#web
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The web is slamming its doors on AI agents
Tech giants promise autonomous helpers that book dinners, buy shoes, and clean your inbox. But major websites increasingly refuse to let them in.
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Phreak.ing: an Anonymous Phone Switch That Lives in Your Browser
The phreak.ing project revives the spirit of phone phreaking: a logless virtual PBX with star codes, voicemail and conference rooms — all running in the browser.
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The biggest redesign in decades: example.com now speaks six languages
On 28 September 2026 the reserved domain example.com gained multi-language support for the first time. DebugBear breaks down the update and traces the page's twenty-plus-year history.
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Why example.com changed: IANA explains
Oliver Dunk emailed IANA to ask about the updated content on example.com — and unexpectedly got a reply straight from the organization's VP.
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A 1996 chat room reopens — right inside your browser
The lolchat.rip project recreates the feel of mid-nineties online chatter and hooks into browser-based versions of the Windows 95 and Mac System 7 desktops.
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Session Context: the site that shows what your browser knows about you
The demonstration page sessioncontext.org vividly reveals how much data a website collects about a visitor without a single permission request — and why erasing those traces is far harder than it seems.
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Defrag98: a browser-based simulator of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter
Defrag98 has surfaced online — a web page that recreates the hypnotic grid of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter. No practical use, just nostalgia.
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Htmx 4.0.0: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, Morph Swaps and the Move to fetch()
The htmx team has shipped the fourth major version of the popular library. On the surface it looks almost identical to htmx 2, but under the hood it has been reworked — from events and attribute inheritance to the networking layer.
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Scroll Through All 43 Quintillion States of the Rubik's Cube
A web project lets you scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions of the Rubik's Cube — from the first permutation to the last.
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Chrome is testing an email verification protocol with no emails and no one-time codes
Google has launched an origin trial for the Email Verification API — a mechanism that lets a site confirm a user owns the address they entered, without sending them an email with a link or a code.