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March 1, 2024
— 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 #
— an interesting effect used in the 2007 game Lost in the Static via b3ta #
— generate a random password by catching characters, much more practical than Kenny Log-Ins via b3ta #
February 15, 2024
— the full Sora paper and examples is giving me the same disorienting feelings I had seeing DALL-E 2 and worrying about what happens next #
— currently only for internal testing, it can generate minute-long videos from prompts with surprising fidelity and consistency #
— the lesson I’m taking from all these recent scam stories is to never answer the phone via MetaFilter #
February 14, 2024
— two of Slack’s original employees launched a new blog spilling the inside story from the company’s first ten years #
— Josh Sucher recreated a miniature version of his dad’s old law office in painstaking detail #
— short film about a group of Melbourne-based artists who try to break the boundaries of Red Dead Redemption 2 via @tigershungry #
February 13, 2024
— astounding Disney history from Cabel Sasser, who won an auction of Dixieland jazz 78rpm records and found a lost song cut from Cinderella #
— Derek Muller explains why it took 30 years after the invention of red and green LEDs to make a blue LED, and talks to the man who did it #
— fun dataviz exploring how far singers deviate from the standard melody, the methodology at the end is an interesting read #
— after shipping more than 70,000 preorders, the charming little handheld is in stock, opening to 20 new countries, and adding new games all the time via @playdate #
— Dan Hon made a series of tongue-in-cheek disclaimer images to manage replies, like “This Is An Observation: No Reply Necessary” via @danhon #
— go back Ami’s latest project, a party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we’re sorry #
February 12, 2024
— update: this turned out to be wrong, Dom Hoffman says the domain lapsed and the buyer published a false blog post and press release #
— scumbag SEOs turning personal tragedies into cheap hallucinated content for easy ad revenue #
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