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April 29, 2022
— browse the code or try the new 10.1.0 compiler on Borogove.app #
April 28, 2022
— “One of the most cursed things I’ve ever made. I’m so sorry.” #
— off to 9gag or gmail, i guess #
— Emily Gorcenski’s “requiem for the Twitter that could have been” #
— an “existential horror phone sex hotline” from Shing Yin Khor #
— peer-reviewed does not mean reproducible #
April 22, 2022
— “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web” with contributions from Everest Pipkin, Nick Montfort, May-Li Khoe, and more #
— try the Amazing-QR Python package for making your own #
April 21, 2022
— Google teamed up with the designer of A Dark Room and Gridland to make a quantum computing-themed clicker game via MetaFilter #
— over 700 pieces of 1-bit pixel clip art via Nelson Minar #
April 20, 2022
— review everything on Earth to help improve the simulation via @nealagarwal #
— pose scenarios to three AI models trained exclusively on YTA, NTA, and hybrid answers from Reddit #
April 19, 2022
— incredibly challenging daily browser game to determine the subject of a random redacted Wikipedia article #
April 15, 2022
— amazing deep-dive into the history of FM radio delivered over cable TV lines in the ’80s for early stereo audio #
April 14, 2022
— astounding how close Teenage Engineering’s original concept is to the final product #
— another incredible Inigo Quilez video breaking down a Shadertoy animation #
— Michael Hobbes breaks down a terrible NYT editorial on cancel culture #
— it’s just nice to know he’s still out there, hope he’s doing well #
— his cringe TED interview this morning shows he has zero understanding of how content moderation works at scale #
April 13, 2022
— incredible run of over 25 years of independently-published feminist media #
— The Pudding’s visualization of prominent figures on bank notes around the world #
— the latest in Flurdeh’s series of tilt-shifted game worlds, like Tiny Cyberpunk, Tiny Red Dead, and Tiny Bioshock via Nelson Minar #
April 12, 2022
— stunning 1-bit dithered animations from Russian artist Uno Moralez, mildly NSFW via @banffchris #
April 10, 2022
— Tom7 turns the internet, Tetris, and fancy covid tests into hilariously inefficient hard drives #
April 7, 2022
— or you can view the complete canvas as an interactive timelapse #
— Harris presided as Jackson was confirmed, but no Black women had a vote #
— a charming comic about growing up online from BubbleSort Zines creator Amy Wibowo #
April 6, 2022
— Charlie Warzel interviews Hilary J. Allen about her essay on shadow banking, decentralized finance, and regulation #
— blockquote text would previous display for deleted tweets; this impacts every blog or news site that ever embedded a Trump tweet #
— Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s 2010 web shorts were adapted to a full-length film and it looks charming #
— hyperpolyglots seem to have smaller, more efficient language areas in the brain via MetaFilter #
— the release notes are overwhelming, with The Matrix Awakens city demo available as a free sample project #
— generates AI art from text at 4x the previous resolution with more accuracy; see the paper for more examples #
April 5, 2022
— I’ve also been playing with the beta and the results are astounding #
— starting with new TikTok accounts using IP addresses located 50 miles apart, the difference is stark #
April 4, 2022
— his Twitter poll last month now sounds ominous #
— discovered by accident, immediately recognizable #
— five years later, it’s seen 6x more users participating driven by communities on Twitch and Discord #
— coming this year, it will canonically follow Secret of Monkey Island 2 as Ron explained in his 2013 post #
April 1, 2022
— another thoughtful Hank Green rumination, a good companion to his “Is it All Hopeless?” video from a couple weeks back #
— a 9-hour-long TTS audio transcription of a LOGO program that draws… something, but good luck converting it back to syntactically-correct code #
— Jennifer Daniel explains why the Unicode Technical Committee is no longer accepting flag emoji proposals via Caitlin Dewey #
— chill multiplayer mod for April 1 #
— system7.app and macos8.app instantly emulate Mac hardware full of software, with drag-and-drop file import/export and persistent storage #
— all of you innies better get cracking if we’re going to meet our quarterly quota #
— the first Amazon union in the U.S. #
— I genuinely love this free Comic Sans/Helvetica hybrid via Kottke #
