The weird web list

Websites that exist for no commercial reason. No signup on any of these, nothing to install, all free. I add to this list every time I find another one.

Anycrap

anycrap.shop is an online store for products that do not exist. Type anything into the search and it builds the whole page: the photo, the price, the description in that breathless Amazon voice, the reviews. Categories include Quantum Junk and Anti-Productivity. There is a bestsellers page, for things nobody can buy.

Every Cube

everycube.alen.is lets you scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 states of a Rubik's cube, in order, in 2D or 3D. Jump to the famous ones like the superflip. At one per second you would need about 1.4 trillion years to see them all, so most of what you scroll past has never been seen by anyone.

Mvidia

jaso1024.com/mvidia is a game where you build a GPU, starting from transistors. It opens with a memo from the CEO explaining that your resume said software engineer but they need you on hardware now. Act 1 is transistors into logic gates. By the end you have gone from sand to teraflops.

Elevators

john.fun/elevators is an interactive explanation of how lifts decide where to go. You set the number of floors and cars, pick a traffic pattern like morning rush or lunch, and watch the wait times change as you switch between scheduling algorithms. It is far more interesting than it has any right to be.

Mitch Ivin's portfolio

mitchivin.com is a designer's portfolio, rebuilt as Windows XP. Login screen, start menu, taskbar clock, and his resume opens as a window. Log off and restart both work.

Isometric NYC

cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc is a giant isometric pixel art map of New York City, rendered in the browser. It is heavy, so give it a moment on a phone.

Boing

boing.greg.technology is a red ball on a spring. You fling it, it boings. A counter underneath tells you how many times the world has boinged, which was 3,617,674 when I looked. That is the entire website and it is perfect.

18 Words

18words.com is a daily word game that is not Wordle. Eighteen scrambled words, a timer, spell each one using every letter. A few minutes a day, no account, and the archive opens once you have done today's.

Hacker News Trends

hackernewstrends.com is Google Trends for Hacker News. 45 million posts and comments across 18 years, so you can chart openai against anthropic, or watch a framework get born and die. The actual comments sit under each chart.

Moving objects in 3D space

visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d lets you tap through an explanation of how things move and rotate in three dimensions. No maths required, you just keep tapping and it keeps making sense.

Black hole

blackhole.plav.in is a black hole in a browser tab, with the light bending around it the way the physics actually says it should. Gravitational lensing, rendering live while you drag it around. The page calls itself a simplified visualisation rather than science grade, and points you at Synchray.jl if you want the accurate version. That honesty is why it is on this list. Most things like this pretend.

Firefox in WebAssembly

developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm is the real Firefox, running inside whatever browser you already have open. Puter Labs compiled the Gecko engine to WebAssembly. Pages load through a WebSocket proxy called Wisp, because a tab cannot open raw sockets. There is GPU acceleration and an experimental JavaScript to WASM JIT, which the page itself labels "expect bugs".

ssh.place

ssh.place is r/place, except the whole thing runs over SSH. One shared canvas, 200 by 60 cells, one placement every 15 seconds. 10,587 of the 12,000 cells were already drawn when I looked. No account, no install, any SSH key works. You type ssh ssh.place and you are in, and that is the entire onboarding. The cooldown is what makes it good: anything large has to be a group project.

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Got one I should add?

Post it in The Rabbit Hole. I collect these.

It is the room where I keep the parts that don't fit on a page like this: the full run of numbers, what broke the first time, and the ones that looked good and then didn't work at all.

Two catches, up front, because that's the rule here. It's private, so you have to be inside to read anything. And it's new, so you'd be early rather than joining something busy.

Free: skool.com/the-rabbit-hole-3206