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July 30, 2026
— new from the creator of Space Type Generator, be sure to turn on the “twerk” option #
July 26, 2026
— we’re going to see this backlash everywhere to the polished blandness of generated imagery via Caitlin Dewey #
July 23, 2026
— an escalating flood of agentic traffic, plus attempts to hack the server to manipulate prediction markets #
— many nice touches from the the cutaway view to the cars and ambient audio, try WASD movement inside with Shift to sprint #
July 21, 2026
— starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit #
July 16, 2026
— cracked face, pickle, eraser, lighthouse, and more #
— a very good personal homepage by Dustin Mierau #
— even if courts decide AI training is fair use, companies may still be liable for illicitly acquiring copyrighted works #
— his entertaining research found examples 30 years earlier than cited on Wikipedia, which was quickly updated #
— Pigeons & Planes’ Eden DaSilva on the heyday of Oink’s Pink Palace and What.cd via Hacker News #
— she talked to one “author” who published 445 ChatGPT-authored books on Amazon via @kashhill #
July 14, 2026
— The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now #
— Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons #
July 13, 2026
— make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF #
— an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary #
July 12, 2026
— parallel-universe video sharing community in the style of 2009-era YouTube via Web Curios #
— fascinating postmortem of blockchain music startup Nina Protocol, which is shutting down this week via AUX #
— run by anonymous organizers and promoted without social media, the whole thing sounded great #
— OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes #
July 9, 2026
— I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 #
July 6, 2026
— the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it #
July 5, 2026
— thanks to Manu for asking me to be the second-to-last blogger in his interview series #
— seems like the company failed precisely because the protocol was so successful in achieving its goals #
July 1, 2026
— as a huge fan of The Show, I’ve been anxiously waiting for this episode of Hank’s new podcast #
