The best onboarding experiences guide people as they interact, instead of explaining things in narrative form.

There’s only one catch here: I almost exclusively hate onboarding experiences. They’re slow and patronizing, they get in the way, and they often try to explain around their overly complex UI instead of simply…making the UI less complicated.

Most folks takes the laziest approach possible and you can see it everywhere: apps of every kind and ilk are chockablock full of annoying popups and guides and things you have to dismiss before you can use the product itself. We all hate those.

From Robin Rendle — Longboarding

Much of the concern and criticism of AI we are seeing at the moment relates specifically to the challenges with the largest LLMs, particularly when used as a proverbial sledgehammer. Considering the MVM approach as an alternative is one way to navigate forward in a balanced, pragmatic and mindful way. We would love to hear from anyone trying something similar, or different!

From MVM - Minimal Viable Model

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📖 Starred Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop! by sdomi’s weblog

📖 Starred I lost my pg_control again (… yet another data recovery story) by sdomi’s weblog

📖 Starred Stakes bigger than life: fixing ext4 under pressure by sdomi’s weblog

📖 Starred Stop calling yourself an IC by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Creativity is the byproduct of work by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Instability by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Job Hoppin’ by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Sleepless in San Francisco by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Longboarding by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred MVM - Minimal Viable Model by Normally Notes

It’s easy to think of places like Twitter (I refuse to call it X) as a right-wing, hateful, misogynist platform (it absolutely can be), but it’s also worth highlighting the other side of it - the digital relationships tools like Twitter have allowed us to form.

Despite all of the drama that often happens on social networks, I’m so grateful to all of the people I have met through these channels. I could make a muuuuch longer list highlighting all the people I’ve met online and sincerely value as ‘real’ friends, but for now let me just say how much I value you all - readers of this blog, subscribers of my newsletter, people that randomly email me, interactions on social networks, and all the amazing clients.

From Digital tools may create life long relationships – Anton Sten – Product Designer

📖 Starred Reverse engineering Bandcamp authentication protocol by Nemanja Mijailovic’s Blog

📖 Starred Building Alan Wake’s Angel Lamp by blog.thea.codes

📹 Starred That Time I Said Prime Numbers For 3 Hours by Vsauce

📹 Starred I made a bra that tells me the weather by Estefannie Explains It All

📖 Starred :has roundup by Robin Rendle

📖 Starred Can you be creative just by creating? by Anton Sten RSS Feed

📖 Starred Print design principles in a digital world by Anton Sten RSS Feed

📖 Starred Digital tools may create life long relationships by Anton Sten RSS Feed

📖 Starred Resolving to be a ‘better form’ of ourselves in 2024 by Anton Sten RSS Feed

📖 Starred When Amazon Just Wipes Your Entire Device Ebook Library by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred Julia and Sybil by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred 3 Good Reasons for Vegan and Vegetarian “Substitute” Products by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred The Great Tech and People Hypocrisy by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred Sustainability Trap by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred On the Well Astonishing Verdicts on Social Media by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred Declining 1:1 Meetings Without a Message Is Rude by Jens O. Meiert

📖 Starred Screen reading eff eff conf by Remy Sharp

📖 Starred beyond tellerrand: One of my favourite web development and design conferences by All posts - Manuel Matuzović

During the rest of the flight I wrote PySkyWiFi. PySkyWiFi is a highly simplified version of the TCP/IP protocol that squeezes whole HTTP requests through an airmiles account, out of the plane, and down to a computer connected to the internet on the ground. A daemon running on this ground computer makes the HTTP requests for me, and then finally squeezes the completed HTTP responses back through my airmiles account, up to me on my plane.

This meant that on my next flight I could technically have full access to the internet, via my airmiles account. Depending on network conditions on the plane I might be able to hit speeds of several bytes per second.

When I was done with all of this I used PySkyWiFi to load the homepage of my blog using curl, tunneling the data via a GitHub Gist. Several minutes later I got a response back. I scrolled around the HTML and reflected that this had been both the most and least productive flight of my life.

From PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton

Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Or imagine the online community you were an active part of for years just closes down and all user data gets deleted after a few months. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Or imagine that a site you poured all your thoughts and writing into decides overnight that it might be a good idea to sell access to all user data to a company that is training their large language model with it. And again, there is nothing you can do about it.

Now imagine a place where you actually own your content, your connections, and your online identity.

And now, imagine that this place is your personal website, under your own domain name, under your control.

This is the basic idea behind the IndieWeb.

