A deep dive into an iconic background image (root weave) that a popular 40+yo Linux windowing manager uses for its "root window".

Meme generator for vintage O'Reilly textbooks. I really dig the aesthetic, though some submissions are a bit too techbro/fintech for me.

A comprehensive history post from an old The Doors fanblog about an infamous concert in Miami.

A more traditional search engine where its crawler browses and indexes sections of the web based on host preferences or guest submissions. (There's even source code for self-hosting available on GitHub.)

Bad-game-addicted player finds a ""great"" use-case for implementing matrix algebra and constrained optimization on positive integers.

Former Disney Imagineer turned chef/historian on YouTube published a series of historical recipes, from places such as ancient Rome and antebellum USA. (Really meaning to try making apple rissoles from medieval France.)

In this article from Ethics and Information Technology, the authors argue that large language model outputs are better described as "bullshit" than "hallucinations" for various interesting reasons.

Big list of early entertainment software with contributions by trans people.

• They have always been here, and they will always be here.
• (Also, fav entry is the Quake 2 level designer, who got an updated credit in the remaster.)
• There's also source code for the 3DO port of Doom 1 (a very infamous, very-rushed, poorly-managed project).

Clever users on defunct Tumblr-like cohost.org doing fancy inline CSS "crimes" to implement games and animations.