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2025

August

Animal Crossing Letter Generator

Animal Crossing Letter Generator acmail.idreesinc.com

WearMouse - This project [...] implements a simple air mouse and cursor keys emulation on a Wear OS device.

GitHub - ginkage/wearmouse: Wear OS Air Mouse Wear OS Air Mouse. Contribute to ginkage/wearmouse development by creating an account on GitHub. github.com

WearMouse — Wear OS Air Mouse - Apps on Google Play Wearable Bluetooth Input Device play.google.com

A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line 🚃

Yamanotes Yamanotes (/jamanoʊts/) is a web-based music box for playing the departure melodies of each station on the JR Yamanote Line/山手線! yamanot.es

Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface | Are.na Editorial An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface. www.are.na

How to draw a Space Invader

How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color. muffinman.io

Daijishō is an Android launcher that lets you manage your retro games libraries.

Daijishō - Apps on Google Play Daijishō manages retro games library. play.google.com

GitHub - TapiocaFox/Daijishou: Daijishō is a retro launcher that let you manage your retro games libraries. This repo is for assets and served as a main page. Daijishō is a retro launcher that let you manage your retro games libraries. This repo is for assets and served as a main page. - TapiocaFox/Daijishou github.com

PixiEditor is an open-source Universal 2D Graphics Editor

PixiEditor PixiEditor is an open-source Universal 2D Graphics Editor. pixieditor.net

The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web - Maxime Heckel's Blog A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work. blog.maximeheckel.com

Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.

GitHub - danterolle/tilf Contribute to danterolle/tilf development by creating an account on GitHub. github.com

Creating the longest possible Ski Jump in The Games: Winter Challenge An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge mrwint.github.io

Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole | Bytemash A deep dive into local-first architecture, triggered by wondering why Linear feels so fast. Looking at the technical implementation, exploring tools like Jazz and Electric SQL, and explaining why my next app might not need API endpoints. bytemash.net

July

Some great points! I'd also add the suggestion of reading: Staff Engineer (Will Larson), The Staff Engineer's Path (Tanya Reilly) and The Manager's Path (Camille Fournier)

And also add that it's okay to decide to not be a manager after trying it out for a bit 💪

So You're A Manager Now. Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on. scottkosman.com

Optician Sans – Free font based on historical optotypes Optician Sans is a free font based on the historical Snellen and Sloan eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide for centuries. optician-sans.com

The HTML Hobbyist Learning HTML to build your website, fanzine, or personal site. www.htmlhobbyist.com

copyparty: turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser

GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty github.com

Reading QR codes without a computer! qr.blinry.org

Ship of Harkinian Ship of Harkinian www.shipofharkinian.com

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work abc.decontextualize.com

Are We Trek Yet? A comprehensive guide to the tech that Star Trek suggested and that builders are making a reality. arewetrekyet.com

Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed For an unlicensed game accessory, the Game Genie sure casts a long shadow. It reshaped the games we already owned—and had a profound effect on copyright law. tedium.co

There oughta be a bullet time video booth. For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth. - With an array of DSLRs to create a bullet time effect. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Since this is a very visual project, you should really watch the video. This blog post contains the same info with more details, but those details are probably only relevant if you really want to recreate this project, which is not an easy thing to do. there.oughta.be

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut? dynomight.net

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today 40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me. blog.decryption.net.au

LisaGUI A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface alpha.lisagui.com