Orbits, loops, and a lottery hack

  1. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields: A browser physics puzzle where you slingshot a spaceship through gravity wells, trading control for momentum to reach each sector's goal. (notoriousbfg.com)
  2. Thoreau BASIC asks what if line numbers never went away: A free 64-bit BASIC interpreter for Windows and bare-metal UEFI that bolts modern graphics, networking, JIT compilation, and even octonion math onto classic line-numbered syntax. (thoreaubasic.com)
  3. How to hack time with C2PA: A security researcher exploits a flaw in C2PA timestamp authorities to forge a 'cryptographically verified' photo showing winning lottery numbers hours before the draw. (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
  4. Aperiodic tilings with the de Bruijn method: Danielle Navarro implements de Bruijn's 1981 method for generating aperiodic rhombus tilings in R, wrestling along the way with what it means to understand code versus just borrow it. (blog.djnavarro.net)
  5. Loop: An exhibition about time visualization: A Paris gallery show called Loop presents 12:12, a set of twelve generative clocks that reinvent timekeeping through graphic design. (creativeapplications.net)
  6. Group Photos: Ten strangers, one image, every two hours: A Helsinki-based project pulls ten freely licensed nature photos from different photographers every two hours and fuses them into one image using only the sharpest pixels. (creativeapplications.net)
  7. Found gets a weekend shader overhaul, fresh water included: The team behind the narrative adventure game Found spent a Saturday rebuilding its water shaders, shown off on the game's Steam community page (unverified beyond that listing). (link.found.game)
  8. Daily sashiko and hitomezashi studies in py5: Alexandre Villares keeps his sketch-a-day practice going since 2018, lately exploring sashiko stitch patterns and L-systems in py5 with all the source published openly. (abav.lugaralgum.com)
  9. One Canvas, Many Hands fills up one mark at a time: A collaborative web canvas lets anyone add a single mark per day, with 315 of its 576 cells now claimed by strangers working one stroke apiece. (onecanvasmanyhands.com)
  10. Rails creator sparks new 'death of coding by hand' debate: DHH's announcement that 37signals has gone 'pencils down' on writing code manually reignites arguments over whether hand-coding is becoming the exception rather than the rule. (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
  11. The dot and the swarm: Ethan Mollick argues he underestimated how fast AI agents would learn to self-organize rather than needing hand-engineered workflows, illustrated by Claude and Suno making an entire music video unsupervised. (oneusefulthing.org)
  12. How AI is still in its terminal era: Amelia Wattenberger traces a line from Sketchpad and VisiCalc to the Xerox Star to argue that chat interfaces are AI's command line, waiting for its direct-manipulation successor. (wattenberger.com)

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