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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 #
— CLIP generates surreal pixel art animations #
— investigation into how millions of ad dollars bankroll clickbait actors, funding disinformation campaigns internationally via Garbage Day #
— Stuart Brown goes deep into chiptune for a new episode of Ahoy via @soobrosa #
— a “barely active drop-shipping scam page full of stolen video content” is the most widely-viewed page in the U.S. this year #
— she deleted the comic and her presence online after a 2014 Kickstarter update blew up online #
November 17, 2021
November 16, 2021
— new daily word game from Josh Wardle, the creator of r/button and r/place at Reddit #
November 11, 2021
— related: Motherboard’s oral history of SA from 2017 #
November 10, 2021
— charming video talks to the current owner and some of the exiled, now in their 40s and 50s via twitter.com #
November 9, 2021
— how they’ve adapted to the redesign of something they never wanted to change #
— the second part documenting the history of the influential creative coding language is out now #
— because of natural immunity in red counties and new antiviral treatments, that gap may soon peak via New York Times #
November 8, 2021
— interesting conversation about privilege and culture from someone with a history of ironically saying shitty things for shock value via @Zaron3 #
— Neal Agarwal’s rock-stacking simulator #
— how a religious movement played a role in spawning the U.S. sushi industry via Belong.io #
November 5, 2021
— how the Twine revolution opened up interactive fiction to a new world of writers and audiences #
— powerful science-fantasy short story from A.L. Goldfuss #
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