While looking for console-themed CSS frameworks, I found this cool recreation of the PS2 startup screen. All HTML + CSS, no JS!
tektite.cc is a tool to help you migrate to a Blacksky PDS. I did it with my Bluesky account and it was so easy.
Web performance consultant Harry Roberts went on the look out for low and mid-tier mobile devices that real people are using in 2025 as a way to more accurately measure different experiences of the Web for people without iPhones and high-end Android phones.
A water-cooled steampunk PC made of copper
Party like it’s 1899
TIL: The first digits of the powers of two appear to follow a pattern:
1, 2, 4, 8, 1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 5…
7 and 9: always the sheep, never the shepherd.
Microsoft's new agentic web protocol 'NLWeb' done messed up in the most trivial of ways
Falling at the first traversal.
Dr Abeba Birhane on AI for Good Summit censoring her keynote speech at the last minute
It’s all infinite possibilities until someone says something they don’t like.
A reinforcement learning agent beat Pokémon Red
Risk and reward; Team Rocket could learn a thing or two.
piman finds out if a GPT model can play Pokémon Crystal
What happens next won’t shock you.
TIL: magnitude 0 earthquakes exist and they can go lower than that!
Did you feel that? Probably not.
Sun Clock: a 24-hour clock that tells more than just the time
It’s solar time!
Researchers have found a way to describe “crowd hydrodynamics” that doesn’t assume the behaviours of the crowd itself: The physicists focused on cohorts of runners at the beginning of a marathon, as they are guided to the starting line by a row of organizers in successive sequences of walking and halting. This protocol creates a periodic and controlled disturbance similar to the stimulations that are typically used to probe the mechanical response of fluids.