Repetition is a form of change
youngjo's daily coffee archive
Welcome to my collection of cones that have found themselves in peculiar circumstances.
A digital collection of nice rocks.
Welcome to my photography journal of bread found discarded in public.
Snapshots throughout the seasons.
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A computer is a means to an end. The person you're helping probably cares mostly about the end. This is reasonable.
Whenever they start to blame themselves, respond by blaming the computer. Then keep on blaming the computer, no matter how many times it takes, in a calm, authoritative tone of voice. If you need to show off, show off your ability to criticize bad design. When they get nailed by a false assumption about the computer's behavior, tell them their assumption was reasonable. Tell *yourself* that it was reasonable.
A rant approximating the content of this document was delivered to an audience of new media artists and activists by James Wallbank, Coordinator of Redundant Technology Initiative, at The Next 5 Minutes conference in Amsterdam, March 1999.
"Lowtech" means technology that is cheap or free. Technology moves on so fast that right now we can recover low-end Pentiums and fast Macintoshes from the trash. Lowtech upgrades every year. But we don't have to pay for it.
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
With the disappearance of the computer, something else is silently becoming invisible as well — the User.
There is nothing one user can do, that another can’t given enough time and respect.
Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.
I suspect this is because the joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it. When you go out for a walk it isn’t just (or even primarily) for the pleasure of reaching a destination, but for the process of doing the walking. For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.
until next time
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themes of the week
sound
iframes
chaos
new tab → lambchapel.neocities.org/weirdweb/2025/scramble/
new tab → onlineomnichord.com
new tab → dood.al/pinktrombone/
new tab → www.beepbox.co
new tab → teropa.info/harmonics-explorer/
new tab → xixxii.neocities.org/projects/weirdweboctober24/15-audio
new tab → myboringlife.online/wwo2025/remix/
let me to rock 🐄🐓🐒🐑🦉🐘
byeeeeee
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my enthusiasm for the web has been reignited by the return of my favorite online event, weird web october!
A challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day
you can find all of my weirdwebpages on my site, and you can follow everyone's pages with this handy RSS feed (powered by the octothorpe protocol, which recently celebrated its first stable release)
last year, we collectively made ~260 fun little webpages for you to visit. this year, I hope you make a fun little webpage, especially if you've never tried it before
as I prepare for october, I'm thinking about the tools and toys and resources that inspire me to create on/with/for the web. here are a few that I've been into lately:
interactive, collaborative html elements with a single attribute
This is a demo of speak, a small library for making text appear as if spoken.
Javascript library for hiding cryptographic items across your website!
Broider is a fun tool for designing border decorations!
An interactive, in-browser exploration of image dithering and color quantization algorithms
Make repeating image patterns easily by viewing the tiled result as you crop, so you can spot where to adjust the dimensions.
welcome to the world of bitsy!
wareware is our block-based 3D game toolkit. build your dream game and finally get on with your life━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ
A multimedia sketchbook
easy to use drag and drop dollmaker
you are remixing a flickguy in an editor that is cloned from the original and may be out of date
A list of small, free, or experimental tools towards joyful digital creation.
Welcome to the 32-Bit Cafe Resources list! This list is to help guide and help those who are in every stage of their web-building journey on the personal web. This list is not meant to overwhelm you, but rather give you options and find tools, graphics, utilities, codes, and everything in between to help get you creating more on the independent web. Search on this page with Ctrl+F to find what you’re looking for. We try to focus our findings on free or low-cost, open-source, independent servi...
squarespace ads will try to convince you that it's very complicated and expensive to make a website, but don't let them fool you. writing HTML is more straightforward than it seems, and there are lots of good options for free web hosting. start with simple pages! if you're new to this, here's a solid guide:
Build an extremely simple webpage from scratch using Notepad and put it on the web with Neocities.
remember to make a silly one, okay?
