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March 8, 2024
— started in 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith’s indescribably amazing archive of esoteric avant-garde media is now an archive “preserved for perpetuity” via Web Curios #
March 7, 2024
— aside from some App Store profiteering, all the remixes and variations complemented the original, but the NYT’s lawyers just see them as a threat #
March 6, 2024
— v buckenham’s charming free no-code iPhone/Android app for making sharable hyperlinky browser games via @v21 #
— one last time, with feelings #
— I wrote about this back in 2015 and it’s still true today #
March 5, 2024
— Ironic Sans shows how publishing your ideas, even in half-baked form, can lead to surprising results #
— a long-overdue change, presumably in response to excellent reporting from The Verge, Wired, and 404 Media #
— low-effort content is taking revenue from real creators, pairing stolen YouTube clips with synthetic voices reading Reddit posts #
— masterful editing from the Bell Brothers, mashing up Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, and Jay-Z #
— interesting conversation about online community, platforms, the fediverse, and “revolutionizing the media with blog posts” #
— Road & Track deleted this outstanding story by McMansion Hell’s Kate Wagner shortly after publication, with no explanation via MetaFilter #
March 4, 2024
— analyzing “title drops” in 26,963 movies, when characters say the name of the movie they’re in via @stefan #
March 3, 2024
— hilariously full-featured, including infinite scroll, 2FA, content warnings, and support for video via Nelson Minar #
March 2, 2024
— Phil Kaplan of DistroKid/Fucked Company fame launched it in 2010 and sold it to MailChimp a year later, who shuttered it on Friday #
March 1, 2024
— it helps if you can sing a passable impression of any artist #
— a proper home for Dan Hon’s social media warning messages, with printed stickers on the way #
— since 2014, this new-to-me blog has tracked literally hundreds of strange experimental free indie games via Web Curios #
— love the integrated quick links with unfurls, I’m overdue for a refresh myself #
— Matt Round made a real-time clock of celebrity schedules sourced from interviews, articles, and books via b3ta #
— Alibaba model turns an image and audio source into videos with synchronized speech and realistic face/head motion #
— web app that uses your microphone/speakers to let your laptop or mobile device chirp with others nearby #
— this works really well, in large part because C418 made one of the most beautiful game soundtracks ever via Garbage Day #
February 29, 2024
— open source allows projects to live on long past their creators, as Dean Allen showed #
— the only acceptable use of a wifi-enabled child surveillance toothbrush #
February 28, 2024
February 27, 2024
— Automattic’s new statement confirms they’re “working directly with select AI companies” with an opt-out for future AI training #
— “a glimpse of a future that never was” via MetaFilter #
— The Verge’s Alexis Ong profiles artists releasing their work on hard-to-find 3.5-inch disks #
— generate janky 1024×1024 images nearly as fast as you can type, try random strings and nonsense #
— another gorgeous, deep interactive explainer from Bartosz Ciechanowski #
— Glenn Fleishman launched the Kickstarter for his deeply-researched visual history of the comic strip #
February 26, 2024
— an insufferably twee AI virtual pet, the freeform text inputs can lead to some entertaining results #
— tremendous five-minute talk about how he mapped a route using OpenStreetMap data to visit 366 streets across 14 countries in seven weeks, making a calendar out of it via Tom Scott #
— making animated earrings from LEDs that are “so small, inhaling them is a very real danger” via Tom Scott #
February 23, 2024
— Sarah Jeong on journalist Tim Burke, who is facing hacking charges for accessing unaired Kanye interview footage from a poorly secured video site #
— the level of obfuscation here is remarkable, shell companies illicitly collecting payments through sites like Patreon, Steam, and G2A under fake names #
— a short game about labor and futility via b3ta #
— Max Woolf systematically tries to find out if it responds better to front-row Taylor Swift tickets or all-caps death threats via @minimaxir #
— I remember when Google had a symbiotic relationship with publishers, before AMP, featured snippets, knowledge panels, and now AI summarization #
February 22, 2024
— elsewhere in the digital media apocalypse, Yahoo laid off Engadget’s leadership and BuzzFeed is cutting 16% #
— you can now, with some effort and their approval, self-host your own Personal Data Server that contains your account, data, and signing keys #
— Adam Lisagor brings us the future of television, a television you strap to your face #
— how Slack got its name and domain, after rejecting Honeycomb, Circuit, Superset, and Kitchen, among others #
February 21, 2024
— apps that summarize the web with AI are short-sighted and destructive, trying to solve a problem by making it infinitely worse #
— limited-edition essay collection inspired by Yancey Strickler’s 2019 post, the first release from Metalabel, a new space for releasing and selling creative work #
— I love Robin’s periodic essays, newsletter, and blog about design, typography, and the web via @fonts #
February 19, 2024
— Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Deep Voodoo deepfaked three eras of younger Billy Joel for the video via pad26.aweb.page #
February 18, 2024
— they won $700k detecting ink found in high-resolution CT scans of carbonized ash, virtually unrolled and separated into sheets of papyrus via Jeremy Keith #
February 16, 2024
— charming free puzzle game for Windows, but works perfectly on macOS with Whisky #
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