FractalKitty's fascinating project to create a visual language, with her signature mathematical bent, for designing animated clocks. She's got sample clocks posted at https://github.com/fractalkitty/ClockTalk and the live project, which can import them, is at https://te-st.ing.
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
A pretty good analytical piece deconstructing the hype that Anthropic's Claude Mythos release is so powerful it's dangerous—something the government immediately hopped on board with.
Editorial piece suggesting that AI is leading us towards, not away from, decentralized control and creation.
Svelte.js 4 tutorial. I last left off on https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte/effects .
Suggested reading links page from "Wide Open Windows", an interesting, very cerebral Indiweb personal site.
"The chronicles of a webmaster: A stream of consciousness on technology, creativity, and a random series of events." A fun indieweb personal website featuring lots of ASCII art animation.
"More about Polyominoes and Polycubes" a comprehensive article about the mathematical puzzle.
Fun online puzzle where you arrange pentaminoes to try to enclose the maximum area. Briefly popular with Indieweb folks.
A wonderful biography by writer Jack Boulware of my spiritual leaders, Coyle & Sharpe.
Javascript bookmarklets that let you turn any page into interactive games: breakout, snake, etc.
A site full of interesting explainers of real world engineering and technology designed for the layman, including many interactive javascript demonstrations: how naval architecture (keeping ships afloat) works, how GPS works, fascinating facts about the moon, and much more. Worth a browse.
An exhaustive explanation for the layman of how GPS works, including numerous interactive javascript demonstrations.
A mechanical engineer's page about an old (pre-1830s) mechanical method for producing microscopically flat surfaces.
Software engineer's fun personal site with a lo-fi aesthetic like I used to try to subscribe to before the monkey in my soul got the better of me.
For confused first-time visitors and other people still acclimating, here is a description of these little tabs to the left, as well as some other features of the site.
Open "Expert Mode" CLI Navigation - this give you the option to switch your browser's display to an old-fashioned terminal mode where you may browse this site, view pages and images by typing text commands. Just like how we used to browse the web back in 1978!
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Open My Eyes - Have you ever been engrossed in your work, when you suddenly realize someone is staring at your screen, watching everything you do over your shoulder? If not, this simulates the experience.
Open Help - This help popup, silly! You just clicked it! Do you not remember?
New - Draggable elements! Several elements on this website, including these tabs, this popup message, and the "Hire Mike" badge in the lower right, can be dragged around with your mouse, to avoid them blocking content. Positions are remembered per tab, so as you navigate around the site, they will stay in the same place for your whole visit.
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Plus there might be, y'know, some fun stuff hidden in there. Just for geeks.