https://projects.metafilter.com/ The past 20 posts to MeFi Projects Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:41:31 GMT Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:41:31 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2026 is now alive and creeping around the interwebs. Make it so!

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6552/Jabos-Annual-Halloween-Cartoon-2026 tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6552 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:41:31 GMT jabo https://projects.metafilter.com/6552/Jabos-Annual-Halloween-Cartoon-2026/rss https://www.metafilter.com/211461/Is-it-Artor-Trash

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6551/Is-it-Artor-Trash-now-has-a-daily-game tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6551 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:28:18 GMT TheSisko https://projects.metafilter.com/6551/Is-it-Artor-Trash-now-has-a-daily-game/rss The Guy I Almost Was by Patrick S. Farley is a web comic published in 2009 about living through (and becoming disillusioned with) 80s and 90s cyberculture. It perfectly captures a certain vibe that you'd have it you were a certain type (male, middle class, gen x or elder millennial) when we would naively say things like "information longs to be free". It's about the promise of the internet and personal computing meeting the economic reality that most people didn't have the disposable income to buy the electronic toys required to participate.

The original website doesn't seem maintained (and it fails to load on https; you have to view it under http). I don't want it to go offline and be forgotten, so I've reformatted it here with extensive updates for accessibility.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6550/The-Guy-I-Almost-Was tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6550 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:16:04 GMT AlSweigart https://projects.metafilter.com/6550/The-Guy-I-Almost-Was/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6549/URL-Roulette-give-a-link-get-a-link-rebuilt tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6549 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:04:01 GMT mmathias https://projects.metafilter.com/6549/URL-Roulette-give-a-link-get-a-link-rebuilt/rss
I was diagnosed this year with ADHD - Inattentive type after many years and alternate diagnoses. Over the years I've tried pretty much every productivity system and to-do list I've come across but always ended up with a huge list of overdue, uncategorized tasks that I would routinely ignore. After learning more about the concept of setup effort vs maintenance effort, I realized that all the sorting, prioritizing, categorizing was making it harder for me to use any system effectively. I built MeelMore (an Anglicization of Míol Mór) to use on-device Apple Intelligence to do the sorting, categorizing, prioritizing, and (most importantly) surfacing of tasks at the appropriate time, so all I see is the three highest priority tasks for right now! * Tasks go into either NOW, NOT NOW, or ROUTINES. * The NOT NOW list can be sorted by category or context (in the GTD sense) and can be promoted to NOW with a swipe and tap, reassessing the priorities accordingly. * Tasks with a due date or time increase in priority as the due date gets closer. * Tasks that have been sitting for a while get a nudge to break them down into simpler steps. * Capture is a 1-step process via text or voice, and categories, due dates etc can be edited after the fact * Tasks are searchable by keyword and semantic similarity (search also surfaces completed tasks so you can answer the question of 'Did I do this already?' * You can add custom categories * Tasks with a due time get gentle reminders - default is 1 hour and 5 minutes before (which can be customized). Routine tasks get a 5 minute reminder * Home Screen widget only shows the NOW tasks and capture buttons * A daily priorities nudge will help re-prioritize tasks - increasing priority of existing tasks or adding new tasks It's currently in BETA testing and you can be added via a MeFi TestFlight group

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6548/MeelMore-A-Calm-To-Do-list-for-ADHD-brains tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6548 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:56:14 GMT TwoWordReview https://projects.metafilter.com/6548/MeelMore-A-Calm-To-Do-list-for-ADHD-brains/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6547/Spam-Therapy tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6547 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:15:21 GMT vert canard https://projects.metafilter.com/6547/Spam-Therapy/rss
It's Weird Web October, when folks much more-creative than me make magnetic fridge poetry and possessed speak 'n' spells and virtual matches. But this year I've been joining in rather than watching from the sidelines making a handful of entries but none that I'm so proud of as Dem Bones!, my websocket-powered... marionette simulator? There's an accompanying blog post which includes a video demo, in case you don't have the requisite devices to try it out for yourself. Oh, and it's all open-source.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6546/Dem-Bones-a-spooky-marionette-powered-by-Web-technologies tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6546 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:33:17 GMT avapoet https://projects.metafilter.com/6546/Dem-Bones-a-spooky-marionette-powered-by-Web-technologies/rss
Every 15 years* I got annoyed there isn't a podcast dedicated to something I'm interested in hearing about, complain about it online and rope in the first UK resident who replies in the comments into co-hosting one with me. All Systems Nominal is an experiment in talking about sci-fi indie table top role-playing games with myself and Dougal Cochrane. (3 episodes - Death in Space, Vaults of Vaarn, CY_BORG). Hypothesises we are currently investigating include: 1. All systems are nominal and any faults we find exist instead in ourselves; 2. All good science fiction starts with a meal and ends on a beach; 3. Between shipping costs and prohibition of positive depictions of drug use, it is impossible to buy print copies in Australia of any game we want to talk about. * Roguelike Radio is a podcast about roguelikes with myself, Darren Grey and a broad panel of co-hosts and one off and returning guests.(174 episodes)