From Welcome to the IndieWeb · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

📖 Starred I made a Downpour…game? by Lost Boy

📖 Starred A basis for better definitions of “open” by Lost Boy

📖 Starred It takes about 4588 quasars to help you get around and get paid by Lost Boy

📖 Starred I’m not the Leigh Dodds you’re looking for. Maybe by Lost Boy

📖 Starred Norming on Mastodon by Lost Boy

📖 Starred Consistency before standards by Lost Boy

📖 Starred Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs by Lea Verou

What makes RSS so powerful is that it is an open format. RSS is one of the reasons the blogosphere grew so rapidly and it is the reason why podcasting exploded: because this open format allowed everyone to participate by simply publishing a feed anywhere on the web, without being restricted by platform requirements, closed APIs, and paywalls. And this superpower is also why RSS is having a renaissance today: it allows everyone to subscribe to, share, syndicate, and cross-post content on the open web.

RSS already is the cornerstone of many open technology systems like podcasting, which can’t be owned and controlled by any one company. As Anil Dash notes, this alone is radical, because it is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that’s supposed to be impossible: open and empowering tech that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.

From We ❤️ RSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

So, feel free to stop by any time and stay as long as you like. I won’t track you, make you look at ads, ask you to download my app, harass you with popups, suggest you sign up for my newsletter or push you through a sales funnel. Enjoy the garden, and the peace 💐.

From My own little patch

Sit with that for a second, you can write a desktop application with no tooling, launch it from your phone to the internet for free, and seconds later install it on any computer. You don’t have to ask permission, or jump through any App Store hoops. You can write a thing, push it to the internet, and then immediately use the thing. Even better, you can send the link to your friends and they can immediately use the thing. That’s the power of the web.

From Desktop progressive web applications | Trys Mudford

You don’t need to know how to implement all the data structures, that’s what (software) libraries and Wikipedia are for (and for that matter, book libraries too). However, it is useful to have an idea of what’s available and when to use it.

From This is not interview advice: a priority-expiry LRU cache without heaps or trees in Python - death and gravity

📖 Starred PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by Robert Heaton | Blog

📖 Starred Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon by Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

📖 Starred Welcome to the IndieWeb by Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

📖 Starred We ❤️ RSS by Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

📖 Starred Comfortable with the struggle by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred Code sketch #6 by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred Generative AI is for the idea guys by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred My own little patch by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred Post Brain by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred Spotify DJ is like a music pokie by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred I turned off analytics by Rach Smith’s digital garden

📖 Starred Fig by Trys Mudford

📖 Starred Desktop progressive web applications by Trys Mudford

So models know everything about all the things. But it’s not enough. They don’t know how to act human.

So they need to study every online human conversation. They need social media. But social media is a walled garden — you can’t just walk up and scrape every Facebook post, every Instagram image — not after those guys already did it. And besides, maybe copyright does apply to them after all!

So they make deals with the social media platform’s owners to access its subjects’ data. Here’s every platform I can find that has publicly announced AI training:

That’s all there is. After these deals finalise, there will be no more available training data on the internet. It’s all been absorbed. Whatever the state of AI models is in a year or two, they cannot get any better after that, as there simply will not be any more data to train on.

From The internet has run out of training data - cadence’s weblog (personal blog)

After the main hubbub subsided, I was let in early on the fun. It ended up being the best gift of all to see such an amusing event in internet history caused on my behalf by my better half.

From Surprise for a programmer on Birthday

As a web developer, having a quick go-to web stack to build projects like this is essential. So many times I’ve had project ideas of grandeur, only to get stalled immediately in the technical architecture because I didn’t have the right tools on-hand to get started.

But not this time. My muscle memory for Astro + Vue hosted on github + vercel has become strong enough that these things faded away into the background, letting me focus on the core functionality.

If you don’t have this at-hand, I recommend going into real prototype mode and using something like codepen.

From Takeaways from a Weekend Project

”Did you catch the game last night?”

I don’t know who talks like that, but it seems to be the right type of thing to use as an example here.

In the age of remote work, there are a lot of culture-building moments like that lost behind the screen divide. So, in similar fashion to remote leadership, building strong remote-based company cultures takes a concerted effort.

From The Concentrated Water Cooler

📖 Starred This is not interview advice: a priority-expiry LRU cache in Python without heaps or trees by death and gravity

📖 Starred Cross Window Forgery: A New Class of Web Attack by Paulos Yibelo - Blog

📖 Starred The never type and error handling in TypeScript by fettblog.eu | TypeScript, JavaScript, Jamstack

📖 Starred The internet has run out of training data by Cadence’s Blog

📖 Starred Casio f-91w Modding by Remy Sharp

📖 Starred Retro print patterns with CSS [link] by Remy Sharp

📖 Starred On having no visual memory by Rachel Andrew

📖 Starred Closing time by Rachel Andrew

📖 Starred Six definitions of love by Stephan Ango

📖 Starred Earth is becoming sentient by Stephan Ango

📖 Starred Surprise for a programmer on Birthday by Andrew Walpole Blog

📖 Starred Takeaways from a Weekend Project by Andrew Walpole Blog

📖 Starred The Concentrated Water Cooler by Andrew Walpole Blog

Yup, that’s right; they were prepared to throw their own WebKit and Safari teams under the bus and remove Web Push, the Badging API, and all the other work those teams had done. They were happy to destroy many EU businesses that relied on PWAs, and harm those users. They were fine with sneaking in anti-competitive behaviour while blaming the very legislation that is designed to open competition.

From Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : Happy DMA day to all! Where we are, and what comes next

Some people need AI Smart Cooking technology to get a perfect bowl of rice, but I am OK with a cheap IKEA pot with a lid. Some need 3D teeth tracking with AI to preserve good oral hygiene, but I am happy with my dumb brush. I absolutely don’t need any ChatGPT-driven features built into my mouse. Naively, I thought I would turn off this feature and carry on. So naive I was!

From From Logitech MX Master 3S to Apple Magic Trackpad — my honest review (of the AI hype) | pawelgrzybek.com

“Great stuff”! Really! Let’s go out and take every file, image, and other resource accessible on the internet and reuse it to make some money.

Let’s visit all these paid media services, “Save as” their content, remove watermarks, polish it and then sell it under our names. And let’s automate this process! And then let’s talk about the social contract…

From Web content, the social contract and copyrights | Stefan Judis Web Development

📖 Starred Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way) by joshua stein

📖 Starred In-code TODOs without tickets don’t usually get done by Nick Scialli

📖 Starred TC39 – the song by Bruce Lawson

📖 Starred Indian Big Tech draft regulation makes Big Tech bosses cry scandal by Bruce Lawson

📖 Starred Book review: Prophet’s Song by Paul Lynch by Bruce Lawson

📖 Starred CSS :has(), the God Selector by Bruce Lawson

📖 Starred From Logitech MX Master 3S to Apple Magic Trackpad — my honest review (of the AI hype) by pawelgrzybek.com

📖 Starred Web content, the social contract and copyrights (#blogPost) by Stefan Judis

📖 Starred VS Code’s new minimap section headers (#blogPost) by Stefan Judis

📖 Starred Reveal an image with smart padding (#snippet) by Stefan Judis

📖 Starred Timestamped Git yolo commits (#snippet) by Stefan Judis

📖 Starred Forever projects (#note) by Stefan Judis

Here’s a thing I never would have imagined possible: an LLM embedded into a font.

From Note from June 24, 2024 | Chase McCoy

Discovering and playing Bokunatsu (and watching Tim’s 6 hour magnum opus of a review) has given me a deep appreciation for the timelessness of art and media.

A game from 24 years ago, deeply steeped in a culture that isn’t my own, has managed to create in me a sense of warm nostalgia. Its soundscapes remind me of home, but also make me long for a place I’ve never been.

It’s also worth appreciating the meta aspect of the journey I went on to discover and experience this game, all because of a link in a newsletter. This is why the web is so special, and it’s what an AI will never do: unearth a lost gem.

When writing in his diary at the end of each in-game day, Boku reflects on “the most wonderful day in which nothing happened.” Let this be a reminder that there is magic waiting to be found in the mundane.

From Boku no Natsuyasumi | Chase McCoy

Contrast the above mega-corporate phone system with the simple and direct experience you’ll get when calling a typical small business:

• Phone call answered by a human being
• Provides the required information/support
• Done.

That is 1,000,000,000 times better than being treated like cattle in some limited, over-engineered, automated telephone service.

From Why Automated Phone Systems SUCK | Perishable Press

The solution that most improved passenger happiness was to increase the distance between the arrival terminal and baggage reclaim, such that, although the delay between arriving and receiving baggage was largely the same, it was spent actively moving; passengers were not feeling like they were wasting their time passively waiting around.

This was a great example of if you can’t make something actually fast, make it seem fast enough.

From Burberry X Google Hackathons | Robin Osborne

📖 Starred A tale of Debian, Mesa, and ancient OpenGL by TheBrokenRail

📖 Starred https://chasem.co/2024/06/llama-dot-ttf/ by Chase McCoy

📖 Starred Boku no Natsuyasumi by Chase McCoy

📖 Starred Why Automated Phone Systems SUCK by Jeff Starr

📖 Starred Burberry X Google Hackathons by Robin Osborne

📖 Starred Cross compiling C/Rust to win32, again by Tech Notes

📖 Starred code-pen Web Component by David Darnes

📖 Starred My travel coffee brewer by David Darnes

📖 Starred link-peek Web Component by David Darnes

📖 Starred View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes by Jake Archibald’s Blog

📹 Starred My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human by Mark Rober

📹 Starred After 20years I can still land it!! by colinfurze

📹 Starred Capybara by Weebl’s Stuff

WTF!?

Modern WordPress - Yikes!

Years on and I feel that we’ve gone down a path where creativity is second to efficiency and that we often look at ready made solutions or reusing what exists. Tools like Squarespace and Wix offer pre-designed templates and drag and drop builders mean anyone can build a site without writing any code but we’ve come to a point where everything looks the same

We have deadlines to meet and we’re looking to cut costs so the process has become more about efficiency over creativity in my mind.

