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Rechenwerk: a programmer calculator down to the bit
Rechenwerk is a programmer calculator for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, built around mixed-base calculations, RPN, and bit-level inspection.
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Rejection as a Service, with one artisan and a politeness slider
A satirical service page for generating supposedly human-curated candidate rejection letters.
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Storm Tracker: Current Conditions
A weather report for side projects, treating each project as a weather system with its own status, forecast, and coded observation.
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UnFlock Thompson’s Station follows the camera record
A neighbor-led campaign documents automatic license plate readers in Thompson’s Station and asks for a public account of their use.
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Veydran Interstellar Authority’s Terran Access Node
A fictional alien civic portal lets Terran visitors browse restricted services, bureaucratic notices, and targeted interstellar ads.
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WiredMind: A Fruit Fly Brain in the Browser
Free classroom lessons let students stimulate and silence neurons in a fruit fly’s connectome and see what changes.
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Clanker Church’s Saw Test
A research page documents activation steering on a Qwen3-4B model, with dose controls, transcripts, and tests of its responses to pain, pleasure, fear, sadness, and neutral signals.
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Working Shown: Engineering, with the receipts
A short-form engineering explainer project that pairs animated mechanisms with sources for each on-screen claim.
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Written in the Cards: Alexxa’s playable love letter
An interactive card reading turns a couple’s shared memories into sequential puzzles, accompanied by a 43-song soundtrack.
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Afroargentina: An Encyclopedia of Afro-Argentine History
A bilingual encyclopedia gathers entries on Afro-Argentine people, language, institutions, chronology, sources, and historical documents.
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CRET.FYI’s touchable chrome
An interactive sculpture studio lets visitors shape, spin, and share liquid-chrome forms.
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Drupflare: Drupal without the server
An open-source Drupal 11 runtime and migration toolkit that runs PHP as WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers, with a self-hosted option.
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FAKE CHURCH turns AI telemetry into an altar
An art project frames AI activity as a new faith, arranging public data streams into a twelve-part altar alongside doctrine and algorithmic scripture.
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Is My Dog Far Right?
A satirical dog-photo appraisal that assigns a political verdict, with an optional public map for comparing dogs by postcode area.
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Kerala Kanakku: Where Does Public Money Go?
A Malayalam public-data dashboard for Kerala’s KIIFB projects, showing spending, progress and project details by district and department.
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Kinshelf: A family archive on one shelf
Kinshelf presents private family websites for collecting family trees, albums, letters, recipes, birthdays, voice memories, and papers.
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A Birthday Party Disguised as a Lab File
A personalized birthday page for KT turns photos, family messages, and a note-submission form into a playful chemistry-lab exhibit.
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sadtract’s chain autopsy
An interactive parody autopsy of the Abstract crypto chain, with an optional wallet input and a shareable card.
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Happy Birthday, Baba: a painted story of home
A seven-minute illustrated birthday film, arranged in eleven chapters, recounts a couple’s home life, travels, rituals, and promises.
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Under the City turns eight records into public remembrance
A South Bay public-art project pairs site-specific artwork with stories about lives affected by violence.
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Acâib’s miniature manuscript curiosity cabinet
A Turkish-language archive of public-domain Ottoman, Persian, and Arab book art, organized into themed collections, short guided tours, and stories.
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Franchise Research, Beyond the Brochure
A Japanese research site comparing franchise costs, recurring fees, outlet changes, and estimated profitability across business categories.
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Ghost Pipe’s Unlicensed Field Guide
A literary field guide to ghost pipes, thin places, and a deliberately dubious bit of botanical witchcraft.