The browser that ate your childhood

  1. Classic games decompiled and ported to run in browsers, en masse: Hundreds of titles including GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE have reportedly been decompiled and made browser-playable in recent weeks, a wave credited to Claude Opus 5.5 (unverified). (techmeme.com)
  2. Lunatic Fling, a cel-shaded remake of After Dark's Lunatic Fringe: A free iPhone and iPad game rebuilds the old screensaver classic as a frictionless Newtonian space shooter with breakable ship parts and a new sector every day. (lunaticfling.com)
  3. The Lightbulb Computer rethinks ambient computing with projectors: A speculative design concept packs a projector and computer vision into a bulb-shaped device that beams interactive information onto walls and tables instead of screens. (lightbulbcomputer.com)
  4. SNTPings lets you draw on a canvas using ICMPv6: A shared 4K canvas gets painted one pixel at a time by crafted IPv6 ping packets, run by a Dutch student network as a tongue-in-cheek stress test. (pings.utwente.io)
  5. Cube Type turns text into isometric block typography: This free browser tool stacks your typed words into isometric, cube-based compositions with switchable layouts and color palettes. (typeincube.com)
  6. ManimGX puts Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine: This reimplementation keeps Manim's familiar Python animation interface but swaps in a Rust and wgpu rendering core for notably faster math and 3D video generation. (github.com)
  7. A sketch-a-day experiment extracts contours from a GeoTIFF: The latest entry in an ongoing daily coding practice uses scikit-image to pull elevation contours out of a GeoTIFF file, work in progress and all. (github.com)
  8. Understanding codemode, where agents write code instead of calling tools: Armin Ronacher lays out 'codemode,' an approach where LLM agents compose their tool calls as executable code rather than fixed schemas, as implemented in the Pi harness. (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  9. Mathematics as a new age of discovery: Matt Webb reflects on OpenAI's release of 372 math proofs and the mixed reactions from mathematicians, framing it as a shift from mining known results to AI-assisted discovery. (interconnected.org)
  10. Publishers are quietly using AI for covers and copy, without author consent: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette have reportedly been generating back-cover copy and cover art with AI tools behind authors' backs. (techmeme.com)
  11. Dwarf Fortress finally uses version control: Simon Willison notes that the famously version-control-free Dwarf Fortress quietly adopted it sometime after its 2023 Steam release. (simonwillison.net)
  12. A React trick for cleaner exit animations: A developer shows how Suspense can freeze a component's DOM mid-exit, stopping distracting content changes from sneaking into a transition. (barvian.me)

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