https://projects.metafilter.com/ The past 20 posts to MeFi Projects Thu, 14 May 2026 04:13:37 GMT Thu, 14 May 2026 04:13:37 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 this poem, using my wildest goblin-acting abilities.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6482/Voice-Acting-Overheard-On-A-Saltmarsh tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6482 Thu, 14 May 2026 04:13:37 GMT Greg_Ace https://projects.metafilter.com/6482/Voice-Acting-Overheard-On-A-Saltmarsh/rss clock scene in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6481/Metropolis-Shift-a-game-about-futility tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6481 Fri, 08 May 2026 00:54:26 GMT AlSweigart https://projects.metafilter.com/6481/Metropolis-Shift-a-game-about-futility/rss Your Internet Radio Dial (YIRD, ya heard?) is an ad-free and free-to-use interface that comes preset with a bunch of stations organized into bands, but you can customize your own collection of both. It has a bunch of fun lil' features (working VU meter, song identifier, a doze setting to gradually fade out (for sleepytimes), a scan function like a car radio, all kind of stuff that I had a blast building. I think it's pretty, too! Hope you like it, and if you can think of any ways it could be better or run across any bugs or want to suggest a station for the default presets, let me know here or through the site's Suggestion Box. Happy listening!

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6480/An-old-timey-radio-dial-for-the-internet tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6480 Wed, 06 May 2026 06:59:53 GMT slappy_pinchbottom https://projects.metafilter.com/6480/An-old-timey-radio-dial-for-the-internet/rss
It also does some tricks that make it feel more native, like letting you import ,webloc or .url bookmarks from your desktop by dragging. It's also a PWA so you can install it and run it in your Dock alongside all your other apps. And last but not least there's a Chrome extension on the way this week. But for me the biggest feature is that this is an intentional, algorithm-free way to store and organize things you like on the web. It's better than what ships with your browser, but also not some "second brain" productivity play. I'm super proud of this, maybe irrationally so. I hope folks here will try it and let me know if it helps them.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6479/Booooookmarks-is-simple-gratifying-bookmarking-for-people-who-miss-Pocket-RIP tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6479 Tue, 05 May 2026 05:29:22 GMT littlerobothead https://projects.metafilter.com/6479/Booooookmarks-is-simple-gratifying-bookmarking-for-people-who-miss-Pocket-RIP/rss Reeder for years and love and respect it a lot. The latest version requires a subscription to be useful, and includes a lot of features I don't really care about. So I made my own low-frills feed reader and then decided to make it public and share it.

Some features I'm proud of: I'm using Cloudflare's SQLite backed Durable Objects to create a database per user so no one's feeds, favorites, or archives are intermingled. I'm using WebAuthn (passkeys) for authentication (no passwords to store or lose) and heavy use of Cloudflare's "cron" functions to refresh feeds on an hourly schedule. I wrote about some details here.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6478/Teensy--News tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6478 Mon, 04 May 2026 17:53:09 GMT device55 https://projects.metafilter.com/6478/Teensy--News/rss
I made this for Attention (more info on their blog) to address the issues around data centres in a fun, non-preachy way, inspired by soothing audio generators people use to relax and those tactile, interactive museum displays where you can manipulate a system.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6477/DataCenterFM tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6477 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:29:47 GMT malevolent https://projects.metafilter.com/6477/DataCenterFM/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6476/Iambic-domains tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6476 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:16:44 GMT primer_dimer https://projects.metafilter.com/6476/Iambic-domains/rss
I co-organized XOXO, a festival and conference in Portland that celebrates indie artists and creators working on the internet. After the festival ended in 2024, we spent the last couple years making a new website for it that would act as a permanent archive. We wrote about why we made it, some of the highlights, and also launched a bunch of merch to mark the occasion, availably until this Friday, May 1.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6475/XOXO-Explore tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6475 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:11:36 GMT waxpancake https://projects.metafilter.com/6475/XOXO-Explore/rss
There's SO MUCH resistance to authoritarianism, but we rarely hear about it. This project collects some of the news of local and national protests, open letters from professional organizations, community organizing, lawsuits and victories in the courts, investigations by Congress, neighbors helping neighbors, actions by city officials and state representatives. This project has a United States focus but includes news from around the world. This is part of my new-ish website, The Democracy Habit, intended to foster regular, ongoing, varied participation in democracy and resistance to authoritarianism in a spirit of encouragement and inclusion. As noted in the footer on each page: This site is a work in progress - just like democracy. And just like democracy, I'd rather do what I can now than wait until I've got everything perfect.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6474/Resistance-is-Everywhere-part-of-The-Democracy-Habit tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6474 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:01:38 GMT kristi https://projects.metafilter.com/6474/Resistance-is-Everywhere-part-of-The-Democracy-Habit/rss Female Kill Machine 3 is the third and final instalment of the electrifyingly satirical cyberpunk sci-fi sensation that is the Female Kill Machine trilogy, in which easy-going antifascist kill machine Maria Tajona must wreak bloody revenge on the richest and most despicable men in the universe. Contains action, absurdity, and at least 3 jokes per page. You can get the entire trilogy at Ko-Fi, Patreon, and itch.io, or read it on Kindle Unlimited at Amazon. It's both pretty good and fairly funny.

