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September 13, 2023
— Russell Samora continues his Data Clocks series for The Pudding #
— average daily posts and comments for most major subreddits dropped 50-90% compared to a year ago #
— an excerpt from Extremely Online, Lorenz’s upcoming book on the history of social media and internet fame #
September 12, 2023
— a new remix by Neil Cicierega, only slightly stranger than the original ads #
— Mark Slutsky talks to a woman mentioned in a 2012 YouTube comment by a long-forgotten admirer quoted in his Sad YouTube project #
— completely unhinged behavior, definitely the kind of person who should run a bank via Nelson Minar #
— his first proper album, ten original guitar instrumentals inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins via holovaty.com #
— several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion via @anildash #
— even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can’t tell which, if any, are real #
— the surreal interactive food physics toy with reactive music is out now for PC/Mac and PS4/PS5 #
September 8, 2023
— weirdly addictive idle game where you absorb the powers of the enemies you kill #
— blame it on cheap artificial vanillin, which became the default flavor for ice cream across the U.S. via Nick Heer #
— another reason to love Kagi is their effort to promote blogs and other smaller independent websites #
— the cursed thumbs up/down icons are a nice touch #
September 6, 2023
— Casey Kolderup made a single-user bookmark sharing app with ActivityPub support that’s easily hosted on Glitch #
— Audacity ported to the browser #
— Miyazaki’s first film in ten years, and reportedly his last, will be out on December 8 in the U.S. #
September 5, 2023
— make beats with drum sounds found in phonemes from audio clips of public-domain historical speeches via @beefoo #
— VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh’s latest is a free Pitfall-esque platformer that quickly turns masocore #
— picking up the phone and pulling every thread to solve a mystery via MetaFilter #
September 2, 2023
— Jonti Picking celebrated with a new video #
September 1, 2023
— heartbreaking story of how a group of Texas prisoners awaiting execution found escape and therapy in role-playing #
— astounding graphic demo in 1024 bytes of Javascript, it won the Assembly 2023 1kb compo via b3ta #
— an online exhibition of pretty software bugs, submit your own via b3ta #
— how have I never seen this 17-year-old crowdsourced collection of 2,500+ photos of anthropomorphic objects via Web Curios #
— Philippe Caron’s generative art experiments, each following a set of simple instructions reminiscent of Sol Lewitt’s wall drawings via Web Curios #
August 31, 2023
— Tyler Vigen investigates the existence of a seemingly-useless pedestrian bridge to a satisfying conclusion via Kottke #
August 30, 2023
— uncovering the death of an Indigenous Filipino woman recruited for the 1904 World’s Fair, her brain stolen by a racist scientist at the Smithsonian via @thepuddingmail #
— finding the unique palettes of a neighborhood by analyzing colors in photos via @thepuddingmail #
— the latest in Russell Samora’s series of data clocks for The Pudding via @thepuddingmail #
August 28, 2023
— Darius Kazemi made a clicker game #
— Ryan Broderick interviewed me and a bunch of others about the decline of Google’s usefulness for The Verge #
August 26, 2023
— on the hypocrisy of big tech liberally scraping the web for AI, while legally blocking scraping from their own platforms #
August 25, 2023
— the PSX classic now runs at about 3,000 fps in the browser on my aging laptop #
— bizarre and delightful short film about overcoming a fear with machine learning via Web Curios #
August 24, 2023
— Jason Scott curated a selection of unusual manuals from their library of nearly three million via @textfiles #
— not at feature parity with the mobile app, but a good start #
August 22, 2023
— 404 Media investigates the people and platforms profiting off AI generative porn, including non-consensual depictions of specific women #
— four of my favorite Motherboard journalists started a new indie media company and it’s already great, I subscribed instantly #
— teaser trailer for the latest Panic-published game, which looks extremely silly and good #
August 21, 2023
— the anonymous writer behind Brr.fyi shares how power generation and distribution works at South Pole Station #
— print-only and out-of-print books will remain available, but this is still a huge loss #
— free secure audio transcription, up to three 90-minute recordings per month or pay for more features #
— The Pudding’s Russell Samora made a clock that plays 8,968 songs from Spotify based on your local time #
— clear explanation of Apollonian circle packing and disproving the local-global conjecture via scripting.com #
— Chrome extension that monitors and optionally blocks other extensions’ network calls #
— Google Labs collaborated with Lupe Fiasco on a series of LLM-based tools for exploring text and language via Web Curios #
— you have to hear this thing in action to appreciate it, try searching YouTube for harpejji songs via pad26.aweb.page #
— the French chef/owner makes three-course set lunches from recipes found in the books they sell #
— Ronan Farrow reports on the U.S. government’s unpredictable and dangerous reliance on Musk and his companies #
