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January 10, 2024
— using the amazing Ruffle Flash emulator, naturally #
January 9, 2024
— is this the end for the best blog ever written about life in the South Pole? stay tuned for part two #
— Bellingcat made a lightweight tool for scraping current and historic Google Analytics data #
January 8, 2024
— The Verge’s Mia Sato breaks down, step by step, the homogenizing effect of optimizing for search traffic #
January 7, 2024
— an incomplete map to regions of the handmade, personal, indie internet via Naive Weekly #
January 6, 2024
— entertaining stories from working as an Apple subcontractor in Chicago doing on-call repairs in the late 2000s #
— Cory Doctorow coined the perfect word for the lifecycle of online platforms, from rapid growth to extractive death via Nelson Minar #
— the jankiest homebrew gore I’ve ever seen, courtesy of a twisted genius with an angle grinder, drill, and a whole lot of hot glue #
January 5, 2024
— after 350,757 coin tosses, partly livestreamed on Twitch by volunteers, the researcher found a slight bias toward the same side facing up #
— Belgian dancer Ed People travels the world recording people teaching him dance moves with charming results #
January 4, 2024
— Stanford researchers open-sourced a spendy robotics kit made with off-the-shelf parts that can perform complex tasks like cooking and cleaning #
— there’s a reason my logo is a Vectrex; it’s a weird and beautiful console, a commercial failure but wildly innovative via Kottke #
— Ivan Miranda’s four-part series is worth watching from the beginning as he iterates and improves the design #
January 2, 2024
— weirdly addictive, my high score is 2,689 #
— Matt Round’s latest is a deep multiuser simulation of a fictional Cold War-era computer network and hardware, currently £10.02 to join #
— don’t miss the video where he hits the kill screen after 38 minutes of play and nearly passes out #
— Simon Willison writes about using streaks in life and work, but they’re at their best when they leave room for iterative improvement #
January 1, 2024
— the first 13 test chambers are playable with source code and ROM patcher available via @rmi #
— fine-tuned image model trained on newly-public domain images of Mickey Mouse from 1928 #
— an amazing run of thoughtful work, ending on his own terms and with tremendous style #
