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04/11/2026

https://casadisolare.com/ What an exceptional typeface. It's hard to execute well, yet this has been pulled off brilliantly.

Solare is the new, versatile and quintessential variable font from the Nikolas Type Foundry.

04/09/2026

Charcuterie: explore Unicode by character similarity

Charcuterie is a perfectly-named visual exploration tool for finding the exact Unicode character you want. Whichever one you click on, it'll fill the screen with similar sigils. You can also…

02/27/2026

AI + SVG: Vector all the things! | Nackblog

AI + SVG: Vector all the things! February 26, 2026AI/ML, Illustrationjnack When it rains, it pours: No sooner did I post about text->vector than I saw two new entrants in that space. The new Quiver AI is claimed to have “solved vector design with AI”: Introducing , a new AI lab and prod...

02/18/2026

C-32A ‘Air Force Two' Jet Emerges Wearing Trump's New Air Force One Paint Job (Updated). NGL this is terrible.

Donald Trump's controversial Air Force One livery has made it onto its first Air Force executive aircraft.

02/14/2026

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ Wild.

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

02/11/2026

AI Just Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected

You can now play the lost Roman board game called Ludus Coriovalli that was discovered in a museum.

02/06/2026

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

01/23/2026

Isometric NYC

12/28/2025

Sagmeister pivots to 'Beauty' after years of dismantling it? Rich. Book is unread; I even showed up to the Bregenz exhibition after it closed. A sign? And yes, I know I’m late to this party—today is just a day for belated hot takes.

12/28/2025

A Call for New Aesthetics

We, Patrick and Tyler, have differing views of the artistic merits of Bauhaus, but we are both very impressed by the movement’s success: they sought to define an aesthetic for the twentieth century, and basically did. Bauhaus obviously sits as part of broader tides—functionalism, constructivism,...

12/13/2025

Rats Play Doom

We built a complete VR setup from scratch to let rats play DOOM. The system includes a motion-tracked treadmill ball, a panoramic headset, an input trigger, and a reward circuit. All hardware and software components are open sourced, including 3D-printable designs, circuit diagrams, firmware, and co...