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September 19, 2023
— fascinating look at the devops infrastructure supporting A Little Game Called Mario, a Godot platformer anyone can contribute to #
September 17, 2023
— Max Read sifts through the Wayback Machine to go back to 2011 with the launch of iMessage in iOS 5 #
— escape is impossible when you’re caught in The Net via @waldoj #
— worth it just for all the high-res fictional brand images made for Wes Anderson films and Barbie #
September 16, 2023
— shortened links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack wait an additional 2.5 seconds before redirecting via The Verge #
— using the same technique as the Stable Diffusion QR codes, guiding ControlNet with black-and-white patterns can lead to amazing results #
— first of a two-part feature with never-before-seen sketches and photos from the artists’ personal archives #
— hypnotic montage of CG artistry with music by Disasterpeace, if you want more, the full video with all 2,880 entries is over 3.5 hours long via Web Curios #
September 15, 2023
— Pac-Man reinvented as a dungeon crawler with quests, crafting, mining, and of course, hats via b3ta #
— short poems composed mostly of creative domain names via Web Curios #
— the shadow library’s operators are entirely anonymous so they’re suing 50 John Does, “persons of unknown identity” #
— Max Bittker made a CLIP-based image browser, similar to same.energy via Web Curios #
— I love Matt Round’s dev threads where he shows what goes into making all these ridiculous projects for Vole.wtf #
September 13, 2023
— Russell Samora continues his Data Clocks series for The Pudding #
— average daily posts and comments for most major subreddits dropped 50-90% compared to a year ago #
— an excerpt from Extremely Online, Lorenz’s upcoming book on the history of social media and internet fame #
September 12, 2023
— a new remix by Neil Cicierega, only slightly stranger than the original ads #
— Mark Slutsky talks to a woman mentioned in a 2012 YouTube comment by a long-forgotten admirer quoted in his Sad YouTube project #
— completely unhinged behavior, definitely the kind of person who should run a bank via Nelson Minar #
— his first proper album, ten original guitar instrumentals inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins via holovaty.com #
— several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion via @anildash #
— even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can’t tell which, if any, are real #
— the surreal interactive food physics toy with reactive music is out now for PC/Mac and PS4/PS5 #
September 8, 2023
— weirdly addictive idle game where you absorb the powers of the enemies you kill #
— blame it on cheap artificial vanillin, which became the default flavor for ice cream across the U.S. via Nick Heer #
— another reason to love Kagi is their effort to promote blogs and other smaller independent websites #
— the cursed thumbs up/down icons are a nice touch #
September 6, 2023
— Casey Kolderup made a single-user bookmark sharing app with ActivityPub support that’s easily hosted on Glitch #
— Audacity ported to the browser #
— Miyazaki’s first film in ten years, and reportedly his last, will be out on December 8 in the U.S. #
September 5, 2023
— make beats with drum sounds found in phonemes from audio clips of public-domain historical speeches via @beefoo #
— VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh’s latest is a free Pitfall-esque platformer that quickly turns masocore #
— picking up the phone and pulling every thread to solve a mystery via MetaFilter #
September 2, 2023
— Jonti Picking celebrated with a new video #
September 1, 2023
— heartbreaking story of how a group of Texas prisoners awaiting execution found escape and therapy in role-playing #
— astounding graphic demo in 1024 bytes of Javascript, it won the Assembly 2023 1kb compo via b3ta #
— an online exhibition of pretty software bugs, submit your own via b3ta #
— how have I never seen this 17-year-old crowdsourced collection of 2,500+ photos of anthropomorphic objects via Web Curios #
— Philippe Caron’s generative art experiments, each following a set of simple instructions reminiscent of Sol Lewitt’s wall drawings via Web Curios #
August 31, 2023
— Tyler Vigen investigates the existence of a seemingly-useless pedestrian bridge to a satisfying conclusion via Kottke #
August 30, 2023
— uncovering the death of an Indigenous Filipino woman recruited for the 1904 World’s Fair, her brain stolen by a racist scientist at the Smithsonian via @thepuddingmail #
— finding the unique palettes of a neighborhood by analyzing colors in photos via @thepuddingmail #
— the latest in Russell Samora’s series of data clocks for The Pudding via @thepuddingmail #
August 28, 2023
— Darius Kazemi made a clicker game #
— Ryan Broderick interviewed me and a bunch of others about the decline of Google’s usefulness for The Verge #
August 26, 2023
— on the hypocrisy of big tech liberally scraping the web for AI, while legally blocking scraping from their own platforms #
August 25, 2023
— the PSX classic now runs at about 3,000 fps in the browser on my aging laptop #
— bizarre and delightful short film about overcoming a fear with machine learning via Web Curios #
August 24, 2023
— Jason Scott curated a selection of unusual manuals from their library of nearly three million via @textfiles #
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