Sand, teapots, and stolen volts

  1. Hyper-realistic sand, rendered in WebGL2: A browser sand simulator lets you pour, tilt, shake, and draw in realistic grains, complete with sound and haptic feedback on touch devices. (av.github.io)
  2. The Utah Teapot: The University of Utah's official teapot page lets you view, customize, and download every historical version of the model ahead of its 50th anniversary at SIGGRAPH 2026. (graphics.cs.utah.edu)
  3. Paper Trail: A short Vimeo piece called Paper Trail, though the page itself sits behind a bot-check wall for now (unverified). (vimeo.com)
  4. Otherly Space/Knowledge: questions of data: A review essay on the 'Otherly Space/Knowledge' exhibition picks apart how knowledge gets produced and distorted in an age ruled by data and computation. (creativeapplications.net)
  5. Chrome 153 gets a native MP4 recorder: The new chrome-capture tool built on Chrome 153 records browser tabs at 60-120fps up to 4K straight to MP4, audio included. (github.com)
  6. Creating diagrams and graphs using modern CSS: The third installment of a CSS series shows how border-shape and shape() can draw dynamic diagram connectors with no JavaScript, though only Chrome and Edge render them fully. (blog.master.dev)
  7. Voltage-glitching a mining card into a full A100: A hardware hacker used voltage fault injection to blow the right fuses on a GA100 mining-card die, turning it into an A100-80GB that actually outruns Nvidia's own retail chip. (blog.kate.land)
  8. My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site: A traveler fed public lidar data to Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok and had them flag an unmapped-looking Maya structure in 72 hours, though a 2025 survey had already logged it. (pietromiotti.com)
  9. What are some 'No AI' apps and resources you know of?: A Lobsters thread crowdsources apps, companies, and projects that proudly skip AI, pointing to things like an 'AI-free FOSS alternatives' repo along with debate on how to frame the pitch. (lobste.rs)
  10. Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI: An essay argues that uncredited coordination work, the glue holding teams together, stays structurally thankless even as AI quietly erodes some of its usual causes like meeting overload. (seangoedecke.com)
  11. Why AI slop is so frustrating to read: A breakdown of why AI writing grates finds Claude Code's output rated 'unclear' 78 percent of the time against just 11 percent for human Stack Overflow answers, with three recurring clarity faults named. (zonderlabs.com)
  12. How a metabolic spark could have jump-started life: A Quanta explainer walks through the 'metabolism-first' theory of life's origin, where self-sustaining chemical cycles may have gotten biology going before genes ever existed. (quantamagazine.org)

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