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July 31, 2023
— Pee Wee Herman brought so much joy into the world #
July 29, 2023
— everything he’s made since then is great too, I especially loved Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure for Playdate via @lauraehall #
— Erin Kissane surveyed people on Bluesky who bounced off Mastodon and her write-up is excellent #
July 28, 2023
— search engine that exclusively searches discussion forums via b3ta #
— very clever letter-substitution puzzle game from Daniel Linssen via b3ta #
— imagine keeping a pristine arcade game in your garage for decades and then just dumping it with the weekly garbage via Kottke #
July 27, 2023
— The Verge profiles Neeva, a well-funded startup that tried and failed to take on Google via Nelson Minar #
— excellent plain-language primer on how transformer-based LLMs like ChatGPT work #
— “If no one is on this page, the sky will fall.” via @genmon #
— play SNES games with instant online multiplayer in the browser; also: nes.party #
July 26, 2023
— I have friends that swear by it, but I found it too hard to get used to #
— David OReilly breaks down what went into making his universe simulation #
— the misunderstood history of the Luddite movement and what they can teach us about resisting an automated future via MetaFilter #
— the NYT profiles the woman going viral on TikTok for outing pickpockets on the streets of Venice #
July 25, 2023
— Apple shipped attestation in Safari last year, but Chromium-based browsers are ~70% of the internet usage #
— advanced tips and tricks for searching hard to reach archives #
— MS Paint clone in the terminal, made with Textual and Python via Simon Willison #
— Rest of World visits some of the last remaining cafes in Uganda, Nepal, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, and Hong Kong #
July 23, 2023
— brr.fyi continues their wonderful documentation of “routine, mundane activities and infrastructure in extraordinary contexts” #
July 21, 2023
— “Time is a flat circle, and so is self-referential AI-generated content.” #
— my brain won’t accept these are physical objects via mossandfog.com #
— incredibly annoying daily puzzle, try to find the only five-letter word in a 9×9 grid of letters via b3ta #
— he uses Overpass Turbo to search OpenStreetMap data; related: Bellingcat’s powerful OSM Search Tool #
July 20, 2023
— over 1,500 people have manually calculated RGB values to collectively make a shader with human brain power #
— as of this moment, a good chunk of the pixel art canvas is devoted to messages urging the CEO to fuck himself #
— resurrecting an unhinged 2003 meme from b3ta is the least confusing thing about this campaign #
— only three top 5 hits in the last decade were written entirely by women, and one of those was Kate Bush #
— doctored screenshots, Telegram impersonation, and organized crime #
July 19, 2023
— the book acts as a guide to the adventure game, which you have to tediously type by hand #
— ProPublica analyzed 60 incidents that led to arrests or charges as part of their ongoing Chaos at the School Board series #
— there’s a second part with Psyduck, Thomas the Tank Engine, and friends via MetaFilter #
— it’s still unknown what Threads’ ActivityPub implementation will look like, which will determine its impact #
— from the harmonies to the Gudetama rap verse, this is just perfect via MetaFilter #
— a new game from Matt Round with a unique word puzzle for every second of the day #
July 18, 2023
— searchable frontend to the Flashpoint preservation project, archiving 145,000 Flash games playable with the Ruffle emulator via MetaFilter #
— from 2021 but new to me, a Nethack/Rogue-inspired virtual exhibition of interactive visual poetry #
— made with glow-in-the-dark thread, you can buy the pattern on Gumroad #
— open-source chiptune player with over 200k songs in a variety of tracker/console formats, turn on the visualizer and hit shuffle #
— puppet a bird playing an ML-synthesized cello, the latest musical experiment from David Li, creator of Blob Opera via @matt_muir #
July 17, 2023
— using search suggestions from OpenSearch via joy.recurse.com #
— Jacobin talks to Adam Conover about his activism on the picket line and social media during the writers’ strike via Cory Doctorow #
— last year, a teenage gorilla in a Chicago zoo “became so engrossed in cellphones he started ignoring his peers” via Caitlin Dewey #
— Carlos Barragán goes to Nigeria to find the Yahoo boy who duped his mother via Caitlin Dewey #
— like Garrett, I’ve been playing with Kagi recently and impressed with the results via Chris Glass #
July 14, 2023
— like an inverse Tetris, where you remove single blocks to let the correct bricks fall down via b3ta #
— another in a series of There I Ruined It’s cursed experiments with AI voice cloning #
— Johnson & Johnson will allow generic versions of its life-saving TB drug in lower-income countries, and Hank’s cancer is responding well to treatment #
— VCs and big tech CEOs are living together in a reactionary bubble, insulated from people who might call them out via Paul Bausch #
