Lobster is lobster 
lobsterislobster.online
In this game, the goal is to guess the translations of a term into other languages. The “hard” difficult is hard, indeed, and the “Insane” I didn’t even try.
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Tiny Awards 2026
tinyawards.net
The Tiny Awards 2026 results are in, a contest honoring the most creative website launched during the year. The winner was a familiar face here at Manual: the little multiplayer exploration game Cursor Camp, which I recommended back in May.
Snail racing simulator
addy.zone
The races are long and overtaking, rare. Formula 1? No, I’m talking about the Snail racing simulator. Choose yours, cheer it, and hope for the best. (The website reports that the slug race is a “genuine sport” popular in Britain.)
Hardware Test
hardwaretest.org
A series of hardware tests that run directly from the web browser. It has for keyboard, mouse, screen, video game controls… For free.
ReelSwap
reelswap.net
Browse and organize your physical media collection on this website. The standout feature is the display: a three-dimensional shelf. “Take down” (click on) a movie and examine the box from every angle. For free.
Any human ever
anyhumanever.com
This site allows you to draw the life of a random person among all 100 billion who have ever lived on this planet, based on statistics and historical fragments of each period. I thought it was cool to analyze the lives of people who lived centuries or millennia ago and then trace my own profile.
myNoise
mynoise.net
Stéphane Pigeon, a signal processing engineer and passionate about sounds, keeps this site alone. He runs the world to record various noises with the highest possible quality. Why? The short answer, according to himself, is because he is crazy.
Wire Loop
keithcirkel.co.uk
From the most boring television game shows to your computer or phone, in the game Wire Loop you have to take the disc from one point to another without touching the wire, as fast as you can. Includes a level editor.
ReKindle
rekindle.ink
A website full of services to be accessed by Kindle and other tablets with E-Ink screen. Just open the site to notice why. There are even games! (Some services are behind a paying subscription.)
I didn’t set a cookie
kuber.studio
Despite the persistent nags to accept or decline tracking cookies on websites, the online surveillance industry already has more advanced techniques for monitoring your wanderings across the web. Collectively, this is called “fingerprinting”. This site shows everything a website can extract from you without needing cookies.
The definitive guide to Neubrutalist web design
neubrutalism.co
Neubrutalism is a digital aesthetic movement that rejects modern polished neutrality in favor of what they call “graphic bluntness”: high-contrast palettes, bold typography, strongly defined shapes, and conspicuous structure — especially outlines and hard shadows.
LineageOS now has a web installer
LineageOS now has a web installer. The project warns, however, that it doesn’t handle the entire process, and that you’ll still need to follow the instructions on your device’s wiki. Even so, it should make things considerably easier during those major yearly updates. In the same announcement, they report that work on LineageOS 24 — based on Android 17 — is “progressing nicely”.
The 404s website is an ode to the not found web pages.
The 404s is an ode to the not found web pages. The name of the site refers to the standard response code of the HTTP protocol for pages not found. This site celebrates the error — and I believe that celebrating our mistakes to the point of taking pride in them is somewhat healthy.
I also think that the 404 page of this Manual could use a little attention, don’t you think?
Beautifying the text on the web with modern CSS
Another chapter in the series “fascinated by the details of CSS,” this time featuring the attribute text-wrap: pretty and how browsers handle line breaks, “typographic river” (a concept I wasn’t familiar with), and the length of the final line.
Safari is the second-to-last major browser to implement text-wrap: pretty, a feature announced in a super detailed post, which is quite interesting. “Pretty” in English means “beautiful”; I find it lovely that the CSS specification delegates the decisions for presenting beautified text to each browser.