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May 3, 2016
— audio/visualization of ?22,000 Billboard hits from 1956 to today #
— I’m familiar with most of Patreon’s top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #
— neural network-generated web nostalgia via @tinysubversions #
— lessons learned running an online community turned business #
— real micro hardware for playing and coding games for the wonderful PICO-8 fantasy console #
May 2, 2016
— very smart acquisition, though I prefer more distribution options for indies #
May 1, 2016
— faded away to nothing at all #
April 29, 2016
— sad to see it go, absolutely essential for everyone who loved casual/Flash games #
— “Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?” #
— short film based on a YouTube comment #
— recurrent neural network generating a new Full House script every day; how it works #
— Backchannel on the whistleblower who outed low pay at Yelp, which led to raises after her firing #
— “Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?” #
April 28, 2016
April 27, 2016
April 26, 2016
— examples of web audio synthesis made with the library of the same name via Nelson Minar #
— make something great for someone, not everyone #
April 19, 2016
— interactive replays of artists using Tilt Brush in VR for the Vive #
— totally missed this move last September, and that he took control over 2ch too #
— beautiful tumblr of ASCII/ANSI-influenced art #
— technology changed it, but in unexpected ways via Kottke #
— tell me we’re not in a bubble again #
— it’s easier to fall for conspiracy theories than understand the complexity of online harassment #
April 18, 2016
— realistic renderings of bicycles drawn from memory #
— more artificial artificial intelligence #
— perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 via @thisjenlewis #
April 15, 2016
— like Agar.io meets Snake #
April 14, 2016
— interesting networked coding utility, if you’re comfortable with the privacy issues #
April 13, 2016
— tinker with machine learning in the browser #
— bizarrely great music recommendations with a quirky interface #
— challenging and expensive at scale, with traumatic impact on moderators #
— analyzing 70M comments, women and minority authors were targeted disproportionately #
April 9, 2016
— clever methodology maps character names in screenplays to IMDB actors #
— from the 1940s, quite possibly the first choose-your-own-adventure/game book via @FisherPriceTT #
— the same emoji appears wildly different on various phones and browsers #
— Twitterbots are contemporary, populist poetry #
April 8, 2016
— “Koyannisqatsi reconstructed shot-by-shot with modern, watermarked stock footage” #
April 7, 2016
— my favorite robot maker teams up with Adam Savage and Tested #
— a drug he needs to survive now costs $44,000/month in the U.S., $36 in Australia without insurance #
— I wonder what most viewers made of their U.S. television debut #
— watch this on your phone #
April 6, 2016
— one day left to fund the Ordinary Women series, which is about to hit its goal #
— Slack-like commands in the browser #
April 5, 2016
— new designs, revenue options and archive importing preserving timestamps and links #
— warning: can’t be unseen #
— Tom 7’s badass hack to automatically emulate NES games in 3D #
— voxel WebGL fan remake, disable Flashblock for audio #
— the best demonstration of what good VR feels like without actually experiencing it #
