Doom fire meets triple-A minesweeper

  1. Animated ASCII art for the open web: A free library of drop-in ASCII scenes for web pages, spanning generative patterns, space, physics sims, Linux logos, and retro effects like Doom fire and Matrix rain. (ascii.rest)
  2. A walkable 3D art museum built from Wikipedia: Browse galleries assembled entirely from Wikipedia's art data, walking through rooms organized by period and artist as if touring a real museum. (artmuseum.artfrompixels.com)
  3. Triple-A Minesweeper: A browser parody that dresses the classic puzzle game up in blockbuster cutscenes and cinematic production values, turning flag-the-mine into an epic. (minesweeper.mikelacher.com)
  4. A Godot water shader, reworked after the critique: Community feedback on an earlier version led to a rebuilt water shader in Godot, bundled into a VFX ebook and course package where the before-and-after speaks for itself. (jettelly.com)
  5. Cel-shading in Blender Eevee without muddying your colors: A tutorial on setting up lighting nodes in Eevee so flat base colors survive the toon-shading process intact (unverified). (patreon.com)
  6. Four drummers with no shared clock, finding the groove: An interactive web audio toy where independent drum voices listen to each other and converge on a shared rhythm, built on phase-correction research from ensemble music studies. (stephendwolff.com)
  7. A São Paulo terrain, sketched one day at a time: The latest sketch-a-day entry pulls digital elevation model data through rasterio and numpy to render the city's landscape as a daily study. (github.com)
  8. Knocking on wood when there's no wood around: A piece exploring substitute rituals for protecting your luck when the nearest surface won't do (unverified). (creativeapplications.net)
  9. Racing the machines to a math proof: Theoretical computer scientists scrambled to prove results on the Unique Games Conjecture after rumors that an AI model was closing in on it first. (quantamagazine.org)
  10. The AI determinism complaint, picked apart by a determinism guy: A specialist in deterministic randomized algorithms argues that complaints about LLM non-determinism are really complaints about correctness wearing a disguise. (blog.demofox.org)
  11. Reasons to dislike AI coding, examined: A close look at the usual arguments against AI-assisted coding — the art objection, job theft, dehumanization — finds most don't hold up under scrutiny. (sicpers.info)
  12. Software developers are not okay: An essay and podcast argue that burnout and despair are spreading through the field, fed by AI disruption, layoffs, and souring public sentiment toward tech. (baldurbjarnason.com)

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