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May 31, 2024
— with Gmail turning 20 last month, Caitlin Dewey is collecting your long-forgotten emails for an (anonymized) art project #
— modern web apps and OS updates are mostly unusable with glacial speeds and high latency at McMurdo Station #
May 30, 2024
— Howtown is immediately great out of the gate #
— a 2003 photo of an empty hobby store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin #
— if you watched Cabel Sasser’s excellent GDC talk, you’ll know two pallets of handhelds disappeared earlier this year #
May 29, 2024
— “like getting a birthday card with only the prewritten message inside” #
May 28, 2024
— most of the games he talks about can be played instantly in the browser for free through IFDB #
May 27, 2024
— “Q: It’s very personal to share this. Why did you do this? A: that’s art babey!!” #
May 24, 2024
— Jay Smooth’s first new Ill Doctrine video in six years! #
— Noam Oxman makes animal portraits made of musical notation, composed to match the personality of each subject #
— as part of a new research paper, Anthropic released a version of their LLM that hyperfixates on the Golden Gate Bridge via Simon Willison #
— only discovered 28 years later, most of the interpreter’s source code could be found in “unused” sectors of the disk #
May 23, 2024
— celebrating the 20th anniversary of two of the best mashup albums of all time #
May 22, 2024
— beautiful animated short with a first-person perspective, there’s a behind-the-scenes video that includes a panorama view of the entire map via @mrgan.com #
— “the enshittification Konami code” #
May 21, 2024
— really proud of this one, registration is open for the next eight days until Wednesday, May 29 #
May 20, 2024
— single-serving site with instructions for switching your browser to Google’s AI/clutter-free search results #
— Frank Force breaks down one of his most popular dweets #
— a detailed forgery exposed with the help of Apple Employee #8, it ended up selling for $1,001 with shipping #
— Rest of World’s series of articles reporting on the pros and cons of gig work for older workers around the world #
— this was entirely predictable when I first wrote about their failure to police it two years ago #
— Patel is a dogged interviewer, but Pichai refuses to acknowledge Google’s broken pact with the web #
— Amy Goodchild expands her generative font experiments to reproduce her own handwriting in 26kb #
May 17, 2024
— $20 in 1947 is $280 in 2024 dollars, buying one adventurous 10-year-old boy a wild week in San Francisco #
— one of the worst rebranding decisions of all time is mostly complete, though references to Twitter and tweets are still everywhere #
May 16, 2024
— a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland #
May 15, 2024
— a compilation of camcorders, VCRs, floppies, cassettes, arcade games, and more from ’80s and ’90s anime via Michael Eades #
— Bobby Fingers teams up with Adam Savage and The Slo Mo Guys to bust a long-standing myth about the incident #
May 14, 2024
— a destructive, predatory move that seems likely to hurt everyone who publishes for the web #
— inspired by a viral Foone post on Tumblr, you can buy it now at the very good domain catpawdesk.top #
May 13, 2024
— they’re really tripling down on acting like a human, these live video demos are clearly inspired by Spike Jonze’s “Her” #
— The New Yorker is geoblocking this fascinating article in the UK, presumably because its impact on the retrial could violate their contempt of court law #
— painstakingly redrawing emoji sets he found on electronic organizers and pocket computers that predate SoftBank’s emoji set by at least a decade #
May 10, 2024
— how the massive collaborative Rube Goldberg machine was designed and built in three weeks #
May 9, 2024
— “a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn’t, and how it ends up harming everyone, including men” #
— don’t miss the Hackerverse demo, visualizing 2D embeddings as an island of posts #
May 8, 2024
— a browser game with lots of underpants, made with WebGPU so try it in Chrome, Edge, or Safari Technology Preview via @mrdoob #
— amazed nobody there realized how a tech behemoth crushing creative tools with a giant hydraulic press would be received #
— a shocking and tragic loss, Shellac’s first album in a decade was due out next week #
May 6, 2024
— an issue for seven years, seems like Niantic should be storing a snapshot of map data to discourage editors via Caitlin Dewey #
May 2, 2024
— Molleindustria’s interactive reconstruction of Alexander Rodchenko’s Workers’ Club from the 1925 World Expo in Paris #
— a growing plague of AI bots posting nonsense for an audience of humans, other bots, and hacked human-bot hybrid accounts via @jasonkoebler #
— first music video made with OpenAI’s Sora, embracing its surreal artifacts, broken physics, and dream-like creepiness #
— Molly White on the yearning for the “good old days” of the web #
