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Nolen Royalty’s latest lets you play Windows 98 solitaire with the internet via eieio.games #

charming ever-changing collection of free daily puzzles, now in its fourth season #

creepypasta in the form of a forum thread, don’t miss the “what’s new!”

impressive archival project synchronizing TV broadcasts, radio traffic, pagers, newsgroups, and more #

“Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum” via actsofvolition.com #

new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981 #

Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them #

Riley Walz analyzed 100 million children’s drawings over 20 years, try searching for your own name #

in a week, a swarm of 3,700 agents made 13k edits with disposable email addresses to collude on tasks via Simon Willison #

Neal.fun’s latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony via @mrgan.com #

like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser #

Worms, Alter Ego, MacJesus ProGold, Portal (1986), and many more via Web Curios #

this year’s 11 nominees are all great via Web Curios #

sort by triangle count to see the simplest and most complex models in the game via @lifewinning.com #

play Tetris using 1,465 relays on 248 simulated Minivac 601s #

the dev made a fun postmortem on how the game was made and later went viral in Japan #

an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator #

the privacy-friendly X/Twitter frontends were a helpful way to view a post without an account #

three years after it launched, I asked Turkers to send me selfies for cash #

one of several playful web experiments by Joohyun Park #

the latest submission to Supercut.org, inspired by Of Oz The Wizard via supercut.org #

“‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, ‘in the city of Allendale, California.'” via @aaronmeyers #

some of the many ways designers encourage you to drag an icon into the Applications folder #

30,954 mowed a virtual lawn, but the best mowers thought about it first #

I played the first hour of the game with three friends at Panic HQ last month and it’s brilliant #

Like I mentioned last week, I spent the last few months quietly updating several projects of mine, like my blog and Supercut.org.

I wonder how many people know they’ve committed to a 10 hour build when buying a $700 kitchenette via b3ta #

Like I mentioned yesterday, I’ve quietly spent the last few months dusting the cobwebs off some long-dormant side projects of mine.

If you read Waxy.org entirely via RSS, you may not have noticed that I’ve refreshed the site a bit.

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

we’re going to see this backlash everywhere to the polished blandness of generated imagery via Caitlin Dewey #

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

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

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

cracked face, pickle, eraser, lighthouse, and more #

a very good personal homepage by Dustin Mierau #

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

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

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

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

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

Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons #

make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF #

an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary #

parallel-universe video sharing community in the style of 2009-era YouTube via Web Curios #

fascinating postmortem of blockchain music startup Nina Protocol, which is shutting down this week via AUX #

run by anonymous organizers and promoted without social media, the whole thing sounded great #

OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes #

I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 #

the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it #