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.

WikiCity. One more creative way to browse (or fly over) Wikipedia. Every entry is a building in a city made up of the encyclopedia’s 100,000 most-visited entries. For the war-minded among us, there’s an alternate mode where you pilot a plane and can destroy (?) the buildings/entries.

This page was intentionally left blank. A print-world convention carried over into the digital.

Website Spec. What does a site actually need to have? This repository, built for both humans and AI “agents,” does that work of compiling and justifying. The list is long!

Jim’s TrueType QR Code Font. An actual font (TrueType/OpenType) that renders any word in square brackets as a QR code. I didn’t fully understand it, but it works (point your camera at the example on the page itself) and you can even download the font from the links in the footer.

Pac-Hunt. The classic Pac-Man, but you’re the ghost instead of the “muncher.”

Olle Watch. This company built a circuit board and software platform to turn the classic Casio A158W into a smartwatch. Working around the screen’s limitations is a huge challenge, one they’ve managed to pull off. A third-party video showing the watch with Olle Watch’s “heart” inside.

TinyRetroPad. Miss the good old days of a bare-bones text editor for Windows — one that opens instantly and shows nothing but plain text? This app brings that experience back in an executable of just 2.73 KB.