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February 23, 2024
— Sarah Jeong on journalist Tim Burke, who is facing hacking charges for accessing unaired Kanye interview footage from a poorly secured video site #
— the level of obfuscation here is remarkable, shell companies illicitly collecting payments through sites like Patreon, Steam, and G2A under fake names #
— a short game about labor and futility via b3ta #
— Max Woolf systematically tries to find out if it responds better to front-row Taylor Swift tickets or all-caps death threats via @minimaxir #
— I remember when Google had a symbiotic relationship with publishers, before AMP, featured snippets, knowledge panels, and now AI summarization #
February 22, 2024
— elsewhere in the digital media apocalypse, Yahoo laid off Engadget’s leadership and BuzzFeed is cutting 16% #
— you can now, with some effort and their approval, self-host your own Personal Data Server that contains your account, data, and signing keys #
— Adam Lisagor brings us the future of television, a television you strap to your face #
— how Slack got its name and domain, after rejecting Honeycomb, Circuit, Superset, and Kitchen, among others #
February 21, 2024
— apps that summarize the web with AI are short-sighted and destructive, trying to solve a problem by making it infinitely worse #
— limited-edition essay collection inspired by Yancey Strickler’s 2019 post, the first release from Metalabel, a new space for releasing and selling creative work #
— I love Robin’s periodic essays, newsletter, and blog about design, typography, and the web via @fonts #
February 19, 2024
— Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Deep Voodoo deepfaked three eras of younger Billy Joel for the video via pad26.aweb.page #
February 18, 2024
— they won $700k detecting ink found in high-resolution CT scans of carbonized ash, virtually unrolled and separated into sheets of papyrus via Jeremy Keith #
February 16, 2024
— charming free puzzle game for Windows, but works perfectly on macOS with Whisky #
— an interesting effect used in the 2007 game Lost in the Static via b3ta #
— generate a random password by catching characters, much more practical than Kenny Log-Ins via b3ta #
February 15, 2024
— the full Sora paper and examples is giving me the same disorienting feelings I had seeing DALL-E 2 and worrying about what happens next #
— currently only for internal testing, it can generate minute-long videos from prompts with surprising fidelity and consistency #
— the lesson I’m taking from all these recent scam stories is to never answer the phone via MetaFilter #
February 14, 2024
— two of Slack’s original employees launched a new blog spilling the inside story from the company’s first ten years #
— Josh Sucher recreated a miniature version of his dad’s old law office in painstaking detail #
— short film about a group of Melbourne-based artists who try to break the boundaries of Red Dead Redemption 2 via @tigershungry #
February 13, 2024
— astounding Disney history from Cabel Sasser, who won an auction of Dixieland jazz 78rpm records and found a lost song cut from Cinderella #
— Derek Muller explains why it took 30 years after the invention of red and green LEDs to make a blue LED, and talks to the man who did it #
— fun dataviz exploring how far singers deviate from the standard melody, the methodology at the end is an interesting read #
— after shipping more than 70,000 preorders, the charming little handheld is in stock, opening to 20 new countries, and adding new games all the time via @playdate #
— Dan Hon made a series of tongue-in-cheek disclaimer images to manage replies, like “This Is An Observation: No Reply Necessary” via @danhon #
— go back Ami’s latest project, a party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we’re sorry #
February 12, 2024
— update: this turned out to be wrong, Dom Hoffman says the domain lapsed and the buyer published a false blog post and press release #
— scumbag SEOs turning personal tragedies into cheap hallucinated content for easy ad revenue #
— instead of selling to the highest bidder, Moore transferred the company to his 209 employees in 2010 and it’s more than tripled in size since via pdx.eater.com #
February 10, 2024
— I allow myself one link to a Casey Neistat video every ten years, and this is that video #
February 9, 2024
— can’t believe I’ve never linked to Elliott Cost’s charming four-year-old community of little personal webpages via Web Curios #
February 8, 2024
— for desktop browsers only, a “pop-up music video” that manipulates the browser in interesting ways via MetaFilter #
February 7, 2024
— the world’s most responsible AI model, guaranteed not to cause harm #
February 6, 2024
— you can follow me, @andy.baio.net and @waxy.org #
February 5, 2024
— maybe building it on top of an off-the-shelf $89 PHP Twitter clone wasn’t the greatest long-term plan #
February 3, 2024
— a failure of content moderation, SEO spam, bad financial incentives, and a hard pivot to AI, its shutdown is only a matter of time via Caitlin Dewey #
February 2, 2024
— the “cache:” search shortcut still works… for now #
February 1, 2024
— Acrobat 7.0 maxes out at 381 km x 381 km, but what happens if you make it bigger? #
January 31, 2024
— new member-supported, employee-owned podcast “about and for the internet” co-created and hosted by Idea Channel’s Mike Rugnetta #
— Iconfactory is kickstarting an iOS app to unify public web sources like blogs, Mastodon, Tumblr, and Bluesky into a single timeline #
— Neal.fun’s latest is an endless crafting toy heavily inspired by Little Alchemy #
January 30, 2024
— best thing I’ve read and seen so far about it, a device that’s technically impressive but years away from something I’d use regularly #
— minimalist web experiments and sketches from Shelby Wilson, co-creator/editor of The HTML Review #
— wonderfully quirky virtual museum devoted to web games of all kinds via technologyreview.com #
— MSCHF’s latest project lets you stream pirated movies to your terminal in glorious ASCII, with color and captions, now playing Barbie #
January 27, 2024
— I stared at this for longer than I want to admit via @vnglst #
January 26, 2024
— Vox’s Christophe Haubursin goes to absurd lengths to find the story of a remote village spotted on Google Earth #
