About this blog

This is a blog about boring websites: the quiet, single-purpose, oddly pleasant corners of the internet, the unusual sites most people never find, and the curious subjects behind them. It is part of the Boring Websites webring, a small family of tiny sites that each do one useless thing well.

The five sites

They are wired together as a webring, with a small bar at the bottom of each that carries you to the next one, or rolls a die and sends you somewhere at random. The hub lists all five in one place.

• The Bureau of Tiny Approvals, a 1978 desktop console that stamps and files absurd little exemption requests.
• The Bureau of Very Slow News, live coverage of events too slow to finish in a human lifetime.
• Just Skedaddling, one generative artwork that prefers to be left alone.
• Sandpile, a live abelian sandpile that avalanches forever and is gone when you reload.
• Today's Rock, one procedurally generated rock for the whole planet each day.

What this blog covers

Short pieces about the web's overlooked corners: single-purpose sites, generative toys, digital oddities, dead-simple tools, and the ideas that make them interesting. Sometimes a site, sometimes the subject behind one. If it is small, strange, or does one thing unusually well, it fits here.

Following along

The best place to follow the network is Mastodon, where a small bot posts the day's rock automatically. New writing shows up here on the Blog, and you can see anything that has been submitted to Hacker News from this site. There is no mailing list, and there is not going to be one.