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December 22, 2017
— clever approach; a friend tried to reverse-engineer the API, but it’s well secured #
— Botnik’s predictive keyboard suggests words based on any corpus you feed it #
December 20, 2017
— new entry in Justin O’Beirne’s ongoing series #
December 19, 2017
— Bret Victor and friends opened a communal physical computing space in Oakland #
December 18, 2017
— solid list with many of my favorites of the year, including Gorogoa, Universal Paperclips, and Getting Over It #
— impressively-designed article on the uncertain financial future for anyone under 35 #
— 56% of millennials think it’s okay to pee in the shower, and other fun poll results #
— stunning episode on a journalist’s sexual assault in broad daylight, and the ensuing culture war mounted by a Twitter troll army funded by Mexico’s ruling party #
— “We need for the machines to wake up, not in the sense of computers becoming self-aware, but in the sense of corporations recognizing the consequences of their behavior.” #
— Silicon Valley founders still think they’re the good guys #
December 15, 2017
— five years in the making, Jason Roberts’ gorgeous illustrated game is out for iOS/Windows/Switch #
— database of films/TV shows tied to people accused of sexual misconduct #
December 4, 2017
— the rise of hypertext games led to a record 79 entries this year #
— 26 illustrators draw new covers and count down their favorite albums of the year #
December 3, 2017
— Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos officially wrap one of the best web series ever; the bits on Content ID are frustrating and fascinating via @robinsloan #
November 28, 2017
— turn your sound up; also available on iOS #
— like Kottke, I thought they’d be private forever via Kottke #
— the worst game ever made, now in 360º immersion via @revdancatt #
November 16, 2017
— I’ve played for the last month (won once!), and it’s firmly in Black Mirror territory #
— for this year’s NaNoGenMo, Liza Daly rendered a book with physics in a game engine #
November 15, 2017
— some interesting analysis from Emojitracker creator mroth #
— just type stuff, a new toy from Terry Cavanagh #
— The Verge got the scoop with interviews from past and present staff #
November 14, 2017
— double the speed of previous versions, 30% less memory than Chrome #
— 20 questions with a machine, from Google’s voice experiments via Kottke #
— I’ve bought every Holiday Bullshit, and never regretted it #
November 12, 2017
— interactive presentation on the landscape of generative music #
November 10, 2017
— actors hired to play the public role of friends, family, or romantic partners #
— edit podcast audio by editing the transcript #
— use machine learning to upscale photos with high fidelity #
— Jimmy Maher turns his eye from history of computer games to the proto-internet #
— ingenious interactive fiction for Google Home, games written in plain english in Google Docs #
— beautifully constrained pay-what-you-like drawing tool from Hundred Rabbits #
— as Lauren Duca said, “2017 is the year of male consequences” — let’s hope the president is next #
— like Lenny, the time-wasting telemarketer responder, for email #
November 6, 2017
— it only takes five or six related video clicks to get from benign to disturbing stuff #
November 1, 2017
— 3D printing a turtle that looks like a rifle to a machine, and an espresso baseball #
October 31, 2017
— related: Publio Delgado’s Harmonizator and /r/zappafied #
October 30, 2017
— frustratingly preventable, they moved everything out of a fire-protected vault #
— he forgot his PIN, forcing him to hack his own wallet #
— I couldn’t be more excited #
October 24, 2017
— gorgeous new game inspired by Islamic art and architecture #
October 16, 2017
— make music with Javascript; try the Partly Purdie example #
— Paul Ford on 20 years of blogging #
— LocalStorage comments viewable only to the person who made them #
October 15, 2017
— Mike Monteiro on how Twitter’s inability to address harassment became a global threat #
