ooooooooo.ooo — searchable frontend to the Flashpoint preservation project, archiving 145,000 Flash games playable with the Ruffle emulator (via) #

Storehouse-A — from 2021 but new to me, a Nethack/Rogue-inspired virtual exhibition of interactive visual poetry #

West of House, a Zork-inspired cross-stitch — made with glow-in-the-dark thread, you can buy the pattern on Gumroad #

Chip Player JS — open-source chiptune player with over 200k songs in a variety of tracker/console formats, turn on the visualizer and hit shuffle #

Viola the Bird — puppet a bird playing an ML-synthesized cello, the latest musical experiment from David Li, creator of Blob Opera (via) #

Playing Wordle from the Firefox address bar — using search suggestions from OpenSearch (via) #

Adam Pickets Everything — Jacobin talks to Adam Conover about his activism on the picket line and social media during the writers' strike (via) #

Zoo asks guests to stop showing gorillas their device screens — last year, a teenage gorilla in a Chicago zoo "became so engrossed in cellphones he started ignoring his peers" (via) #

The Romance Scammer on My Sofa — Carlos Barragán goes to Nigeria to find the Yahoo boy who duped his mother (via) #

Searching for a Search Engine — like Garrett, I've been playing with Kagi recently and impressed with the results (via) #

Fudge — like an inverse Tetris, where you remove single blocks to let the correct bricks fall down (via) #

Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl” — another in a series of There I Ruined It's cursed experiments with AI voice cloning #

Hank Green has some good news — Johnson & Johnson will allow generic versions of its life-saving TB drug in lower-income countries, and Hank's cancer is responding well to treatment #

Anil Dash on the radicalization of tech tycoons — VCs and big tech CEOs are living together in a reactionary bubble, insulated from people who might call them out (via) #

Legal Lullabies — it takes over 50 minutes to read the Instagram Terms of Use out loud, an extremely effective sleep aid (via) #

The Blob Toy — fun physics sandbox from the creator of Life Universe (via) #

Super Aja 64 — my new jam is MIDI versions of Steely Dan's Aja, but with every instrument replaced by the Mario 64 soundfont #

Understanding SVG Paths — elegant and useful interactive explainer from Nanda Syahrasyad #

How to Blow Up a Timeline — Eugene Wei on how Twitter lost its vitality as a social network #

The Free Movie — MSCHF made a site to "crowd pirate" a hand-drawn frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie #

Rest of World talks to outsourced workers forced to adopt generative AI to stay competitive — they commissioned work made with and without AI from freelancers in Nigeria, Mexico, China, and the Philippines #

Animation vs. Math — there's an annotated version if, like me, you need an explainer #

Windows Defender — elegantly designed free browser game, like Vampire Survivors but a group of windows defending a desktop (via) #

Tiny Awards finalists announced, public voting open until July 20 — I helped narrow down the 300+ nominees to 16 charming websites representing the "small, playful and heartfelt web" #

Supreme Court’s ruling on online harassment outrages victims, advocates — Taylor Lorenz reports on how "giving First Amendment protection to online abuse will make a growing problem worse" #

Jelani Cobb on the End of Affirmative Action — though affirmative action for white college applicants still exists, in the form of legacy admits, children of donors, and other VIPs #

Same-sex marriage website request at center of just-decided Supreme Court discrimination case was fabricated — Melissa Gira Grant talked to the man listed in the filings; he's straight, married to a woman, and designs his own websites (via) #

The Verge on who killed Google Reader, and what might have been — I knew much of this history, but not how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team #

Reddit is forcing protesting moderators to reopen private subreddits — I'm sure all those unpaid volunteers will take the news well #

After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background — Hank Green posted a quick high-level overview of the five papers on TikTok #

How retro computer fans revived the NABU, an obscure ’80s Canadian PC and network service — one man finally sold his horde of 2,200 machines for dirt cheap on eBay, held in storage for 33 years, inspiring a preservation effort #

Neal.fun’s Password Game — these password requirements are getting ridiculous #

AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born — generative AI's capacity for consuming content and generating low-quality noise is forcing platforms to reconsider the open web #

Backstage Disneyland — Cabel Sasser scanned his entire collection of rarely-seen newsletters for Disneyland employees, 28 issues from 1962-1980 #

Goodnight Phone — an interactive comic by Gina Wynbrandt #

Inside the AI Factory — investigation into the distributed anonymous workforce getting paid to annotate training data and align AI models (via) #

Hank Green on your obligation to your former self — a beautiful reflection on the words he said on stage at XOXO nearly ten years ago #

My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes — Paul Ford archived all his father's writing and uploaded it to the Internet Archive in his memory #

Architectural Digest’s tour of the Barbie Dreamhouse set — incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail #

A storefront for robots — Mia Sato on how Google's failure to punish SEO tactics, instead promoting their low-quality garbage, has made the web immeasurably worse #

Max Read on MrBeast’s clickbait altruism — feels like the YouTube version of The Ellen Show's charitable giveaways, totaling $450M over 19 years, all backed by sponsors #

Bad Waitress — Becca Schuh writes about her experience being a writer in the food service industry #

Psynwav’s Musical Tangents — new deranged mashup album from the creator of Slamilton: A Basketball Musical #

Reddark — watch as over 7,200 subreddits go dark in real-time to protest the API changes #

Byline — new online magazine with a playful design from the creators of now-defunct hyperlocal NYC paper The Drunken Canal #

Jason Scott is scanning Computer Shopper — help him out by donating missing issues, using the scans for research/analysis, and sharing the results #

b3ta’s Expand Art image challenge — "help us to grab the AI by the Jackson Pollocks and expand classic works of art to show how it should be done" (via) #

Tiny Awards — I'm a judge for this showcase of the small, playful, heartfelt web; nominations are open until June 14 #

Computers that live two seconds in the future — it sounds like Apple created Ted Chiang's Predictor for the Vision Pro #

Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest 2023 — amazing showcase of upcoming indie games, personal highlights include Viewfinder, Summerhill, and Simpler Times #