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6545/All-Systems-Nominal-a-sci-fi-TTRPG-podcast tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6545 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:13:45 GMT andrewdoull https://projects.metafilter.com/6545/All-Systems-Nominal-a-sci-fi-TTRPG-podcast/rss
It's about surviving. About being different. About kindness, chosen family, anxiety, dragons, and trying to build something meaningful out of whatever life hands you. It's about learning that you don't have to earn the right to exist by being useful. And it's about something I've come back to over and over again: I'm still here. I'm still trying. And that's not nothing. The album is available on Bandcamp for $7 or more. You can listen, grab a copy, or share it with somebody you think might connect with it. Every purchase helps support my work as an independent musician, but even just listening and sharing means a lot to me. Thank you to everyone who's encouraged me, listened to early versions, supported my music, or simply reminded me that what I make matters. This one's for you, too.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6544/2nd-ever-LP-released tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6544 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:18:34 GMT ShawnStruck https://projects.metafilter.com/6544/2nd-ever-LP-released/rss
He's starting a string of shows in continental Europe as I type this. Catch him if you can - you'll have a great time.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6543/James-McMurtry-Pics-from-four-of-this-months-UK-gigs tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6543 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:05:54 GMT Paul Slade https://projects.metafilter.com/6543/James-McMurtry-Pics-from-four-of-this-months-UK-gigs/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6542/What-Type-of-Vampire-Are-You tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6542 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:47:30 GMT malevolent https://projects.metafilter.com/6542/What-Type-of-Vampire-Are-You/rss
I wanted a Tetris game that could easily be picked up and put down. More of a "keep my mind occupied for a bit" than a challenging game.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6541/Quiet-Blocks-a-chill-tetris-game tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6541 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:06:12 GMT AlSweigart https://projects.metafilter.com/6541/Quiet-Blocks-a-chill-tetris-game/rss
The provenance belongs on this site more than anywhere else. brainwane described the game on her blog in 2006 — "One person looks at a Wikipedia entry that's in several categories and reads them off. The other person has to guess the person, place, or thing." Kevan Davis built the first web version that year and gave it the name Catfishing. In 2024 Klipspringer built catfishing.net and posted it to Projects. Catfishing is very good, it runs every single day, and if you have not played it, start there. Panigma is my own take on the idea. You get 60 seconds with the categories alone; then the article's picture appears with the initials of its title (M___ C____), for 40 seconds more. Your score is the time you had left, and everyone plays the same round, whatever their language, on a daily leaderboard. The clues are the article's categories, gathered from six Wikipedia editions and merged through Wikidata, with anything that names the answer filtered out. Then I review every subject by hand before it can be drawn. When a good article has categories that are too thin or too telling, I add a clue myself rather than lose it. It runs in the browser, and there is also an Android app What I would most like to hear about is how it plays outside French. My beta testers were mostly seasoned French players, so English, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese have seen far less play. If you try it in one of those: do the categories read naturally, and do the subjects feel fair?

