xkcd: Vera Rubin Observatory
xkcd.com
xkcd offers clever, minimalist comics that blend science, tech, and everyday absurdity.
Blondihacks
blondihacks.com
Blondihacks is a long-running independent blog that documents precision metalworking, electronics, and small-scale manufacturing projects with clear instruction and a distinct voice.
negativesign
negativesign.com
The site presents a collection of visually striking and technically impressive browser experiments.
Everest Pipkin
everest-pipkin.com
A personal website that archives digital projects, browser-based games, and essays exploring the entanglements of technology, data, and nature.
Hundred Rabbits
100r.ca
Hundred Rabbits is the digital home of a couple who sail the world while making software, art, and music.
Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity.
wondermark.com
Wondermark is a long-running webcomic that repurposes Victorian-era engravings into surreal and humorous narratives.
What If?
what-if.xkcd.com
The site presents deeply researched, physics-driven explanations for questions like “What if a baseball were pitched at near light speed?” Each entry balances rigorous science with deadpan humor and stick-figure art.
fail0verflow Blog
fail0verflow.com
The fail0verflow blog publishes detailed technical articles on console security and hardware hacking.
User.exe
userexe.me
The site presents a collection of terminal-like interfaces and interactive toys that evoke a nostalgic command-line era while subverting expectations with playful, modern twists.
Von Wong Blog
blog.vonwong.com
Von Wong's blog showcases behind-the-scenes stories and final images from his ambitious photo shoots that turn plastic pollution, electronic waste, and climate change into surreal, cinematic scenes.
distractionware
distractionware.com
A long-running personal site from the designer of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV.
Hundred Rabbits
100r.co
Hundred Rabbits is the digital home of Rek and Devine, a two-person software studio that creates open-source tools, games, and art while sailing a boat.
Hyperbole and a Half
hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
Hyperbole and a Half combines simple, childlike drawings with sharp, self-deprecating humor and moments of genuine reflection on mental health.
Rice-Boy.com
rice-boy.com
The site hosts the complete Rice Boy webcomic, a sprawling narrative set in a strange, dreamlike world.
Absorptions
www.windytan.com
The site is a long-running blog that documents projects in signal processing, from decoding radio data to creating music with technology.
Guru's Lair
www.tinaja.com
The site holds decades of technical articles, electronics tutorials, and offbeat insights from Don Lancaster.
John Coulthart
www.johncoulthart.com
John Coulthart’s site gathers decades of illustration and design work, including book covers, poster art, and graphic narratives.
Futility Closet
www.futilitycloset.com
A long-running repository of obscure historical tales, lateral thinking puzzles, and forgotten incidents drawn from newspapers, memoirs, and archives.
BLDGBLOG
www.bldgblog.com
BLDGBLOG presents essays, interviews, and visual research on architecture’s edges: underground cities, climate adaptation, forensic landscapes, and science fictional urbanism.
XXIIVV
wiki.xxiivv.com
The site serves as a personal knowledge base with extensive notes on programming languages, permacomputing, and media art.
Unsong
unsongbook.com
Unsong is a complete web serial that follows a world where biblical names hold power and a silicon chip's design inadvertently spoke the Divine Name.
Thesephist
thesephist.com
A personal site from Linus Lee, showcasing a collection of essays on technology, design, and philosophy, alongside interactive projects and quirky tools.
Extract From Field Recording Archive
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
A sprawling collection of environmental vibrations captured with contact microphones, this set documents Toshiya Tsunoda's exploration of acoustic phenomena in industrial and maritime spaces.
Scarfolk Council
scarfolk.blogspot.com
Scarfolk Council is an archive of in-universe artifacts from a fictional 1970s English town where the government employs surreal psychological tactics.