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January 4, 2022
— not just love for his partner, but the game shows a clear love of the web and respect for our time #
January 3, 2022
— another 38,000 are on the Internet Archive via MetaFilter #
— Aaron A. Reed ends the project with a game with roots “deeply entwined with the history of text games and interactive fiction” #
— Linus Akesson plays a violin rhapsody on a Commodore 64 with custom software for live SID performance #
— “a groovebox for the browser” built with SOUL, an open-source language for audio coding via @maxjvhh #
— long piece on their shift from a co-op to corporation, losing control after taking funding, and a clumsy paywall rollout in 2020 #
— roundup of works that entered the public domain on January 1, including A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh via @publicdomainrev #
December 17, 2021
— his final smile and leanback are perfect #
— turning an obscure image compression format for PDFs into a Turing-complete virtual machine #
— highlight of browser-based AR and VR projects on Glitch available for remixing #
December 14, 2021
— turning all these on at once is nerve-wracking #
— capable of running Tetris, Snake, and more in real-time with MCHPRS, a server that speeds up redstone computation by up to 180x via Nelson Minar #
December 13, 2021
— it’s so widespread, DeviantArt built a tool just for spotting NFT infringement #
— he was at the center of a low-stakes relationship conspiracy theory #
— on Jimmy Cobb and accidental magic from Kind of Blue #
— Kirby Ferguson continues remixing his ten-year-old remix series, this one focused on copying in film #
December 10, 2021
— as always, amazing roundup of articles their staff wish they’d written this year via Kottke #
— their merch continues to be the best-looking of any other conspiratorial cult #
— “The experience itself has no aroma or shared understanding.” #
December 9, 2021
— put your optical mouse on your phone and play one of the “mouse jiggler” videos on YouTube full-screen via @molleindustria #
— at least they got a balloon and a story for their mere $150-225 per person via Today in Tabs #
December 7, 2021
— a very entertaining follow on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram #
— lock channels or entire servers to paying members in exchange for a 10% cut of revenue #
December 6, 2021
— Chrome add-on reskins Wikipedia with a more readable theme via Nelson Minar #
— even without names or phone numbers, “anonymized” real-time location data can be reidentified via @themarkup #
— Barton Gellman’s cover story for The Atlantic on how January 6 was practice for the next coup #
— a revealing look at the actor who plays Kendall Roy, who seems perfectly cast for the role but completely insufferable via @caseyjohnston #
— one spent 432,870 minutes, or 300 straight days, listening to Spotify last year #
— Girls Who Code made an interactive Doja Cat music video for young coders with editable CSS/JS/Python values via @GirlsWhoCode #
— Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick on how the algorithm boosts crowdsourced investigations #
— quick free app to generate AI art from text prompts, likely VQGAN+CLIP under the hood via The Verge #
December 3, 2021
— I hope she does these forever #
— generate Spotify playlists that spell out sentences using song titles via Web Curios #
— just missing the microbe and galaxy on either end of the spectrum #
December 2, 2021
— very good roundup of thoughts and threads from enthusiasts, detractors, and the rare voice in between #
— turn yourself into a Block exec or board member #
December 1, 2021
— a free web demo of Oskar Stålberg’s lovely townbuilder via Kottke #
November 30, 2021
— an offshoot of The Markup’s investigation into how Amazon favors their own house brands and exclusive products via The Verge #
— “Xenobots” can gather cells inside their Pac-Man-shaped “mouth,” assembling robot babies capable of self-replication when they grow up #
— clap your hands in this weird little web toy from the creators of KIDS and PLUG & PLAY via @any_user #
November 29, 2021
— and what to expect from his successor, crypto-enthusiast CTO Parag Agrawal #
— Frank Force’s alien landscape generator in 2k of JS, click for a new one #
November 26, 2021
— Bo Burnham’s dystopian ditty is finally on YouTube #
— a Starburst ad that went viral online in 2007 blew up again 14 years later, thanks to Justin McElroy and TikTok #
— Defunctland hired an industrial engineer to build a theme park simulation for this feature-length documentary #
— don’t miss the full version of Heaven Drips #
November 24, 2021
— dismissed by their peers, some medical professionals are re-evaluating how they’ve treated their own patients #
November 22, 2021
— love the glitches introduced as it blows past the kill screen via Web Curios #
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