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January 28, 2020
— seven years in the making #
— my favorite game released last year, I can’t recommend it highly enough and I’m not alone #
— music made with barcode scanners #
— minimalist news summaries reformatted from Wikipedia’s Current Events portal via kickscondor.com #
— trauma, negligence, and exploitation #
January 27, 2020
— after a hiatus, Rex Sorgatz’s excellent newsletter is back with a new domain and daily publishing schedule #
— releasing in the next couple weeks, according to the creator #
January 24, 2020
— the revamped six-second looping video app from the creators of Vine, unrelated to their 2015 app with the same name #
— like every glitch project, the source is available to remix #
— 2011 mashup album combines De La Soul vocals with instrumentals from Soviet Union jazz/soul records #
January 23, 2020
— Google made a collaborative puzzle game to promote their I/O conference #
— ironically, the founder tried to scrub his own online history #
— the obvious next step is just intermingling them in between organic results #
— a visual archive of Geocities sites by neighborhood, part of the Restorativland project to restore dead webpages via Belong.io #
January 22, 2020
— my favorite indie software/game publisher/console developer launched its own podcast #
January 21, 2020
— 33 years old, if you count the zines #
— from Moscow-based animation studio Petrick via Daring Fireball #
— sourced from freelancers primarily in the Philippines for $1 or less per image #
January 20, 2020
— screens on screens on screens, directed and animated by Elenor Kopka #
— a collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers #
— videos with short segments of copyrighted material are much more likely to fall under fair use #
— more like collaborative surrealist storytelling than classic interactive fiction #
— from the creator of the Chipophone, classical music played on a Commodore 64 with reverb to simulate church acoustics via MetaFilter #
January 18, 2020
— mapped his apartment in Sketchup and Blender, composed the proof of concept in Unity via @GregMadison #
— sadly, it closed suddenly in 2007 via MetaFilter #
— anything is possible in VR, the only limit is yourself #
— part of Open Sourced, Recode’s new journalism project on the hidden consequences of tech #
— quirky note-taking web app that takes the form of cities and islands via @ftrain #
— the Peter Thiel-funded startup scraped over three billion images via @kashhill #
January 17, 2020
— new-to-me podcast that investigates questions the internet hasn’t found answers to yet #
— looking at number of cuts, like ratios, and apology phrases, and the impact of growth via @taylorlorenz #
— more nonsense in the long NYT interview #
— no coding knowledge required, very portable with Markdown text, and supports custom domains #
— it’s clutter and designed to confuse, here’s how to remove it with a content blocker via Nelson Minar #
January 16, 2020
— personally, I’d prefer glasses to something I had to stick in my eye and disinfect nightly via @caseorganic #
— “democracy cannot function without a shared understanding of reality” #
— Irish artist Mary Safro makes ’90s retrotech-inspired products like these excellent enamel pins #
— unofficial collection of Apple-related images and video #
— Chrome/Firefox add-on to see who wrote text on Wikipedia entries #
— Spin had a different fate, purchased by a private equity company #
— a creative hack to deal with increased copyright claims, a flawed appeal process, and de-monetization issues #
— even on the easiest setting, a feat of physical endurance #
— one of many great resources for creative coding with machine learning from Max Woolf #
January 15, 2020
— he ties it back to Matt Webb’s Glancing from 2004 #
January 14, 2020
— using GANs to teach HAL 9000 how to lip-read via @jonathanfly #
— try keeping the tab open for while for a little easter egg #
— an open-source homage to the falling sand microgenre, more about how it was made #
January 13, 2020
— JS graphics to draw in a hand-drawn, sketchy style; see also: Chart.xkcd via @flowingdata #