Previously on Projects: Female Kill Machine 1; Female Kill Machine 2.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6473/Female-Kill-Machine-3 tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6473 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:55:22 GMT dng https://projects.metafilter.com/6473/Female-Kill-Machine-3/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6472/iheartlists-game-from-easy-to-death tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6472 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:27:54 GMT dorothyisunderwood https://projects.metafilter.com/6472/iheartlists-game-from-easy-to-death/rss François Morellet created a painting, Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory. It is a 200 x 200 grid of blue and red squares, using odd and even numbers from the phone book as the random number source. Morellet's wife or sons would read out numbers while Morellet marked the squares to later be painted in. I took about 15 minutes to write a Python program to produce hundreds a second, but also made a web version with several customizable features.

The nauseating blue/red look was decades before the red-text-on-blue-background and blue-text-on-red-background web design of GeoCities pages. He was decades ahead of his time!

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6471/Morellet-Art-Generator tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6471 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:13:19 GMT AlSweigart https://projects.metafilter.com/6471/Morellet-Art-Generator/rss In the Shadow of the Tower is my seventh novel and the third in the series of The Skyline Murder Mysteries. Published by Oliver-Heber.

Set around the attempted assassination of Franklin Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara, my historical thriller includes real life personalities including Fred Astaire, Bugsy Siegel, and Walter Winchell. From the publicity blurb: A nation on edge. A city crawling with gangsters. A plot that could change history forever. Miami, 1933. The nation is in the grip of the Great Depression, and former New York World reporter Alan Priest is struggling to survive as a freelance journalist. His wife, Lorraine, once a sought-after magazine model, is watching her own career fade with the times. Together, they are drawn into a dangerous investigation that reaches far beyond headlines and photographs. Here is a tongue-in-cheek interview with a panel of the major characters at "MurderCon 1933." Light noir, historical mystery, meticulously researched, In the Shadow of the Tower is in the spirit of The Thin Man.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6470/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Tower-A-Skyline-Murder-Mystery tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6470 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:16:54 GMT dances_with_sneetches https://projects.metafilter.com/6470/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Tower-A-Skyline-Murder-Mystery/rss
In these technofeudal times, it's easy to strike out at the most blatant examples of bad products and services, and missing the more insidious stuff. But targeting the blatant has its benefits, and there are few companies as publicly terrible online as Meta, and their cooperation with Rayban in creating camera-glasses that have built in video/audio capabilities and always-on recording, are a new category of stupid that I want to do something about. A personal take on the project: monocultured.com/blog

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6469/BanRayeu-a-sticker-prohibiting-AI-wearables tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6469 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:01:14 GMT monocultured https://projects.metafilter.com/6469/BanRayeu-a-sticker-prohibiting-AI-wearables/rss https://ckarchive.com/b/e5uph7hx43mn

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6468/Tiny-single-page-app-for-the-3-3-3-productivity-system tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6468 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:54 GMT primer_dimer https://projects.metafilter.com/6468/Tiny-single-page-app-for-the-3-3-3-productivity-system/rss
I also have freely available stories: YA about kids with super powers

• Lucid (novel)
• Just Super (novel)
• Just Super: Emily Stories (short stories and vignettes)
• Just Super: Collected (stories set in the Just Super universe (short stories and vignettes)

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• Daisy Unchained (novelette)

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6467/Fiction-About-Trans-People tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6467 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:01:07 GMT Tabitha Someday https://projects.metafilter.com/6467/Fiction-About-Trans-People/rss itch.io, Amazon (I know, but you know, lots of people use Kindles and it was the cheapest place to get solid media without doing it myself).

My books are romantic fantasy novels with queer protagonists:

• the first one, Ballad of the Grey Swan, is a swashbuckling fantasy novel with a trans main character and her girlfriend;
• the second one, Fiendblood, has a character who... well, she gets through a lot to find herself
• the one I'm working on now, Shadeborn, is a heist with consequences and has a trans main character who's aromantic If any of this sounds good to you, maybe check it out. Thank you! If you want it as an epub and a PDF, and you're coming from here, use this special link for MetaFilter users instead and get 20% off.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6466/Taeliana-Creative tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6466 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:01:00 GMT mephron https://projects.metafilter.com/6466/Taeliana-Creative/rss
(Yes, this might be a ploy to introduce you to my very favourite artist ever, but I hope you'll enjoy - I had fun making it!)

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6465/Parasite-Personality-Quiz tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6465 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:53 GMT Skybly https://projects.metafilter.com/6465/Parasite-Personality-Quiz/rss
I made this as a way of coping with being sick, and with a mounting sense of alienation. I've been spending so much time in the world of commercial indie games, constantly trying to second-guess what The Customers might want. So I wanted to make a game that doesn't concern itself with that. It's intentionally low-fi, and slow, and atmospheric, and not winnable. The whole point of it is that you have no agency. Nothing happens except for dreams. The visuals are very inspired by late 80s/early 90s Mac shareware games: simplistic dithered monochrome graphics, the font, no animations. I wrote the game in Ink, which was a nice introduction to the language.

[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6464/The-Pelican tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6464 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:07:44 GMT Zarkonnen https://projects.metafilter.com/6464/The-Pelican/rss
[Link]]> https://projects.metafilter.com/6463/The-Accursd-Alphabetical-Clock tag:projects.metafilter.com,2026:site.6463 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:28:15 GMT secretdark https://projects.metafilter.com/6463/The-Accursd-Alphabetical-Clock/rss