Cool Links

This is a hypnotizing endless battle between two squares, pong-style. All built with JS, HTML and CSS! The source code surprisingly simple and a fun read too, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The author here worries that so many people on Reddit are interacting with posters that are nothing more than robots, without any idea of that being the case. Even worse, some people are aware of that, but don’t care.

I saw a comment in a brazilian forum that deeply resonated: “Maybe the biggest pain this realization causes is that, deep down, almost nobody cares about anything. We’re the ones who are wrong for searching for meaning in environments dominated by chaos”.

This website simulates a TV schedule (with CRT-style filters!) with multiple channels, each featuring an interesting indie website. The programming changes often (just like shows on a tv channel), so it’s an interesting site to keep on your bookmarks and visit a few times a day.

pretend to be on your phone so that you pass as human, but actually do essentially nothing instead

Do you feel pressured to be on your phone all the time, so you can pass as a human? This neat web app allows you to do just that, but while doing absolutely nothing instead.

(honestly, it’s a better use of your phone than scrolling through social media…)

I love those joke programming languages. They’re perfect examples that sometimes the only reason you need to build something is that you can.

This is such a cool idea that I definitely want to copy in the future. I’m a bit wary of making so much private information public (especially dates), so I might not ever make this public anywhere. But still, a nice personal exercise and a perfect memento mori.

Apparently when your indie app does not collect any amount of data, the data reapers get confused.

This is so cool! This website allows you to explore the 3D models of maps from a variety of old-ish games from the Wii, GameCube, DS and PS2 eras. If you’ve played any of them, it might be worth having a look. My favorite ones to explore like this were the maps from Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver and Platinum.

I recommend opening the site on a computer though. The touch controls aren’t great.

Henry’s personal website is absolutely stunning! It has an unique design that is, above all, fun to explore. I miss exploring websites, instead of being guided through them.

Most of what Neal makes is pure gold and this is no exception. This game is no different than most of what you can find on your App Store, it’s just more honest about it…

(No, it’s not something you use to browse horses. Unless that’s what you want to use an internet browser for.)

I love highly-specialized software that tries to solve a problem without worrying about the “regular” use cases. The Horse Browser seems like a pretty neat thing for people doing researches - it remembers, organizes and allows you to export all the links you click when doing research (or just going down rabbit holes).

I can see it being useful when writing papers or even when trying to look for a solution to a nasty bug. It’s definitely not something you’d want for regular browsing, but that’s fine. There are plenty of other browsers to use for that end.

There’s a neat review of this browser up on MacStories if you’re interested.

Just a cute, fun and short blog post. What’s not to love?

This one is absolutely brilliant and nothing I can say about it will make it justice. Open it on desktop for the full effect.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve argued with a lot of people in the past over if a specific color was blue or green. This quick test makes you categorize some colors into blue or green, and then how “green” you are compared to the rest of population. I’m not sure if there’s any scientific data to back any of that up, but it’s still a fun test to take.

For the record, my boundary is at hue 171, which makes me greener than 75% of the population.