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April 4, 2022
— 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 #
— some particularly damning examples reflecting the biases of the internet that trained it via Web Curios #
March 10, 2022
— 30 episodes and two years later, a fascinating conversation about how and why a director makes a casting decision #
March 9, 2022
— plus new sculpting tools, export options, template library, and a more #
— lovely new bill wurtz song, his second in the last month #
— if you happen to know ancient Greek, you can try DeepMind’s interactive Ithaca demo #
— very impressive demo, more details at pockit.ai via @TrevorFSmith #
— despite their promises, this bodes very poorly for the 23-year-old database’s future given Atari’s track record #
— fascinating profile of the Humans of New York creator and his philanthropic efforts via Garbage Day #
— The Verge’s new exposé on the Tron/Poloniex/BitTorrent crypto-mogul’s history of sketchy financial dealings #
— Elden Ring won’t hold your hand, but its challenges can be overcome with further exploration and grinding #
— more museums are returning looted cultural objects to where they once belonged via Nelson Minar #
March 8, 2022
— they cleverly used open UK salary data to call out companies tweeting about International Women’s Day #
— Sergio Olmos documents the final moments of a father leaving his daughters to rescue his mother in Kiev and fight for his country #
— definitely concerned about other CNET Media Group properties like GameFAQs and Gamespot #
— the massive collection of 1,000 indie videogames, tabletop RPGs, books, and assets raised over $1.5M so far #
March 7, 2022
— like Twine, the approachable lo-fi game toolkit has opened up game development to new voices #
— every time I see one of these infringement lawsuits, I get suspicious; she was hit with a second lawsuit yesterday #
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