From Decline of web craftsmanship | Website and blog of Front-end developer and web designer, Dan Davies

It was about improvisation. How a lot of things we do every day are - to some extent, made up! From how we greet each other, to how we respond to an unexpected phone call. None of it is planned. We don’t create some sort of crazy scalable distributed architecture to deal with these things: They’re licks.

While we’re thinking of the perfect solution, the original problem is still there. Users don’t see your research, users don’t see the architecture meetings, users don’t see the ether. The only thing they see is the problem. And guess what? The problem is still there.

From Do things that don’t scale - Duarte O.Carmo

So in order to be found on google you have to pay them. Which means that if I, as someone who searches, am looking for something I end up at the website with the largest marketing budget. Not necessarily at the website with the best content. That’s bad. That very bad. But it gets worse.

From Google search is corrupt ⚒ Nerd

the world needs more recreational programming. like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

But my favorite kinds of projects are the ones that are just for the fun of it.

From Side projects should be fun - Matt Steele

“Hey, we need to do this or we’re going to hit a wall.” Well, we’re not hitting any walls so I guess we don’t need to do this. And then we hit a wall.

Any working system can become invisible to the point where the system loses value because it’s working.

From Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease - Snook.ca

The internet today is a lot like my Seattle experience. The “For You” pages on the various social networks are spot on with regards to what I like, and they help me get more into the things that I like. But those aren’t really “social” networks as much anymore. They’re content networks. It’s things, not connections. Yes, some connections do happen, but the mediums are geared towards what content will keep you around.

I feel like the internet of the past was more like my Chicago experience. I made random internet friends who I’m still friends with from over a decade ago. There’s little pockets here and there on Discord (hello, nerds) and other more chat-oriented spaces, but it’s not what it once was.

the point is that there isn’t a big central place now to find or interact with friends unless you really put a lot of effort into it.

From Seattle and the internet

“In web development, a lot of decisions are driven by the fear of looking dumb. People are worried about appearing unsophisticated and unwilling to say this is “too complicated and we should do something simpler even though it’s not super sexy“”

Peer pressure is the ultimate evil. New developers are especially prone to thinking “seniors” will make fun of them for picking some tech stack that doesn’t look complex:

People use our app because they need it. If you happen to build something people need, and you are able to find customers in a way that’s sustainable, you’ll have success.

From Simplicity

But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception to the rule: there are no exceptions.

Apple doesn’t care about you personally in the least tiny bit, and if you were in their way somehow, they would do whatever their might — effectively infinite compared to your own — enables them to deal with you.

From inessential: Corporations Are Not To Be Loved

But, whose user is it anyway? That’s irrelevent. The ultimate goal is to provide a good and accessible experience to the user. The way email clients and senders are handling this right now takes focus away from that goal and the engineering effort is instead put into tricking the other party’s code to do what you want.

Its always the same game of mouse and cat around different topics like with ads when the user is not the one in control.

From Whose user is it anyway?

I want to order a pizza. · Luna’s Blog is a clear example of the uneeded complexity around things that should be as easy as a few taps.

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📖 Starred Testing HTML With Modern CSS by Heydon Pickering

📖 Starred What Is A Single-page Application? by Heydon Pickering

📖 Starred What is Utility-First CSS? by Heydon Pickering

📖 Starred Offloading JavaScript With Custom Properties by Heydon Pickering

📖 Starred Private class fields in Python by Kieran Barker

📖 Starred JavaScript modules and the file URI scheme by Kieran Barker

📖 Starred Loading .env files in a Unix shell by Kieran Barker

📖 Starred How someone temporarily took over my subdomain by Nicholas C. Zakas

📖 Starred What’s the difference between JavaScript engines and JavaScript runtimes? by Nicholas C. Zakas

📖 Starred Fetch, process, output, style, listen by Blog of fearless web developer Silvestar Bistrović

📖 Starred Cloudflare AI Block by David Bushell

📖 Starred Google Spam by David Bushell

📖 Starred Modern WordPress - Yikes! by David Bushell

📖 Starred CSS Button Styles You Might Not Know by David Bushell

📖 Starred RSS Feed Styles by David Bushell

📖 Starred SVG Icons with CSS Masks by David Bushell

📖 Starred Automatic differentiation with dual numbers by Jim Fisher

📖 Starred It might not need a label by Jim Fisher

📖 Starred How does HotJar record your screen? by Jim Fisher

📖 Starred Penguin! by Articles by Ryan Mulligan

📖 Starred Acronym Frustration by Coder’s Block

📖 Starred Google search is corrupt by Vasilis Van Gemert

📖 Starred Side projects should be fun by Matt Steele

📖 Starred Shifting Identities by Jonathan Snook

📖 Starred Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease by Jonathan Snook

