Q: You're invited to all sorts of virtual meetings, but what's the point of to any of them?
A: Because now with this game you can get points for tricking your coworkers!
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- Designers vs Developers: Who is in control here?
- Accessibility: A Little Bit Better Is Better Than NothingWorkshop
Invite me to speak, please.
There are so many things in this world, but can you tell which of them is Nicki Minaj? The answer may shake you to your very core!
Are you in need of documentation of your own sanity? Yes, of course you are. Well, this online exam is meant to provide just that: Answer our questions and you'll get a diagnosis on the other end.
Only one caveat: The exam is gaslighting you.
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Using the Forbes' Billionaires List (and public education statistics) as primary sources, this game allows you to improve the world every day by making five decisions.
This is a game about guessing the relative value of different celebrities on Cameo.
I built this one in about a week and a half.
You are at a party of celebrity impersonators. You must try to guess who is pretending to be whom, in an effort to eat an entire cheese log before you are kicked out of the party.
The game that shows you an actual WikiHow illustration, and asks you which actual Wikihow article it came from.
Called “The Best Game On The Internet” by Gizmodo, this project has been the subject of literally hundreds of YouTube videos.
In this clicker game, you tap on Sisyphus to roll the rock uphill. Once the rock gets near the top, it will roll back downhill.
Also, there are acheivements.
My good friend Boots and I built our own karaoke softare. He built the Windows backend, I built the web PWA to handle signups.
The game that challenges you to figure out what people are searching for on Google.
Idiots Win takes a search query, sends it to Google for autocomplete suggestions, then randomizes them and asks you to guess the top.
The Wrongest Words launched as the second game on kinda.fun. It's a multiplayer game where each player must defend the stupid statements in front of them.
Poutine is a dish made with french fries, fresh cheese curds and brown gravy.
This website showcases dishes which purport to be poutine, and yet fail that criteria.
We've spent enough of our lives looking at flat, minimalist websites that all look art directed by the same person. Let's turn this ship around.
BG2COOL provides you with patterns and options. Make your choices, and the site will hand you some CSS.
Birthed from a conversation about the editing process of Cosmo's sex tips, this is a site that generates hetero sex advice for women to please their men. How exhilerating!
This is a very important website that asks if if you're ready for this. And if you are ready for this, appropriate measures will be taken.
My friend likes the website Wookieepedia a lot and then he had a birthday. So I made a Wookieepedia page just for him.
The Android game that puts your friends' accents to the test (and they will usually fail the test).
Launched as part of a talk at NDC Minnesota 2018, this is a site to demonstrate you're right about whatever you think.
In 2016, Valve bought the map and made it official.
Frank West sometimes pronounces emoticons. And now, via this soundboard, he does it on your command.
Even in comparison to the other sites on this page, this one is really stupid.
I wanted to make a site that would give the user up-the-second updates of who was just fired in the San Francisco Tech Industry.
In reality, it just works an alogorithm to generate random strings.
I do a podcast, and also work a fair amount on the website for that podcast, which is a complicated piece of web development.
That said, I'm pretty happy with how this whole thing works.
Using an open source software called “Gource”, I made this 3.5 minute YouTube video documenting the process of building most of the websites on this list, set to a Paper Chase song.
Not incredibly informative, but fun to look at.