Short Trip
— absurdly charming hand-drawn train journey; hold left or right to move
Internet Archive’s Third Eye Data project
— real-time tracking of TV news chyrons, with APIs and bots
The Outline on the W3C’s official embrace of DRM
— the EFF resigned in protest this week
Centrism Dot Biz
— “Take inaction. You can make an indifference.”
Mapbox’s time maps
— try the live map
Wired on the Snopes’ legal battle
— rewriting its own history
The First Web Apps
— the stories behind five web apps that launched in 1995, with extensive research and interviews
AI Spy
— absurdist “I Spy” with a very literal Google Cloud Vision
80s.NYC
— street view of mid-80s NYC compiled from 800,000 city-commissioned building photos
Instagif Camera
— copies the three-second GIF to a Raspberry Pi cartridge with its own display, fading in Polaroid-style
Coin
— from the creators of Plug & Play
Lauren, the human intelligent smart home
— the cookie from Black Mirror’s White Christmas episode as performance art
Select All interviewed the Disloyal Boyfriend photographer
— and Laura and Mario, the two stock photo models
Hiveswap
— the Homestuck adventure game, five years in the making, is out on September 14
AR Experiments
— what if walls could scream
Intolerable
— Jeremy Keith on the Google manifesto
BuzzFeed News analysis of hyperpartisan political sites
— some opportunists are publishing both conservative and liberal sites; data here
Baldur’s Gender
— the 19 genders of Baldur’s Gate
Alt-Right vs. Silicon Valley
— they’re creating hate-friendly versions of popular sites instead
Following links through portals in A-Frame
— WebVR is now shipping in Firefox for Windows, Mac support is in nightly
Google fires knucklehead engineer who wrote screed on gender differences
— the Hacker News thread was closed to new users because of trolling
Buzzfeed analyzed flight patterns to find spy planes
— intriguing use of machine learning for reporting
Mirage
— annotating the real world with augmented reality
NONI NONI
— draw pictures, convert to shapes with AutoDraw; try it on mobile
Stack Overflow Importer
— hilarious/dangerous module to import highly-voted code samples as Python modules
InspiroBot
— “unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence”
MetaFilter has a new owner
— Matt Haughey signed it over to Josh Millard, community moderator since 2008 and its manager since 2015
Ten Years Ago
— rolling ten-year-old snapshots of popular sites, courtesy of the Internet Archive
Adobe to retire Flash in 2020
— for all its faults, Flash’s ubiquity made the web more fun; related: John Cooney’s Flash games postmortem
Augmented reality’s A-ha moment
— a lot of work for a goofy pun, but I’m here for it
emu-coop
— SNES hack makes single-player games into two-player games by sharing inventory over IRC
The Evolution of Trust
— Nicky Case’s interactive explainer on how trust or distrust evolves in groups
100 Demon Dialogues
— Lucy Bellwood confronts her personal demons; back her project to make it a book and plushie
17776
— SB Nation’s experimental mashup of football sportswriting and speculative sci-fi
it is as if you were doing work
— Pippin Barr’s work simulator for a post-AI era
NYT speaks to two dozen women on sexual harassment in tech
— new disclosures about prominent VCs like Chris Sacca and Dave McClure
Detailed postmortem on making Silicon Valley’s Not Hotdog app
— bespoke neural networks for image recognition running locally on mobile
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
— brilliant use of the Wikipedia API, try examining or taking objects
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Is Travis Still CEO?
— good riddance, though I doubt this changes much at Uber
The Verge interviewed me about Lorde’s “Supercut”
— delighted to see a word I coined here in 2008 become the central metaphor in a song by an artist I love
Visualizing ice flows with animated color cycling
— a technique made popular in 8-bit games
The Verge interviews Maciej Ceglowski on Pinboard, Delicious, and fandom
— Britta took over the newly-acquired @delicious Twitter account and official blog, and it’s awesome
The Secret History of the iPhone
— “yeah, the iPhone ruined more than a few marriages”
Undertale’s Japanese localization causes a fan frenzy
— over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations