing furry phenomenon
  38. Question Mark, Ohio
  39. Anna’s Archive
  40. IRS tests free e-filing system to compete with tax prep giants
  41. Early Computer Art in the ’50s and ’60s
  42. Sing A Note
  43. Moderator Mayhem
  44. The Oral History of MTV News
  45. The Unhinged Miniature World of Bobby Fingers
  46. Goodbye, Dooce
  47. Heather Armstrong, rest in peace
  48. Cavern Sweeper
  49. Pop Culture Detective on the solarpunk narrative of Disney’s Strange World
  50. SineRider
  51. How Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
  52. Nintendo goes after Switch emulators after new Zelda leaks online
  53. Chris Onstad reboots cult webcomic Achewood, with help from an AI
  54. Annotations Restored
  55. The Oral History Of BuzzFeed News
  56. The Pudding analyzes dark patterns used when canceling 16 online services
  57. Robin Ward looks back at ForumWarz, 15 years later
  58. The Comisar Collection
  59. Robot Puppet Sings “A Thousand Miles”
  60. Replika: Your Money or Your Wife
  61. Vice Media preparing to file bankruptcy
  62. Sarah Jeong on everything happening with Bluesky
  63. explore.mmm.page
  64. Chirper
  65. Drift Mine Satellite
  66. John Herrman on how the death of BuzzFeed News marks the end of an era in digital media
  67. The Verge on the legal issues surrounding AI voice cloning in music
  68. Womprat, the Star Wars font to end all Star Wars fonts
  69. Eternal Wanderer
  70. Blue skies over Mastodon

April 2023

  1. The Pudding’s Map of Places with the Same Name
  2. Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues Is Out Now
  3. Four-Byte Burger
  4. Employees begged Google not to launch Bard AI
  5. xkcd’s Escape Speed
  6. Imgur is banning porn and purging old anonymous uploads on May 15
  7. Buzzfeed News is shutting down, laying off 15% of staff
  8. WaPo analysis of websites in Google’s C4 dataset, used by several LLMs
  9. This Mom Didn’t Know She Was In A $250K Candy Crush Tournament, But She’s Killing It
  10. AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
  11. Where In the USA Is This?
  12. The Internet Is Suddenly Full Of AI-Generated Hip-Hop
  13. Space Elevator
  14. Aaron A. Reed on The Gostak
  15. Ghostwriter’s AI-voiced Drake/The Weeknd song is going viral
  16. Montana House votes to completely ban TikTok in the state
  17. Doogie Typer
  18. Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar
  19. Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages
  20. The Ringer interviews Paul Dochney, the Los Angeles writer behind Twitter legend Dril
  21. Mad Magazine’s Al Jaffee, creator of the Fold-In, dies at 102
  22. Last Squeak Tonight
  23. Garbage Day on the rise of TikTok bait videos
  24. Pentagon’s Ukraine war plans leaked on Minecraft Discord before Telegram and Twitter
  25. Big Tech’s big downgrade
  26. The history of Easter eggs in software
  27. Restoring the original Wilhelm Scream recording session
  28. “There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side”
  29. Chasing rainbows
  30. Twitter cuts off Cheap Bots Done Quick, Substack, Feedbin, Thread Reader, and others from API
  31. Dan Gillmor on why (and how) journalists should leave Twitter for Mastodon
  32. ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment lawsuit about a real law professor
  33. Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from major GOP donor
  34. The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS
  35. Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service
  36. AI and the American Smile
  37. the html review, issue 02
  38. bbs.bert.org
  39. Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI

March 2023

  1. Ice Ice Matrix
  2. Interactive explainer of the physics of a bicycle
  3. Jesse Thorn converts Maximum Fun podcast network into an employee-owned co-op
  4. The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet
  5. The Future is a Dead Mall
  6. MSCHF’s Tax Heaven 3000, the dating sim that does your taxes
  7. Recreating Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings with GPT-4
  8. Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams
  9. The Secret of Joe Biden’s Empty Picture Frame
  10. OpenAI announces GPT-4
  11. Kottke.org turns 25
  12. Pirating the Oscars 2023: The Final Curtain Call
  13. Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks for distributing shows
  14. How long does Twitter have left?
  15. Weezer’s Blue Album but it’s me and my friend trying to sing everything from memory
  16. Writeout, free audio transcription and translation
  17. Gourdlets
  18. Geolocating a Vine-famous road in 15 minutes
  19. Val Town
  20. Rotating Sandwiches
  21. yeah yeah yeah
  22. Lander
  23. “Shift Happens” Typewriter Simulator
  24. Grands Canons d’Alain Biet
  25. Cloud Nine: A Game of Wonderful Things
  26. Dark Side of the Moon turns 50 today
  27. Parker Molloy on the 4chan campaign tied to Scott Adams’ racist rant
  28. Tldraw
  29. Godot 4 released
  30. OpenAI adds ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