📖 Starred New Year, Old Me by Jonathan Snook

📖 Starred Minimal SVG Favicon by phpied.com

📖 Starred Capturing web page video with a couple of bookmarklets by phpied.com

📖 Starred The Truth(tm) about encoding SVG in data URIs by phpied.com

📖 Starred Decline of web craftsmanship by Dan Davies

📖 Starred Cracking Neovim code folding by Jack Franklin

📖 Starred Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky by bt

📖 Starred Do things that don’t scale by Duarte O.Carmo

📖 Starred Nice keyboards make me want to write blogs by Cassidy Williams

📖 Starred Seattle and the internet by Cassidy Williams

📖 Starred Sorting Git branches by Cassidy Williams

📖 Starred Base CSS for your text-based pages by Cassidy Williams

📖 Starred Simplicity by Flavio Copes

📖 Starred Corporations Are Not To Be Loved by inessential.com

📖 Starred Reruns by inessential.com

📖 Starred A Simple Path To Building Trust by Ben McCormick

📖 Starred Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit by Adam Silver

📖 Starred Figma prototypes vs HTML prototypes by Adam Silver

📖 Starred The Curious Case of the CSS Monochrome Media Query by Stephanie Stimac

📖 Starred A Commitment to Art and Dogs by samwho.dev

📖 Starred I’m So Old: Web Edition by David Walsh Blog

📖 Starred Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript by David Walsh Blog

📖 Starred Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition by David Walsh Blog

📖 Starred Whose user is it anyway? by Hussein Al Hammad

📖 Starred Open Sourcing DOS 4 by Scott Hanselman’s Blog

📖 Starred Introducing DeviceAndBrowserInfo.com, a website for browser data and more by Antoine Vastel

📖 Starred Hexadecimal Sucks by Tyler Cipriani: blog

📖 Starred Twelve years by Michael Scharnagl

📖 Starred I want to order a pizza. by Luna’s Blog

📖 Starred Winter Walk by Justin Miller

📹 Starred researchers find an unfixable bug in EVERY ARM cpu by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Have We Ever All BLINKED At The Same Time? by Vsauce

📹 Starred Microsoft’s Fingerprint Reader for Windows XP by Michael MJD

📹 Starred I Built my Ultimate Art & Gaming Room by Nerdforge

📹 Starred Everything you know about Lightning is wrong by Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced

📹 Starred This Jet Pack Gives You the Power to Double Jump! by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Travelator Staircase-NEVER GET UPSTAIRS AGAIN! by colinfurze

📹 Starred this SSH exploit is absolutely wild by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred new vulnerability in your motherboard lasts forever by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Los personajes anime 3D te engañan 👀 by Guinxu

📹 Starred How many engineers does it take to dunk a basketball? 🤔 #trickshot #engineering #dunk by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Some Surprising Eponyms by Vsauce

📹 Starred The Worst Book I’ve Read So Far This Year by Vsauce

📹 Starred GHOST HUNTERS | Melvins Macabre by MeatCanyon

📹 Starred This hat has a secret function… by Simone Giertz

📹 Starred It’s a Pterodactyl Chest! The Dino Megazord continues… by Studson Studio

📹 Starred Macaroni Universe by Vsauce

📹 Starred Microsoft’s First Phone… From 1998 by Michael MJD

📹 Starred We made Elden Ring’s WORST Legendary Weapon by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred What is the Smallest Possible .EXE? by Inkbox

📹 Starred malicious javascript injected into 100,000 websites by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred The Sizes Of History by Vsauce

📹 Starred $1 Arcade Punching Bag HACK by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Dianna shaves her hair off - ME/CFS by Physics Girl

📹 Starred I made the worlds most powerful soccer shoe by I did a thing

📹 Starred Is pool actually just mathematics? by standupmaths

📹 Starred Installing Windows XP on the Touchscreen MacBook but Everything Goes Wrong… by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Rotational Recomposition by Vsauce

📹 Starred Diorama of Moonlight by Thalasso hobbyer たらそほびや

📹 Starred Can Lawnmowers actually FLY? by PeterSripol

📹 Starred researcher accidentally finds 0-day affecting his entire internet service provider by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred what are these men lookong at? by William Osman 2

📹 Starred why is this man so red? by William Osman 2

📹 Starred Game Boy Games (and "Portal") on a Graphing Calculator! by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred This Kid’s Invention Makes your Party Better! by Kids Invent Stuff

📹 Starred Decoy Mark Rober vs 50,000 nerds by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Is A 2-Sided Polygon Possible? by Vsauce

📹 Starred The TOUCHSCREEN MacBook… From 2011 by Michael MJD

📹 Starred listen here by William Osman 2

📹 Starred this windows feature should make you VERY nervous by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred AI in Inkscape (and why it won’t) by Martin Owens

