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March 10, 2021
— visualization of carbon emissions as an abstract driving game #
— the legacy and influence of the accessible tool for crafting branching interactive fiction #
— I want this, but for a 1980s computer software store #
March 9, 2021
— the creator works on Sassy Justice, and each TikTok clip took weeks of work via MetaFilter #
— I adored this book, and the 2012 documentary exploring its lasting impact #
March 8, 2021
— 11 current and former employees were effectively told “it’s not us, it’s you” #
— the engineer refused to sign off on the Challenger launch and helped expose the disaster cover-up, risking his career twice #
— devastating NYT interactive feature interviewing Americans who lost friends and loved ones to Covid-19 via Kottke #
— love the sand game made of “sand” #
— the downside of teaching your AI to read #
— the festival of experimental game design is fully online this year with a delightful lineup #
— inspired by Bosch’s triptych, an online chatroom for the animals of Age of Empires II via nowplaythis.net #
March 7, 2021
— a turntable interface for YouTube #
— love the way this ramps up #
March 4, 2021
— can you beat 1,024 bytes of javascript? #
March 3, 2021
— “Proof of work places a direct lien against the future.” #
March 2, 2021
— sadly, most investors want big exits, not a bunch of sustainable independent companies paying dividends #
— Glitch voluntarily recognized the union a year ago this month #
March 1, 2021
— job sites are geocoding remote work positions to an unincorporated hamlet in southern Oregon #
— 70GB of data, public and private, from the far-right social media platform #
— build and texture low-poly 3D models in PICO-8 via Today in Tabs #
— combining reinforcement and imitation learning to get a top 10 speedrun via Today in Tabs #
February 25, 2021
— modern free finger hosting for all your finger needs #
— elements of Substack, Patreon, and Clubhouse #
— stories of racist/sexist behavior and pay disparities from 11 current and past employees #
— your vibes are not compliant with festival policy #
— cursed generator resynthesizes audio from YouTube using a neural net trained on choral and strings recordings #
February 24, 2021
— just frying some eggs #
— the powerful scripting language powering narrative games like Heaven’s Vault, Pendragon, and 80 Days via Today in Tabs #
— Robin Sloan proposes short poems whose SHA-256 hashed text includes four or more 8s in a row, with its own scratchpad #
February 23, 2021
— Scott Pakin’s innovative stereograms are equal parts impressive and migraine-inducing #
February 22, 2021
— the common mental image of icebergs is wrong, sketch one in 2D and find its stable orientation via Kottke #
February 20, 2021
— absurdly comprehensive effort to track down the sources for every image from the iconic Beatles album cover #
February 19, 2021
— drawing parallels between the dynamics of WallStreetBets, QAnon, and TheDonald; the linked paper on WSB is interesting reading via Platformer #
— related: Joanie Lemercier on the problem of cryptoart #
— real-time analysis plus 20,000 human moderators censor nudity, profanity, live streams, and political speech #
— a time-loop racer for PC with all proceeds to charity #
February 18, 2021
— they removed a staggering 1.3 billion fake accounts in the last quarter of 2020 #
— my new project got its first press; see also: Wired interview #
February 17, 2021
— I can’t believe I’m siding with Facebook on any issue, but forcing platforms to pay publishers for links to their sites is just stupid #
— the Test Kitchen series inspired The Nod co-host Eric Eddings to call them out for hypocrisy; see PJ Vogt’s statement #
— nuanced take from Liz Spiers about Slate Star Codex, tech journalism, and negativity bias via Today in Tabs #
February 16, 2021
— reminds me of the original version of Byte, before it pivoted into Vine 2.0 #
February 12, 2021
— the influencers are unionizing #
February 11, 2021
— trailers for 460 independent games accepted into this year’s Independent Games Festival via @grapefrukt #
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