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Connor Talbot's Tiny Machines

connortalbot.dev ↗ · Developer Corner · score 82.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An electrical and software engineer's portfolio of compact, deterministic experiments, including a 14-byte neural network and a multiplayer game engine built for 2,048 concurrent agents.

Why it surfaced

The page pairs unusually compressed engineering projects with concrete results: Minimio reportedly solves 96.5% of unseen mazes, while Snibble supports non-video game replays. Its achievement list, including recognition from MIT Technology Review and a browser extension with 330,000-plus active users in one month, gives the eccentric projects credible human context.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.