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April 15, 2024
— Benj Edwards goes spelunking in CD-ROM clip art collections, and you can too now that DISCMASTER is back online #
— they requested lists of blocked sites from 26 school districts across 14 states, 11 refused on “cybersecurity” grounds #
April 12, 2024
— a visual analysis of the 25,704 possible kart builds in Mario Kart 8 via @thepuddingmail #
— opened last July, their Digital Museum of Secrets is worth checking out via b3ta #
— virtually spend 60 seconds in a random park or add your own to the growing collection via b3ta #
— Cabel Sasser’s GDC talk is a logistical and emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows, highly recommended #
April 11, 2024
— feels like this entire class of AI gadget will be outmoded as soon as Apple integrates the useful bits into iOS #
April 10, 2024
— a list of known AI data scrapers and agents, plus an API/WordPress plugin for keeping your robots.txt updated if you want to block them #
April 8, 2024
— the irony of YouTube scolding OpenAI for transcribing their user’s videos when Google did the exact same thing #
— “the whole world in your console” #
April 7, 2024
— Disney won a visual effects Oscar in 1965 for the effect, but lost the custom prism they made to make it possible #
— a belated interactive April fools in the spirit of last year’s brilliant Escape Speed game #
April 5, 2024
— a large language model prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator via Web Curios #
April 2, 2024
— a curated list of absurd software bug stories #
April 1, 2024
— I love a good debugging story; this one’s part of April Cools’ Club, an open challenge to publish something unexpected on April 1 #
— Playables surprise-launched their followup to Plug & Play and KIDS, another delightfully weird monochrome art game #
March 30, 2024
— fun open-source hardware/software project imagines reverb, delay, tremolo, and distortion beyond the guitar via The Verge #
March 29, 2024
— Terry Cavanagh made an interactive Downpour tutorial for making the perfect S Rank cuppa #
— “Yes, you can take a cut of your worker’s tips.” #
— centered around the whistleblower who died of apparent suicide before the last day of his deposition against the company #
March 28, 2024
— I don’t want or need a new keyboard, but haven’t felt this targeted since LEGO’s Atari 2600 set #
March 27, 2024
— Media Matters and GLAAD report the numbers behind the last 12 months of the Times’ transphobic fearmongering #
— Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp dig deeper into LAION-5B, the massive dataset used to train image generators like Stable Diffusion #
— if you’re on the run and don’t want to be found, maybe don’t post videos of yourself on YouTube #
— in short, black hat spammers are paid a commission every time a horny dude signs up for a Dutch “flirt site” with paid chat operators via Platformer #
March 26, 2024
— more importantly, other publications on Ghost can now do the same thing #
— making an important part of computer history easily accessible, go try out Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser #
— Matt Round made a very silly browser game inspired by Wii Sports with the music to match; can you beat my score of 5? #
March 25, 2024
— a truly terrible idea, but given their new head of Search led SGE’s development, it’s only getting worse from here #
— I agree with the general sentiment, but as much as I enjoy the current vibes of Bluesky, I think their future business prospects are grim #
— Scott Yu-Jan makes an iPad mini dock on a Mac Studio inspired by the original Macintosh via The Verge #
— can your portfolio run DOOM? via heydingus.net #
— as 404 Media points out here, they hurt sex workers while doing nothing to help minors but drive them to unregulated, unmoderated alternatives #
— Canadian composer/percussionist Jérémie Carrier plays 15 different notes at 0.2 bpm differences to create hypnotic changing polyrhythms via Tom Scott #
March 23, 2024
— a fantasy workstation from the creator of PICO-8 #
— that means that Team 0%’s work is done, and the game is officially beaten #
March 22, 2024
— sounds like my cup of tea and probably yours too #
— interesting new independent app for “visual email newsletters” targeting artists, free up to 100 subscribers via Web Curios #
March 21, 2024
— Kevin Noki 3D printed his own working full-size Macintosh, detailed in an extremely chill voiceless video via MetaFilter #
— a good companion to Elizabeth Lopatto’s piece about the life and death of Pitchfork in The Verge #
— nice to see, but I’ll be shocked if this ever extends to account portability or access to the Threads social graph #
— The Verge is pulling all the news and updates into a single stream #
March 20, 2024
— third issue of the tremendously good experimental webzine, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web” #
March 19, 2024
— Ironic Sans’ David Friedman has started making video essays, which are predictably great #
March 15, 2024
— the servers shut down on April 8, and only two one level remains unbeaten after tens of thousands of attempts via @0xabad1dea #
— dancing couple Trevor Tordjman and Jordan Clark get drawn into a musical number from 1953’s “Singin’ in the Rain” #
March 13, 2024
— Chrome add-on puts Breakout into Google Calendar and turns your meetings into bricks, cancelling them when hit by the ball #
— shot in one take and exactly the same when played backwards via Tom Scott #
— a third of the albums from 2003 didn’t make the 2020 list, affected by popularity, streaming availability, and the voting pool #
March 8, 2024
— free fan-made e-book compiling art from cancelled/unfinished animated films, 470 pages and growing via @ironicsans #
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