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In Wednesday’s post, I wrote that I enjoy learning about geometry on Wikipedia, and about a very nice shape that I found there, the rhombic dodecahedron. Another thing I enjoy doing from time to time is hunting for the most messed-up, the most wicked, the most cursed shapes possible. So let’s explore some of the worst shapes I’ve found together.
via @serval.coffee via world wide web
Catenoid
via bugman123.com
There is more than one way to dice an onion…
via in dark trees
It is not hard to cut a bagel into two equal halves which are linked like two links of a chain.
Hello if you are reading this you may have said something like “What is a Net Art?”, “I don’t know much about this…” or “I remember making websites in the 90s haha”.
Writing HTML in a park and refocusing on the things that bring us joy.
I find zines to be a fulfilling and creative way to learn more about the world around me - in ways that feel stupid and silly yet meaningful. Here is me documenting the zines I make. They are about anything I find interesting or hope to explore more! PLEASE let me know if you want a physical copy of any of these zines, I would be happy to send you one along with a nice letter. And... I’m not kidding about the dessert.
By Connie Liu - This is a version one, fully interactive version coming soon~
Your first project✎
linking to a link dump tool from my link dump blog 🔗
Rated ”#1 Farming Joint” According to the Rabbits in this game.
Play in your browser
Queer Games Bundle 2025 (with $10+ option!): 616 items for $60.00
give queer gamedevs your coins!
Anthony Waddle’s unconventional approach resulted in a stunningly practical solution to fight a deadly fungal infection.
frog in hole = glom from kirby?
A couple months ago, a new scientific paper shared evidence that bluebottles (widely known as Portuguese Man O’ Wars) are four different species rather than one global species. About 4,000 images from iNaturalist observations supported this research. We got in touch with Thomas Mesaglio (@thebeachcomber) and Samuel Church (@shchurch) to hear more about this story of how community-sourced data informs research — and how the research can then spark new projects for the community. Physalia physalis by @rileyleff Bluebottles — also often called Portuguese Man o’ Wars (Physalia physalis) — are remarkable creatures. Especially cool: each bluebottle isn’t a single organism, but instead colonies of teeny tiny animals called zooids, specialized to function and live together in this larger form. Bluebottle zooids hang down from a gas-filled chamber (called a pneumatophore) that has a sail-like structure on it. Depending on where the zooids hang and which way the sail faces, the wind can pro…
more cnidarians:
A global map of ‘locals’ and ‘tourists’ on iNaturalist based on observation history in the vicinity of each observation.
let me show you my collection of neat sticks and rocks and internet links
link dumps! hopefully!
hyperlinks forever
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The fallen leaves, small twigs, seeds, and other woody debris that accumulate on the ground are a natural part of our forests and make up what is called leaf litter. This layer of litter provides nesting material for birds and squirrels, hiding places for small woodland mice and salamanders, and protected spots for seeds to escape notice by hungry birds. It also enriches the soil and keeps it moist so new plant seedlings can grow.
hello and welcome to my new little linklog. I'm calling it leaf litter because I like a metaphor that says it's all fine and good to leave a big mess on the ground. my plan is to collect interesting links throughout the week, then hit publish without fussing too much with organization and annotation. just a big pile of links for you (and future me) to make into shelter or nutrients or some other thing not covered by this silly metaphor.
the current theme (icon/background/palette) are from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, via The Public Domain Review.
all of my birder friends are on eBird, a site where you can create checklists to keep track of all of the birds you've seen. lately I've been seeking out alternatives to the checklist system: handcrafted logs where each avian encounter feels more personal.
i’m no professional birder but i do like to stop and watch the birds i come across every day. usually on my walk to the train station and such. you may read a little bit about my experiences with each flying guy, if you wish.
- Geese /Gäss All of them.
Great Knot
This is a page dedicated to birds I’ve seen and photographed. Home of my crustiest JPEGs. Enjoy!
A layout by Almost Sweet.
All photos taken by me. Let me know if I’ve ID’d something wrong!
just birds this week! see ya next time
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