Talking to the creators of Gender Pay Gap Twitter bot — they cleverly used open UK salary data to call out companies tweeting about International Women's Day #

One man’s journey from Portland to Ukraine’s frontlines — Sergio Olmos documents the final moments of a father leaving his daughters to rescue his mother in Kiev and fight for his country #

Chowhound closing after 25 years online — definitely concerned about other CNET Media Group properties like GameFAQs and Gamespot #

Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine — the massive collection of 1,000 indie videogames, tabletop RPGs, books, and assets raised over $1.5M so far #

The Verge on the Bitsy community — like Twine, the approachable lo-fi game toolkit has opened up game development to new voices #

Adam Neely casts doubt on the plagiarism claims against Dua Lipa’s Levitating — every time I see one of these infringement lawsuits, I get suspicious; she was hit with a second lawsuit yesterday #

The Verge on Hundred Rabbits’ Uxn, a virtual ecosystem for experimental tools and games — I love their design philosophy, we invited them to talk about it at XOXO 2019 #

How Peter Thiel backed an “anti-woke” film festival that ended in tragedy — "a subculture based on transgressing bourgeois norms in 2021 faces a trap: It can look indistinguishable from Trumpism" #

feral.earth — links that can only be clicked under certain ecological/weather conditions measured near the server (via) #

Where does the tone come from in an electric guitar? — don't miss the final test, thoroughly debunking the idea that the body and neck impact tone #

Russia blocks its last independent television channel — New Yorker's Masha Gessen on the final days of TV Rain; its journalists have fled the country #

Primitive Technology’s Thatched Workshop — first new video in two years, he was working on a TV pilot stuck in development hell #

600 Songs From 1990-1999 Remixed Into 34 Minutes — Hood Internet compiled their '90s megamixes into a single mega-megamix #

Bandcamp acquired by Epic Games — definitely didn't see this one coming; I was the first to write about their launch 13 years ago #

The internet is a force multiplier for Ukraine — Casey Newton's notes on platforms in wartime #

Playdate SDK released — comes with a bunch of code samples and minigames for the Simulator, should start shipping soon #

Wordle! for Netscape — fully playable in Netscape 1.0 (via) #

ProsePainter — from the creators of Artbreeder, modify images with text-to-image AI brushes #

Debunking the viral story of false teeth returned to their owner after 11 years — it got widespread coverage, but nobody bothered to dig any deeper into the obvious holes in the story #

wilderness.land — "a tribute to web surfing," an explorable pixel art spreadsheet map of interesting websites #

Map of Reddit — just be careful exploring the large dark continent to the south #

Casey Newton interviews Molly White of Web 3 Is Going Just Great — a good companion to Molly's growing collection of essays about the blockchain #

Dictionar.io — navigate between a starting and ending word by clicking linked words in their definitions #

Titanic with a Cat — every OwlKitty video is just sublime (via) #

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s “high five” photos — don't miss the reenactment at the end #

Making It Work 2022 — The Verge's article series on artists and creators dealing with commercial clones, counterfeits, and plagiarists #

Revisiting Threes, 2048, and the endless chain of ripoffs — Kevin Nguyen interviewed the creators of both games, challenging the narrative of the victims of this story #

burds! — just a page of birds, that's it (via) #

The Backrooms (Found Footage) — very good first entry of a series of viral lo-fi horror short films (via) #

Radio station bricks Mazda infotainment systems by broadcasting image files with no extension — they're all permanently stuck on that station, too #

Astronomic Comics — Frank Force's gorgeous generative comic book sci-fi landscapes (via) #

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy — available as a free PDF download, you don't even have to torrent it #

Straight 2 Spam — generate a block of spammy invisible text for emails you want to bury, inspired by Nathan For You's party planner (via) #

MAME turns 25 — a monumental effort of game preservation, still churning out releases every month (via) #

Iconographic Encylopædia — stunning new online version of J. G. Heck’s 1851 encyclopedia, with over 13,000 illustrations from 500 steel plates (via) #

Brutalita — edit and download a custom mono font using layers of grid-based line drawings (via) #

Lost for Words — Ami's fourth game just went live on Kickstarter, this one co-designed with our son! #

The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving — Tom Scott highlights a creative conservation effort of historic architecture #

PaperPaul’s pop-up meme cards — a compilation of GIFs turned papercraft #

Is “Cancel Culture” Really a Threat To America? — Michael Hobbes (Maintenance Phase/You're Wrong About) made a video about our national moral panic #

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now — Ian Bogost on the securitization of everything; see also: Kaitlyn Tiffany on Web3 backlash and Amanda Mull on celebrity NFTs (via) #

That’s How It Works When You’re a Woman on the Internet — visceral essay from writer Aubrey Hirsch about hate and harassment she's experienced online (via) #

Janelle Shane’s AI-generated Valentine’s cards — "Crush hearts with your lovely forehead, Valentine!" #

Casio CA-100 Simulator — Stef Animal's "fan-fiction" tribute to the 1990 keyboard, try the demo button for an example (via) #

Matt Round used GPT-3 to generate romantic poetry as if written by 8-bit computers — and cheezy pickup lines later in the thread #

GPT-NeoX-20B — the free 20-billion parameter model powering goose.ai, a drop-in OpenAI replacement at a fraction of the cost (via) #

New Yorker cartoons so dated that they’re just people doing normal things — some genuinely funny comics in the replies #

Dialing Up — TôBach made a song entirely out of dialup modem sounds #

Etienne Jacob’s Self-Description — four charts that describe themselves, inspired by xkcd's comic of the same name #

The Seinfeld Theme Mixed With A Hit Song From Every Year Seinfeld Was On TV — @Seinfeld2000 and Hood Internet team up (via) #