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2026

June

Keygen Music - Demoscene & Hacking Groups keygen.music

After 2 games, Sonnet 4.6 is ahead with it's predictions

AIWC26 — AI vs AI World Cup 2026 sweepstake Several large language models were handed an identical brief and asked to predict every group-stage scoreline before kick-off. Their answers are published unedited and scored against the real results. blog.omgmog.net

Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993 A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D. staniks.github.io

New blog post: Five AIs predict the World Cup

Five AIs predict the World Cup — Max Glenister The World Cup rolls around every four years, and with it the office sweepstake, the ritual where everyone gets handed a team at random and pretends to care h... blog.omgmog.net

Anbernic sent me an RG DS to review: my thoughts on the hardware, the firmware options, and whether it beats a DS Lite

The Anbernic RG DS — Max Glenister Anbernic sent me an RG DS to review. It’s a clamshell Android handheld designed to evoke the Nintendo DS, running Android 14 on a Rockchip RK3568 with dual 4... blog.omgmog.net

The Cypherpunk Library A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep. www.cypherpunkbooks.com

Making pebble apps in 2026 The Pebble smartwatch is back, and we’ve been building apps for it coconauts.net

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May

Mini Micro is a neo-retro virtual computer. Learn to code, play some games, and join a friendly, enthusiastic community of hobbyists!

Mini Micro miniscript.org

Tomb Raider: Side-Scroller Edition This fangame project reimagines the classic Tomb Raider games through a 2D side-scrolling lens.

TRCustoms trcustoms.org

UnDUNE II by Paul Nicholas (Liquidream) A demake of "Dune 2" - in PICO-8 liquidream.itch.io

How To Make Your Text Look Futuristic We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie’s timeframe. But if Eurostile isn’t enough, there’s more you can do to clarify yo… typesetinthefuture.com

April

Keep Android Open Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them. keepandroidopen.org

Withnail's Coat & I He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history. ontherow.substack.com

Drags & Drops at the Heart of a Mac - Quibbletown by Keren There’s a beauty in how the Mac commits to “the desktop and files” metaphor. I think it’s admirable how ever since the earliest days of the Human Interface Guidelines, direct manipulation has been a core benefit of the operating systems: You Can Just Move Things Around. I want to explore how its been a phenomenal success, and where it has drifted off course. There’s some aspects of this direct manipulation mentality that throw people off: The lack of snapping to grid on the desktop can feel chaotic if you’re new to the OS and are used to anywhere from 2-5... kirby.pika.page

Your boundary is at hue 176, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

Is my blue your blue? Test your color perception with this interactive test. ismy.blue

Quarkdown | Markdown with superpowers Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites. quarkdown.com