📹 Starred ¡¿Geometry Dash sirve para crear videojuegos?! by Guinxu

📹 Starred Constructing Numbers From Nothing by Vsauce

📹 Starred MONSTERS INC MULTIVERSE PART 3 by DESIGNBYFEO

📹 Starred I Turned 1-Star Toys into Military Nightmares by William Osman

📹 Starred This Abandoned Project Haunted Me for Years… by Inkbox

📹 Starred An excellent block-pushing puzzler on an open ocean by Mark Brown

📹 Starred testing my knife nails (✿◡‿◡) ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ by Estefannie Explains It All

📹 Starred I made a makeup 🔫 by Estefannie Explains It All

📹 Starred Does Farting Make You Lighter? w/ @hankschannel by Mark Rober

📹 Starred The Shadow Alphabet Puzzle by Vsauce

📹 Starred I Got The Terrible Maps Book by Vsauce

📹 Starred I Built the Disney Coffee Maker IRL by Nerdforge

📹 Starred Mini Bluray Audio Player by befinitiv

📹 Starred Lava vs Lasers - Which Is More Destructive? by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Building the ENDGAME invisible PC by DIY Perks

📹 Starred Building a SECRET gaming room in an Armored Truck! by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Kellogg’s Bizarre Voice Assistants for Windows by Michael MJD

📹 Starred The mathematically impossible ball that shouldn’t exist. by standupmaths

📹 Starred N64 recompilation is here - and its looking good! by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred How to ALWAYS WIN "Guess Who" by Mark Rober

📹 Starred The Puzzle I Was Never Able To Solve by Vsauce

📹 Starred iPhone cookie.| Komadorisaurus #toys #stopmotion #anime by Animist

📹 Starred Beware of the grumpy old man😬// #GranTorino 2008 #ClintEastwood #shorts #movieclip by HyperDrive

📖 Starred 14 ways to supercharge your workflow with AI by Andy Bell

📹 Starred Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT - Smarter Every Day 287 by SmarterEveryDay

📹 Starred Exploring Terrible Windows Bootlegs… by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Building a real DUNE STILL SUIT (1 DAY BUILD) by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred When a complicated proof simplifies everything by standupmaths

📹 Starred Hexagonal Pythagoras by Vsauce

📹 Starred You want Michael Douglas’s Briefcase?😂 // Falling Down 1993 #shorts #movieclips by HyperDrive

📹 Starred It’s like a FitBit but for drinking beer. by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred Thor manejando un bondi by Jonadibujos

📹 Starred Xbox has lost its way by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred Now THIS is Fast Food! by Kids Invent Stuff

📹 Starred one of the craziest exploits i’ve ever seen by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Etch-A-Sketch Theory by Vsauce

📹 Starred I Gave 3 Subscribers My Credit Card by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Proper naughty boys🤣// #thegentlemen 2019 #charliehunnam #shorts #movieclips by HyperDrive

📹 Starred Be careful not to get bitten. | Komadorisaurus #stopmotion #anime #toys by Animist

📹 Starred Coding Challenge 183: Paper Marbling Algorithm by The Coding Train

📹 Starred Precision guided launcher turns noobs into pros by Stuff Made Here

📹 Starred Turns out SIZE DOES MATTER! (GIANT MEGA SABER) by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Este PLÁSTICO oculto te protege de los BUGS de Nintendo by Guinxu

📹 Starred La Entrevista de Trabajo de Bestia (Completo) by Jonadibujos

📹 Starred I Built a PC that Makes Coffee by Nerdforge

📹 Starred never forget to water your plants by Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced

📹 Starred Could you Survive a Blast from the Worlds Biggest Vortex Cannon? by TheBackyardScientist

📹 Starred A Strangelove For My Linux Handheld by Janus Cycle

📹 Starred Game Boy games that did the impossible. by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred Learning HTML When I Was 10 Years Old by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred nation state hackers caught exploiting cisco firewalls by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred … and why! by Vsauce

📹 Starred A trick that always works… by Vsauce

📹 Starred i made your braindead High Voltage inventions by Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced

📹 Starred Vortex Cannon vs Drone by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Digital archaeology reading 40 year old C64 Floppy Disks with a Greaseweazle, Fluxengine, and Aaru by Scott Hanselman

📹 Starred I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 by MattKC

📹 Starred Can I Teach My Girlfriend Redstone? by mattbatwings

📹 Starred Programming the Game Boy - Temple Run by Inkbox

📹 Starred I can hear BUGS!!! by Kids Invent Stuff

📹 Starred Weird Train Airplane experiment by PeterSripol

📹 Starred Destroying a Radioactive Cockroach! ☢ (Fallout Build) by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Chik Fil A Sauce by MeatCanyon

