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Site of the dayRed Blob Games explains algorithms through game examples — A* pathfinding, hex grids, map generation from noise — with interactive diagrams you can drag and tweak.
Telegram of the dayA snippet of JavaScript every day and a poll asking what the console prints. Classes, generators, this, bitwise tricks. Quick, humbling and fun.
Instagram of the dayAn Italian artist shapes clear glass into branches, flowers, goblets and whole table settings. Delicate sculpture that is hard to believe is real.
A PhD linguist explains how languages work, where words come from and how writing began, with plenty of lesser-known languages.
Pinterest of the dayWallpaper* magazine's Design board: 500+ pins of furniture, objects, interiors and buildings, with new projects added every week.
Brazil of the dayA virtual museum of images of Brazil from the 1500s to the 1920s: prints, watercolors, paintings, maps and scientific illustrations from four major Brazilian collections. In Portuguese.
Site of the dayA fully searchable archive of London's central criminal court: over 197,000 trials from 1674 to 1913, told largely in the words of the witnesses and defendants themselves.
Telegram of the dayA fan-run channel for the Existential Comics webcomic: real philosophers stuck in absurd situations, each strip followed by the author's note on the idea behind it.
Instagram of the dayEveryday Africa features photographers living and working across Africa, showing daily life, rivers, streets, celebrations and people instead of headline clichés.
Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer, builds synths, revives old tech and makes strange instruments — including a famous organ built from Furbies.
The open-access library of natural history literature shares images from its books: frontispieces, bindings, animals, plants and scientific art.
Estonia of the dayEstonian wildlife photographer Remo Savisaar's Instagram: brown bears at sunset, red deer on Saaremaa, misty bogs and birds — nearly all of it shot in Estonia.