Feels like magic

Infinite squared paper for sketching layouts and floor plans, with snapping and nothing else getting in the way.

City walking videos, driving tours and a guess-the-city game built on top of them, sorted by country for when you cannot travel.

A dictionary drawn as a spring-loaded graph, with related meanings pulling away from each word you type.

Home of a long list of absurd browser games and quizzes, several of which have quietly consumed entire office afternoons.

Upscales artwork and photographs without the usual mush, using a network trained specifically on line work.

Guess where a teammate placed a concept on a spectrum between two extremes. The most reliable argument-starter on this list.

Winamp itself, reimplemented faithfully enough that the equaliser works. It really whips the llama's behind, in a browser tab.

Drag through a full-screen fluid that swirls and bleeds colour behind the cursor, at full frame rate even on a phone.

Software-defined radio receivers around the world you can tune through a browser, listening to shortwave through somebody else's aerial.

The planet chopped into three-metre squares, each given a three-word name, which is either brilliant or a licensing trap depending who you ask.

The space station's position, ground track and next passes over you, with an orbital countdown that is oddly hard to stop watching.

Two portraits side by side, one photographed and one generated. A University of Washington project, and your score keeps falling.

Which record a sample came from, who covered whom and where that drum break originally lived, with the two tracks played side by side.

Wikipedia articles served as a vertical swipe feed, which is either a public service or the end of civilisation.

Drag Wikipedia cards onto a timeline in the right order. Three lives, and you will lose one to the invention of the fork.

A working Windows XP desktop in a tab, with Minesweeper, Paint and the startup sound, for pure muscle memory.

The forecast as an animated map, with wind, waves, temperature and a dozen models to argue between, free and without an account.

Thousands of interactive maths and science notebooks contributed over two decades, each one a single slider-driven idea.

Victorian engravings cut apart and given modern dialogue, producing jokes no other format could quite deliver.

Crazy golf on a floating landscape that unfolds into a new course between shots. Worth playing for the transitions alone.

Renders your text in every font installed on the machine at once, which is the fastest way ever devised to pick one.

Guess the country from its silhouette alone, with each miss handing you the distance and compass bearing to the real answer.

Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.

A browser planetarium stitched from real survey data, letting you pan the whole sky in visible light, infrared or radio.

Real-time fractal zoomer ported to the browser, smooth enough that the boundary keeps unfolding as fast as you dive.

Stick figures on romance, sarcasm, maths and language, with a second joke in the alt text of every single strip.

Widely reckoned the strongest reverse image search for faces, places and heavily cropped photos. Worth trying when TinEye finds nothing.

Unicode styling for places that forbid formatting, so bold and italic survive a paste into a profile bio.

A stubbornly plain German server hosting hundreds of turn-based Euro games, free and ad-free since long before that was a stance.

Draw mirrors and walls, then let a raytracer slowly paint the light bouncing between them until the image resolves.

Feeds your own video call bad audio — echo, crying baby, wind — until everyone agrees the connection is the problem.

The sequel quilt, darker and stranger than the first, still folding into itself with no end and no explanation.