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April 12, 2022
— stunning 1-bit dithered animations from Russian artist Uno Moralez, mildly NSFW via @banffchris #
April 10, 2022
— Tom7 turns the internet, Tetris, and fancy covid tests into hilariously inefficient hard drives #
April 7, 2022
— or you can view the complete canvas as an interactive timelapse #
— Harris presided as Jackson was confirmed, but no Black women had a vote #
— a charming comic about growing up online from BubbleSort Zines creator Amy Wibowo #
April 6, 2022
— Charlie Warzel interviews Hilary J. Allen about her essay on shadow banking, decentralized finance, and regulation #
— blockquote text would previous display for deleted tweets; this impacts every blog or news site that ever embedded a Trump tweet #
— Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s 2010 web shorts were adapted to a full-length film and it looks charming #
— hyperpolyglots seem to have smaller, more efficient language areas in the brain via MetaFilter #
— the release notes are overwhelming, with The Matrix Awakens city demo available as a free sample project #
— generates AI art from text at 4x the previous resolution with more accuracy; see the paper for more examples #
April 5, 2022
— I’ve also been playing with the beta and the results are astounding #
— starting with new TikTok accounts using IP addresses located 50 miles apart, the difference is stark #
April 4, 2022
— his Twitter poll last month now sounds ominous #
— discovered by accident, immediately recognizable #
— five years later, it’s seen 6x more users participating driven by communities on Twitch and Discord #
— coming this year, it will canonically follow Secret of Monkey Island 2 as Ron explained in his 2013 post #
April 1, 2022
— another thoughtful Hank Green rumination, a good companion to his “Is it All Hopeless?” video from a couple weeks back #
— a 9-hour-long TTS audio transcription of a LOGO program that draws… something, but good luck converting it back to syntactically-correct code #
— Jennifer Daniel explains why the Unicode Technical Committee is no longer accepting flag emoji proposals via Caitlin Dewey #
— chill multiplayer mod for April 1 #
— system7.app and macos8.app instantly emulate Mac hardware full of software, with drag-and-drop file import/export and persistent storage #
— all of you innies better get cracking if we’re going to meet our quarterly quota #
— the first Amazon union in the U.S. #
— I genuinely love this free Comic Sans/Helvetica hybrid via Kottke #
March 31, 2022
— on the C64, sprites were 24×21 pixel objects that can be moved over a background via Slashdot #
March 30, 2022
— a free-for-all of spam, harassment, abuse, and hate drives away people, resulting in fewer forums for speech #
— compromised police email addresses were used to collect info from Discord, Apple, Instagram, Snap, and Google, among others via Nick Heer #
— another Taylor Lorenz scoop, Targeted Victory pushed the unfounded “Slap a Teacher TikTok challenge” rumor to local news #
March 29, 2022
— a shocking and sad end to the indie studio behind Wattam and Luna #
— David Friedman on one photographer’s impressive hobby, shared only in a TV history Facebook group #
March 26, 2022
— stories of love and heartbreak found in the comments of songs uploaded to YouTube via Web Curios #
March 22, 2022
— the 29 GB torrent was downloaded 106k times in the first half of March, a 4,000% increase since January via Today in Tabs #
March 18, 2022
— “any time there is a wall, information finds little places to seep through” via Garbage Day #
— machine-learning for finding new medicines can easily be flipped into bad actor mode via @maxread #
— Charlie Warzel interviews Wagner James Au about what we can learn from Second Life #
— builders are collaborating to recreate NYC one neighborhood at a time via Web Curios #
— well-reported piece about Ken Wong (Mountains), Steve Gaynor (Fullbright), and Robin Hunicke (Funomena) #
March 17, 2022
— S.I. Rosenbaum’s remarkable story of faith, passion, and software obsolescence after death via @textfiles #
— a friendly web-based tool for writing branching game dialogue via twitter.com #
March 15, 2022
— wide-ranging chat about Tumblr, WordPress, the financial securitization of everything, and keeping the web weird #
— particularly painful for creators on Patreon where it’s the default video integration #
March 13, 2022
— “that was about half-throttle” via r/nextfuckinglevel #
— behind-the-scenes videos on Instagram, with more photos on her homepage #
— people are posting fun examples on Twitter via @lazerwalker #
March 12, 2022
— creative interactive 2D/3D shaders using a P5.js style library #
March 11, 2022
— some of the OSINT happening on Twitter is incredible via Caitlin Dewey #
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