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6540/Panigma-a-daily-Wikipedia-category-guessing-game-in-six-languages tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6540 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:05:51 GMT Eden91940 https://projects.metafilter.com/6540/Panigma-a-daily-Wikipedia-category-guessing-game-in-six-languages/rss
The tiles are arcs of ground over six terrains, drawn by rule and none by hand, and the deal is built so every day can bring at least three kinds of animal. Everything is touch first, press places, no hover anywhere. A missed day stays in your county as a fallow plot. There is a streak on the page, but the county is the record. The field guide exists because the first playtests showed people losing to rules they could not see, not to misclicks, which we measured with a simulated player before changing anything. There is nothing to sign up for, and the footer says the rest in one sentence: "your county is saved in this browser, on this device only. the game counts moves anonymously to get better: no names, no ids, and none at all if your browser asks not to be tracked." The share button makes a small picture of the plot, one emoji per square, with the animals that came, its points against the day's best and a link. I would like to hear what confused you on your first day, and whether the field guide got read before or after you laid the tiles.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6539/Parcel-one-plot-a-day tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6539 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:02:27 GMT just this guy, you know https://projects.metafilter.com/6539/Parcel-one-plot-a-day/rss
Wiz-War is Tom Jolly's maze of wizards stealing each other's treasure, and the friendliest place to start. A game can be over in minutes, and the automaton plays to win. Waving Hands is Richard Bartle's 1977 pencil-and-paper duel. Each hand makes a gesture every turn, and the right run of gestures is a spell. Duel a rival wizard, or seat up to a dozen friends. Hnefatafl is the Viking game of a king breaking for the edge of the board while a ring of attackers closes in. You can play it by the Copenhagen rules or Linnaeus's 1732 Tablut, with or without the housecarl. Dip is my take on Diplomacy, and it's the longest game in the hall. It has the standard map, the five-power Chromatic wheel I once laminated to a board, and the ten-power Youngstown Redux. The house envoys negotiate in plain English, propose truces and alliances, keep a ledger of every promise, and now and then stab you in the back. They're old-fashioned algorithms and decision trees, not a language model. I wrote about my long history with the game here. Start a table for any game and you get a four-letter code and a link to send around. People you invite can play or simply watch from the Peanut Gallery. You can fill any of the empty seats with the house players. I've had so much fun this last month reconnecting with friends, playing game after game, and rekindling joy. I hope others can do the same!

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6538/Kestrels-Hall-four-game-night-favorites-from-the-90s-rebuilt-for-the-browser tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6538 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:16:37 GMT ewagoner https://projects.metafilter.com/6538/Kestrels-Hall-four-game-night-favorites-from-the-90s-rebuilt-for-the-browser/rss
There's an argument on the internet that goes something like Person A (in Los Angeles): Housing is too expensive! No one can live! Person B (in Kansas): You just don't know how to save! Person C (in Maui): I'm literally starving because of housing! Round and round it goes. I wanted to see what the realities were, so I put together a little tool using Claude. It uses Zillow and FRED data to map housing prices and incomes and their ratios. Beware: there are a lot of statistical traps in the display. For instance, why is Greeley County, Kansas such an outlier? Because there are only 1200 people there, and at least one of them is very rich, so the per-capita mean is really high.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6537/How-US-housing-prices-compare-to-local-income tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6537 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:33:22 GMT SunSnork https://projects.metafilter.com/6537/How-US-housing-prices-compare-to-local-income/rss nearly 700 book reviews from the past 12 years. This started out as a copy of my Goodreads account but turned into something I'm pretty excited about, particularly the ability to slice the data by various facets. For instance, the lesser known queer SF I've read.

The book reviews are 100% hand-written by me (and always will be). The site was implemented with AI, there's lots of notes about the process here. I suppose some folks will frown on the use of AI but I never would have spent the ~two months it would have taken to build this site on my own. The final artifact is my book review site, I don't have any plan to distribute the software or anything.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6536/Nelsons-book-reviews tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6536 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:51:41 GMT Nelson https://projects.metafilter.com/6536/Nelsons-book-reviews/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6535/A-simple-flight-simulator-game-Threejs tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6535 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:44:09 GMT iotic https://projects.metafilter.com/6535/A-simple-flight-simulator-game-Threejs/rss My Writing Matters . Each article covers how to use the principles of Compassion Focused Therapy to get back into writing.

This is part of the My Writing Matters project that provides a way to connect writers to professionals like editors, proofreaders and illustrators who don't use gen-AI. Apart from providing useful content for writers and self-publishers, I hope the articles will drive traffic to the site and make our list more visible and get people work.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6534/Get-your-writing-unstuck-a-compassion-focused-approach tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6534 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:24:02 GMT Zumbador https://projects.metafilter.com/6534/Get-your-writing-unstuck-a-compassion-focused-approach/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6533/What-do-we-do-after-we-beat-the-Ender-Dragon tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6533 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:02:56 GMT HYPER_SALT https://projects.metafilter.com/6533/What-do-we-do-after-we-beat-the-Ender-Dragon/rss