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hacker-simulator.com

Online hacker simulator

This interactive online hacker app will let you simulate that you’re hacking a computer or a digital network.

davekiss.com

A eulogy for the software engineer

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.

paulbakaus.com

I gave my website a boss fight

Building a little piece of it involved Claude, 4,096 colors, and a surprisingly difficult pair of legs.

petdex.dev

Petdex

Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

opusfived.dev

Opusfived

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

backyarddesigners.club

Backyard designers

Draft seven real designers as chunky cartoon kids, stay under the follower-count salary cap, then post your lineup.

taylor.town

I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

workersdecide.tech

AI Bingo Card Generator

Generate printable bingo cards for your workplace AI implementation exercise.

larp.website

LARP: Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

Send them $10,000. They send you $10,000. You’ve both booked $10,000 in revenue. Cash never moves. Everybody’s a rocketship.

guess-the-designer.replit.app

Which AI? — Guess the designer

A daily guessing game. Spot whether each landing page was designed by Gemini, Claude, or GPT.

mcsweeneys.net

AI economics for dummies

A few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.

vorpus.github.io

performative-ui

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

enshittifier.wells.ee

Enshittifier: replace AI with 💩

The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.

hostilevolume.com

Hostile volume: begin the suffering

A volume setting experience designed for maximum frustration. Can you beat the audit?

fraude.design

Fraude Design

The AI-free site builder for genius founders.

boat.horse

The accursèd alphabetical clock

A clock that displays the current time alphabetically.

keithcirkel.co.uk

CSS or BS?

Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.

daverupert.com

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood.

thoughtshrapnel.com

The AI adoption spiral

The journey that people go on with any new tool.

cuberule.com

The Cube Rule

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it’s clearly a taco.