📹 Starred Fibonnaci on a Marble-Powered Computer by Vsauce

📹 Starred Stop Wearing Shirts by Vsauce

📹 Starred You want to use the phone?😲// #FallingDown 1993 #shorts #movieclips by HyperDrive

📹 Starred How to make a cake roll #stopmotion by omozoc

📹 Starred Stay online with the Nintendo 3DS and WiiU after today! by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred This video is for NileRed by William Osman 2

📹 Starred Spin Blow by Vsauce

📹 Starred Guepardo y Bestia miran para arriba by Jonadibujos

📹 Starred Añadiendo Mario 64 a CUALQUIER juego by Guinxu

📹 Starred Can this forgotten invention save your life? by I did a thing

📹 Starred You Could Take Photos With Your Game Boy… by Michael MJD

📹 Starred I made a Mario Kart by Studson Studio

📹 Starred It’s Okay to be Unproductive by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred secret backdoor found in open source software (xz situation breakdown) by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred How to make a butter case #stopmotion by omozoc

📹 Starred Continued - speedy woodworking by omozoc

📹 Starred Este BUG deforma los juegos de mundo abierto by Guinxu

📹 Starred I made a bra that saves me from pervs by Estefannie Explains It All

📹 Starred I Built the ULTIMATE Adirondack Chair Using Only Solar Power by Xyla Foxlin

📹 Starred The Minecraft boat-drop mystery by standupmaths

📹 Starred Can I Learn to Draw in 100 Hours? by Nerdforge

📹 Starred I Made a 170 Sqft HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE Rug by Nerdforge

📹 Starred Building a Relay-Powered Pi Machine by The Science Elf

📹 Starred How to make a Raspberry Pi Cat TV by Becky Stern

📹 Starred Letting dice decide what we’re going to build by Simone Giertz

📹 Starred You’ve Never Seen A Wheelchair Like This by Mark Rober

📹 Starred Don’t Smoke in pure oxygen by TheBackyardScientist

📹 Starred AWAVAUATUSH by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Recycle man by omozoc

📹 Starred Oversleeping in 2050 #stopmotion by omozoc

📹 Starred Would six cup holders in my Hyundai Tucson be too unnecessary? #HyundaiTucson #HyundaiPartner by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred #genuary18 Bauhaus by The Coding Train

📹 Starred Coding Challenge 179: Elementary Cellular Automata by The Coding Train

📹 Starred The biggest hand calculation in a century! [Pi Day 2024] by standupmaths

📹 Starred Rotation without rotating. by standupmaths

📹 Starred The Five Compound Platonic Solids by standupmaths

📹 Starred I made knife nails for self-defense by Estefannie Explains It All

📹 Starred 【Stop Motion】 Conceited man【Stickybones】 by Animist

📹 Starred I now have automated snacks in my @hyundai Tucson! #HyundaiTucson #HyundaiPartner by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred Destiny by omozoc

📹 Starred Hacking 1980s Beepers & Pagers Back To Life by Janus Cycle

📹 Starred Esta IA mejora los gráficos y FPS de los juegos by Guinxu

📹 Starred Harvard student’s daily routine #stopmotion #funny by omozoc

📹 Starred Trump by omozoc

📹 Starred How to make sushi #stopmotion #stopmotioncooking #stopmotionasmr by omozoc

📹 Starred Look, I never said I work smarter, just harder 😂 #oops by Xyla Foxlin

📹 Starred I Don’t Like Cybersecurity Degrees #programming #coding #lowcode by Low Level Learning

📖 Starred Bloom Filters by samwho.dev

📹 Starred Supermium - A Modern Web Browser for XP and Vista! by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Wubuntu - The Windows Themed Linux Distro You Shouldn’t Use by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Have You Ever Seen a Chocolate 3D Printer?! by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred 100% 3D Printed Skateboard by Emily The Engineer

📹 Starred Testing If You Can Blow Your Own Sail by Mark Rober

📹 Starred MrBeast vs Electric Shock Jenga by Mark Rober

📹 Starred SOMEONE GET MASTER CHIEF ON THE PHONE 📞👽#engineering #gaming #halo by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred We’re All Just Trying Our Best by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred why rust libraries may never exist. by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred VR powered by N64 by James Lambert

📹 Starred 【Stop Motion】Slippery man【Stickybones】 by Animist

📹 Starred Keyboard crasher’s lunch #stopmotion #stopmotioncooking #stopmotionanimation #asmr #satisfying by omozoc

📹 Starred How to make strawberry shortcake #stopmotion #stopmotioncooking #satisfying by omozoc

📹 Starred How to make mussel peperoncino #stopmotion #satisfying by omozoc

📹 Starred How to make hot dog #stopmotion #stopmotioncooking #satisfying by omozoc

📹 Starred How to make a salad #stopmotion #stopmotionanimation #stopmotioncooking #stopmotionasmr #asmr by omozoc

📹 Starred The sharpest toy knife in the world #stopmotion #satisfying #funny by omozoc

