Why I make boring websites
The case for making things on the web that have no point, no growth target, and nothing to sell. It is the closest thing this place has to a mission statement.
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Field notes from the boring websites.
Short essays about the small, useless websites I make: how they work, why they exist, and what building them teaches.
Latest writing
New notes turn up now and then. No schedule, which is the whole idea.
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24 Jul 2026
How Today's Rock makes a new rock every day
One deterministic rock for the whole planet, drawn from the date on a canvas, gone at midnight UTC. Here is how the trick works, and why it needs no database.
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22 Jul 2026
What the Sandpile is actually doing
The colours are the physics. A short tour of self-organized criticality, the abelian sandpile, and why the pile you are watching will never settle down for long.
The websites
Five small, self-contained things, each doing one useless job well. Roll the die on the hub, or start wherever you like.
The Bureau of Tiny Approvals
A 1978 desktop console that stamps, files, and shrugs at absurd little exemption requests.
thebureauoftinyapprovals.com
The Bureau of Very Slow News
Cosmic and geological events, reported live, none of which resolve within your lifetime.
bureauofveryslownews.com
Just Skedaddling
A single generative artwork that would very much prefer not to be disturbed.
justskedaddling.com
Sandpile
A pile of sand self-organizing into criticality. Reload and this pile is gone for good.
sandpile.art
Today's Rock
Every day the whole planet gets one procedurally generated rock. Gone at midnight UTC.
todaysrock.art