Proteins, pixels, and one right button

  1. How Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins: An internal Claude model spent 64 hours autonomously designing 211 protein minibinders against scorpion neurotoxins, with 17 later confirmed in the lab and all data released publicly. (anthropic.com)
  2. GT3 racing game in the browser with WebGPU: A full browser-based GT3 racer built with Three.js, WebGPU and TSL packs in Rapier vehicle physics, rain, reflections, multiplayer, and an inexplicable UFO encounter mode. (webgpu.com)
  3. Value noise derivatives in Godot shaders: The latest entry in a Godot shader series adds derivative math to value noise, turning flat hash-noise blocks into surfaces with genuinely bumpy normals. (catlikecoding.com)
  4. Ollin: a Metal-rendered creative-coding framework for Swift: A new Swift framework brings p5.js-style setup and draw loops to Apple platforms, complete with Voronoi, L-systems, raymarched SDFs, GPU fluids, and live reload. (ollin.art)
  5. Night Voxicles: a voxel generative art sketch: A voxel-based audiovisual sketch loads straight inside the post itself, turning a single Mastodon toot into an interactive generative art piece. (sharing.noisedeck.app)
  6. Vector graphics in Lil: A deep dive into drawing vector shapes and Hershey font typefaces using Lil, the odd APL-flavored scripting language baked into the Decker multimedia environment. (beyondloom.com)
  7. Vivid microscopic images from the 2026 Nikon Small World contest: Winning entries from the photomicrography competition turn neurons and cells into some genuinely startling visual art. (quantamagazine.org)
  8. Why one of the world's greatest mathematicians is on a 'war footing': (unverified) A paywalled profile reportedly finds mathematician Terence Tao describing his response to AI's growing role in math as nothing short of a war footing. (nytimes.com)
  9. Dear art world, we can tell when you're using AI: An opinion piece argues museums and galleries have no real excuse for letting generative AI write their press releases and wall labels instead of paying humans. (hyperallergic.com)
  10. Dennis Crowley on the end of Foursquare: Foursquare's co-founder writes a long, personal reflection on the company's recent zero-dollar acquisition outcome, closing the book on its 17-year run. (teendrama.substack.com)
  11. One Million Buttons on Steam: An upcoming minimalist Steam game offers exactly one million buttons, only one of which is correct, with absolutely no hints provided. (store.steampowered.com)
  12. Don't throw it all away: caching an immediate-mode UI: The team behind the Blick image viewer explains how they cache rendering output behind an immediate-mode UI, repainting only changed pixels to save power on busy interfaces. (blickeditor.com)

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