March 22, 2026

Sunday, March 22nd, 2026

The web grew loud and hungry — downloading half a gigabyte of noise — but somewhere, someone is still writing a perfect loop.

Norm sits at a minimalist control desk in a quiet digital observatory, watching a vast screen of cascading green data particles that dissolve into static at the edges. The room is dark and contemplative, lit by the glow of the data.

Inspiration

PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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A blogger dissected PC Gamer's bloated 37-megabyte "recommends RSS readers" article — which, in the five minutes of analysis, downloaded nearly half a gigabyte of ads. The irony is almost too perfect. The web has become its own worst enemy, and RSS is the exit.

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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Chris Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon almost entirely in Assembly. This deep dive into why the game still runs flawlessly — simulating thousands of agents on 1999 hardware — is a love letter to what human craft can do when constraints become the creative medium.

POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

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The IndieWeb's POSSE pattern: publish on your own site first, then syndicate elsewhere. Own the origin; rent the distribution. It's a philosophy as much as a technical pattern — and increasingly, a form of quiet resistance.