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March 31, 2020
— allowing unlimited copies feels like an overreach, violating the IA’s own Controlled Digital Lending policy #
— every horse is flipping you off four times #
— over $1,000 worth of incredible games and ebooks for $30, with 100% of funds going to support orgs #
— they’re also waiving fees for publications that donate their earnings to the fight against COVID-19 #
— DeepMind made a deep learning agent that can outperform humans at 57 Atari 2600 games #
March 30, 2020
— incredible starting point via Tom Armitage #
— turn screen captures into GIFs with cropping and trimming, entirely client-side in the browser via Simon Willison #
— Donato Sansone’s minute-long montage of overlapping stock videos via Colossal #
— outstanding video simulating how epidemics spread and the actions that are effective at mitigating them #
— John Scalzi wrote about the experience being on JoCoCruise as Covid-19 started exploding in the U.S. #
— after 15+ years of GIMP telling people to go fork themselves, someone finally did #
— MSCHF is simulating the lost NBA season as “hyper-realistic audio gameplay broadcasts” live, starting tomorrow via @Gabriel_Whaley #
— John Krasinski doing his best Ze Frank, way better than I expected it to be #
— delightful retroweb-inspired goodness from Nathalie Lawhead #
— try it on Google Colab or watch Two Minute Papers’ video to see more examples #
— interactive editor for making GLSL face filters with WebGL, click the arrows to see more via @maxbittker #
March 27, 2020
March 26, 2020
— Andy McMillan and I popped up in The Verge today #
— the unique first-hand perspective of seeing the world shift to remote work, including his own company via Nelson Minar #
— like Jason Kottke said, “America is a rich country that feels like a poor country.” #
March 25, 2020
— not mentioned: Rave, &chill, and ShareTube #
— well-meaning people are accidentally spreading bad information, alongside profiteers and bad actors doing it deliberately #
— I made some of my own, but these are really well done via MetaFilter #
— they’ve removed waitlists for over 1.4 million scanned books via Cory Doctorow #
— well-researched feature on The Atlantic about what went wrong, where it’s going, and what needs to happen next #
— he’s streaming shows daily on FB/Twitch/YouTube at 4pm PT/7pm ET, and it’s really great #
— collaborative artwork by Zach Lieberman lets you paint with your head via @zachlieberman #
— simple app filters out incoming and outgoing background noise for online calls #
— a playful new newsletter from The Verge’s T.C. Sottek #
— Mailchimp licensed 40+ SXSW-nominated shorts for streaming via @sarita__alami #
March 24, 2020
— they don’t plan to run a physical OSCON, Strata, Velocity, or anything else ever again #
— José Manuel Ballester removes human figures from classic paintings #
— the best visualization I’ve found so far to track country-by-country growth of COVID-19, updated daily #
— Noah Kalina is snapping moments from live feed webcams of public places around the world #
— the dartening is near #
March 23, 2020
— he mentions me and Kind of Bloop around the 5:50 mark #
— new incremental game, like A Dark Room meets Telehack #
March 18, 2020
— and they’re funded by SoftBank #
— from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch via @anildash #
— a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk’s livestream yesterday #
— communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify #
— preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend #
March 17, 2020
— the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source #
— John Green on how we’ll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo #
— new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale’s Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl #
— Guy Maddin’s experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo from found footage via @mikerugnetta #
— my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me #
March 16, 2020
— on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks #
— French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in #
