Coffee break

Low-poly time trials with a built-in track editor, hundredth-of-a-second leaderboards and a restart key you will wear out.

A pastel multiplayer world whose real draw is the character creator, where people spend far longer than in the game itself.

Deadpan absurdism starring bears, birds and mildly disappointed men, published three times a week since 2008.

A properly staffed magazine covering what is going right, funded by its readers rather than by outrage.

A twenty-year-old particle sandbox where wind, fire, magma and ice all interact, with thousands of saved player scenes.

Threat-model-first advice from the community that succeeded PrivacyTools, so you pick tools for your actual risk rather than a vibe.

Opinionated lists of privacy-respecting software sorted by category, with stated reasons rather than affiliate links.

Britain's satirical fortnightly, half jokes and half genuine investigative reporting, in print since 1961.

Seventy thousand public domain books, plain and free, from the oldest digital library on the internet.

Harvard's implicit association tests, measuring the biases you would never report about yourself. Uncomfortable, rigorous and free.

The Vedic side of the practice: kundli, dasha periods and panchang, calculated free with the underlying reasoning shown.

Daily nonograms in every size from five squares to fifty, with a timer and no attempt whatsoever at decoration.

Free monthly puzzle sets designed to be solved in a pub, with a decade of archives you can print at home.

A question site where people post original puzzles and strangers solve them properly, with the reasoning shown.

Zach Gage's daily puzzle collection — Cross|word, Flipart, Really Bad Chess — with the best interface in the genre by a distance.

Take a quiz or build one and send it on. Results are shareable without anybody having to make an account first.

Four Wordle grids solved at the same time with nine shared guesses, which is exactly as stressful as that sounds.

The internet's default supply of small animals doing small things, restocked constantly by thirty million subscribers.

Crowd-sourced feed of well-made and gloriously pointless websites, and the closest thing left to a modern stumble button.

Photographs of corridors, swimming pools and hotel lobbies with nobody in them, which is far more affecting than that sounds.

Strangers being decent to each other, collected into one feed for the days when every other feed has been too much.

Home of the shared pixel canvas where millions of people fought surprisingly politely over a few million squares.

Archive of the experiment where one button and one click each spawned genuine factions, martyrs and a working theology within days.

Loose-surface rally driving where every corner is taken sideways, largely because there is no other way to take them.

A library of specific, doable kindness ideas and the research on why doing them helps the doer as much as the recipient.

Blows one image up into a multi-page halftone poster that you print at home and tape across an entire wall.

A short typing course with a certificate at the end, oddly motivating for something nobody will ever ask you to show.

Paste a spreadsheet, pick from chart types most tools refuse to offer, and export an editable vector file.

Thousands of marketing emails collected and searchable, which is the only sane way to go about designing one.

David Byrne's magazine about things that are demonstrably working somewhere, reported at length rather than as a listicle.

Amit Patel's tutorials on pathfinding, hexagonal grids and noise, with every parameter exposed as a slider you can ruin.

Women's magazine parody with headlines observed so precisely that they read as criticism rather than jokes.

Wathan and Schoger's rules for making things look designed when you are not, in fact, a designer.

Builds a regular expression while explaining every token in a side panel and highlighting matches as you type. Ends a lot of guessing.

Finds your nearest free community workshop where volunteers help you fix the thing instead of replacing it. Thousands worldwide now.

Low-poly team shooter with tanks and jetpacks, free and playable the moment the page finishes loading.

Pixel American football hiding a full franchise manager behind six-second passing plays. Has ruined more workdays than it should have.

Eight and sixteen-bit console libraries running in the browser, organised by system, with save states that actually work.

Roguelike tower defence where you lay the map down as you go, and every tile placed narrows the next decision.

Run through a tunnel in space where the walls become the floor whenever you turn. An entire generation played this instead of maths.

The Cube Escape series in full and free — bleak Dutch point-and-click rooms with a lake, a lot of birds and a plot you assemble sideways.

The first Samorost, free in the browser, a wordless point-and-click about a small gnome diverting a planet off a collision course.

Falling-sand physics with fire, water, plants and lava, plus a public gallery of what everybody else set alight.

Tetris where the blocks collapse into falling sand, so a line only clears when one colour touches both walls. Fiendish and lovely.

Converts your scrolling into real distance and tells you what you have just passed — a giraffe, the Eiffel Tower, low Earth orbit.

Indexes only independent personal websites whose owners submitted them. No content farms, because there is nothing there to farm.

You are a colony ship AI choosing which disasters to absorb, and every run ends with a summary of how badly humanity settled.

Brown University's visual introduction to probability and statistics, one animated chapter per concept.