Strumming uphill

  1. Guitoro turns your keyboard into a playable guitar: A free browser toy lets you strum real recorded guitar, bass, banjo, and ukulele samples via keyboard, touchscreen, or mouse, with 51 songs and adjustable speed built in. (guitoro.com)
  2. Talus, a terrain-diffusion model you can run in your browser: A 23-million-parameter diffusion model trained on 45,000 procedural maps generates 4km game heightmaps in 25 steps entirely via WebGPU, exporting straight to Unity, Unreal, Godot, or Blender. (talus.tersa.tech)
  3. A sculpture that learns your face and reinterprets it: Capture/Resemble reads visitors' facial expressions and converts them into abstract machine movements, building a memory of each encounter to simulate something like self-awareness. (creativeapplications.net)
  4. Rotating parabolas, drawn in Python and verse: A Mathober 2026 entry pairs a matplotlib sketch of spinning parabolic curves with a short poem and the full generating code, covering two separate daily prompts. (blog.illestpreacha.com)
  5. 'The street,' a wibbly-wobbly visual patch for cables.gl: An entry in cables.gl's March challenge renders a houses-and-missing-structures scene as an open, remixable node patch anyone can fork and tweak. (cables.gl)
  6. Easylang brings BASIC-style simplicity back to the browser: A free browser IDE and language channels old home-computer BASIC, complete with a built-in tutor, code saving, and library support for quick scripting or learning to code. (easylang.online)
  7. VRChat's open-source lighting toolkit grows up: Version 3.0.0 of VRC Light Volumes adds EVSM shadows, separate specular highlights, light clustering, and animated cookies for avatar and world creators. (github.com)
  8. The average movie has way more cuts than you think: An analysis of 8,770 films from 1930 to 2025 finds today's typical release packs in 1,535 shots, roughly one every four seconds once credits are stripped out, well above the usual rule of thumb. (stephenfollows.com)
  9. Software engineers don't get to play Luddite: An essay argues the profession that automated away travel agents and typing pools has no standing to resist AI now, casting engineers as the loom-builders rather than the loom-smashers. (seangoedecke.com)
  10. Where did all the new, good software go: A post works through why AI-assisted coding hasn't produced an obvious wave of better products, suggesting the gains hide in bug fixes, private tools, and reclaimed developer time instead. (natemeyvis.com)
  11. Epic Games reportedly goes all in on AI for game dev: Reports suggest Epic is pivoting to an 'AI first' development model tied to a Disney collaboration, a day after its Fortnite video drew fire for laundering its AI art pipeline (unverified). (arstechnica.com)

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