Cool links of the week

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Benny Powers. Benny’s site/portfolio is a desktop straight out of the beloved Gnome 2.

Paint.NET at paint.net. After 22 years, the developer of Windows image editor Paint.NET finally secured the matching domain — thanks to the greed of its previous owners.

Rejected Emoji Proposals. Emoji is serious business. For a new one to appear on your phone, it has to clear a committee. This page collects the ones that didn’t make the cut. There are plenty — and some of them are actually great.

Stream Spigot. Generate secret RSS/JSON feeds to read the people you follow on Mastodon and Bluesky, plus specific profiles on X, in your favorite RSS reader app.

eyeball. A line from 0 to 6,500. A number somewhere in that range appears on screen. Your challenge: guess where on the line it falls.

Protecting the Blue Corridors. A gorgeous site mapping the migration routes of different whale species and the main threats they face. The “Flat (Dynamic)” mode displays the data as an interactive timeline.

heerich.js. heerich.js is a minimalist JavaScript engine that constructs 3D voxel compositions and distills them into pristine SVG.