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May 31, 2023
— along with banning NSFW content from the API, this will effectively kill every third-party Reddit client #
May 30, 2023
— The Verge made a short documentary about how the Apple Lisa was sabotaged, with remaining inventory secretly buried in a Utah landfill #
— an attempt to do digital media differently as a worker-owned co-op without outside investors, supported by readers, and writers own their IP #
May 28, 2023
— guess both the location and date of five photos for a combined score via Nick Heer #
— design the worst possible terms of service agreement via @geoffreylitt #
May 27, 2023
— imagine the client learning their lawyers are charging them to literally type “is this a real case” in ChatGPT #
— the project’s wrapping because Media Molecule announced the end of support for the game creation engine in September #
May 26, 2023
— sadly, the Westchester County house was demolished last week with “pretty much everything still inside” #
— so much to explore here, all rendered with a custom typeface for ASCII art #
— FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 #
— “Please click each image containing a Yoko” #
— Linus Åkesson covered the classic Amiga tracker tune from 1993, with a stop-motion video controlled by the original MOD pattern data #
— a long growing list of classic high score screens and their known credits via b3ta #
— convince an increasingly annoying chatbot to reveal a secret password via b3ta #
— ridiculous finger-twisting multitouch game for mobile browsers via MetaFilter #
May 25, 2023
— the behavior appears to be learned but may be a fad, like the Puget Sound orcas who spent the summer of 1987 wearing dead salmon as hats #
— like a visual Stylish without touching CSS, with built-in sharing options #
— Vole.wtf’s new Tetris-esque daily game, clear the blocks to win every day #
— animated short made from over 1,000 historic engravings of objects #
— Naomi Kritzer’s short sci-fi story about a helpful AI, not unlike the one in Mrs. Davis via MetaFilter #
May 23, 2023
— finding the identity of the programmer behind “The Story of Mel,” a classic piece of hacker lore that just turned 40 via MetaFilter #
— C-SPAN meets TikTok sludge content, “it’s giving democracy” #
May 22, 2023
— “generate a secure password from the lyrics of America’s greatest singer-songwriter” via @mattround #
— after ten years and multiple near-death experiences, the award-winning comics publisher is closing in August #
May 19, 2023
— built on top of data from Have I Been Pwned?, I haven’t heard of many of the companies that leaked my info #
— it goes about as well as you’d expect #
— his thoughts about his favorable prognosis and how the treatment he starts today may affect his life and work #
May 18, 2023
— each of the five plaintiffs talk about their experiences in the complaint #
— Kagan’s dissent is worth reading, arguing the opinion will “stifle creativity of every sort” #
May 17, 2023
— the unconstitutional and dangerous law goes into effect on January 1, though it’s likely to be challenged #
— the new social bookmarking app founded by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade is now in public beta, sign up for the waitlist to make your own stacks via @ftrain #
— design and share little interactive voxel rooms in your browser #
— Jaime Brooks contextualizes deepfaked vocals to the history of virtual pop stars, Vocaloid software, and minstrelsy via MetaFilter #
— a useful set of guidelines for technology journalists #
— related: badidea.zip links to a ZIP file called badidea.zip containing a QR code that points to badidea.zip #
May 16, 2023
— a Google spokesperson said they won’t be removing accounts with YouTube videos “at this time.” #
— “Love for this movie showed me a community of people like me.” #
May 15, 2023
— an immersive mystery with Night Vale vibes, I recommend starting with Violet’s Instagram or the town’s announcements #
— launched last November, a massive open-source search engine for shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Libgen, and Z-Library, with a takedown-resistant architecture #
— the pilot program developed with U.S. Digital Service will begin in January, if Intuit’s lobbying doesn’t kill it first #
May 11, 2023
— another brilliant Amy Goodchild post; don’t miss her attempts to recreate Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings with Midjourney and ChatGPT #
— Louie Zong turned over 200 clips of fans singing a single note into a musical keyboard to make songs with #
— Techdirt made a free web game, best played on mobile, that demonstrates some of the challenges moderating social networks #
— it’s permanently shuttered after 36 years; Doug Herzog casually revealed Clinton’s infamous Boxers vs. Briefs question that I wrote about was planted! #
May 10, 2023
— heartbroken to learn that Dooce is no longer with us #
May 9, 2023
— clever Minesweeper-like with beasts who have different bomb patterns, watch the video in the comments if you’re stuck via @Pentadact #
— a rare depiction of a sustainable ecological future in popular media #
— “a game about love and graphing,” made by high schoolers via Kottke #
May 8, 2023
— long-read on Google’s aggressive, monopolistic push to get publishers to adopt AMP, leading to lawsuits and distrust #
— Tears of the Kingdom is playable at 60 fps on PC emulators #
