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Holocloth is a browser experiment by Dmitry Kurash that drapes images and SVGs across simulated holographic fabric with custom Verlet physics and GLSL shaders—open source under MIT, no account required.
Inspired by holocloth.vercel.app · Dmitry Kurash
A Wiseday developer argued Apple would not let him show his app after App Store rejection for promotional graphics instead of screenshots—then fixed the listing, and the Hacker News consensus was that Apple was right all along.
Inspired by wisedayplanner.com · Wiseday
Chris Coyier introduces CodePen 2.0’s largest rebuild—file systems, Blocks, one-click deploy, versions, and collaboration—arguing the original made it easy to try one small idea in public, and 2.0 lets that idea grow before you have to leave.
Inspired by blog.codepen.io · Chris Coyier
Jordan Scales’s 98.css rebuilds Windows 98 chrome in HTML and CSS—arguing a JS-free design system for retro UIs is useful for experiments and games, and that nothing sells a futuristic space prison quite like an AOL free-trial icon on the desktop.
Inspired by jdan.github.io · Jordan Scales
noclip.website by Jasper St. Pierre and contributors is a browser museum of video game levels you can freely explore—Nintendo-heavy but spanning Portal, Halo, and more—arguing it is serious game preservation and reverse engineering, not just nostalgia or screenshots.
Inspired by noclip.website · Jasper St. Pierre
Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile form controls—buttons, switches, and sliders with playful wobble that still behave like real, accessible browser controls.
Inspired by jelly-ui.com · Jelly team
Sindhur Dutta breaks down how the ZERO WebGL experience compressed over a gigabyte of Blender geometry, 8K textures, and animations into a sub-10MB build that still runs at 60fps on a budget Android phone.
Inspired by tympanus.net · Sindhur Dutta
Jim Nielsen distinguishes the binary question of whether something works from the subjective question of whether it is good. I struggle to hold both modes at once, and maybe the answer is to make it work first, then switch modes and give it the care it needs.
Inspired by blog.jim-nielsen.com · Jim Nielsen
Layout itself can be the source of truth when CSS responds to where an element actually is on the page, not only to fixed breakpoints.
Inspired by master.dev · Preethi Sam
A personal site can gradually change with the visitor’s day—personality and experimentation in the interface, not only utility or static branding.
Inspired by localghost.dev · Sophie Koonin
