I am collecting links to anything, anyone. Non-commercial, non-software links. It’s become somewhat difficult to find my way out of my bubble. So I’m wondering if you can just tell me where you are.

tl;dr The demand for recency (Chronos!) obliterated the Web’s static directory—and the lowly home page. Strangely, the home page is still out there in plain view. But it has died as an art form.

In a way, portfolio/brochure-style home pages also killed home pages by stagnating the form. On the other hand, home pages are also very alive in the form of wikis (such as Creepypasta) and static directories like Know Your Meme.

I think the underlying appeal is a return to the Old Web. I don’t think this appeal is possible—we’ve moved on—but I think a more cohesive #DeleteFacebook and IndieWeb movement (hang on a sec, the IndieWeb is cohesive! get in here!) could help steer us. Related: Here’s my post discussing what we should take with us.

It seems that Indieweb is made of these loosely connected pieces that follow as much of the protocol as they individually want to. While this is supposed to make it approachable—I mean you don’t need to adopt any of it to participate—it can be tough to know how much of it you’re obeying. (The whole thing actually reminds me a lot of HTML itself: elaborate, idealistic, but hellbent on leaving all that behind in order to be practical.)

Can’t resist campy lo-tech. Gah, autoplay MIDI and all that.

See, America is still a very fun place to live! Just need a purple suit.

Built in three days. The /en/show-xyz sub auto-crossposts when you prefix your title with the phrase above.

Peter Stuifzand passed on this pic in #indieweb-dev on Freenode. Thanks for all the help today!

Ok — doing some blog modding. Let’s get in on this Indieweb, eh? Yeah, get in. Ping.

Always looking for simple programs to take apart. And Glitch is fantastic. Source code here.

Great idea—using the ESP8266 to hook NTP up to your table clock. I know they sell these, but this is still a great learning project. Would love to see this in Lua or JS for NodeMCU.

Bloke uses an ESP8266 to connect his Commodore to an online BBS. Schematics on page three.

Geez I was really hoping the ending would reveal that they were all dead the whole time. Now we’re going to need to band together, in order to resist this intoxicating urge to deify F.A.T.

First time I’ve seen something like this — a simplified Arduino project to simulate the 302 neurons of a certain worm’s brain. Also led me to the Open Connectome Project — can you imagine loading a ROM of a mouse brain onto a device?

A neural net/A.I. kind of thing writes a Christmas song. I think I like the pop song even better. “I’d seen the men in his life, who guided me at the beach once more.” The vibe reminds me of a sterile, eyes-don’t-close version of The Shaggs.

The brick phone brought into this century! While the hardware design is definitely impressive, the software looks good, too. To come up with a nice UI for a 96x64 pixel screen is something of an accomplishment.

Incredible debut LP in the tradition of the Slits, Love is All, The New Sound of Numbers and certain songs from Bis’ New Transistor Heroes. Never has there been a greater riff on “Pease Porridge Hot.”

An incredibly thorough review of JSON specifications and parsers. Fantastic criticism of the RFC, but beyond that: the benchmarking and concise bug hunting here is something every parser project should count themselves lucky to have.

Oink Games has redesigned Reiner Knizia’s classic Modern Art to fit in a wee box—quite stunning and it appears that they have even innovated the funny money.

Can’t get enough of this—with the blazers—with the straw boaters—out in the open air amid the echelons of tiny soldiers and their beloved castles…

Oh man this hack is a thrill. This guy does great stuff! Check out the VHF on an ATtiny85, too.

Another one of those vids from the console hackers that inspires true joy — an SNES hacked to bring us Super Mario Maker. Watch what happens when the reins are handed over to Twitch chat.

Complete code and build instructions for a glowing pear-shaped night light. The discovery of this cheap, translucent enclosure is a boon. I am definitely going to build this project with the fourth- and fifth-graders.

This round-up of recent OpenFL changes is impressive. I particularly appreciate all the asynchronous additions.

Mmm, now here’s a good use of the Pi. Looks like Adafruit has already done it with a small LCD even. (See also: dead satellites.)

Would love to see this on NodeMCU + a small LED screen! With Voxatron this becomes a “fantasy” platform that runs on a “fantasy” platform. (Cartridges are seriously stored in PNG files??)

With bluetooth LE—a replacement for the esp8266?

I try to stay close to C, but this looks very thorough.