New project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...

Incredible

Nicholas Rougeux@rougeux.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: I spent nine months creating a digital edition of The Naturalist’s Library, William Jardine’s 40-volume 19th-century natural history series. 1,300+ plates restored, 2.4m words, 27 posters, and 1 huge book. Explore: www.c82.net/naturalists-... How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/making-...

📊 LayerChart 2.0 is officially released! After ~16 months of development and 67 pre-releases, the official 2.0.0 release has been published! 🎉 This includes the Svelte 5 rewrite, CSS framework agnostic, improved API and state, numerous new components and chart types, and so much more!

Sophie Wang @sophielwang.bsky.social wants to know what colors people associate with abstract concepts. Take her 10-question survey and help uncover the hidden relationships between ideas and color: www.sophielwang.com/color I'd love to share my results, but I'd rather not introduce any bias 🎨 👀

The sixth installment of "How The Heck" is live! This one is all about synths. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

How The Heck Do Synthesizers Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

An interactive exploration of how synthesizers work: from additive sine waves and ADSR envelopes to resonant filter sweeps.

perthirtysix.com

In case anyone needs to play with a bunch of drum machines and sequencers today: https://roland50.studio/

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

hyperblam.how

"HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free." hyperblam.how I love everything about this.

Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

hyperblam.how

I am having fun. and so can you heerichdots.netlify.app Share your compositions above please <3

Have you ever thought about how you mow a lawn? We have. (A lot.) We partnered with Citizen Codex on a research project — and this is where it starts. Give it a go, drop your score in the comments, and follow along for the full story in a few weeks. #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/...

Lawn Mowing Experiment

Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.

pudding.cool

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

It's the first day of the World Cup! No, not that World Cup. The one with 1000x more birds and 1000% less Infantino... The World Cup of Birds! 🐦🏆🐦!

Bravo, love everything about it. The facts, the storytelling, the design, the scope, the interactions!

Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty@moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚

The final ever episode of 'Explore Explain' will be a recorded live webinar on 29 June 1pm (UTC) where I and my brilliant collaborators will both explore and explain the creative process behind the new digital edition of 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'. Register now! visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...

Explore Explain Final Episode: Live Webinar! - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

On Monday 29th June I will be hosting and recording a live episode of my 'Explore Explain' video and podcast series. This will be the final episode of season 6. It will also be the final episode ever!

visualisingdata.com

Announced yesterday, details of my final episode of Explore Explain which will take part as a webinar event on 29th June. Join the session to watch live and take part in the Q&A after we've revealed the behind the scenes of our soon-to-be launched new project...

Andy Kirk@visualisingdata.com · 2mo ago

The final ever episode of 'Explore Explain' will be a recorded live webinar on 29 June 1pm (UTC) where I and my brilliant collaborators will both explore and explain the creative process behind the new digital edition of 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'. Register now! visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...

🇨🇴 How do you visualize an election? A scroll-driven story: Colombia's map morphs step by step into 1,189 bubbles, one per municipality. Scroll through it and compare every presidential race since 1974 👇 johnguerra.co/viz/resultad... #Colombia #DataViz

In this notebook, @laotzunami.bsky.social visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b082818...

Excited to share a project I worked on over the past year 🎬✂️ A scrollytelling visualization exploring Lotte Reiniger’s work through 3 film databases, and how each platform’s purpose shapes the professional perception of her legacy. #DataVisualization #sveltekit #LotteReiniger #Scrollytelling

Lotte Reiniger – What can data tell us about women* in film history?

The data visualization was created by the BMFTR research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) in collaboration with data visualization designer Chri...

lotte-reiniger.oabooks.de

#webdev hivemind, what are using to check content heavy projects for dead links? I just found this link checker project and think it sounds very promising: github.com/JustinBeckwi... Run a simple Node script with linkinator via cron job. Easy! What are the alternatives? Do you know a better one?

What a wasted opportunity: someone could create a website for the domain hell.no but it just sits there. Empty and alone. What would you put on it?

📊 LayerChart: Dodge, Waffle, and more 🏃 New Dodge component 🧇 New Waffle component 🖼️ Canvas: Blur support, improved Pattern (pixel-perfect alignment with SVG, high DPI) 🏎️ Perf improvements details👇

In 2015, Derek Watkins built a chart for The New York Times that I liked so much that two years later, I wrote a whole article about it: www.datawrapper.de/blog/readers... Today, I rebuilt it in Datawrapper with updated data: www.datawrapper.de/_/vnJXh/ That was fun. I should rebuild more charts.

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

terrygodier.com

Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you: pudding.cool/2026/05/simi...

Scroll through from the tiniest organism right up to the largest. All beautifully hand-illustrated by an actual human. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Size of Life

From an amoeba to a blue whale

neal.fun

Few seats left for my Data Storytelling seminar in June! Over the course of 2 days, we’ll explore hands-on how to transform datasets into clear and engaging data stories. Small group (max 10), in-person in Hamburg, in German, in June. www.akademie-fuer-publizistik.de/seminars/dat... #dataviz

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Three weeks ago, we published an interactive story that lets our readers find their relatives in the Nazi Party membership archives. The response has been overwhelming, both in Germany and internationally. The story was covered by outlets such as Le Monde, CBC, Radio-Canada and CNN.

This looks gorgeous. Love the small interactions.

David Aerne@meodai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Spent way too long on that SVG sphere component. Added a bit of scroll interaction so people actually realize it’s 3D PS: you can download the sphere SVG from the settings panel rybitten.space

Very cool Svelte component library using GSAP + OGL for interactive animations from ASCII to typography effects from the author of Motion GPU motion-core.dev

Motion Core — Svelte-native motion toolkit with GSAP and OGL-powered components, demos, and CLI-driven workflows

Svelte-native motion toolkit with GSAP and OGL-powered components, demos, and CLI-driven workflows.

motion-core.dev