A node-based visual patch called 'Frida Blind Cats' turns cubes into something stranger than the name suggests — built entirely without writing code.

DVD menus had to juggle three different aspect ratios just to display correctly — a deep dive into the forgotten design puzzle behind that 'Play' button.

A 20-year-old paper shows how to grow a leaf's veins and outline simultaneously, as if the plant were solving a space-filling puzzle in real time.

A 4-kilobyte program renders a painterly portrait using just 450 Gaussian splats — no textures, no images, pure procedural code.

The animator who coded the Death Star briefing scene in the original Star Wars is turning his 1985 film into a digital edition, 50 years into a four-film career.

Someone recompiled 1990s demoscene DOS code, cycle-by-cycle, into WebAssembly so Second Reality runs in your browser exactly as it did in 1993.

What do you knock on for luck when there's no wood in sight? (unverified)

A daily coding ritual turned São Paulo's elevation data into generative terrain art using nothing but numpy and rasterio.

Four drum machines with no shared clock listen to each other and find their own groove — knock one off beat and watch it recover.

A Blender tutorial promises cel-shading that keeps your base colors intact no matter how harsh the lighting. (unverified)

A Godot water shader got a visible glow-up after public feedback — but this link is mostly a course bundle sales page.

Minesweeper, but rebuilt like a $200 million AAA game complete with cinematic flourishes.

Someone turned all of Wikipedia's art history into a walkable 3D museum you can wander through in your browser.

A library of over 150 animated ASCII scenes — from Chladni plates to Doom fire — ready to drop into any webpage.

A digital art pioneer who started experimenting with computers and perception in the 1950s is getting a museum show — and his questions feel newly urgent.

A 3D-printed aluminium curtain is frozen mid-swing at one exact frame, forming a museum doorway that looks caught between open and shut.

The same musical interval gets wildly different frequency resolution in a standard FFT depending on register — here's the transform that fixes it.

Building ocean waves from scratch in Godot, then using a determinant from calculus to generate the foam where waves break.

WebGPU is finally getting bindless textures — the feature native graphics APIs have had for years — and you can try it in your browser today.

Type in any 32-bit number and watch an entire banyan tree regrow from that exact seed, prop-roots and all.

Style a 3D scene with actual CSS selectors and it compiles straight into one raymarching GPU shader — no meshes involved.

Browsers can now do most of what your JS library does — so why does everyone still reach for the library?

He spent a weekend and a Cursor subscription building his own knockoff of Grok Bot, and wrote down the recipe.

Step up to this mirror and an AI face reads your expression, then hands you back a portrait of a stranger version of you.

A tiny $10 chip grows a fake plant on your desk that actually knows what the weather is doing outside.

A solo developer got tired of recompiling GLSL by hand, so she built a slider-based app that exports working shader code.

VRChat creators are entering a shader-only art show where light, color, and motion are the whole point.

Teenage disk pirates turned their copy-protection cracks into an art form that's still throwing parties 40 years later.

Someone is auctioning an actual internet packet that was literally flown by pigeon, per a joke RFC from 1990.

One artist has coded a new visual sketch every single day since 2018 — his latest riffs on traditional Japanese stitch patterns.

A dreamlike adventure game about rebuilding a shattered world just got a weekend's worth of fresh water shaders.

Every two hours, a server in Helsinki fuses ten strangers' nature photos into one image, pixel by sharpest pixel.

Twelve generative clocks reinvent how we tell time, now hanging in a Paris gallery through November.

A 1981 math paper on aperiodic rhombus grids becomes a full R tutorial on building your own tiling generator from scratch.

A hacker forged a photo's tamper-proof metadata to show winning lottery numbers hours before they were drawn.

A brand-new BASIC interpreter runs directly on bare-metal UEFI firmware — no operating system required — with 64-bit JIT compilation.

Sling a tiny spaceship through gravity wells to punch holes across space in this playable browser puzzle.

Critical AI ethics discourse on gambling targeting

Deep WebGPU/graphics tooling exploration, technical

Playful WebGPU ML visualization, hacker spirit

Students reverse-engineered France's blinking green pharmacy crosses and hacked one into playing low-res video, Tetris, and Game of Life.

An applied mathematician says AI won't kill math jobs any more than ENIAC did — the field just moves up a level, again.