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March 18, 2020

Substation — from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch (via)

Best practices for locking down Zoom community calls — a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk's livestream yesterday

Listen Together — communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify

Steam Game Festival — preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend

March 17, 2020

Inklewriter is back — the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source

together. — John Green on how we'll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo

CVS Bangers FOUR — bless you, Hennessy

Our Plague Year — new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale's Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl

The Green Fog — Guy Maddin's experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from found footage (via)

Flatter Me — my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me

March 16, 2020

XOXO 2020 is canceled — on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks

#Coronamaison — French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in

March 15, 2020

The Bird Museum — Louie Zong crowdsourced over 1,000 bird drawings on Twitter and turned it into a museum for PC/Mac

Washington Post’s outbreak simulations — effective and interesting dynamic visualizations

March 14, 2020

Power Slides — Powerpoint Karaoke as a Glitch app, built on top of Neil Cicierega's excellent SlideShare Gems (via)

How Did It Feel to be Eaten? — a very good short sci-fi story by Amit Gupta

March 13, 2020

Glitch unionizes — the first modern tech company to voluntarily recognize an employee union, I believe

The Uncensored Library — Reports Without Borders built a massive open library in Minecraft to bypass government censorship (via)

Quarantine Book Club — virtual book events over Zoom with a $5 cover, upcoming authors include Heather Armstrong and Michael Bierut

March 11, 2020

Work in the Time of Corona — Alice Goldfuss's sensible advice for maintaining mental health while working from home (via)

March 10, 2020

Conversations with People Who Hate Me — very late to Dylan Marron's podcast where he connects people with those who wrote negative comments about them online

Pluralistic — Cory Doctorow's new daily digest of interesting links, also available as an email newsletter

Frank Force explains how to make a 3D racing game in 2KB of Javascript — detailed and readable breakdown; move with the mouse, double-click to jump (via)

March 9, 2020

Sinfeld Chronicles, a Seinfeld horror game made in Dreams — the Dreams ecosystem is so fun to explore

Facemesh and Handpose — uses Tensorflow.js for face and hand tracking in the browser, and performs well on mobile

Exponential growth and epidemics — a great primer with the current context of COVID-19

Merzmensch’s roundup of Google Colab notebooks — an easy and powerful way to play with creative applications of AI and machine learning in the browser for free (via)

All The Streams — MSCHF's new hyper-infringing drop lets you channel surf Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO, Prime Video, and Showtime

March 6, 2020

City of Austin declares local disaster, cancels SXSW 2020 — I'm stunned, I truly can't believe it; here's SXSW's official announcement

New York Apartment — every NYC real estate listing combined to make one 65,764 bedroom/55,588 bath $43.9B apartment; don't miss the virtual tour (via)

The Atlantic estimates only 1,895 people tested for coronavirus in the U.S. — by comparison, South Korea tested over 66k people within a week of its first case of community transmission

The 34 species of trees hidden in Photoshop — Filter > Render > Tree

Subcutanean — a generative horror novel by interactive fiction author Aaron E. Reed, where no two copies are alike (via)

March 5, 2020

Reply All’s The Case of the Missing Hit — no spoilers, I just highly encourage you to listen to what instantly became one of my favorite podcast episodes ever

Family remakes Spider-Verse scenes with traditional animation techniques — you may remember Pinot from his 8-bit This Is America remake

Subpar Parks — one-star reviews of U.S. national parks, lovingly illustrated and hand-lettered by Amber Share

Warren drops out — 😭

March 4, 2020

Election Profit Makers returns — for the first time since the 2016 election, David Rees, Starlee Kine, and Jon Kimball are back to their bullshit

Do Not Touch Your Face — in seconds, train a machine learning algorithm to scold you

0107 – b moll — this was emailed to me out-of-the-blue by the director, and I'm blown away

Mazeletter — a collection of nine infinitely-tiling maze pattern fonts (via)

A one-year update from Alex Trebek on his pancreatic cancer progress — "if we take it just one day at a time with a positive attitude, anything is possible"

is it canceled yet?

March 3, 2020

Google cancels I/O conference — despite TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Intel, and Mashable dropping out, SXSW is continuing as planned

Malcolm Harris reports on Shell’s private climate change conference — disturbing glimpse into how fossil fuel companies will capitalize on, while subverting, clean energy efforts

March 2, 2020

Vox on the Oregon GOP’s subversion of democracy — today's day five of their fourth walkout to prevent the Democratic majority from doing literally anything

eggdog — an egg that is a dog (via)

February 29, 2020

Detailed tutorial on making and releasing a PICO-8 game — the constraints of the 8-bit fantasy console make it a great playground for learning and experimentation (via)

Adi Robertson imagines a world without YouTube — what if copyright lawsuits sank YouTube before the Google acquisition? (via)

China blocks Archive of Our Own — China's expanding the scope of internet censorship with new rules going into effect tomorrow (via)