Recent Tabs

Predicting what is happening at the Pentagon by analysing the busyness of pizza places around the area. This came to prominence again with US and Israel missile strikes on Iran.
https://www.pizzint.watch/

Stop bottom trawling - Jono Ridler is swimming the length of the North Island to raise awareness about bottom trawling.
https://liveocean.org/swim4theocean/

This reminds me of Karel Sabbe and his fastest known time for the Te Araroa trail, the length of New Zealand. I like a map with photo overlays.
https://live.adventuretracking.be/te-araroa
https://karelsabbe.com/2024/11/14/te-araroa/
https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/karel-sabbe-te-araroa-2025-02-16

This is a truly deep dive into something I’m aware of but haven’t tried to make myself, and now I feel like I could never do it justice
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

This is weird and cool
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

Do not steal
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

This is a pair of really good analyses, the latest one in response to the National government’s proposed LNG facility. 10% of roofs of businesses would cost about the same amount and provide far larger benefits for many more years (and not be subject to oil supply shocks, see first link!)
https://bisley.substack.com/p/securing-energy-supply-with-school
https://bisley.substack.com/p/abundant-energy-for-business#_

It seems that the National government considered some help with installing solar, but, rejected that.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588445/government-kicked-the-tyres-on-solar-subsidies-but-went-with-minor-tweaks-instead

Secure Snake Home is an important protocol for playing snake remotely with many other people
https://snake.eieio.games

This site has some other fun things and deep dives into making things for the internet.

The name says it all
https://eieio.games/really-easy-tetris/

One Million Checkboxes has its own Wikipedia page, and a story about what some people did with the site, and goes into the technical details of handling a viral website.
https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-checkboxes/

Writing down every UUID has some excellent humour
“I’ve been struggling to remember all of the UUIDs”
“I can quickly find my favorite UUIDs and star them or browse them all to find one that’s just right”
“We all know the good UUIDs are in the middle!”
“After all, it’d be disappointing if you scrolled through every UUID and realized that you hadn’t seen one.”
https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/

One Million Chessboards is a follow up to One Million Checkboxes
https://eieio.games/blog/a-million-realtime-chess-boards-in-a-single-process/

Finally, Third Places! This is some really interesting analysis, a little disheartening, but with some good suggestions at the end. (Link to my own post)
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lost-14000-third-places-they