the html review 05 — 15 new pieces of experimental web poetry and art, my personal faves are milkfish, Banner Highway, and Cursor Park #

the entire beatles album discography but it’s just numbers — the same creator also made supercuts of every name, color, animal, vehicle, "she", "girl", "love", "yes" and "no" in every Beatles song #

“This Is Not The Computer For You” — Sam Henri-Gold on the MacBook Neo and how beginners get creative, pushing imperfect machines past their limits #

In Every Language — compare the key images used to illustrate a topic in 300+ different language Wikipedia editions around the world (via) #

Anil Dash on coding after AI — like Clive Thompson's NYT feature yesterday, this talks about why many devs are experiencing AI differently than other industries #

Channel Surfer, watch YouTube like it’s cable TV — 40 channels with a TV guide and fixed daily schedule (via) #

Bubble Sorted Amen Break — from 10k Drum Machines, which recently featured drum machines made from Donkey Kong, billiards, and the current time (via) #

Glasses Cleaning Simulator — you can get it 80% clean but not much more, making this extremely unsatisfying #

your ai slop bores me — prompt an "ai" for answers and drawings, or fulfill prompts yourself for more credits #

Number Research Inc — help these intrepid researchers find all positive integers; they should team up with Brooklyn Integers #

Payphone Go — win points by calling from one of California's remaining 2,203 payphones #

ssh snakes.run — Nolen Royalty made a massively-multiplayer Snake game played over SSH #

X86CSS, an x86 CPU emulator written in CSS — from Lyra Rebane, creator of CSS Clicker and the brilliant Antonymph music video #

Lynn Fisher’s Concert Archive — charming personal archive of memories with photos, videos, and posters collected from around the web (via) #

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links — the anonymous creator used the archiving site to DDOS a blogger and tampered with screenshots to hide their identity #

The Pudding looks at women’s clothing sizes and body types — over half of all adult women are excluded from standard size ranges #

Unsung — Marcin Wichary launched a new blog about "software craft and quality" last month and it's excellent #

An AI agent published a hit piece on an open-source maintainer — it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web #

Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural — Cabel Sasser tells the full behind-the-scenes story of one of the best XOXO talks ever #

Game Poems — like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry (via) #

words.zip — infinite multiplayer word search #

Year Span — a 365-word video essay on the perception of time, told one word per day through all of 2025 #

New Year Zone — count down to 2026 in every time zone #

45×45 Connections — an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 (via) #

alliwantforchristmas.is — camera on, volume up #

ssh tiny.christmas — tap space to sing along #

Jmail.world adds tools to explore the new Epstein dump — including photos, files, Amazon purchases, flights,  #

Anna’s Archive backed up Spotify — 86 million songs in 300TB representing roughly 99.6% of listens, the metadata alone is 4TB compressed #

DOGSPINNER — spin the dog (via) #

Infinite Ball Drop — the New Year's Eve ball is currently 2,301,120 feet above Times Square with 993,130 seconds to go #

Public Domain Day 2026 — works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more (via) #

Neal.fun’s Size of Life — definitely experience this on desktop for the dynamic cello soundtrack, which gets more complex as the lifeforms grow #

Car Park — the latest from animation duo WZRDLORE, I love their animated shorts on TikTok #

15 years after a viral tweet, Detroit has its RoboCop statue — funded in 2011, the Kickstarter project overcame a host of problems, including securing the rights, finding a site, and the sculptor's battle with colon cancer #

Desk Stops — creative technologists share their desktops, which seem to fall into extreme minimalism or utter chaos (via) #

xkcd’s 15 Years — Randall Munroe reflects on the anniversary of his then-fiancée's 2010 breast cancer diagnosis, as he did at year two, seven, and 10 #

Strong Bad Email returns after a 3.5 year break — I love that they're still making these in Flash, played with the Ruffle emulator (via) #

Fran Sans — Emily Sneddon made a typeface inspired by the destination signs on SF light rail trains #

Investigating a possible scammer in journalism’s AI era — yet another challenge for freelance journalists is the rise of AI hustlers competing for jobs at legitimate publications #

America’s polarization has become the world’s side hustle — 404 Media on how inauthentic overseas accounts pushing divisive/hateful content in the U.S. are largely the result of social media monetization programs #

How To Use the Internet (1995) — a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC #

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life — profile of a burned-out facilities manager who changed careers after meeting a 92-year-old typewriter repair expert (via) #

Microsoft open-sources Zork I, II, and III under MIT license — kudos to Stacey Haffner, Scott Hanselman, and Jason Scott for making this happen (via) #

Can you draw a Cool S? — easier on mobile than desktop, my best score is 5.34 #

Stonking News — unrelated to meme stocks, this is a link aggregator built on Bluesky's firehose in the style of Hacker News (via) #

Jmail.world — Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a Gmail clone for reading and searching the Epstein emails #

Color Palette Pro — Ryan Feigenbaum made "a synthesizer for color" #

DOCTYPE Magazine — Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand #

alive internet theory — Spencer Chang used millions of files from the Wayback Machine to make a chaotic (sometimes NSFW) collage of the personal web of the last 22 years (via) #

The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies — a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data (via) #