Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation… that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating links (post on that coming later). Inside this issue you’ll find some games, some homelab server hardware, some AI discourse™, some musical instruments, and more.
- 368 Chickens: So many chickens
- AI Search Has A Citation Problem: Eight AI search engines, all bad at citing news.
- CHVLR: Gundam inspired solo RPG
- Compute Blade: Rack-mountable, PoE-powered carrier board for Raspberry Pi
- Degrow Your Community: A list of actions you can do to encourage degrowth
- Don’t fork the ecosystem: It’s hard to get people to change patterns with software, bolt-ons are almost always preferred
- Dragonsweeper: A dungeon crawling minesweeper adventure
- fizzx.js: A tiny physics based animation lib from Adam Argyle
- GodSVG: A free, open-source, low-level vector graphics editor based on the Godot game engine
- HiChord Synth: Neat D-pad + five key pocket synth.
- I’d rather read the prompt: A lament from an instructor.
- linear() easing generator: Generate linear() easings from JavaScript and SVG
- Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders: Blurry images with a nanoid.
- OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself: Appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is “disgusted” by AI to sell your new image generation model.
- Orchid: A micro-piano with a single octave of keys, pads to select chords, arpeggiators, and a looper. Beautiful website too.
- Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power: Tens of millions of dollars processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.
- Smallweb: A self-hostable personal cloud inspired by serverless platforms and cgi-bin.
- Taiyaki Fabulous Museum of Fish: A Pokémon but with Picross Exploration Adventure
- The Future Favors the Curious: As the design industry shifts, it’s easy to feel behind.
- The unreality of reality TV: How competition shows influence U.S. politics and shape views about economic inequality: People who watch reality TV are more likely to believe in the American rags to riches mythos.
- Top 5 IEMs in every price range: A list of in-ear-monitors broken down by price range
- Transformers.js: Run Transformers (NLP, Vision Classifiers, Audio) directly in your browser, with no need for a server!
- Typography troubles Balancing lines in Japanese & Korean: Text wrapping works differently across languages. Here’s a look at how text-wrap: balance affects Japanese and Korean text—and what to do about it.
- ZimaBoard 2: A hackable single board server