Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, claims to have used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create ...

The mystery to The Matrix code has been solved. The creator of the neon green digital rain, Simon Whiteley, told CNet the code was inspired by nothing more than his wife's Japanese sushi recipe.

Which would you rather feel? The blast of a fire hose, or a cool, digital rain? That’s what we thought. Introducing Blue Rain — the fire hose that is the BlueSky feed, falling semi-cryptically down ...

Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, has said he used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design. In early 2026, social media users circulated a claim that the iconic ...