Finds
Things we found online that are worth knowing about. Not reviews. Not tutorials. More like: here's what this is, why it exists, and why it matters. Each find gets a verdict.
Personal sites are having a quiet resurgence. The tools got better, the platforms got worse, and some people noticed.
May 2026The demo is impressive. The output is a polished disaster. A case study in what happens when confidence exceeds capability.
April 2026Flash died. The community didn't. There's a whole ecosystem of tools, emulators, and very dedicated people keeping it alive.
April 2026A small genre of sites making a point out of staying weird. No downloads, no accounts, no dark patterns.
April 2026RSS was declared dead in 2013. It ignored the announcement. A look at who kept using it, why they were right, and the tools that made it good again.
March 2026Point your phone at a rough wireframe. Get working HTML. The output is actually good enough to show a client.
May 2026A growing community maintaining detailed databases of their human relationships. More interesting than it sounds.
February 2026The best map of music genres on the internet, and the small ecosystem of similar tools that have grown up around it.
February 2026A curated archive of manipulative UI, presented with the detachment of a natural history exhibit.
January 2026Color theory taught the way you'd learn to ride a bike — by doing it wrong until you don't.
January 2026Spent a decade running usability studies before realizing the most interesting thing about the internet wasn't how people used it but what they built. Now covers design, culture, and the parts of the web that resist being productized.
Reads too many newsletters and finally made one worth reading. Covers AI tools, infrastructure, and internet subcultures — particularly the ones that have figured out something the mainstream hasn't caught up to yet.