Two muffins are baking in an oven. The first muffin turns to the second one and says, "Hot enough for you?" The second muffin says, "HOLY SHIT, A TALKING MUFFIN!"

Making Pinball Accessible for Everyone
Here's a nice article on access for the purpose of fun and entertainment.

Bringing Microsoft Internet Explorer’s proprietary “Interpage Transitions” back to Modern Browsers using the View Transition API
Ahahahahahaha

css.earth/
CSS: Extremely good.

Triple-A Minesweeper
TOO REAL

Female AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study finds
Your regular reminder that AI just regurgitates the median, and that sucks.

Sorry, I'm in a meeting.
😈

The people holding up the internet
Open source is better than closed, but man it is not good for financially compensated appropriately.

The Case for Boring Technology
"After enough years around computers, I have become more interested in technology that behaves predictably than technology that looks impressive in a demonstration."

National Stolen Art File
Delivers what it promises.

demoscene-recomp
Man, I love the demoscene.

The web needs interactive lists
As someone who has architected multiple interactive lists, then tried to steward them: Yes, yes we do.

To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.
We're in the part of Technofeudalism where our overlords actively ignore the demands of the serfs.

I paid people to try and follow my README
Back when I was a consultant I use to half-joke that we should offer a service to see if we could stand someone's project up from a cold start, then fix that.

ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
I hope to live long enough to see Stephen Miller brought to justice, should that ever exist again.

Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Real Judgement of Solomon energy coming off of Nomad's solution here.

A few things to know before stealing my 914
"Since you can’t effectively stop the car, use this to your advantage and don’t try. "

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
oh.

Slugs to blame for mystery of faulty traffic lights
They did nothing wrong.

Devouring the church
The past continues to be a foreign country.

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
Funny, that.

Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next
Ahahaha, he did it again!

The mystery of concrete
Someone tracks down the concrete stereo receiver in the movie Heathers. Incredible.

Heart of Bitterness
"To taste something is no straightforward matter, and volumes could be written on how we taste bitterness alone."

So-Called AI and the Dangers of a New Age of “Enclosure”
"While knowledge may appear to be expanding without limit, there is always the paradoxical risk that the very intellectual resources from which new knowledge and creativity emerge are, in fact, becoming increasingly narrow and homogeneous."

A design system is what it does
"What I'm interested in here is what the ergonomics of each system drives you towards: what kinds of experiences you design and what kinds of users you center."

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
Whoa.

The Baffling Intelligence of a Single Cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
"I’d rather try to get a sense of the parts as a living whole or in their individual physical detail. When you do that, it’s amazing what you find."

Low-Contrast Day 2: the one that started it all
I'm looking forward to reading this entire series, and grateful that the author chose to share their experiences like this.

ICE Kills More Americans than Illegal Immigrants
Good on him to use his clout to communicate this message in this way.

I Too Shall Pass
"I am glad this body of mine is imperfect, earthbound, and breakable; I cherish my mind and soul but look forward to relinquishing them; I do not wish to carry this burden of life indefinitely."

Why Every Microwave Has A “Popcorn” Button, But Every Bag Warns You Not To Use It
A real standoff, here.

What Is Lost When Disability Data Vanishes
"The challenges disabled people face do not disappear simply because they are no longer measured."

I went to the ‘existential hope’ gala and left hungry
This is a lot to take in, and the design definitely helps to sell that message.

Xbox Launches New Initiative Inspired By Vibe Coded Nonsense
There is something deeply toxic in the core of Microsoft, and it permeates everything.

Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
The file is the URL. What an incredibly clever idea.

fully functional crab-shaped playstation 1 uses movable claws as the controller
I NEED IT