📹 Starred The 1,200 Year Maths Mistake by standupmaths

📹 Starred Reverse Engineering, but it’s 100 Math Problems. by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Salad of cooking utensils by omozoc

📹 Starred Possibly my best storage idea ever (but I don’t have that many great storage ideas) #newworkshop by Xyla Foxlin

📹 Starred Quick little fix to a big problem of mine in the studio. by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred I made a rearview mirror for my ski poles. by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred I recreated this Hyundai commercial ft. available Bluelink+ #HyundaiTucson #HyundaiPartner by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs by Ionic1k

📹 Starred The Ancient Mathematics of the DVD Screensaver by Another Roof

📹 Starred I spent 20 days building a massive robot by Nerdforge

📹 Starred I Painted my Old Art, 18 Years Later by Nerdforge

📹 Starred Searching for the Lord of the Rings forest by William Osman 2

📹 Starred Running Mac OS on a Nintendo DS! by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Building a REAL PlayStation 5… PORTABLE! by DIY Perks

📹 Starred Nintendo’s Bizarre Web Browsers for Windows by Michael MJD

📹 Starred The Google Chromebit by Michael MJD

📹 Starred Making a speargun to catch twice as many fish by I did a thing

📹 Starred This is how I survive annoying road trips. #HyundaiTucson #HyundaiPartner by Unnecessary Inventions

📹 Starred The iPhone flashlight is good, but I’m made it better! by Unnecessary Inventions

The delights of putting smart in things that shouldnt be

📹 Starred I made a makeup g*n to save time by Estefannie Explains It All

📹 Starred the internet of things is completely out of control by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred Why Spec Ops: The Line Mattered by Mark Brown

📹 Starred Super Mario’s Invisible Difficulty Settings by Mark Brown

📹 Starred Inventing New Ways to Drink Water by Emily The Engineer

📹 Starred Bee Gun, the gun that shoots bees by Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced

📹 Starred I found a abandoned building by William Osman 2

📹 Starred I Built a $250,000 Table for Less Than $300 by Xyla Foxlin

Why do monkeys count in base-8?

Im a sucker for this kind of content of “lets build a cpu in the most random places” or “this thing is turing complete”. Love it.

It always amazes me the kind of things that you can do with redstone.

📹 Starred That could have been bad! 😬🥴😵‍💫 #gokart #fpv #danger by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred We built our MOST requested idea… (Assassins Creed Hidden Blades) by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Becoming the God of Thunder!⚡(80km/h TOP SPEED) by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred ⚠️ Our Home-made CYBERTRUCK DRIVES ITSELF! ⚠️ by the Hacksmith

📹 Starred Why do monkeys count in base-8? by Matt Parker

📹 Starred Why do all shapes lie in the Polyhedron Plane? by standupmaths

📹 Starred Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption by stacksmashing

📹 Starred Building a Generator by Tim Station

📹 Starred Help with laundry.| Komadorisaurus by Animist

📹 Starred Making an NES to N64 controller adapter by James Lambert

📹 Starred I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel by Inkbox

📹 Starred Your Keyboard Cannot Comprehend These Noodles by Inkbox

📹 Starred Inkscape in the Design Industry - Interview by Martin Owens

📹 Starred ¿Cómo funcionan los CHEAT CODES en juegos? by Guinxu

📹 Starred Wonka Caught Charlie Taking A Peak by MeatCanyon

📹 Starred a strange but powerful interview question by Low Level Learning

📹 Starred The PS5 Jailbreak is here - and its looking good! by Modern Vintage Gamer

📹 Starred Who is Pedro? - Inkscape Developer Update, 27th Jan 2024 by Martin Owens

📹 Starred The Secret to Good Popcorn by MeatCanyon

📹 Starred Blackmail Batman? Good Luck! The Dark Knight (2008). #MorganFreeman #movieclips by HyperDrive

📹 Starred I Made Minesweeper with just Redstone! by mattbatwings

📹 Starred What happened to Portal 64? by James Lambert

📹 Starred I turned one of my CVS receipts into a 50 foot long rug by Unnecessary Inventions

Maybe im in a nostalgia train, but i love the idea that a group of fans are trying to recreate and let you experience how things worked in the past.

On the fringes of the internet, where things are small and specialized (even when they’re grim or shocking), there’s something far more captivating than the sanitized, controlled environments we’ve established on the modern web. And it is still very much out there, and I believe it is growing.

From Reversing the boring web by The History of the Web

JavaScript in the address bar, as a protocol for a URL, was possible virtually from day one of the language, effectively creating JavaScript URLs.

[…] And pretty early on, people realized that these JavaScript URLs were also bookmarkable, just like any other URL.

And, crucially, easily shareable as links.

From Wait, what’s a bookmarklet? by The History of the Web

A little history of bookmarklets, something that i really like and even shared in my posts