February 2023

  1. The cursed universes of Dana Sibera
  2. Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot
  3. The Case for Shunning
  4. A 24/7 Twitch stream of AI-generated deepfake celebrities is even weirder than it seems
  5. The Courtyard
  6. The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
  7. On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human
  8. After a decade tracking politicians’ deleted tweets, Politwoops is no more
  9. Reactions to the Face Age filter on TikTok
  10. Everything Everywhere All at Once props auctioned for charity
  11. Scribble Diffusion turns scribbles into detailed images
  12. The Morioka Experience
  13. The mystery of the cancelled Twin Peaks NES game, solved 30 years later
  14. Infinite AI Steamed Hams
  15. Bases Loaded
  16. What is ChatGPT doing and how does it work?
  17. JPEG, an image-only newsletter
  18. Wood Wide Web
  19. The Nintendo-fication of Jazz
  20. James Vincent introduces the AI Mirror Test, humans convinced AI chatbots are sentient
  21. General Zod Chaos Generator
  22. Infinite LEGO Domino Ring
  23. It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
  24. Squares in Squares
  25. Bing’s ChatGPT-powered AI casually threatens early users
  26. Colin Meloy asked ChatGPT to write a Decemberists song, and then recorded it
  27. Double Fine PsychOdyssey
  28. Andrew Plotkin’s treasury of Zork maps
  29. Shift Happens live on Kickstarter
  30. AI-generated Seinfeld banned from Twitch after transphobic standup
  31. touchHLE
  32. Mastodon Flock, find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
  33. Katie Notopoulos interviews bot creators about the Twitter API closure
  34. Catgpt
  35. Donks
  36. Twitter announces the end of free access to its APIs in one week
  37. Platformer exclusive on Artifact, the personalized news feed from Instagram’s cofounders

January 2023

  1. Nothing, Forever, an endless livestreamed AI-generated episode of Seinfeld
  2. Ars Technica’s overview on the state of generative AI
  3. broider
  4. Using Kid Pix to Recreate Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes”
  5. MusicLM
  6. Chronophoto, guess the year photos were taken
  7. Drayk It
  8. Measuring the cultural weirdness of Avatar
  9. Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You
  10. jwz on Mozilla’s 25th anniversary
  11. Tapbots releases Ivory, a polished Mastodon app for iOS
  12. Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment
  13. Wonders of Street View
  14. Inside the world of retail shoplifting
  15. Tet
  16. Summer Afternoon
  17. Copy Dennis
  18. U.S. airline accidentally exposes TSA No Fly List on unsecured server
  19. Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine
  20. After 16 years, Twitterrific is discontinued
  21. 1923 cartoon predicts AI art generators in 2023
  22. The many ingenious ways people in prison use forbidden cell phones
  23. Comparing ChatGPT to Claude, Anthropic’s new AI chatbot assistant
  24. Hampster Invaders
  25. Waxy.org is now on Mastodon
  26. Getty Images suing Stable Diffusion for scraping their images
  27. Inside the “extremely hardcore” first 90 days of Twitter under Elon Musk
  28. The Garden of Blogs
  29. Peasant’s Quest VGA
  30. 10 Typos
  31. KC Green on the 10th anniversary of his “This Is Fine” comic
  32. A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?
  33. Building a meme search engine using a stack of old iPhones for OCR
  34. RIP Jeff Beck
  35. Microsoft’s VALL-E can simulate anyone’s voice with three seconds of audio
  36. The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
  37. Identity thieves bypassed Experian security with simple URL change
  38. Merry Sky
  39. Killings by U.S. police reach record high in 2022
  40. omg.lol
  41. Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene Pt. 4” in 19kb of JS code
  42. Inspired by Office Space, software engineer embezzled more than $300k in Stripe transactions
  43. ChatGPT in Dr . Sbaitso
  44. Amateur archaeologist helps crack Ice Age cave art code
  45. VICE on Neuro-Sama, a VTuber controlled entirely by AI
  46. leaving.live
  47. Event series Pop-Up Magazine calls it quits
  48. Joni Mitchell’s full catalog is now on YouTube
  49. The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
  50. LOL Verifier
  51. Shift Happens
  52. The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
  53. Why Not Mars
  54. Tom Scott debunks an urban legend about 18th century firefighters letting buildings burn
  55. As of today, copyrighted works from 1927 enter the U.S. public domain

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