Design eng at cursor. Beautiful looking book
Artworks from the MoMA collection with a matching curation feature.
Smiths fan site. Interviews, magazine covers, photos.
RLM CLI. I had the thought to make this myself two weeks ago and thought id do it later. Goes to show that being quick is important
Trade distributor of independent publishers, kind of like a curated Amazon.
Haven't tried the tool, so I can't speak to its efficacy, but I love this kind of frameworking or trying to find patterns in writing. I love the diagrams and the shapes that he draws, and anyone who has strong opinions on that.
Tyler Cowen gets the direction. A book on the left, a question answerer on the right that uses his corpus, whether this chapter, the entire book, or all of his podcast transcripts, to answer those questions. He could actually benefit a lot from AlphaBook.
By far the biggest pain for a no-code or bipoding system is the integrations. Cool to see Stripe is tackling this.
Brushes and fill effects on JavaScript canvases. Feels Tyler Hobbes-y.
Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,”
Single purpose website. "A new, stupid website to find a piece of classical music whose duration most closely matches that of your next trip."
Single-purpose websites. This one shows a map of every crane in New York City.
Consistently, the most annoying thing about coding agents is the atrocious design they use. I haven't found a good system for getting consistently good design.
Finally a good "draw your changes here" editor. What GAUGan always promised to be.
Sometimes you see a company and wish you got there first. I had half of this infra (Vercel for agents) set up for myself. Why didn't I productize???
A search engine for New York City real estate. New York's DOB is astonishingly rich with public data sets. So it doesn't surprise me to see this kind of data viz and analytics take off here.
Future is self-service agents: Agents that sign up for themselves, have their own insurance, and operate entirely autonomously.
Other networks outside what's now called the internet.
Riley Walz on the labs team at OpenAI has a personal site with my favorite kind of niche single-purpose projects. Route shuffle generates random routes for runners and cyclists, and so on.
Tim Bray on the slow decline of Google Search and what it means for independent publishers. The web used to be a place where you could stumble across something genuinely surprising - a personal homepage, a weird hobbyist forum, a hand-coded HTML page about trains. Now everything funnels through the same five websites.
The most interesting thing about the independent web isn't the nostalgia. It's that the model worked. People made things for fun, linked to each other, and a whole ecosystem emerged without anyone planning it.
Seems like OpenClaw is opening up a lot of breadth-based internet searches, scraping so many things. Way more people are making way more scrapers, and I expect this to continue.
Someone built a full Hypercard simulator that runs in the browser. You can create stacks, draw buttons, write HyperTalk scripts - the whole thing. It's shockingly faithful to the original.
Hypercard was the original "programming for everyone" tool, years before Scratch or no-code platforms. Bill Atkinson gave it away for free with every Mac. Apple killed it because they couldn't figure out how to charge for it.
A relic from the late 90s web: a site cataloguing the worst user interfaces ever shipped. The commentary is sharp and holds up perfectly. My favorite is the entry on Microsoft Bob - "the interface equivalent of a person who speaks slowly and loudly to foreigners."
What I love about this site is the implicit argument: bad interfaces aren't just annoying, they're disrespectful. They assume the user is stupid rather than admitting the designer was lazy.
The U.S. government's open-source design system. Clean typography, accessible components, thoughtful spacing. It's surprisingly good - better than most startup design systems I've seen.
There's something poetic about the federal government shipping a design system that prioritizes clarity and readability over flash. No dark patterns, no growth hacking, no engagement metrics. Just: here's information, presented clearly.
An archive of over 90,000 Winamp skins, all viewable in the browser. You can browse by era, style, or just let them wash over you. It's like visiting a folk art museum.
Winamp skins were one of the first mass creative outlets on the internet. Thousands of teenagers with pirated copies of Photoshop making pixel art for a media player. No monetization, no audience metrics, no "building a brand." Just people making things because it was fun.
Bruce Hoult walks through building a web server from scratch in C. No frameworks, no libraries - just sockets and string manipulation. The whole thing fits in about 200 lines.
I think everyone who builds for the web should do this exercise at least once. It demystifies the entire stack. An HTTP request is just text over a socket. A response is just text back. Everything else is convention.
Knowledge base for mathematics. Beautiful site