A 1985 short story about an online D&D like game that presaged a lot of online gaming.

Website collecting vintage electronic calculators, lots of photos.

Fun browser toy simulating three body problems

19th century anatomist made creepy paper mache models of human figures

Photos of a bizarre collection of natural history objects, some fantastical

Factorio's 2.1 decider combinators are full state machines, so someone wrote a compiler for a C-like language to the game.

Report from the effort to remove inappropriate AI-generated content from Wikipedia

Funny parody from SNL UK

A simple file encryption tool.

Companies in China are working around export controls by buying consumer GPUs on the grey market and rebuilding them

Generative music toy, makes Tangerine Dream-like random music

New history of queer life in New Mexico in the 20th century

A Houston historian has a collection of scanned early gay publications, 1940s-1980s.

CS professor talks about how AIs enable formal methods and code correctness proof on much, much larger pieces of software

Overview of the operating system deployment technology including some of the stupid political history

Thoughtful essay about how AI creation means it's harder to tell what work represents a real effort on the part of its creator vs valueless slop

A silver lining to the security debacle: debug tools can now generate signed SSL certificates that many older devices will trust.

Nicely personal reminiscence of a famous academic psychologist by Steven Pinker

Nice desktop GUI for connecting to an Android TV and tweaking the system so it runs faster

An alternate UI for Android TVs that doesn't have most of the ad crap

Websites that carry NZB files from Usenet. Including the old dead ones.

October 11 was a big moment in DNS configuration, the key signing key for the DNS root was changed. Here's what happened around the world in response (it went mostly fine).

Free-ranging article by an excellent author about the history of porcelain, a material science story.

A visualization of a week of tides in Texas

Open source code for bonding several network connections for improved speed. Sort of a free version of Speedify.

Claude figures out the secret seed values NSA chose for a popular cryptography system could be benign, the output of a basic PRNG.

Typically sharply worded but clear Linus post to the kernel mailing list saying AI tools are fine, just like other tools.

Old school Internet culture guy has an active blog

Some very old Usenet culture, an etiquette guide for online behavior (oddly, written as the opposite of etiquette)

New dataset merges two authoritative community data sources

British slang word meaning "girl" or "woman". Mildly derogatory but also can be affectionate.

A helpful backgrounder on the bizarre but productive philosophical trend

Open source code for generating map tiles, with good default styles. Also has tiles you can download.

Python framework for download and parsing web pages, extracting text for machine learning etc.

A couple of years ago Google released as new JPEG encoding that's better quality, more efficient, and supports more than 8 bit images (sort of)

"A Trekkie's Tale", the 1973 origin of the "Mary Sue" trope. It was intentional parody.

A contemporary real-time strategy game, sort of Total Annihilation designed for 100+ players.

An early bicycle racing superstar, racing 1896­­ -- 1910. Also a pioneering Black American athlete.

Project cryptographically timestamps 339B archived web pages (the history of the Common Crawl) and puts the hashes on the Bitcoin blockchain so we have a verifiable copy of the web that should last forever.

This webapp doesn't just validate, it provides previews

A lovely summary of some of the essential open source technologies the whole Internet is built on and who maintains them

A 1989 Houston music performance by my friends' high school band. They were good!

Web site to download files for saved games in Steam

Early influential videogame series was sold to EA in 1992. US copyright law lets the creator take back the copyright after 35 years, no payment required.

A 1971 article about a remarkable evening with EM Forster and general appreciation for the man and his homosexuality

AI company half-publishes solutions to many major open math questions. It's sort of overwhelming.

A good collection of otherwise hard-to-find images

A very precise map routing system for finding the flattest walk from A to B in San Francisco

Remarkably scholarly reviews of early gay porn. Most from the 70s on but a few from before, detailed descriptions and links.

Artist builds a working mechanical clock from trash collected in the famous watchmaking town

A blog about 1920s literati and their social lives. Bloomsbury Group, Americans in Paris, etc.

Introduction to Wendy Moffat's excellent biography of E.M. Forster. This intro lays out the whole thesis that Forster's sexuality is key to understanding the man.

Employee quits because he's concerned about safety practices at the AI company, writes an exposé

A newish slippy map of the famous French Cassini map, in a nice color copy

A collection of hard to find photographs of the author's homosexual lovers

Lovely global map with animated lights sweeping the waters