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April 4, 2016
— interview series with underrepresented people working in tech in Silicon Valley #
— give it light and time #
— I identify with this a little too much #
— Eric Meyer on #663399becca and #gamergate #
— I picked the winner, time to go to the track #
April 3, 2016
— capturing the flag at 8-3 in the nick of time, and the final win against Bowser, are both incredible #
— view in the Javascript console, press “x” to interrupt #
— 12 national leaders using offshore tax havens to hide funds #
— Fusion’s analysis of the Panama Papers, a leak 100x bigger than Wikileaks #
April 2, 2016
— most of the resistance is from older net users, who still think of it as an invention and a place #
— Tested’s Will Smith is doing a TV show in VR; don’t miss where they jump inside the game set #
— their sequel to last year’s thebutton, another game-like experiment in online social dynamics #
April 1, 2016
— Paul Ford on Gmail Mic Drop and Internet Jackass Day #
— read the whole thread starting here, as it unfolded #
— MMOs continue to be weird, but Eve is particularly so via MetaFilter #
— shorthand for that non-existent family member with insider information in the gaming industry #
March 30, 2016
— whaaaa, official support for native bash and Ubuntu Linux binaries in Windows #
— infuriating story of dealing with systemic racism while trying to cash a money order #
— “a series of perceptual landscapes where graphic complexity emerges from the structure of simplistic three-dimensional forms” #
March 28, 2016
— I love IFTTT, but this is a bummer #
— first-of-its-kind code injection, by hand, on an unmodded SNES console #
March 26, 2016
— combining 3D capture with multiple participants with an augmented reality display #
March 25, 2016
— superb Sarah Jeong piece on bot ethics with four of my favorite bot creators #
March 24, 2016
— interactive musical experiment #
March 23, 2016
— given free access to a tiny handful of site, they’re making the most of it #
March 22, 2016
— I fully expect these to be a mundane part of everyday life in a few years #
— detecting faces, bodies, and other focal points #
— it’s out now for PC, Mac, and PS4; worth it for developer commentary alone #
— starts with a shocking quote from Nixon’s Watergate co-conspirator, making made headlines on its own #
March 21, 2016
— play with wobbly mountains #
March 20, 2016
— GTA V hacked to follow a single deer as it randomly roams the landscape #
— experiments with using machine learning for writing prose, poetry, and other texts #
March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016
— interesting postmortem from Panic’s first foray into videogame publishing #
March 15, 2016
— short fiction, totally not written by Robin Sloan, about Facebook on Facebook #
— Twitter’s killing “elevated” access to its streaming API #
March 13, 2016
— making every movie better, one Dire Straits song at a time via Kottke #
March 11, 2016
— “Lifehacks for Dads Who Do Fifty Percent: Big Data Will Choose the Next President.” #
— some great music writing in here #
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016
— try it with Cardboard, if you have one #
March 8, 2016
— his ambitious followup to Mountain #
— I should have questioned this myself, but I assumed they did lots of post-processing cleanup via Boing Boing #
— love all the different student interpretations via @molleindustria #
March 7, 2016
— “In the US, under-30s are now poorer than retired people” #
March 5, 2016
— the original vaporwave via @textfiles #
— the data and source are available on Pwanson’s site #
March 3, 2016
— hold digital files hostage until your client pays up #
