Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-16
AltBod: a chaos gremlin built on a phone
AltBod is Ian Boddison's eccentric field log for experiments, strange ideas, and small acts of technical theatre.
Why it surfacedThe site documents its own making with unusual specificity: a domain bought amid cancelled trains, a Plesk page replaced over SSH, and a dependency-free page assembled by thumbs. Its mobile-only rule—build it away from home, using only a phone—turns a personal website into a tiny, ongoing piece of performance art.
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The 240-Material Organ
August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.