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January 31, 2024
— new member-supported, employee-owned podcast “about and for the internet” co-created and hosted by Idea Channel’s Mike Rugnetta #
— Iconfactory is kickstarting an iOS app to unify public web sources like blogs, Mastodon, Tumblr, and Bluesky into a single timeline #
— Neal.fun’s latest is an endless crafting toy heavily inspired by Little Alchemy #
January 30, 2024
— best thing I’ve read and seen so far about it, a device that’s technically impressive but years away from something I’d use regularly #
— minimalist web experiments and sketches from Shelby Wilson, co-creator/editor of The HTML Review #
— wonderfully quirky virtual museum devoted to web games of all kinds via technologyreview.com #
— MSCHF’s latest project lets you stream pirated movies to your terminal in glorious ASCII, with color and captions, now playing Barbie #
January 27, 2024
— I stared at this for longer than I want to admit via @vnglst #
January 26, 2024
— Vox’s Christophe Haubursin goes to absurd lengths to find the story of a remote village spotted on Google Earth #
— using a new 34GB lossless 4K scan of the original 16mm film reel on the Internet Archive #
— sprawling 16-year-old new-to-me browser text adventure RPG with sweary British vibes and a unique code of conduct via Hacker News #
— hypnotic visualization of different units of time passing in a number of styles, “cardioid” is beautiful via b3ta #
— “We have the technology, in other words, for a web that publishes itself. Will anyone want to read it?” via @jwherrman #
— find Holly Gramazio’s cat in this charming little game made with Downpour, v buckenham’s upcoming no-code game-making app via @hollygramazio #
— the domain was snapped up by a scumbag SEO, plagiarizing many of the original articles under fake bylines alongside machine-generated sludge #
— one man’s highly opinionated, and weirdly soothing, reviews of London pubs on TikTok via Web Curios #
January 25, 2024
— Google Research’s new text-to-video diffusion model can also handle inpainting, cinemagraphs, and converting still images to video #
— from Ecovacs’ surveillance vacuum and Instacart’s AI shopping carts to BMW’s AR goggles and Sennheiser’s $300 disposable earbuds #
— mapping 18,359 public works and artworks funded by the New Deal, with tens of thousands still to be added via Chris Glass #
— a failure of content moderation, federal legislation, and basic human decency, the images originated in a Telegram group for non-consensual AI-generated porn #
— this little indie publication has been killing it, happy to be a supporter since launch #
— their stock is down 98% since going public, they need to repay $150 million in debt by late 2024, and are looking to sell off assets to stay alive #
— a modern update of Keaton Patti’s old “I forced a bot” schtick, but tacky and unfunny #
— a multi-billion dollar immersive role-play sensation that doubles as a way to make friends and meet new people #
January 24, 2024
— a growing collection of beautiful art/code math visualizations with P5.js, try Pong B&W in fullscreen via @lefredj #
— Lyle Drescher found an online audience livestreaming conversations with anonymous strangers in a gecko costume #
— “never miss a spot again” via @documentingmeta #
— not only for its for-profit arm, but for the 501(c)3 nonprofit parent organization as well #
— 60 FOIAed pages from the NSA’s ban on the toy in the late ’90s #
— free two-player local multiplayer game in the browser, take out your enemy in a field of randomly-roving NPCs a la Hidden in Plain Sight #
— an extension of the free vs. paywall news gap, quality journalism is expensive to produce compared to polarizing clickbait #
January 23, 2024
— new-to-me search engine for blog posts and podcasts, with an RSS feed for every search and a solid trending posts list #
January 21, 2024
— offline since June, the semantic search engine for thousands of vintage shareware/compilation CD-ROMs is back online #
January 19, 2024
— launched in 2021, a search engine indexing early personal websites plus Yahoo directory listings from 1996 to 2003 via MetaFilter #
— a modern orchestral arrangement of the 56k dialup modem handshake, paired with unrelated ’90s film footage via b3ta #
January 18, 2024
— Casey Newton on the challenging environment it faced, from the ad market to personalized algorithmic recommendations #
— its editor-in-chief, Puja Patel, was also laid off from the 28-year-old music magazine #
January 16, 2024
— “Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam” via Paul Bausch #
— Jessamyn West wrote 16 quirky stories about some of the lesser-known images from their vast photo collection via @jessamyn #
January 15, 2024
— Geoff Edgers writes about a workaholic audiophile whose obsession consumed his life and everyone around him #
— find comparable neighborhoods in two cities #
January 13, 2024
— not for the faint-hearted or non-technical, but gives her far more control than any other platform #
January 12, 2024
— a promising idea, but for me, the recommendations were generally worse than Google News’s For You #
— disappointed to learn Will Sasso of MADtv and lemon Vine fame was responsible for this mess #
— over half of all Mastodon users are on an instance hosted by Hetzner via Simon Willison #
— 366k mixtapes saved, over 50 terabytes of music, from 18 years of the site’s history via Garbage Day #
— Tae Young’s bittersweet animated short about a girl trying to reconnect with an old friend #
January 11, 2024
— extensive notes and thoughts from a small meeting with the Threads team about their federation plans #
January 10, 2024
— using the amazing Ruffle Flash emulator, naturally #
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