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July 9, 2015
— emoji short URLs, like so #
— deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don’t care about #
— so much more expressive than a fav alone #
July 8, 2015
— stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #
July 6, 2015
— this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #
— Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #
July 5, 2015
— Paul Carr on Zappos’ shift to a flat organization #
July 3, 2015
— many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #
July 2, 2015
— minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #
— incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #
— a number of women’s rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #
— totally into this, though I’d guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient via r/oculus #
— boy bands without the bands, an audience almost entirely composed of young girls #
June 30, 2015
— podcast from the magical land of Foom #
June 29, 2015
— upsetting examples of how badly the media and government gets it wrong, and how easy it is to get it right #
— the side by side cracked me up #
June 26, 2015
— the entire ruling is worth reading, especially the hilariously awful Scalia dissent #
June 25, 2015
— an editable world made of emoji #
— the first full-motion video game I’ve ever enjoyed, highly recommended #
June 24, 2015
— give it something to dream about in the chat; here’s how it works #
June 23, 2015
— Minecraft on extra-hard mode #
June 22, 2015
— a tool for making phone tree-based games like, say, an audio Flappy Bird #
June 20, 2015
— fun detective story spawned by a Reddit thread and cult following #
June 19, 2015
June 16, 2015
— Etsy gets into crowdfunding #
— try clicking his laptop on the right #
— “You are free to be an asshole on Reddit… but keep it on Reddit.” #
— won’t be nearly as clear as that implies, but makes for an amazing demo #
— I like the technique they’re using for blending, better than averaged #
— incredibly excited for this long-awaited sequel to ICO and Shadow of the Colossus #
June 14, 2015
— machine learning Super Mario World #
June 11, 2015
— Zoe Quinn, Kathy Sierra, Talib Kweli, a Suck reunion, and much, much more #
— a special 38,000 word essay, the bulk of the new double-issue of Businessweek; oh, and it’s open-source #
June 10, 2015
— 45-minute version of the film made almost entirely from unused footage #
June 8, 2015
— more than two months and a million presses later #
June 7, 2015
— write using favicons from around the web #
June 4, 2015
— navigating phone trees as collective art #
— sunsetting the long-neglected service that Tim O’Reilly once called “a milestone in the history of the internet” #
— “My grandfather is dying. The cloud is alive. Our future is bizarre” #
June 3, 2015
— Susie Cagle’s story of the California drought is terrifying #
— Sarah Rothenberg makes neat stuff #
— interactive, audio-responsive music video; see also: jazz.computer #
June 2, 2015
— creepy surveillance art by Kyle McDonald via Belong.io #
May 31, 2015
— until recently, Minecraft never hosted servers, so it wasn’t an issue for them #
