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July 30, 2021
— late to this meme, but deep-diving these on YouTube killed me #
July 29, 2021
— a short delightful game by Louie Zong, made with GB Studio #
— printed on the back of cereal boxes, make beats with cereal and an AR web app #
— I love how Mark Rober and friends perform remarkable feats of engineering for delightfully silly ends #
— so many great games, I’m most excited for the Outer Wilds expansion, Stray, and Storyteller #
— Coopertom is continually doing something great in VRChat #
— preorders for the adorable cranky handheld open today! #
July 28, 2021
— revived from death by Bustle Digital Group, edited by Leah Finnegan #
July 27, 2021
— badly needed, but Slack’s implementation feels far more frictionless and natural #
— made for the TIC-80 fantasy computer; F6 to disable the CRT effect, K to corrupt via @Polyducks #
— another family torn apart by the conspiracy cult #
July 26, 2021
— the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas, which I first learned about from Desus & Mero #
— elaborate satirical project to emulate an 8088 microprocessor with cloud microservices at 1/2000ths its original speed #
— deep dive into the tools used by Japanese game artists in the ’80s and ’90s #
July 25, 2021
— Netflix is posting some of the best bits from “Inside” on YouTube #
July 24, 2021
— not just politicization and anti-vaccine sentiment, but slow FDA approval and confused CDC guidance #
July 23, 2021
— try to guess the difference between art priced under $25 and over $4,000 on eBay via b3ta #
— monitoring live Twitch channels for spikes in chat activity, surfacing clips with a high concentration of emotes via b3ta #
— undetectable by current systems, the network continues to function normally with up to half of neurons affected #
— “We may not have achieved Universal Access to All Knowledge yet, but we still can.” #
— a Substack newsletter outed a priest using location data tying him to Grindr and gay bars, leading to his resignation via Nelson Minar #
— Jason Scott gives more context about Mark Herring’s contributions to BBS history #
— intensely-annotated post about every aspect of the “one-man/one-room pandemic comedy masterpiece” #
— “today we’re sharing high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body” #
— GAN-generated beaches trained on 20,000 beach photos via Web Curios #
— musician tries to recreate the Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack from memory 30 years later via Web Curios #
— good demo of how it can send you down extremely specific rabbit holes #
— “PDF artists” selling faked documents #
— critics allege Diana Deets is “pedobaiting,” she says it’s for privacy and a form of performance art #
— waiting for dead video sites like Viddler, LiveLeak, and blip.tv to meet the same fate #
— lucrative sponsorship deals from crypto casinos let them quietly play with free house money #
— a website that changes every time you blink via Web Curios #
— Engadget, The Verge, and Eurogamer also previewed the little handheld, with preorders opening next Thursday #
— click “nextVideo” for more examples via @AlexandreDevaux #
— seven minigame events and global leaderboards #
— the Automattic-owned platform will take a 5% fee, half of Substack’s fee #
— very mixed feelings about this story of a guy using Jason Rohrer’s OpenAI chatbot project to simulate his dead fiancée #
July 20, 2021
— sound on for these via jwz #
July 16, 2021
— made entirely alone over three years by animator Shingo Tamagawa via @shingotamagawa #
— an Apple II emulator running Print Shop modified to generate PDF downloads of your prints via Nelson Minar #
July 15, 2021
— “we can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later” #
July 14, 2021
— Uyghur poet Tahir H. Izgil shares the story of escaping China with his family #
— he used Facebook’s own analytics tool to show, day after day, how right-wing pages dominate engagement #
— Leigh Alexander is prompting GPT-J-6B to generate creepy stories with images by BigSleep #
— Garbage Day on the automated systems and financial incentives perpetuating an endless cycle of outrage #
July 13, 2021
— browser vendors and ad-tech engineers face off in a bitter geeky battle over new privacy standards #
— face-aligning and averaging Noah Kalina’s last 7,777 daily photos into a 130-second video #
— he does great breakdowns of each video on his channel #
— possibly because it’s storing source data in Celsius and rounding, though this is fixed in iOS 15 #
— short free browser game that won last year’s GMTK Jam via newsletter.gamediscover.co #
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