May 2016 - Waxy.org

May 31, 2016

Amen, a toolbox for algorithmic music remixing — today's the effective last day of the Echo Nest's pioneering Remix API #

Mosh Pit Simulator trailer — the future of VR #

May 29, 2016

Mu Cartographer — experimental game of colorful landscapes and exploration #

May 27, 2016

Don't Get Rich, Don't Die Trying — The Thermals' Hutch Harris on day jobs, money, and ego in indie music #

May 26, 2016

Browsing Wikipedia with WebVR — I'm getting VRML flashbacks #

May 25, 2016

Reddit replacing Imgur — more than half their most popular posts go to the image-hosting service #

Thngs — a visual index to human-made objects #

scribble.audio — draw looping sounds, from the creator of typedrummer #

Terrapattern — visual search engine for satellite imagery; example: baseball in Detroit, planes in NYC #

May 24, 2016

Peter Thiel secretly funding Hulk Hugan's lawsuit against Gawker — whaaaaa #

May 23, 2016

Oculus adds DRM to block Vive users, broken in a day — surprising how similar the two competing headsets are #

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow — machine learning for dumb coding interview questions #

Pixelsynth — turn images to sound #

Quantizer — auralization of real-time collision data from the ATLAS detector at CERN #

May 20, 2016

Miranda July and Paul Ford at Seven on Seven — with the help of Mystery Show's Starlee Kine, they researched every attendee in the room #

The Evolution of an Accidental Meme — how an illustration about equality transmuted and spread #

Family Guy uses a 7-year-old YouTube video, then blocks the original — you'd think Content ID would factor in the publication date of copyrighted works, but I guess not #

May 19, 2016

Hyper-Reality — from the creator of the popular Augmented (hyper)Reality short #

Everything is a Remix: The Force Awakens — finding a balance between copy, transform, and combine #

Rapping, deconstructed — great Vox explainer on creative rhyme schemes in rap #

May 18, 2016

Blue Feed, Red Feed — WSJ runs Memeorandum Colors-esque analysis on Facebook sources #

May 17, 2016

What's Your Pay Gap? — WSJ finds that "women earn less than men in 439 of 446 major U.S. occupations" #

Funomena announces Woorld — augmented reality toy with Keita Takahashi art #

Four Seasons — space to change seasons #

May 16, 2016

On rocky beginnings — visualization of music listened to in a difficult year, part of the Quantified Selfie project #

The Next Generation of Pokemon — don't underestimate Quakstak #

Comic: My Girl by Sophia Foster-Dimino — from the creator of the Sex Fantasy sketchzine #

Comic: Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin in couples therapy — surprisingly touching #

Shuffleboard At McMurdo — the first dispatch from Maciej Ceglowski's Kickstarter-funded trip to Antarctica #

Max Goodman goes on a picnic — Stupid Hackathon project orders a random food delivery to a random location and Ubers you there #

May 14, 2016

History of the Dat Boi meme — o shit waddup #

Jason Scott's archiving hip hop mixtapes — close to 4,000 so far #

How Does an Editor Think and Feel? — brilliant episode of Tony Zhou's Every Frame A Painting #

Craig Mod's archival plans for Hi.co — microscopic etching community contributions on a nickel plate with a 10,000 year lifespan #

May 11, 2016

How algorithmic news feeds help spread conspiracy theories — an extension of the filter bubble and the net's ability to affirm all your existing beliefs #

May 10, 2016

Curio — the best of the modern PC demoscene; the latest two 64k demos are incredible #

Neural Doodle — semantic style transfer turns doodles into fine art #

Luke Phillips's Theremin — works best on a touchscreen; excited for his upcoming BlokDust #

YACHT's stolen sex tape was a PR stunt gone wrong — misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn't help much #

May 9, 2016

ConnectedNES — Super Mario hacked into a Twitter client with a custom wireless "modem" #

Marco Arment on Apple's role on podcasting — the push for more behavioral analytics inevitably leads to centralization, and sacrificing control #

How browsers render emoji — I learned stuff here #

Christoph Niemann's augmented reality New Yorker cover — watch the video to get a sense of how it looks #

Magnets and Marbles — it's the speedrun of a nonexistent videogame I'd really like to play #

Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2015 — a little late, but great overview of the variety of the type world #

Mandy Brown on gendered bots — one of my pet peeves is naming every personal assistant app after women #

May 5, 2016

Pinboard wins Hacker News contest, disqualified for arbitrary reasons — fascinating thread that speaks volumes about Y Combinator culture #

May 3, 2016

waybackpack — command-line tool to download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a URL #

How Pop Music Evolved — audio/visualization of ?22,000 Billboard hits from 1956 to today #

Graphtreon — I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #