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Last week, a MetaFilter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig’s decade-long project to make a “dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.” The polished site includes everything you’d expect from a publisher’s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon. Strangely, it also includes the entire text of the book, from its…

People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels #

the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches #

a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source #

Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options #

a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now (via) #

more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys (via) #

part of 10K Drum Machines, click the rock faces to change the sounds and then release it down the hill #

a remake of Humans since 1982’s beautiful kinetic clock sculptures #

two of my favorite internet people chat about ranking their biggest worries, publicly navigating illness, and organic produce #

Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ (via) #

extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform (via) #

I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look #

the live cursor trails are from real people with the browser extension installed, currently 28 people across 19 timezones (via) #

he published several projects it generated, including three games and a detailed interactive isochrone map #

a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year's elections #

House House just announced that Big Walk will be out on August 4 for PC/Mac on Steam, Switch 2, and PlayStation 5, with cross-play between all platforms. The followup to Untitled Goose Game, the Melbourne-based team spent six years building an open world for you to explore with your friends, a virtual play space for 2-10 friends with cooperative challenges built around the constraints of its proximity-based voice chat. This is, hands down, my most anticipated game of the year. I’ve followed its…

Once again, for the fourth time, nominations for this year’s Tiny Awards are now open. I love this weird little low-stakes contest that celebrates the “best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.” As before, the criteria is specific. Websites must be: Launched in the last 12 months, between July 2025 to July 2026 Non-commercial. No stores, no ads, no paid products/services. No agencies or brands. Individuals or groups of creators only. You own it. It must be a page you own and control.…

Cabel Sasser found a great easter egg in the new Lego Batman game. (Audio on!) Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate.It's so good, I had to make a video.— Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com) 2026-06-07T20:06:22.009Z For anyone who grew up with a Commodore 64, this is perfect nerd sniping. I transcribed the C64 BASIC code from Cabel’s video for you to try yourself. Just copy the code below and paste it into your emulator of choice. 10 V=53248:POKE…

over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics #

a friend said she "died of sadness" after losing her husband last year, her memorial for him on Instagram says it all #

I agree this is true right now, and the horrific implications if it wasn't, but he's more certain about the future than I am (via) #

modders are widely advertising the service on, where else, Facebook Marketplace (via) #

404 Media reports on companies specializing in AEO, AI-engine optimization, the evolution of SEO scum #

his Stream Spigot tool now supports Mastodon, Bluesky, and X/Twitter using Nitter's reverse-engineered private endpoints #

extremely anxiety-inducing (via) #

excellent new video from Emily Zhang's Rabbit Hole, now over 200k subscribers with only three videos since its February launch (via) #

a massively-multiplayer online rave (via) #

for the JavaScript sickos, a cursed crossword puzzle where every clue is an eval of its answer #

disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One's Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog #