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June 7, 2022
— Aaron A. Reed is turning my favorite newsletter of 2021 into a book, with “feelies” and new material in deluxe editions #
June 3, 2022
— Linus Akesson performs Bach live on three Commodore 64s and a 1541 disk drive #
— this goes the extra mile via Garbage Day #
— “a tool for wandering through Twitter” via Web Curios #
— with a bonus video talking to artists about what AI art means for human artists #
— it’s a perfect Sbubby meme generator #
— from 1990s credit card fraud to phone line simulators #
— if you’re stuck, maybe Clippy can help #
June 2, 2022
— Vox’s Estelle Caswell and The Pudding did a seven-month data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry #
— this probabilistic programming language is impenetrable to me, but the generated results are amazing via Nelson Minar #
— stem splitting, chord detection, instrument conversion, tempo stretching in a browser-based editor #
— Joshua Schachter’s very funny plotter videos are a hit #
May 30, 2022
— Bo Burnham dropped an hour-long compilation of material cut from his Netflix special released one year ago today #
May 27, 2022
— minimalist coding playground to make animations with 64 HTML sliders, don’t miss the music video via @blinry #
May 26, 2022
— Frank Force’s tiny city and raycasting system in a tweet, with more info about how it works #
— since 2015, the Japanese toy firm Good Smile has been its silent partner #
— try to guess if an image was generated by a human or machine #
— Rob Manuel doing critical research #
— a later version without the “Marble Man” branding or trackball support, but fully playable in the next MAME release #
May 24, 2022
— crowdsourced browser add-on removes YouTube sponsor reads, “like and subscribe” reminders, intros, outros, and other filler via MetaFilter #
— Google Research announced an impressive DALL·E 2 rival #
May 23, 2022
— Sam Lavigne updated his Videogrep tool to use Vosk, a powerful speech recognition toolkit #
— starting with the prompt “a bad photo” and requesting variations of each image #
May 18, 2022
— co-creator Alex Goldman and co-host Emmanuel Dzotsi announced their departures in a leaked internal memo #
May 17, 2022
— People Make Games digs into the chaotic and expressive alternative to Facebook’s bland corporate vision #
May 16, 2022
— Van Mai designed and coded the first-known console game with a human female protagonist in 1982 #
— Tom Scott on a French man who flies a microlight aircraft with flocks of birds, sometimes to help protected species to migrate #
May 15, 2022
— a collaborative art gallery where visitors are encouraged to improve the art, try the Hall of Fame and “See Original” on any painting via terrysfreegameoftheweek.com #
May 12, 2022
— NFTs without cryptocurrency are possible, but can a platform exist without speculative investors propping it up via @molly0xfff #
— make drone/noise music with a hive of bees live on Twitch via @molleindustria #
— experimental performance piece from 1979 based on Nancy comics, with an illustrated score via MetaFilter #
May 11, 2022
— massive potential, but the privacy implications are profound #
May 10, 2022
— this was entertaining to watch yesterday until I saw a suicide hotline topping their subreddit #
— using transcripts from all 1,150 episodes, spreading paranoid conspiracies of white replacement and victimhood #
— early computerized text games for executives #
— Bill Wurtz at his best #
— a disappointing end to the totally different iOS game with a coincidentally-same name #
— a grim milestone, undercounting the actual death toll via FlowingData #
— Apple posted a fond farewell on their site #
— the serialized Dracula is sent as a real-time newsletter based on the dates in the 1897 novel, spawning a new fandom #
— this is the same strategy Elon Musk is using to saddle Twitter with billions in new debt #
— interesting thoughts informed by her experience building Roguelike Celebration’s brilliant MUD-like social space #
— he coined the term in 2008 and has tracked its adoption ever since #
— Daniel Howell’s feature-length video on why he quit YouTube is very good #
May 9, 2022
— this harrowing story just won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting #
— all the questions Jason raises are things I think about often #
May 6, 2022
— from “normie” to “NPC” to the world’s richest men finding new ways to say the things you care about are basic #
— community-contributed images of tattoos stitched into surreal explorable landscapes via Web Curios #
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