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March 30, 2024
— fun open-source hardware/software project imagines reverb, delay, tremolo, and distortion beyond the guitar via The Verge #
March 29, 2024
— Terry Cavanagh made an interactive Downpour tutorial for making the perfect S Rank cuppa #
— “Yes, you can take a cut of your worker’s tips.” #
— centered around the whistleblower who died of apparent suicide before the last day of his deposition against the company #
March 28, 2024
— I don’t want or need a new keyboard, but haven’t felt this targeted since LEGO’s Atari 2600 set #
March 27, 2024
— Media Matters and GLAAD report the numbers behind the last 12 months of the Times’ transphobic fearmongering #
— Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp dig deeper into LAION-5B, the massive dataset used to train image generators like Stable Diffusion #
— if you’re on the run and don’t want to be found, maybe don’t post videos of yourself on YouTube #
— in short, black hat spammers are paid a commission every time a horny dude signs up for a Dutch “flirt site” with paid chat operators via Platformer #
March 26, 2024
— more importantly, other publications on Ghost can now do the same thing #
— making an important part of computer history easily accessible, go try out Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser #
— Matt Round made a very silly browser game inspired by Wii Sports with the music to match; can you beat my score of 5? #
March 25, 2024
— a truly terrible idea, but given their new head of Search led SGE’s development, it’s only getting worse from here #
— I agree with the general sentiment, but as much as I enjoy the current vibes of Bluesky, I think their future business prospects are grim #
— Scott Yu-Jan makes an iPad mini dock on a Mac Studio inspired by the original Macintosh via The Verge #
— can your portfolio run DOOM? via heydingus.net #
— as 404 Media points out here, they hurt sex workers while doing nothing to help minors but drive them to unregulated, unmoderated alternatives #
— Canadian composer/percussionist Jérémie Carrier plays 15 different notes at 0.2 bpm differences to create hypnotic changing polyrhythms via Tom Scott #
March 23, 2024
— a fantasy workstation from the creator of PICO-8 #
— that means that Team 0%’s work is done, and the game is officially beaten #
March 22, 2024
— sounds like my cup of tea and probably yours too #
— interesting new independent app for “visual email newsletters” targeting artists, free up to 100 subscribers via Web Curios #
March 21, 2024
— Kevin Noki 3D printed his own working full-size Macintosh, detailed in an extremely chill voiceless video via MetaFilter #
— a good companion to Elizabeth Lopatto’s piece about the life and death of Pitchfork in The Verge #
— nice to see, but I’ll be shocked if this ever extends to account portability or access to the Threads social graph #
— The Verge is pulling all the news and updates into a single stream #
March 20, 2024
— third issue of the tremendously good experimental webzine, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web” #
March 19, 2024
— Ironic Sans’ David Friedman has started making video essays, which are predictably great #
March 15, 2024
— the servers shut down on April 8, and only two one level remains unbeaten after tens of thousands of attempts via @0xabad1dea #
— dancing couple Trevor Tordjman and Jordan Clark get drawn into a musical number from 1953’s “Singin’ in the Rain” #
March 13, 2024
— Chrome add-on puts Breakout into Google Calendar and turns your meetings into bricks, cancelling them when hit by the ball #
— shot in one take and exactly the same when played backwards via Tom Scott #
— a third of the albums from 2003 didn’t make the 2020 list, affected by popularity, streaming availability, and the voting pool #
March 8, 2024
— free fan-made e-book compiling art from cancelled/unfinished animated films, 470 pages and growing via @ironicsans #
— started in 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith’s indescribably amazing archive of esoteric avant-garde media is now an archive “preserved for perpetuity” via Web Curios #
March 7, 2024
— aside from some App Store profiteering, all the remixes and variations complemented the original, but the NYT’s lawyers just see them as a threat #
March 6, 2024
— v buckenham’s charming free no-code iPhone/Android app for making sharable hyperlinky browser games via @v21 #
— one last time, with feelings #
— I wrote about this back in 2015 and it’s still true today #
March 5, 2024
— Ironic Sans shows how publishing your ideas, even in half-baked form, can lead to surprising results #
— a long-overdue change, presumably in response to excellent reporting from The Verge, Wired, and 404 Media #
— low-effort content is taking revenue from real creators, pairing stolen YouTube clips with synthetic voices reading Reddit posts #
— masterful editing from the Bell Brothers, mashing up Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, and Jay-Z #
— interesting conversation about online community, platforms, the fediverse, and “revolutionizing the media with blog posts” #
— Road & Track deleted this outstanding story by McMansion Hell’s Kate Wagner shortly after publication, with no explanation via MetaFilter #
March 4, 2024
— analyzing “title drops” in 26,963 movies, when characters say the name of the movie they’re in via @stefan #
March 3, 2024
— hilariously full-featured, including infinite scroll, 2FA, content warnings, and support for video via Nelson Minar #
March 2, 2024
— Phil Kaplan of DistroKid/Fucked Company fame launched it in 2010 and sold it to MailChimp a year later, who shuttered it on Friday #
March 1, 2024
— it helps if you can sing a passable impression of any artist #
— a proper home for Dan Hon’s social media warning messages, with printed stickers on the way #
