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September 29, 2021
— a grim but useful addition #
September 28, 2021
— a delightful short point-and-click adventure; hints available in the Metafilter thread via MetaFilter #
September 27, 2021
— bought by the same company who acquired Genius two weeks ago #
— “a weapon against the open web, against self-actualization, and against democracy” #
— PTA’s latest is a coming-of-age story set in 1970s San Fernando Valley with impeccable attention to detail #
— Frank Force’s tiny lightweight 2D game engine with WebGL rendering and impressive performance #
— “I don’t want to bleed out empathy, a virtue I cherish. But I’m angry.” #
— one of my favorite people on TikTok #
— love seeing SmugMug’s commitment to the Flickr Commons project in the form of a new nonprofit #
— how a desperate need for control over our lives transforms into self-sabotage via @annehelen #
— I’ve experienced this conflict myself, as a conversational overlapper working with a turn-taker #
— a “growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people” with over 1,100 interviews, essays, and guides via @brandonstosuy #
September 22, 2021
— with the shift to online apps, educators report students are increasingly confused by the idea of a local filesystem with nested files and folders #
September 21, 2021
— Demi Adejuyigbe’s sixth and final September 21 video raised over $180k for three charities in an hour #
September 20, 2021
— if you’re running iOS 15, install this Safari extension to automatically redirect AMP links #
September 17, 2021
— interactive tiny moments from classic games, using an emulator save state and a limited slice of the ROM via Belong.io #
— reported from leaked documents, WSJ’s damning series on Facebook’s failure to act on internal reports of social harm #
September 16, 2021
— 50 Years of Text Games on a pioneering Doom-inspired audio game for the visually impaired #
September 14, 2021
— he’s doing Steamboat Willie next; CW: flashing images #
September 12, 2021
— as he has for the last 20 years, and maybe for the last time, Anil Dash reflects on September 11 then and now #
September 10, 2021
— every library should be pushing for Controlled Digital Lending to avoid abusive licensing #
— on the absurdity of fractionalized NFT ownership #
September 9, 2021
— delightfully customizable virtual spaces for video chat and real-time collaboration #
— glasses that can listen to you and record everything you see, from the the world’s most trusted brand in user privacy #
September 8, 2021
— Glitch app turns a Google Sheets spreadsheet into a simple blog with RSS, remix it for your own domain via @aTylerRobertson #
— a directory of active vintage websites created between 1994-1997 and last modified pre-2000, like thenanny.com via Jeremy Keith #
September 7, 2021
— Kate Willært’s deep-dive into Custer’s Revenge, one of the most offensive video games ever made via Today in Tabs #
— Phil Gyford gave titles and opening lines to EleutherAI and VQGAN+CLIP, with interesting notes on the results #
— Kirby Ferguson is remixing his brilliant video series on copyright and reuse, updating it for 2021 #
September 2, 2021
— in six days, Vine/Peach creator Dom Hofmann’s RPG inventory generator spawned an ecosystem and $180M market cap #
— seinfeld meets miles via @Shnabubula #
September 1, 2021
— photo magic with math #
— the Texas legislature is about to ban abortion medications, as well #
— abortion funds like these are likely to be targeted in Texas courts under the new law #
— designed to be nearly impossible to challenge in court by preventing state officials from enforcing it #
— designed to evade court challenges, deputizing private citizens to sue abortion providers and others with a $10,000 bounty #
