new favourite web word puzzle alert!

playwordsmyth.com

A report from The Hindu exactly 100 years ago today about the Osage murders, on which Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is based

i made a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller

thank you!! big fan of your work

Between 2014 and 2016, in the Delhi edition of The Indian Express, the majority of full page ads came from a single pharma company called Torque promoting its various products. Including bizarrely multiple full page ads for a movie called "Dongri ka Raja"

Something I noticed while making this.

From The Indian Express frontpage dataset:

From 1933–1994, there were 0 full page ads.
From 2009–2017, 11.57% of front pages had full page ads.
From 2023–2025, that number jumps nearly 4 times to 42.33% of all front pages!!

Put together a little web game from an archive of 13,000+ The Indian Express front pages dating back to 1933.

Can you guess the year from old newspaper headlines? It's a lot tougher to play than I thought, but enjoyed reading so many old front pages!

pressguessr.com

this is so beautiful 🥹

Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly | Rambo Codes Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

This is a very good breakdown of the bug by @inside.bsky.social rambo.codes/posts/2025-0...

The latest Search Engine episode - The Dave & Buster's Anomaly was so Reply All coded.

But The Roman Mars Mazda Virus episode is still my fav investigation. I am surprised PJ didn't mention it even once, considering how similar both bugs were.

App Examiner - Privacy & More - Apps on Google Play Inspect app permissions, data, privacy, and app list access easily!

Hey @peabee.foo - I might have something for you about your last post on substack. I made an app that scans all your apps automatically, completely offline: play.google.com/store/apps/d... - DM me for more info.

this is great @francesco-z.bsky.social! 👏

Bracket City The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.

My best performance so far in bracket city

[Bracket City]
May 4, 2025

www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

Rank: 💼 (Power Broker)
❌ Wrong guesses: 1

Total Score: 98.0
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

added a retro filter to the pic too so it really looks the part

put together a keyboard with retro key caps and fancy switches and so happy with how it looks and sounds

Compelled by those atrocious Parle Marie ads, I wrote a tiny browser extension to auto mute certain IPL ads on Hotstar.

It actually works really well and also mutes Vimal, Kamla Pasand, My11, Pokerbaazi etc ads out of the box.

github.com/pea1bee/hots...

took forever, but I am healed now

Is there anywhere you can buy Nathan Fielder's laptop harness thing from The Rehearsal for cheap in India?

Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before

www.datagubbe.se/aficion/

Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

What a clever little project this is:

www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/h...

one of the pet peeves is when a yt video begins with a highlight from later in the video, then jumps back to the beginning. I already clicked play, you don’t have to sell it to me anymore.

I love the SponsorBlock and DeArrow browser add-ons for yt, are there any to skip these intros too?

It wasn't the NYT, but close enough!

(I hope they got a good pay out from The Atlantic for this because it's such a fun game)

no idea it was even posted there. You'll have to ask their mods

Everyone knows what apps you use Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.

Wrote about how everyone knows all the apps you have on your phone, especially all the Indian companies:

peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-k...

This is from 2022, but I love elaborate posts like this so much:

Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf

ericdraken.com/pfsense-decr...

Common Side Effects is such a good show. The animation, the characters, the subject, and the whole vibe - looks fantastic and unlike anything i've seen in a long while

&udm=14 Search Hack: Could It Be In Danger Of Breaking? My popular single-serving site that works around Google’s AI snippets could, unfortunately, see an infusion of AI soon. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

google is adding ai results to the udm=14 page? ☠️

tedium.co/2025/03/14/u...

The Wirecutter Is Wrong About The Best Plain Potato Chip - Aftermath The Wirecutter has selected the Amazon Fresh brand as their winner for the Best Plain Potato Chip. This is spiritually wrong.

"recommending the Amazon Fresh Classic Potato Chips as the best plain potato chip fundamentally misunderstands the spiritual and practical place of the potato chip"

Love this critic of The Wirecutter's The Best Plain Potato Chip recommendations

aftermath.site/the-best-pla...

can anyone identify the movie/show this still belongs to? Google image search wasn't very helpful. I initially thought this was Jenna Ortega from Wednesday but the hair does not match

in veep S3E4 around the 13:48 mark on hotstar - a very unsettling and weird clip breifly flashes on the screen and then disappears. After that the audio for the entire episode becomes distorted. Can be reproduced on their app/tv/website