Declarative Dragging

Digital Marbling

I’ve been working on a physics-based marbling simulation to explore the ways that the traditional craft of paper marbling can be augmented digitally. Paper marbling is a centuries-old craft that uses the movement of water to create swirling patterns of inks and paints on paper (and sometimes fabric). The earliest accounts of marbling date back to the 12th century in Japan, where it is known as “suminagashi.” Inks were floated on top of water and manipulated into delicate, flowing shapes using breath, fans, and other utensils. Later, paper marbling traditions emerged in the Middle East and Europe, making use of more viscous media and fine-toothed combs to create repeating patterns with greater regularity and control.

Unsortable — Headless, Flexible Drag-and-Drop Library

Unsortable is a lightweight, headless JavaScript library for nested drag-and-drop sorting with full state control and no DOM mutations.

Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes in the World!

The world's largest database of paper airplanes with easy, step-by- step video tutorials for folding each plane!

daybrush/moveable

Moveable! Draggable! Resizable! Scalable! Rotatable! Warpable! Pinchable! Groupable! Snappable!

Drawing with “obsolete” devices: discovering pen plotters

Join us for a workshop at the Internet Archive Europe where we will explore how pen plotters from the 80s work, together with artists Emanuele Arrigoni and Claudio Castro Chaponan. During the workshop, we will get to know about pen plotters by working with them hands on, reading and writing instructions from an original manual that will translate in drawings and movements of pens on paper. In the past, these devices were used in offices to produce graphs and charts, but what can we use them for today? Emanuele and Claudio are two interdisciplinary artists that share an interest in researching the maintenance and reuse of so called “obsolete” media for artistic purposes. They will share how they search for documentation material of all kinds online to learn about old machinery, how does it work and how to interact with it today beyond its intended use. The purpose of this workshop is explorative, no previous experience is required, just bring your own curiosity!

@neodrag/svelte

Your one stop solution for anything draggable with JavaScript. Adapters for React, Svelte, Vue, SolidJS and JavaScript. Fully TypeScript compliant.

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

Hand-hatched surfaces after the mid-century manner of Francis, Apéry, Hilbert–Cohn-Vossen. Drag to turn the model freely (shift-drag to roll it); scroll to approach.

Digital scrapbooking?

55 votes, 24 comments. As the title says, I'm after opinions on digital scrapbooking and maybe best (preferably free) resources. I've only done…

supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe

A recent  NYT piece  argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.

Ink

Handwriting and drawing directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.

Evolving the infinite canvas

In the digital world, especially on the web, we’re used to things being stacked vertically. Scrolling, scrolling, through boxes of content,

Andy Matuschak on Twitter / X

Made a Printer Friend which quickly transcribes speech onto little slips of paper. Nice for card sorts, quickly capturing open loops, discursive notes in books, etc.The speed of thermal printers and their auto-cutters is so satisfying! And dedicated mechanical key! Mm! pic.twitter.com/LDAXaD64go— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) September 25, 2026

Modos Flow

A paper-like monitor for reading, writing, and focused work