Playdate Pulp goes into public beta — Panic's browser-based code-optional editor for making games for their upcoming handheld (via) #

homecoming.diary — bizarre TikTok account demonstrating dozens of hyper-specific gadgets in each video, "if Shein was a house" #

COVIDtests.gov launches a day early — currently serving over 500k people with one order of four tests per residential address #

Daniel Radcliffe to play Weird Al in biopic — co-written by Al and the writer of the Funny or Die sketch in 2013 #

Wiki History Game — try to drag Wikipedia articles into chronological order, my best streak is 12 (via) #

After the Beanie Baby bubble burst — reading up on Nineties Fuzzy Toys (via) #

Books & Sleeves — part of Henning M. Lederer's ongoing series of videos animating vintage book covers #

The Most Frequently Used Emoji of 2021 — Jennifer Daniel's interactive breakdown of emoji trends (via) #

Paper Website — in this behind-the-scenes post, Ben Stokes wrote about using GPT-3 to correct errors in handwriting recognition (via) #

Gerrymandering mini golf — WaPo turns manipulated election maps into a colorful game #

Let’s Settle This — pineapple on pizza is in a dead heat #

Moxie’s impressions of web3 — the former Signal CEO built some provocative crypto projects and wrote about it #

minimator — minimalist editor for drawing only straight lines and semicircles, like Hundred Rabbits' Dotgrid #

Absurdle, an adversarial version of Wordle — it changes the word based on the possibility space; see also: HATETRIS from the same creator #

Laurie Voss on the good, bad, and ugly of crypto — thoughtfully nuanced take, a good companion to Tim O'Reilly's post last month #

You’re not doomed to get Omicron — some reassuring words from Erin Kissane's Calm Covid newsletter #

Wordle Is A Love Story — not just love for his partner, but the game shows a clear love of the web and respect for our time #

Ten notable pre-1923 recordings now in the U.S. public domain — another 38,000 are on the Internet Archive (via) #

50 Years of Text Games on “Scents & Semiosis” — Aaron A. Reed ends the project with a game with roots "deeply entwined with the history of text games and interactive fiction" #

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Monti on the ‘Bin — Linus Akesson plays a violin rhapsody on a Commodore 64 with custom software for live SID performance #

tahti.studio — "a groovebox for the browser" built with SOUL, an open-source language for audio coding (via) #

The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing — long piece on their shift from a co-op to corporation, losing control after taking funding, and a clumsy paywall rollout in 2020 #

Public Domain Day 2022 — roundup of works that entered the public domain on January 1, including A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (via) #

The “Have You Ever Had A Dream?” kid reflects on becoming a meme — his final smile and leanback are perfect #

Deep dive into a sophisticated zero-click iMessage exploit — turning an obscure image compression format for PDFs into a Turing-complete virtual machine #

WebXR projects on Glitch — highlight of browser-based AR and VR projects on Glitch available for remixing #

Busy Simulator — turning all these on at once is nerve-wracking #

CHUNGUS 2, a 1Hz Minecraft CPU — capable of running Tetris, Snake, and more in real-time with MCHPRS, a server that speeds up redstone computation by up to 180x (via) #

NFT art thieves — it's so widespread, DeviantArt built a tool just for spotting NFT infringement #

TikTok Couch Guy writes about the experience of being investigated online — he was at the center of a low-stakes relationship conspiracy theory #

Memory Palace’s “Ride” — on Jimmy Cobb and accidental magic from Kind of Blue #

Everything Is A Remix Part 2 (2021) — Kirby Ferguson continues remixing his ten-year-old remix series, this one focused on copying in film #

Businessweek Jealousy List 2021 — as always, amazing roundup of articles their staff wish they'd written this year (via) #

Taylor Lorenz interviews the creator of Birds Aren’t Real — their merch continues to be the best-looking of any other conspiratorial cult #

Yankee Candle’s Stages of Abstraction — "The experience itself has no aroma or shared understanding." #

Remote workers are using “mouse movers” to stay active while AFK — put your optical mouse on your phone and play one of the "mouse jiggler" videos on YouTube full-screen (via) #

Dining at the worst Michelin-starred restaurant ever — at least they got a balloon and a story for their mere $150-225 per person (via) #

Interview with the woman behind Depths of Wikipedia — a very entertaining follow on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram #

Discord testing Premium Memberships to let creators monetize servers — lock channels or entire servers to paying members in exchange for a 10% cut of revenue #

Modern for Wikipedia — Chrome add-on reskins Wikipedia with a more readable theme (via) #

Family safety app Life360 is selling precise location data on tens of millions of users — even without names or phone numbers, “anonymized” real-time location data can be reidentified (via) #

Trump’s GOP is preparing to subvert the next election — Barton Gellman's cover story for The Atlantic on how January 6 was practice for the next coup #

New Yorker profile of Succession’s Jeremy Strong — a revealing look at the actor who plays Kendall Roy, who seems perfectly cast for the role but completely insufferable (via) #

Charlie Warzel interviews Spotify power users — one spent 432,870 minutes, or 300 straight days, listening to Spotify last year #

Doja Code — Girls Who Code made an interactive Doja Cat music video for young coders with editable CSS/JS/Python values (via) #

TikTok drama channels are turning into online intelligence agents — Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick on how the algorithm boosts crowdsourced investigations #

Wombo Dream — quick free app to generate AI art from text prompts, likely VQGAN+CLIP under the hood (via) #

Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fifth Year — I hope she does these forever #

WeirdSpot — generate Spotify playlists that spell out sentences using song titles (via) #