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February 2, 2023
— an AI chatbot that won’t confidently lie to you #
— new animation from Felix Colgrave, “an exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders” via Belong.io #
— this will kill every free bot, tool, and service built on its API, including my own Belong.io aggregator #
January 31, 2023
— unfortunately it’s only news articles from big publishers, so resembles a less personal version of Google News’ For You #
January 30, 2023
— a readable high-level primer on the foundational models that made recent breakthroughs possible #
— Max Bittker made a tool for making 9-patch quilt-like borders in CSS using inline data URIs via @mattround #
January 27, 2023
— new AI model from Google Research generates music from text prompts, like “accordion death metal” via Web Curios #
— my best score is 3,164 4,009 via Web Curios #
— make an AI Drake write and perform a song about blogs, Scooby Doo, or anything else via Web Curios #
— analyzing Avatar fanfic, memes, and lyric mentions to gauge whether it’s a cultural outlier relative to other blockbusters #
January 24, 2023
— “The fact is, if I wanted to pay you, I could. I could even give you raises. But once again, that is not the economic reality we face.” #
— Jamie reconstructed some early Mozilla websites not captured by Wayback via Nelson Minar #
— if you can’t swallow the subscription fee, Ice Cubes is free and open-source #
January 23, 2023
— explore weird and wonderful things on Google Street View #
— professional fences profit from desperation and addiction, outsourcing theft to boosters for pennies on the dollar via Belong.io #
January 21, 2023
— a short free game about cooking Vietnamese food from Swiss-Vietnamese illustrator Charlotte Broccard #
January 20, 2023
— charming short multiplayer WebGL experiment, try to find the five secrets via Web Curios #
— a fed-up web designer publicly shames the people who cloned his distinctive portfolio site via Web Curios #
— the discoverer blogged about how she used Shodan to find the exposed server, AWS credentials, and S3 buckets #
January 19, 2023
— the private equity firm who bought it in 2020 is racing to the bottom with automated content farming #
— killed by an unannounced and undocumented policy change from a company no developer should ever trust again #
— “Cartoon Dynamo (Pat. 2023)” #
— connecting with others, side hustles, exposing inhumane conditions, and taking Harvard’s free online comp sci classes via @jank0 #
January 18, 2023
— I love that both models are just as confused about what happened on Lost’s later seasons as I am #
January 17, 2023
— Matt Round fused the Hampster Dance with Space Invaders, with the Cuban Boys’ remix used by permission #
— all links and posts are now automatically posted, just follow @[email protected] #
— separate from the class action lawsuit led by three artists announced a few days ago #
— outstanding reporting covering a truly terrible acquisition; love the “Elon net worth-o-meter” #
— charming reimagining of an RSS reader as a little garden; Waxy is the eyeglasses #
January 13, 2023
— celebrating Trogdor the Burninator’s 20th birthday; the original game is playable again with Flash emulation #
— new daily game to spot typos in a news story every day as fast as possible via b3ta #
— “When a work gets as big as this has, is it still yours?” via Garbage Day #
— expect to see a whole lot more of this #
January 12, 2023
— indexing 18 million memes with iOS’s Vision API was cheaper than paid cloud OCR services #
January 11, 2023
— one of my all-time favorite musicians, I’m absolutely crushed #
January 10, 2023
— they aren’t releasing the code because of the obvious potential for misuse, but the samples are wild #
January 9, 2023
— remarkable 2016 article about a woman who self-diagnosed her rare genetic mutation and spotted it in others #
— it’s patched now, but unclear how long the dead-simple security lapse existed via @briankrebs #
— with Dark Sky shuttered, here’s a clean alternative built on Pirate Weather, a free and open compatible API #
— “Black people were 24% of those killed last year, while making up only 13% of the population” via jwz #
January 6, 2023
— surprising number of small but useful services for only $20/year, made by a single dev #
— made with Dittytoy, a simple Javascript API for making generative music online #
— sadly, his “OfficeSpace project” didn’t try to transfer rounded down fractions of a penny #
— Bert Fan upgraded Creative Labs’ classic 1991 speech synthesis chatbot that shipped with Sound Blaster cards #
— a London furniture conservator suggested dots, lines, and symbols denote lunar months for tracking animal life cycles, making it the earliest writing in human history #
— a large language model with text-to-speech output interacts with users in chat, while a separate AI plays games like Minecraft and osu via Garbage Day #
January 5, 2023
— website that tells you how many people are also looking at it, when they leave, and that’s it via Today in Tabs #
January 4, 2023
— they cite the pandemic, but also went through a painful acquisition breakup in 2020 #
