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July 10, 2024
— 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 #
— interviews with Andrew Plotkin, Emily Short, Graham Nelson, Lizy Daly, Chris Klimas, and more #
June 18, 2024
— a generation of writer-owned reader-funded indie publications emerging from the ashes of digital media brands #
June 17, 2024
— “The Dark Souls of word processors” deletes your document if you make a single typo via b3ta #
— endless Hey Jude ending generated from random YouTube clips via b3ta #
June 13, 2024
— I didn’t know this was a thing via MetaFilter #
— Patrick Nagel based his iconic 1980s illustrations on photos found in fashion magazines via jwz #
— nine authors each wrote sections of a sprawling interactive fiction game with a shared inventory between them via MetaFilter #
— Tic-Tac-Toe reimagined as a game of chance, with probabilities for different outcomes on each square via Kottke #
— interesting exploration of using color creatively for richer icons than just swapping in a black background #
June 12, 2024
— a behind-the-scenes of Hank Green’s upcoming standup special, which will be the thing that finally gets me to sign up for Dropout on June 21 #
— a sad end to a struggling franchise hit hard by the pandemic, but at least their 35 remaining theaters in 25 metros will live another day #
June 7, 2024
— I played this multiplying Pong variant for longer than I’d like to admit via b3ta #
— completely impractical, but strangely hypnotic, text effects for your terminal via b3ta #
— all of Cameron Lew’s music videos are so stylish and catchy, each album building its own storyline #
— in which Tom 7 develops a system for writing fully-justified text in papers in the most convoluted way possible #
June 6, 2024
— Sam Anderson writes about what his dog taught him about mortality, with animated illustrations by Gaia Alari via FlowingData #
June 4, 2024
— using the serial port might have been easier, but OCRing six pages of faxed hexadecimal gets points for creativity #
— people are stealing early 2000s prints off the walls of Taco Bells and selling them online via Tom Scott #
— a seven-segment clock made from its own source code, only 321 bytes of JS #
June 3, 2024
— go nominate your favorite non-commercial indie website launched in the last year #
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