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July 26, 2024
— the excellent Double Fine PsychOdyssey just got a surprise 90-minute epilogue and a limited Blu-ray release #
— I love watching a new subgenre of shitposting appear in real-time via Garbage Day #
— an experimental web journal akin to the html review, view source on each piece to read an interview with the artist via Web Curios #
July 25, 2024
— photos, memories, sound clips, and 56 previously unknown Winamp skins hidden inside other Winamp skins #
— related: Anthropic’s crawler hit iFixit’s site a million times in 24 hours #
— Sam Lavigne’s used facial recognition on an archive of 10,000 publicly-available photos of NYC police #
— practice AI prompt injection with a series of challenges breaking a fictional airline’s customer support chatbot #
July 24, 2024
— they’re happy to trade human rights and personal liberty for favorable crypto/AI/tax policies that benefit their bottom line #
— this means they’re blocking the Internet Archive and every other search engine, a huge over-reaction ostensibly to stop AI training via Simon Willison #
July 23, 2024
— like last year, a charming selection of oddball web pages; you have until August 11 to vote for your favorites #
— Chrome add-on that automatically makes a gallery of buttons from pages you visit #
July 22, 2024
— the technical details behind Mark Rober’s latest video #
July 19, 2024
— Al teamed up with 12 different animators for a new polka medley of #1 hits from the 10 years since the release of his last album #
July 18, 2024
— using MS Paint for Windows XP, Cat Graffam mashed up the Bliss wallpaper with Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” #
July 15, 2024
— Molly White’s new project tracks crypto PAC spending on the 2024 elections; FairShake is the #2 most-funded super PAC #
July 12, 2024
— like Infinite Craft, a clever but risky use of an LLM for collective gameplay #
— the data leaked from Snowflake includes every number their customers called/texted for six months in 2022 #
July 11, 2024
— the tech time capsule sits in a strip mall in Norman, Oklahoma, stuck in legal battles after the owner went bankrupt #
— it turns 25 (!) on Sunday with big changes in the works, including a full code rewrite and converting to a nonprofit via @jessamyn #
July 10, 2024
— fascinating story of a Brazilian woman who built a business renting fake gig economy accounts made with stolen identities out to undocumented workers via Garbage Day #
— an open call for website submissions for “a physical printed directory for the vast poetic web” #
July 9, 2024
— the new domain owners even generated AI photos for each author, despite not buying rights to any of the content #
— the Cauzin Softstrip was like a giant CueCat, used for scanning in BASIC programs from books #
July 8, 2024
— they also open-sourced their ActivityPub server built with Fedify #
— zoom in to see a good use for subdomains; see also: endless.horse from 2015 via MetaFilter #
— a faceted crystal that turns everything viewed through it into pixel art via MetaFilter #
— some people doing incredibly creative things on Twitch, from watercolor worlds to playing with CRTs #
— to defeat their 2FA-like revolving barcodes, the scalpers can now generate a valid token for any ticket #
— the shadow library is incredibly well-run, recently changing domains to stay out of U.S. jurisdiction #
July 5, 2024
— the anonymous math genius who haunted Math Stack Exchange with enigmatic answers before disappearing in 2015 via Cal Henderson #
— Lindsay Ellis has been active on Nebula, but this is her first new video essay on YouTube in nearly three years #
— I wonder how the Atlantic Records rep that dropped her from the label after “Pink Pony Girl” feels about that decision now #
July 3, 2024
— interesting Vox video on the sound design for the hidden speaker systems that replace engine sounds #
— click/hover to read the English annotations for Terasawa Hitomi’s stylized panoramic drawing from 1997 via Colossal #
— they’ll also try to block AI companies using spoofed user agents like Perplexity #
July 1, 2024
— tremendous Marcin Wichary talk on pixel fonts, complete with a new full-featured pixel font editor for the web #
June 29, 2024
— the lightweight 5MB After Effects alternative was built by a single dev and processes everything locally with no signups or cloud uploads #
June 28, 2024
— Elizabeth Lopatto doesn’t hold back against AI search vampires trying to suck value out of the open web #
— visualize software dependencies as stars in an explorable galaxy via Hacker News #
— Apple is missing an opportunity to build an immersive ARG inside all the messages, photos, files, and apps #
June 26, 2024
— “checking a box checks it for everyone,” like a one-bit version of Reddit Place #
June 25, 2024
— don’t miss part two where Zellyn finds the artwork’s original seed from a billion possibilities via MetaFilter #
June 24, 2024
— clever free PICO-8 puzzle game where you’re a little worm carving wooden sculptures #
— this is a big case to watch, the largest group to try to set a precedent that training AI on copyrighted works for profit isn’t fair use #
June 21, 2024
— after memorizing the world from his desk, he started exploring it in late 2022, staying in a different country every month via Garbage Day #
— some are finding success recovering their hacked or disabled accounts in court, and in at least one case, financial damages via Platformer #
— it displays a simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons; all his other projects are great, but especially the Electromechanical Lunar Lander via Hacker News #
June 20, 2024
— The Pudding explores the changing climate zones of 70 global cities over the next 50 years #
— Ben Sandofsky’s long deep dive into the collapse of a predatory coding bootcamp and its narcissistic founder via Daring Fireball #
— ebook licensing for libraries continues to be far too expensive and restrictive #
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