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December 31, 2015
— a depressing annual reminder that current copyright law terms suck #
— “the measure of health in any open source community is how they deal with conflict” #
— a divisive and misunderstood game with a massive, and well-deserved, cult following #
— feels a bit like they’re trying to cover their asses #
— four years of great independent writing #
— you may not play Hearthstone, but this probably applies to you too #
— the service monitored deleted tweets from public officials, a violation of Twitter’s API terms #
— free, open-source tool for performing estimates using Monte Carlo experiments via Belong.io #
— I’m going to miss that guy #
December 30, 2015
— this bot is so good, I was convinced it’s human; after reading how it works, I’m still not sure #
— short fiction about devs building a game for an audience of bots #
December 23, 2015
— tying racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic paranoia into meme culture #
December 17, 2015
— shockingly simple open-source framework for making WebVR with HTML #
— please somebody do this for real #
— now’s a good time for Wu-Tang and Bill Murray to steal their album back #
— the new Blackbar prequel for iOS by Neven Mrgan and James Moore #
December 16, 2015
— retelling A New Hope without using any images or sounds from the film via MetaFilter #
— brilliant free jazz guitar harmonizing found footage on YouTube via MetaFilter #
December 15, 2015
— pretty sure we’re all playing Frog Fractions 2 right now #
— officially launching the Slack platform; related: Botkit #
— correlating penis length and tipping preferences, among others #
— simulation of 1,000 people’s average day, minute by minute via @_ #
— 31 hours of music, broken up into playlists #
— the Kickstarter-funded indie RPG is brilliant; here’s a great review explaining why it’s finding an audience #
— each episode is a pilot for a new podcast, from This American Life’s Stephanie Foo #
— released in February 2009, players collectively stretched across the solar system #
December 14, 2015
— Brewster Kahle’s bank shutters, stymied by bureaucracy #
— export tools and some goodbye analytics; import your playlists to Spotify #
— my favorite indie game platform launched an open-source desktop app #
— “You gotta hear both sides.” #
— the perfect holiday gift #
— every Just Between Us video gets 100k+ views, madness that they can’t make a living off it #
December 13, 2015
— my friend Nicole is a goddamned genius #
— inside the hateful world of mass shooting conspiracy theorists #
— MIT Media Lab augmented reality project to modify the behavior of connected objects via Belong.io #
— nothing against dildos, it’s a commentary on politicians pandering to gun lunatics #
— mashing up Dilbert comics with horrible, real quotes from its creator #
December 12, 2015
— Apple’s cluelessness about games extends to the TV, so much lost potential #
— running analytics on Neko Atsume, the notoriously opaque kitty collecting game #
— I’ve been following his work for over a decade, but never knew his last name #
December 11, 2015
— I’ve never felt so detached from YouTube culture, I only know 20% of these creators #
December 10, 2015
— digging into a blatant example of faked tweets on 4chan designed to enrage people #
— as before, incredible production values and great storytelling, hopefully leaving the ethical issues behind #
— “If someone does something simple, calls it art, then that’s what it is.” #
December 8, 2015
— short looping animations for the holidays; watch ’em fullscreen with some hot cocoa #
— ten artists reimagine the cover art for their top ten favorite albums of 2015 #
December 7, 2015
— the full research paper is worth reading too #
