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November 29, 2022
— this will be her last annual video for a while, she plans to keep recording them but stagger the releases via MetaFilter #
November 28, 2022
— new tool with a streamlined UI; I’m [email protected], if you want to join me #
November 25, 2022
— don’t miss Sabrina’s accompanying article and resources #
— Everest Pipkin’s latest is an “abiogenesis body horror idle clicker” via b3ta #
— especially love the series inspired by The Sentinel via Web Curios #
— who needs SMS? use a Commodore 64 for generating two-factor authentication codes via Medium #
November 23, 2022
— trained from their new OpenCLIP encoder, with higher resolution, a 4x upscaler, and a new depth-guided img2img model #
— Kevin Perjurer solves a mystery with impeccable production values and a meditation on legacy #
— The Verge quoted my 2003 post about Audioscrobbler #
— building extremely persuasive AIs that are more effective negotiators than humans, what could go wrong #
— a rare interview, showing his willingness to commit to the bit until the cleansing fire burns it all down #
— Priya Krishna makes GPT-3 generated recipes and it goes about as well as you’d expect via @[email protected] #
— Phil Gyford made a wonderful categorized directory of 852 (and growing!) active blogs #
November 22, 2022
November 21, 2022
— 70% of the top 20 are choice-based instead of parser-based, continuing the trend of the last few years via @IFTF #
— NeRFs are neural networks that can generate complex 3D scenes from 2D photos via Garbage Day #
November 20, 2022
— profoundly weird generations made with Midjourney v4 #
November 17, 2022
November 15, 2022
— “an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station” #
— Sahil Lavingia made an experiment where you talk to a vocalized AI of him about his book #
— I talked to the reporter for this piece, which does a good job covering some of the complex questions around legality #
November 14, 2022
— multiplayer Discord game tasking you with finding objects in the multiverse with an AI image generator #
November 12, 2022
— charming bubble-blowing simulator, the rest of Saharan’s portfolio is great too via Web Curios #
November 10, 2022
— thoughtful post on the different cultural norms and expectations between Twitter and Mastodon #
— a real steal at two for $7.99, with up to 24 per user #
— the fact this is fully playable on Cohost is very impressive #
— Platformer reports on Elon Musk’s ongoing self-inflicted train wreck #
November 3, 2022
— fundraiser livestream of a Desert Bus-esque simulation of the 23-hour drive South Texans need to make to get an abortion #
— an AI-generated never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Ĺ˝iĹľek; more details on Hacker News #
— I followed every step of this as he documented it on Twitter since learning about it in 2019 #
November 1, 2022
— very relevant to my new post #
— inspect the source for some comedy, and be sure to try it in older browsers #
October 28, 2022
— Nilay Patel points out the obvious and inevitable conflict between Elon’s dreams and Twitter’s reality #
October 25, 2022
— carrying on the spirit of Glitch, the MMO that died so Slack could live via MetaFilter #
— for the second time, following Paul Ford’s “What Is Code?” in 2015, Businessweek devoted an entire issue to one 40,000 word article #
October 24, 2022
— wild update to Brian Feldman’s article I linked to in July, a story of false memories and local folklore #
— chill procedurally-generated infinite driving game made in Three.js via @anslogen #
October 21, 2022
— browse and search Archive.org’s massive collection of 11 terabytes of vintage files, mostly from 7k CD-ROM compilations #
— Bee Dee Gee’s Hee Bee Bee Gees is Brian David Gilbert’s followup to AAAH!BBA, his Halloween-themed ABBA cover album #
— Linus Ă…kesson made an 8-bit accordion out of two C64s and a bellows made of floppies #
October 10, 2022
— “My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.” #
— by law, DragonForce must be in every rhythm game ever made via @DerpyChap #
— turning a 10-second joke from a 1997 episode of the Simpsons into a free full game #
October 7, 2022
— the pioneering Napa Valley chef overshadowed by Thomas Keller’s success after selling him the restaurant via openculture.com #
October 5, 2022
— the “lowest-quality photo sharing site on the internet,” where every image is compressed to under 1KB #
— The Pudding made a clever word game where you play asynchronously against one random stranger per day #
— Kaitlin Tiffany on the blurred lines between the DWeb and Web3 movements #
— impressive output, but I’m increasingly skeptical that Google will ever release any of this work #
October 4, 2022
— David Friedman looks at novel juggling routines #
