A compilation of silly, nerdy stuff I’m memorializing. It’s basically my EntertainingSpace, but for geeks.
Pranks/Optics
fakeupdate.net – Fake computer updating screens, great for pranks.
GEEKTyper.com and Hacker Typer – Hack the mainframe, compile sub-processor nodes, then do a fast tango cycle on the algorithmic dereliction platitudes.
Vintage UX
ASCII Art Archive – A 256-character paintbrush.
iPod.js – An online iPod.
The Hacker Classics – Hacker News, the old-timey version.
Winamp Skin Museum – For when everyone actually owned their music.
WINDOWS93 – Faithfully almost recreating a simpler, geekier time.
Windows 96 – Faithfully recreating a UX experience from a simpler time.
Infinite Mac – macOS from a simpler time.
WinXP – Windows XP in JavaScript’s React platform.
TEXTFILES or UTZOO Groups – Bringing back the internet of 1988.
UX Crimes
ClickClickClick – Informing you about everything you’re doing.
Elevator.js – Return to the top, the old-fashioned way.
Fibery Anxiety – The way the dev team sees Fibery after the marketing team wanted a 3-pronged Build, Connect, and Freedom landing page.
fontBomb – Destroy the web, stylishly.
gail.com – A website that exists for non-use.
Hex-Words and #HEXWORDS – Meta color codes that sound like actual words.
HTTP Cats – Like HTTP DOGS, but with Cats.
HTTP DOGS – Like HTTP Cats, but with DOGS.
HTTP Status Dogs – Like HTTP DOGS, but with Status Dogs.
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98! – A song to dance to, secretly.
Ok Google Play Music – Someone made an album that got instant market exposure.
Placebo Button – Make everything feel more productive.
User Inyerface – Everything wrong about UX in one website.
Scunthorpe Sans – Making the internet cleaner.
Obsolete “see-through glass” – Because technology needs updating.
Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon – Post-modern coding art.
The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible – Going where UX hasn’t gone much.
Ideal monitor rotation for programmers – Trying to make the monitor show things it didn’t.
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine. – Inverting the experience.
DON’T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE – a juvenile, inane, useless experience.
The Most Annoying Website Ever!! – An irritating website.
Wobbly clock! – A weird clock.
xroach – Roaches that hide. Under everything.
millennials to snake people – Calling Millennials for what they are. A fork of cloud-to-butt.
Data Management Crimes
stacksort – A horrifically inefficient and unreliable sorting algorithm.
Run “tracert bad.horse” in a CLI (reference to Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog).
Programming Wrong
rockstar – Hair metal power ballad programming.
rouille – Rust programming, in French.
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs – Because Perl somehow makes everything valid.
Games Done Wrong
Bennett Foddy – a sadist who hates gamers.
Social Networks Done Wrong
ShlinkedIn.com – to capture LinkedIn culture.
Hardware Made Wrong
Booting from a vinyl record – A victimless crime against removable media.
The Floppotron 3.0 – A victimless crime against music.
Protocols Set Wrong
April Fools’ Day Request for Comments – Engineers’ standards to serve less than one purpose.
The Be Book’s “on” status – Return whether the computer is on, or on fire, and both have many possible uses.
Brilliance with Constraints
Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life – using Conway’s Game of Life to (badly) recreate the Mona Lisa
Fontemon – A game in a font.
The Kilobyte’s Gambit – Win at chess against 1024 bytes of JavaScript
Segmented type appreciation corner – using the limitations of segmented type to create characters
Fishdraw – procedurally generated fish, also Nonflowers.
Emojia – A game made entirely of emoji.
The Commodordion – Literally breathing new life and music into the Commodore 64.
Games Done Right
Do Not Draw A Penis – Machine learning, applied very wrongly.
HATETRIS – Tetris that hates you.
Skynet Simulator – The real way The Terminator should have started.
Games + Legit Skillz
Can’t Unsee – Get nitpicky with UX.
The Bézier Game – Get good at that curvey tool in Photoshop and stuff.
Games with Science
Aaronson Oracle – Try to make completely random decisions.
Neurotic Neurons – How neurons form.
The Evolution of Trust – How trust forms.
Swing Paradox – The physics of swings.
The Fittest 2 – Natural selection with stick figures.
Robotics
Do You Love Me? – Synchronizing motion capture to music, cooler than it sounds.
Almost Tools
Bullshit.js – Leverage your core actionables to actualize best practices.
ButtyStock – free sandwich images
Ever Given Ever Ywhere – Remember the Suez Canal’s blockage? Now you can block anywhere with that same ship!
Gen-a-city – procedurally generated cities.
WebGL Fluid Simulation – For all your browser-based fluid simulation needs.
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow – For all your browser-based traffic simulation needs.
Pointer Pointer – pointing.
RemoteOK’s VS Code – Finding a job while looking like you’re not.
Space Engine – For all your browser-based space-faring needs.
This MP Does Not Exist – making a whole new UK parliamentary cabinet.
Brilliant Creators
aemkei – JavaScript-based visual design.
VOLEwtf – randomness.
Corporate Shenanigans
If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever – How to not be corporate.
Is it Pokèmon or Big Data? – Know your implementations and actualize informal knowledge base understandables.
Microsoft Coffee – April Fools done powerfully.
Things to Say When You’re Losing a Technical Argument – How to sigalert friends and turbidify people.