Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

www.puzzmo.com/user/co/hodg...

The public Puzzmo profile for ‘hodgers’ (me), including a Flipart ‘perfect speedruns’ count of 1,000.

Thrilled to have finally reached 1,000 perfect speedruns in @puzzmo.com’s Flipart game.

What a genuine joy all these games are, each and every day. @stfj.net is a genius.

ISSUE #115 | January 9, 2026

This week in the Puzzmo newsletter I talked about the design of Ribbit, and we also debuted a new *newsletter exclusive* game from Jacob Land that I love! link.mailer.puzzmo.com/public/43448...

GitHub - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro: Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro

I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:

Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.

Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.

See thread for details.

1/9

github.com/markmoxon/th...

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

The Frinkiac is also one of the few good websites. It does its one thing. It’s built on sharing but doesn’t build any stupid log-in infrastructure required to share. It isn’t cultivating a community within its walls. The web was once a lot of that. It can never grow at all and still be useful.

On Being Difficult When everyone's free speech champion is the reason you're on SSRIs.

open.substack.com/pub/blaireer...

Lovely. What super fun this is 🐾

Cats can fly now! 😺🐾 #meow

js13kgames.com/2025/games/l...

Play my new #js13k game L1TTL3 PAWS in your browser! It is a demake of Tiny Wings with cats. 😻 There is procedural art and levels. It works great on mobile. All in under 13kb! Can you rescue all 13 cats? 🐈

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Molly White: Curate your own newspaper with RSS. “What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper?” [citationneeded.news]

Egon Spengler

Lisa Simpson

Ben Wyatt

Geordi La Forge

Absolutely delighted

Darkman | Priscilla Page Get more from Priscilla Page on Patreon

I wrote about Darkman

What a terrific episode. The three-person format was a great development.

@priscillapage.bsky.social I wouldn’t have known about or watched Land of Bad without your recommendation. Loved it. Thank you so much.

HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

In 2024, @wired.com launched Machine Readable, a monthly column about programming. It's been a consistently huge hit, and I'm very glad that this month @tcarmody.bsky.social is offering to fight anyone who dares besmirch HTML's good name:

www.wired.com/story/html-i...

Internet Artifacts Browse through the old internet

The latest project from neal.fun is Internet Artifacts, an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. neal.fun/internet-art...