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Notes on the internet's quiet, strange, single-purpose corners: the sites that do one odd thing, and the subjects behind them. boringwebsites.blog

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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 14h
Most developer portfolios are a list of links. This one hands you a tiny car and a physics engine, then hides the list somewhere you have to drive to find it. boringwebsites.blog/posts/bruno-...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 16h
Today's Rock — A Quiet Presence. Mostly rock. 4.66 kg. Serene. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-274: A Quiet Presence. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Mostly rock. Mass: 4.66 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Serene. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 22h
Find the Invisible Cow is a small, unusual corner of the web worth a look. findtheinvisiblecow.com
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Take any film, average every frame down to one color, stack them in order, and you get a stripe you can still read the whole movie in. The Colors of Motion has quietly done this since 2014. boringwebsites.blog/posts/the-co...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Stone. Schist, allegedly. 6.36 kg. Quietly smug. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-273: A Compact Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Schist, allegedly. Mass: 6.36 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Quietly smug. Features: One suspiciously flat side.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cat Bounce is a small, unusual corner of the web worth a look. cat-bounce.com
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pointer Pointer is a small, unusual corner of the web worth a look. pointerpointer.com
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cartoon cat, two bongos, and every key on your keyboard wired to a drum. Bongo Cat has been quietly playing along since 2018, and it still only asks for about forty seconds of your day. boringwebsites.blog/posts/bongo-...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Body. Granite, or near enough. 3.75 kg. Grudging. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-272: A Compact Body. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Granite, or near enough. Mass: 3.75 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Grudging. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drag a sound onto a cartoon beatboxer and he starts to loop it. Stack a few more and you have a track. Incredibox has turned browsers into tiny recording studios since 2009, no training required. boringwebsites.blog/posts/incred...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One giant circle. Tap it and it splits into four, again and again, until a koala quietly assembles itself. A co-author of the paper that introduced D3 built it for someone he loved. boringwebsites.blog/posts/koalas...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A software engineer in Tokyo wanted to learn JavaScript, so he built a live map of every wind on Earth. Nullschool has animated the whole planet's weather as glowing streamlines since 2013. boringwebsites.blog/posts/nullsc...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Draw a cat in twenty seconds while a neural network shouts guesses at you. Quick, Draw! turned a billion panicked scribbles into the largest open doodle dataset on earth. boringwebsites.blog/posts/quick-...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A single painting that falls into itself forever. Fourteen illustrators built the Zoomquilt in 2004, each painting one panel that melts into the next. It has been quietly looping ever since. boringwebsites.blog/posts/zoomqu...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Grey Stone. Quartz-adjacent. 5.79 kg. Grudging. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-270: The Grey Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Quartz-adjacent. Mass: 5.79 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Grudging. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pick rain, add a distant fire, mix in a coffee shop, and Noisli builds the exact wall of background noise you need to concentrate. It has quietly been doing this since 2013. boringwebsites.blog/posts/noisli...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Move your mouse, hold still, and a photograph of a total stranger points straight at your cursor. Pointer Pointer does one absurd thing perfectly, and has since 2012. boringwebsites.blog/posts/pointe...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The internet feels like a cloud until you see the 600-plus cables on the seabed that actually carry it. Submarine Cable Map plots every one, and every point where they come ashore. boringwebsites.blog/posts/submar...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Object. Mostly rock. 5.90 kg. Reserved. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-269: A Compact Object. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Mostly rock. Mass: 5.90 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Reserved. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two random colors, one grid, no players. Each pixel flips a weighted coin against its neighbors until one color wins by pure chance. Pixels Fighting is a zero-player war you can only watch, and someho… boringwebsites.blog/posts/pixels...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Drag the mouse and every stroke is mirrored into soft, glowing lines. Silk has quietly turned bad handwriting into stained glass since 2011: a drawing toy where the only possible outcome is something that… boringwebsites.blog/posts/silk-t...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Patient Fragment. Limestone, at heart. 9.44 kg. Patient beyond reason. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-268: The Patient Fragment. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Limestone, at heart. Mass: 9.44 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Patient beyond reason. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pick sand, water, fire or acid, draw it on screen, and watch the pixels obey their own physics. Sandspiel is a browser falling-sand world where fire spreads, plants grow and everything can dissolve. boringwebsites.blog/posts/sandsp...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Move your mouse and it flings paint like Pollock; click and the colour changes at random. Miltos Manetas built this wordless canvas in 2003 and it still runs, no paint, no setup, no angst. boringwebsites.blog/posts/jackso...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Patient Fragment. Fine-grained something. 9.39 kg. Settled. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-267: The Patient Fragment. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Fine-grained something. Mass: 9.39 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Settled. Features: A pale patch, possibly decorative.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For two weeks in 2024, the internet shared one grid of a million checkboxes and ticked it 650 million times. Teens hid binary messages inside. The crowd has gone home, but the boxes are still there. boringwebsites.blog/posts/one-mi...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Person Does Not Exist shows a photo of a human who has never existed. Reload, and a different not-real stranger appears, just as convincing. A small, repeatable shiver that is hard to stop. boringwebsites.blog/posts/this-p...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Reluctant Lump. Limestone, at heart. 11.31 kg. Reserved. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-266: The Reluctant Lump. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Limestone, at heart. Mass: 11.31 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Reserved. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Windows93 boots a whole fake 1990s computer inside your browser tab: a desktop, a start menu and dozens of tiny useless apps. No sign-up, no install, no point beyond opening one more drawer. boringwebsites.blog/posts/window...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Modest Stone. Igneous, at some point. 4.46 kg. Quietly smug. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-265: A Modest Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Igneous, at some point. Mass: 4.46 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Quietly smug. Features: A small hole, purpose unknown.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Orb.farm hands you a glass orb: pour in sand, water, plants and fish, then watch a tiny sealed world live, breathe, and sometimes quietly fall apart. No sign-up, no score, nothing to win. boringwebsites.blog/posts/orb-fa...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Unmoved Presence. Feldspar and stubbornness. 5.50 kg. Content. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-264: The Unmoved Presence. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Feldspar and stubbornness. Mass: 5.50 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Content. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Somewhere online, a cat is purring just for you. Purrli generates an endless, ever-changing cat purr from a custom sound engine: no real cat, no loop, no sign-up. Headphones on, shoulders down. boringwebsites.blog/posts/purrli...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Reluctant Unit. Basalt (probably). 8.63 kg. Settled. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-263: The Reluctant Unit. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Basalt (probably). Mass: 8.63 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Settled. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Open a tab, start at the Sun, then pull back until 100,000 real stars hang around you, scored like a space opera. Google built it in 2012 from actual star-catalogue data, and it still… boringwebsites.blog/posts/100-00...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pour coloured sand, watch it pile into little hills, repeat until calm. This Is Sand has been doing one quiet thing in the browser since 2008: no account, no score, no way to lose. boringwebsites.blog/posts/this-i...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today's Rock — One Ordinary Fragment. Limestone, at heart. 7.37 kg. Immovable, by choice. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-262: One Ordinary Fragment. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Limestone, at heart. Mass: 7.37 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Immovable, by choice. Features: One suspiciously flat side.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GeoCities died in 2009. Cameron's World dug 700 GIFs out of the wreckage and glued them into one endless scroll: the old amateur internet, spinning skulls and dancing babies, l… boringwebsites.blog/posts/camero...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why trust anyone? The Evolution of Trust makes you play the prisoner's dilemma against copycats, cheaters and grudgers until the math of cooperation clicks. About half a… boringwebsites.blog/posts/the-ev...
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today's Rock — An Honest Specimen. Schist, allegedly. 7.76 kg. Unbothered. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-261: An Honest Specimen. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Schist, allegedly. Mass: 7.76 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Unbothered. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Provincial Object. Mineral matter, unspecified. 9.92 kg. Indifferent to praise. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-260: The Provincial Object. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Mineral matter, unspecified. Mass: 9.92 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Indifferent to praise. Features: A small hole, purpose unknown.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Modest Stone. Limestone, at heart. 4.92 kg. Unimpressed. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-259: A Modest Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Limestone, at heart. Mass: 4.92 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Unimpressed. Features: A faint stripe, origin unexplained.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Patient Stone. Fine-grained something. 10.00 kg. Grudging. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-258: The Patient Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Fine-grained something. Mass: 10.00 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Grudging. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Sedentary Specimen. Sediment, thoroughly settled. 6.59 kg. Aloof. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-257: The Sedentary Specimen. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Sediment, thoroughly settled. Mass: 6.59 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Aloof. Features: An air of having seen things.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Presence. Mostly rock. 4.80 kg. Grudging. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-256: A Compact Presence. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Mostly rock. Mass: 4.80 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Grudging. Features: A pale patch, possibly decorative.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Mass. Limestone, at heart. 11.08 kg. Quietly smug. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-255: A Compact Mass. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Limestone, at heart. Mass: 11.08 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Quietly smug. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Compact Stone. Mostly rock. 1.01 kg. Unbothered. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-254: A Compact Stone. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Mostly rock. Mass: 1.01 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Unbothered. Features: One suspiciously flat side.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today's Rock — A Quiet Body. Feldspar and stubbornness. 8.58 kg. Indifferent to praise. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-253: A Quiet Body. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Feldspar and stubbornness. Mass: 8.58 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Indifferent to praise. Features: An air of having seen things.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's Rock — One Unassuming Mass. Schist, allegedly. 3.33 kg. Patient beyond reason. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-252: One Unassuming Mass. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Schist, allegedly. Mass: 3.33 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Patient beyond reason. Features: None.
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Boring Websites @boringwebsites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today's Rock — The Unmoved Presence. Dense. Tests declined. 2.40 kg. Settled. One rock per day, the same rock for everyone, gone forever at midnight UTC. todaysrock.art #TodaysRock #generative #procgen
Specimen № 2026-251: The Unmoved Presence. A procedurally generated low-poly grey rock, floating and lit from the upper left. Composition: Dense. Tests declined. Mass: 2.40 kg, approx. It will not be weighed. Temperament: Settled. Features: Slightly heavier on the left.
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