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February 21, 2020
— good riddance, NDAs fundamentally allow toxic workplaces to persist by silencing victims #
— a massive concerted effort to amplify climate denialism #
— embedded 6502 machine code running on a simulation of a BBC Micro in 266 characters via @ianholmes #
— lovely version by Portland’s own ann annie via Boing Boing #
February 20, 2020
— MSCHF is selling $100 boxes filled with prizes worth $0-7k, but if you choose not to open it, they’ll pay you $10/day up to $1,000 #
— a new publication from Glitch celebrating makers, coders, and creators #
— most made by a solo dev with a distinct voice, which then impacts your own creative expression via @alienmelon #
February 18, 2020
— a teenage fan made these songs with Music Construction Set in 1985 and rediscovered the floppies this month via r/c64 #
— infinite stream of AI art trained on cubist paintings #
— generative art maker from last year but new to me, try it on desktop #
— synthesizer based on Conway’s Game of Life via jwz #
— ongoing 100 day CSS art project by Sandra Davis #
— amazing remix album of arrangements of old MIDI files that shipped with Windows via @surasshu #
— Instagram filter turns your face into an anthropomorphized 3D letter #
— neural-network lyric generator with options for subject, mood and genre via Boing Boing #
— Patreon is starting to offer large cash advances with future Patreon earnings as collateral #
— generates isolated instrumental/vocal tracks and pulls lyrics from public databases; try it before it gets C&Ded #
— the first union of white-collar, full-time workers in the tech industry #
February 17, 2020
— he compares it to the coding equivalent of home cooking: deliberately amateur, loose, and unscalable #
— the video was heavily inspired by late ’70s/early ’80s animation like Heavy Metal and Watership Down #
February 14, 2020
— it downloads the models real-time from Google Poly #
— a beautiful Twitter bot moment #
— a wild rise and fall from its 2017 launch to 2.4 million peak concurrent players in 2018 to complete collapse #
— like Lil Miquela and Ami Yamato, Melody never breaks character #
— hacking an arm prosthesis to a modular synth to make thought-controlled music via @garbageday #
— their AR app plays animations around the moon seen through your phone’s camera #
— he didn’t own a smartphone until three years ago #
— the remarkable creation tool can be used for game development, 3D rendering, music, animation, and more via mailchi.mp #
— Dr. Davis is the mother of the actor who played Dutch in RDR2 via Nelson Minar #
— I was lucky enough to get to know Eric when we were both at Yahoo, just a super kind and cool person via Web Curios #
— this year’s Oscar-winning live-action short film via Web Curios #
— Janelle Shane asked GPT-2 for some new Valentine’s Day slogans #
— comic strip generated from articles about millennials killing things via Web Curios #
— run your BASIC tweets on a virtual BBC Micro via Web Curios #
February 13, 2020
— web app for creating patterns via @adrianholovaty #
— Neal Agarwal visualizes income streams via FlowingData #
— Travis moved on to disrupting health inspections via Nelson Minar #
— a community of women who believe they’re genetically destined to be alone, while their male counterparts deny they even exist #
— interesting to see the different norms and expectations around attribution between different apps #
— spearheaded by the CEO of Fyre Festival marketers and professional plagiarists, Jerry Media aka fuckjerry #
— Chooseco’s also been going after indie game devs on Itch.io via mailchi.mp #
— it uses their virtual credit cards, which can also be used for no-risk free trial signups #
— new site for the immersive design agency behind Jejune Institute and Latitude Society via @lindadong #
— Nicole He fine-tuned GPT-2 to generate interview questions and new lyrics #
— brilliant stunt to subvert the horrible precedents set by recent high-profile music copyright infringement cases via mailchi.mp #
February 11, 2020
— a social network simulator for iOS where you’re the only human with millions of bots obsessed with you via @billychasen #
February 10, 2020
— including text, images, and audio, presumably impacting a large swath of the pre-2010s web #
— with interviews from the team and behind-the-scenes photos and digital renderings #
— 24 years later, it’s now re-rendered in 1080p 60FPS video from the original 3ds Max source #
February 7, 2020
— stretching machine-generated parallax with the 3D Ken Burns effect to its limits #
