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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has redesigned example.com, adding multi-language display and animated transitions. The site now cycles through six languages with smooth opacity effects, and features an SVG book icon, enhancing its visual presentation. These updates aim to improve the site's utility and user experience while maintaining its role as a placeholder domain.
Designer Nikolaj Sokolowski has released Book of Shapes, a collection of minimal, generative SVG patterns that users can customize. The project offers a browsable set of vector designs intended for use in web and design projects.
Scissor is a new free vector and pixel graphics editor that runs entirely in the browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly, requiring no installation, account or file upload. It supports pen and shape tools, layers, masks, gradients, live effects, image tracing, multiple grid types, and can import and export formats including SVG, PDF, PSD, PNG and WebP. The tool also works offline and can be installed as an app, with all files stored locally on the user's device.
A community-built site has extended Simon Willison's informal LLM benchmark—asking models to draw an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle—into a set of 30 drawing prompts tested across 2025 and 2026 model runs. The 2026 batch currently covers prompts 1 through 10, with images displayed unedited exactly as each model generated them.
Following the release of GPT Astra, viral demos such as recreating Minecraft, drawing a pelican on a bicycle as SVG, and simulating a bouncing ball in a rotating box swept social feeds. A commentary piece labels these 'demo-benchmarks': tasks that look impressive and are easy to grasp, but are narrow enough that labs can specifically optimize for them before each launch. It cites Thinking Machines' Inkling Small, a much smaller model that nearly matched or beat its larger sibling on tests like Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond, as evidence that public, static test sets get gamed through training choices.
A maker who previously used the Cuttle parametric CAD service to design laser-cut keyboard holders has since switched to OpenSCAD, an open-source CAD tool, citing concerns over design ownership and portability. Using OpenSCAD, they built a cable-management box for a partner, complete with finger joints and a decorative cat-silhouette cutout pattern on its front and back panels.