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March 7, 2022
— I love their design philosophy, we invited them to talk about it at XOXO 2019 #
March 4, 2022
— “a subculture based on transgressing bourgeois norms in 2021 faces a trap: It can look indistinguishable from Trumpism” #
— links that can only be clicked under certain ecological/weather conditions measured near the server via Web Curios #
March 3, 2022
— don’t miss the final test, thoroughly debunking the idea that the body and neck impact tone #
— New Yorker’s Masha Gessen on the final days of TV Rain; its journalists have fled the country #
— first new video in two years, he was working on a TV pilot stuck in development hell #
March 2, 2022
— Hood Internet compiled their ’90s megamixes into a single mega-megamix #
— definitely didn’t see this one coming; I was the first to write about their launch 13 years ago #
February 28, 2022
— Casey Newton’s notes on platforms in wartime #
— comes with a bunch of code samples and minigames for the Simulator, should start shipping soon #
— fully playable in Netscape 1.0 via Cal Henderson #
February 23, 2022
— from the creators of Artbreeder, modify images with text-to-image AI brushes #
— it got widespread coverage, but nobody bothered to dig any deeper into the obvious holes in the story #
February 22, 2022
— “a tribute to web surfing,” an explorable pixel art spreadsheet map of interesting websites #
— just be careful exploring the large dark continent to the south #
February 15, 2022
— a good companion to Molly’s growing collection of essays about the blockchain #
— navigate between a starting and ending word by clicking linked words in their definitions #
— every OwlKitty video is just sublime via Nelson Minar #
February 14, 2022
— don’t miss the reenactment at the end #
February 11, 2022
— The Verge’s article series on artists and creators dealing with commercial clones, counterfeits, and plagiarists #
— Kevin Nguyen interviewed the creators of both games, challenging the narrative of the victims of this story #
— just a page of birds, that’s it via Web Curios #
— very good first entry of a series of viral lo-fi horror short films via Today in Tabs #
February 9, 2022
— they’re all permanently stuck on that station, too #
— Frank Force’s gorgeous generative comic book sci-fi landscapes via @killedbyapixel #
February 8, 2022
— available as a free PDF download, you don’t even have to torrent it #
— generate a block of spammy invisible text for emails you want to bury, inspired by Nathan For You’s party planner via Medium #
— a monumental effort of game preservation, still churning out releases every month via gigazine.net #
— stunning new online version of J. G. Heck’s 1851 encyclopedia, with over 13,000 illustrations from 500 steel plates via gigazine.net #
— edit and download a custom mono font using layers of grid-based line drawings via Medium #
— Ami’s fourth game just went live on Kickstarter, this one co-designed with our son! #
February 7, 2022
— Tom Scott highlights a creative conservation effort of historic architecture #
— a compilation of GIFs turned papercraft #
— Michael Hobbes (Maintenance Phase/You’re Wrong About) made a video about our national moral panic #
February 4, 2022
— Ian Bogost on the securitization of everything; see also: Kaitlyn Tiffany on Web3 backlash and Amanda Mull on celebrity NFTs via @ibogost #
— visceral essay from writer Aubrey Hirsch about hate and harassment she’s experienced online via Caitlin Dewey #
— “Crush hearts with your lovely forehead, Valentine!” #
February 3, 2022
— Stef Animal’s “fan-fiction” tribute to the 1990 keyboard, try the demo button for an example via @disasteradio #
— and cheezy pickup lines later in the thread #
February 2, 2022
— the free 20-billion parameter model powering goose.ai, a drop-in OpenAI replacement at a fraction of the cost via @ak92501 #
— some genuinely funny comics in the replies #
— TôBach made a song entirely out of dialup modem sounds #
— four charts that describe themselves, inspired by xkcd’s comic of the same name #
— @Seinfeld2000 and Hood Internet team up via @Seinfeld2000 #
— virtual Linux environment compiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser via Simon Willison #
February 1, 2022
— their CEO quietly left last month, Matt Mullenweg will be running it for a while #
January 31, 2022
— Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard, Sony buys Bungie, and now the biggest game acquisition news of all #
— they want to convince you it’s a moderation problem, but they paid $100M to exclusively publish him #
— free game for PC/Mac that’s like Unpacking in reverse, set in the pandemic #
— is this the metaverse #
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