2. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)

Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

10. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (www.smpte.org)

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.

18. Pre-2022 Books (notes.lorenzogravina.com)

I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of.

19. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)

Render textured 3D meshes into a character grid. Single <pre> + sparse DOM hit layer — inspect every hotspot in DevTools, attach onClick to any 3D anchor, with zero polygon-per-node overhead.

20. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)

Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendatio…

21. The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (www.sciencedaily.com)

Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost after all—it may simply be switched off. Using a two-stage treatment, researchers redirected the body’s normal healing response away from scar formation and toward regrowth, successfully restoring bone, joints, ligaments, and tendons after amputation in animal studies.

29. How to Feed a Dictator (www.theguardian.com)

In an often chilling new documentary, the chefs of brutal leaders from Idi Amin to Saddam Hussein, talk about their unusual lives behind the scenes

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