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I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently.

Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance. I have tightened the app to be a collection of 6 games: Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game and a daily reconciliation puzzle where the player must find bad data in a fake table.

The games are free to play but sign up is required to submit your scores to the leaderboard. As was the original intention over a year ago, I hope this proves useful to those office workers who have a lot of downtime in between tasks or meetings yet don’t have the freedom to open Youtube or Cyberpunk 2077 on their work computers. Ironically my work network has blocked the website as it “contains non-business-related services” – I hope you have better luck than me!

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Built this over 4 days to track all 48 squads at the 2026 World Cup (football/soccer) — heights and ages going back to 1930, market values, club pipelines, and group comparisons. Former journalist, not an engineer, but have been building notebooks for a few years. Claude Code and Codex were a great help. Tournament starts Thursday. Full writeup here if useful (more trends related): emot.substack.com

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Built a platform where instead of juggling between different agents and terminals, you have an interface similar to slack where you can get everything done. The beta is live now for mac.

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Hi HN,

My group and I have used Roll20 for years, and have tried several other popular VTTs without success; usually we find them bloated, clunky, or slow. So I made one for ourselves and there are now a few other groups using it.

It has all the basics in a minimal UI and is game-agnostic. It also has (completely optional) AI-generation of token and map art. Try it if you want, and if you like it you're welcome to use it.

I don't know how it's gonna evolve in the future, but I'm talking with users and making it good for them, while keeping the minimalistic design a priority.

Milan

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I built xa11y to simplify cross-platform desktop automation.

Originally I was interested in using computer use agents to automate testing of desktop applications. The tools I tried gave agents the ability to click a mouse and fed them screenshots, but the agents struggled to use the mouse accurately. A couple projects like OmniParser use specialized screenshot reading models and element labeling instead of pixel coordinates for interactions. But even when they work, they're slow and expensive to run since they rely on models.

I then looked at accessibility APIs as a way to read the screen. Initial experiments worked and I found that accessibility APIs are a well-known tool for desktop automation. But when I wrote tests for a cross-platform desktop app, I didn't find a library that worked across Mac, Windows, and Linux. Additionally, my initial tests were flaky because elements take time to appear and get new IDs as the UI re-renders.

I built xa11y around two ideas to close these gaps: 1) create an accessibility abstraction that works across all platforms and 2) emulate Playwright's auto-waiting, selectors, and locator patterns which make web automation robust.

The hardest part was finding the right abstraction which faithfully represents the platform-specific APIs in a common interface. One example: on Windows, the accessibility tree for an entire app can be read in one API call, but on Linux each element attribute requires a separate call. The library originally fetched the entire accessibility tree for each query, then walked it to return results, but on Linux for large apps, reading all the data could take 10 seconds or more. As a result, the library evaluates the filter as it walks the tree (instead of after) and only returns the matching elements (not subtrees).

The library is written in Rust, has Python and JS bindings, and is MIT licensed. Blog post with more details: https://crowecawcaw.github.io/general/2026/05/30/accessibili...

Any feedback welcome!

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