Small Weird Things — A home for experiments
Hugo Alves’s collection of six small apps, playful experiments, useful tools, and wonderfully unnecessary projects.
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2041
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2042
SPCX: A SpaceX IPO in Search of Reality
A polished trading page claiming that SpaceX's supposed SPCX IPO is live on Nasdaq, with shares rising from $135 to $178.
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2043
The Daily Unremarkable
A micro-newspaper devoted to garden hoses, stubborn dogs, opened salsa jars, and other events that barely qualify as news.
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2044
The Learning Fly asks whether simulated flies actually learn
A curated index of fruit-fly connectome projects, scored by how much biological behavior their models simulate.
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2045
うつわを焼く — A Working Archive of Japanese Ceramics
An open catalog of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean ceramics, organized by object, era, maker, material, and collection.
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2046
Velaris, a language that makes promises in the signature
Velaris is an open-source programming language that puts effects, failure paths, and mathematically verified contracts into function signatures.
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2047
VibeSCAD turns part descriptions into editable OpenSCAD
An open-source CAD tool uses an LLM to write parametric OpenSCAD programs that can be rendered, inspected, edited, and exported for 3D printing.
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2048
A 1997 Mac RPG, Rebuilt Rule by Rule
Wanderer I: The Cult of Misery brings Quinn Dunki’s obscure freeware role-playing game into the modern browser.
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2049
Akker Insigte: The School-Community Privacy Report
A synthetic-data report examines what a sponsor might infer from messages around a Stellenbosch primary-school music festival.
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2050
Ardent Word, a Bible app designed for the week the cable breaks
An offline Bible app with three built-in translations, an AI study companion constrained to cited verses, reading tools, prayer features, and no ads or paid tier.
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2051
The Bench Dragon of Huizhou
A fieldwork-driven cultural feature documenting the HuiZhou bench dragon, a lantern procession assembled from household-made wooden benches.
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2052
BomPromo, Brno’s changelog for retail promotions
A two-person Brno desk tracks how Czech retailers change discount terms, vouchers, cashback rules, bundles, and loyalty schemes.
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2053
Graceful Tree Search: Can Every Tree Be Labelled?
A distributed-computing project investigates a mathematical conjecture that every tree can receive a graceful labelling.
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2054
Capybobber: A Pixel Capybara That Fishes Beside Your Work
A macOS desktop companion where a pixel capybara fishes quietly, collects a small illustrated bestiary, and can surface responses from Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
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2055
ChainROM puts a whole game inside a blockchain
An EVM-based experiment that stores a 1990s game as contract code, verifies its bytes on-chain, and loads it in the browser.
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2056
Colombia se puebla, one municipality at a time
An interactive map animates the founding of Colombia’s 1,122 municipalities from 1507 to 2019, with sources, altitude, naming clues, and confidence markers.
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2057
Combo Caller, a Muay Thai Timer That Knows a Low Kick Takes Longer
An iPhone heavy-bag timer that calls Muay Thai combinations aloud, spacing them according to the time each sequence takes to throw and recover.
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2058
DOOM Is a Contract Now
A browser-based DOOM port reconstructs the 1993 game from bytecode stored across 92 Arc blockchain contracts.
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2059
The Raahat Sanctuary, where the itinerary is mostly lunch and weather
A family farmstay outside Rahatgarh with rooms, seasonal meals, a farm pantry, and slow rural experiences.
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2060
Forecast Antarctica puts the ice on one map
A map-based Antarctic weather viewer for AMPS forecasts, station conditions, and the Southern Ocean.
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2061
Janau Makes Translation Show Its Work
An iPhone translation app that colour-matches words across languages and explains the choices behind each pairing.
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2062
Layer 8 · GEN 001
A Brazilian investigative publication covering cybercrime, defense, technology, markets, crypto, biology, AI, and research.
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2063
Marca Mi Laptop turns a MacBook lid into a tiny advertising auction
Efrael Villanueva sells numbered spaces on his laptop lid, covering a S/ 1,800 repair bill one vinyl logo at a time.
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2064
Matside: One From Eight
An independent grappling publication covering Asia and Oceania’s route to the ADCC World Championship.