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June 20, 2024
— 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 #
May 31, 2024
— with Gmail turning 20 last month, Caitlin Dewey is collecting your long-forgotten emails for an (anonymized) art project #
— modern web apps and OS updates are mostly unusable with glacial speeds and high latency at McMurdo Station #
May 30, 2024
— Howtown is immediately great out of the gate #
— a 2003 photo of an empty hobby store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin #
— if you watched Cabel Sasser’s excellent GDC talk, you’ll know two pallets of handhelds disappeared earlier this year #
May 29, 2024
— “like getting a birthday card with only the prewritten message inside” #
May 28, 2024
— most of the games he talks about can be played instantly in the browser for free through IFDB #
May 27, 2024
— “Q: It’s very personal to share this. Why did you do this? A: that’s art babey!!” #
May 24, 2024
— Jay Smooth’s first new Ill Doctrine video in six years! #
— Noam Oxman makes animal portraits made of musical notation, composed to match the personality of each subject #
— as part of a new research paper, Anthropic released a version of their LLM that hyperfixates on the Golden Gate Bridge via Simon Willison #
— only discovered 28 years later, most of the interpreter’s source code could be found in “unused” sectors of the disk #
May 23, 2024
— celebrating the 20th anniversary of two of the best mashup albums of all time #
May 22, 2024
— beautiful animated short with a first-person perspective, there’s a behind-the-scenes video that includes a panorama view of the entire map via @mrgan.com #
— “the enshittification Konami code” #
May 21, 2024
— really proud of this one, registration is open for the next eight days until Wednesday, May 29 #
May 20, 2024
— single-serving site with instructions for switching your browser to Google’s AI/clutter-free search results #
— Frank Force breaks down one of his most popular dweets #
— a detailed forgery exposed with the help of Apple Employee #8, it ended up selling for $1,001 with shipping #
— Rest of World’s series of articles reporting on the pros and cons of gig work for older workers around the world #
— this was entirely predictable when I first wrote about their failure to police it two years ago #
— Patel is a dogged interviewer, but Pichai refuses to acknowledge Google’s broken pact with the web #
— Amy Goodchild expands her generative font experiments to reproduce her own handwriting in 26kb #
May 17, 2024
— $20 in 1947 is $280 in 2024 dollars, buying one adventurous 10-year-old boy a wild week in San Francisco #
— one of the worst rebranding decisions of all time is mostly complete, though references to Twitter and tweets are still everywhere #
May 16, 2024
— a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland #
May 15, 2024
— a compilation of camcorders, VCRs, floppies, cassettes, arcade games, and more from ’80s and ’90s anime via Michael Eades #
— Bobby Fingers teams up with Adam Savage and The Slo Mo Guys to bust a long-standing myth about the incident #
May 14, 2024
— a destructive, predatory move that seems likely to hurt everyone who publishes for the web #
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