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March For Our Lives — 838 events happening worldwide on Saturday, hope to see you there

Behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s “Welcome Home” Apple commercial — one of the best ads I’ve ever seen (via)

1% of subreddits start 74% of conflicts — analyzing Reddit raids in 1.8 billion comments in 36,000 subreddits across 40 months

GQ feature on the solitary success of Stardew Valley — nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience

Twitch streaming every episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — to celebrate Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show

XOXO returns in 2018 — we’re back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today

Kottke.org turns 20 — “kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through”

Charlie Warzel on Bitcoin mining towns and local backlash — cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity

Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists — the new payola

The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — “If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we’re alone in the loss.”

Heather Havrilesky interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans and his new book — Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book’s out today

Only Slightly Exaggerated — Oregon’s tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations

National Geographic confronts its racist history — related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored

Inside Cuba’s El paquete semanal, a weekly 1TB dump of copyrighted media — absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads

The Rubik’s Contraption — building a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds

Steamed Hams Inc. — inspired by Steamed Hams But It’s All Star

Hypercard Zine — an upcoming zine of new Hypercard stacks

The Verge on the history of Know Your Meme — not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees

You Think You Know Me is now available — my wife’s delightful Kickstarter-funded card game is out, so I made a website for it

Jeremy Keith on forced SSL, AMP, and abuse of power — Google and Mozilla are trying to improve the web, but making new barriers to entry

Vi Hart’s Peace for Triple Piano — “a spherical video in a mathematically triplified space with symmetry in space-time”; how it was made

One Hour One Life — Jason Rohrer’s new game merges Passage and Sleep Is Death into something completely new

Future Fonts — get access to fonts in development at a deep discount; like Steam Early Access for type designers

Battleship Solitaire — like Picross meets Battleship

You Got This! — a free 20-page zine about making web apps with Node.js

Buzzfeed profiles the Florida teens working to stop mass shootings — this is amazing (via)

Every art reference in BoJack Horseman — I want that Hockney print

Add “View Image” back to Google Images — sorry, copyright maximalists, I can’t live without it

Crying in Public — an emotional map of NYC (via)

Niemen Lab interviews Jason Kottke about blogging in a post-blogging world — interesting to hear how membership made writing viable for him again

Kotaku interviews the women of Atari — a nuanced look at the company’s past from those who were there

Salon asks ad-blockers to opt into crypocurrency mining instead — like Les said, better to exploit my CPU than my brain, I guess

84, the secret members-only Nintendo-themed bar in Tokyo — take that, Club 33

Janelle Shane’s neural network candy hearts — STANK LOVE

How Rusty Moyher designed and coded Dig Dog without a keyboard — incredible use of head tracking and voice coding

Paradise OS — from Steve Kistner, who makes neat web stuff

Thermal receipt printer with code page 437 — when I was a Cool Teen, we called it high ASCII

Everything Easy is Hard Again — Frank Chimero on resisting complexity in modern web design

Roast Me — a neural network trained to insult people, based off data from the subreddit (via)

John Perry Barlow, RIP — EFF co-founder, Grateful Dead member, and digerati icon

Reddit bans deepfakes and other fake pornography — the budding genre of machine-generated face-swap porn

How Facebook Is Killing Comedy — and, more broadly, every online publication that relies on ads

Winamp2-js now supports all three windows — the list of features it supports is pretty impressive

Vulture interviews Quincy Jones — every line of this interview is unreal, a man who truly has no fucks to give

Rob Sheridan on his role in the Dancing Baby meme — I love hearing the secret histories of how early memes spread

Monster Breeder — Neil Cicierega made a very fun, very silly game

The Disconnect — digital magazine that requires you to go offline to read

To Feel Strong — a new autobiographical comic from Lucy Bellwood

Gustavo Viselner’s pixel-art TV tributes — even more on his Instagram (via)

Jia Tolentino on the end of The Awl — and what we’ve lost with the long, slow disappearance of blogging