Worth Wandering: HTML Energy
HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.
Inspired by html.energy · Laurel Schwulst & Elliott Cost
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JSON Is Cheap to Send and Expensive to Believe
A Full Disclosure post on "Commas of D00m" shows how valid JSON full of nulls can still exhaust a server—because deserialization creates state the attacker did not have to create.
Inspired by seclists.org · Full Disclosure
Cloudflare Is Making Internal Workers Private by Default
Cloudflare Access can now attach to a Worker—or every Worker in an account—so authentication happens before code runs and private stays the default for rapidly built internal tools in an AI-assisted development era.
Inspired by blog.cloudflare.com · Cloudflare
Holocloth Turns Uploaded Artwork into Interactive Holographic Fabric
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
CodePen Grew Up
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
The Future Still Runs Windows 98
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
Giving AI Agents a Proper Interface to the Web
Alexandra Klepper introduces WebMCP, a proposed standard for sites to expose structured tools to AI agents in the open browser tab—arguing explicit, inspectable actions beat brittle screenshot-and-click automation, with a sharper security boundary when agents act inside authenticated sessions.
Inspired by developer.chrome.com · Alexandra Klepper
We Buried the Web Under Too Much Gunk
Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.
Inspired by daveverse.org · Dave Winer
Safari Is Testing BigInt Math Early
Safari Technology Preview 248 adds experimental TC39 BigInt Math and WebDriver support for the Digital Credentials API—asking whether browsers should ship Stage 1 proposals for early testing, and noting that verified identity on the web may matter more than a few new JavaScript methods.
Inspired by webkit.org · WebKit
Interfaces With a Little Wobble
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
More Than a Gigabyte Into 10MB
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
When Compatibility Becomes the Vulnerability
Compatibility features that make old protocols work can also open paths through network protections we assume are already solid.
Inspired by sa.my · Samy Kamkar
CSS That Understands Where an Element Is
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 Website That Moves With the Day
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