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December 10, 2020
— Choire Sicha shitposting in the New York Times brings me great delight #
December 9, 2020
— they’re asking a federal court to force them to sell assets “including, but not limited to, Instagram and/or WhatsApp” via @mikeisaac #
December 8, 2020
— live kitten cam with meows converted into sax solos real-time using Imitone #
— Clemens Wenger’s interactive jazz album with creative code by Gianluca Monaco #
— traveling hucksters went town to town convincing locals to make the same movie starring their kids, over and over again #
— Reddit exploded during the pandemic and protests, with daily active users up 44% and posts/upvotes up over 50% #
December 7, 2020
— allegedly over “hacking” an alert system in which “all authorized users use the same user name and password” #
— interesting snapshot of the community from October 21, 2019 to October 20, 2020 via @garbageday #
— the core game mechanic and implementation of The Impossible Bottle is genius #
— samples from the corpus feeding GAN-generated faces #
— reveals text obscured with a linear box filter, assuming you can supply it with an accurate font sample via @spibblez #
— a tribute to the restaurants, bars, shops, and other businesses, some over a hundred years old, that closed since the pandemic started via @taylorlorenz #
December 4, 2020
— within five minutes of unmasked exposure, one person infected two others 15-21 feet away via Kottke #
— the beloved Zappos founder was privately suffering from mental health and addiction issues #
December 3, 2020
— they spelled “unspeakably beautiful” wrong #
— the Supreme Court heard its first CFAA case this week, which may make scraping a crime #
— artist digitally paints herself into famous paintings #
— Curtis Coleman’s recursive tweet from 2009 is the only other example I know of via MetaFilter #
— I had no idea Teams doubled in size in the last six months #
— like Nick, I adore Slack and barely understand what Salesforce does, and that makes me worry #
— heartbreaking, but at least nobody was hurt #
— for different reasons, liberals and conservatives are both wrong about repealing platform immunity #
December 2, 2020
— a huge library of Creative Commons-licensed of 3D objects with a powerful API disappears in six months #
— compose poems with the help of generative models trained on the work of famous poets via Boing Boing #
— scenes from ten classic films reenacted by the tanks from Combat for the Atari 2600 via @pippinbarr #
— 115 checkerboard loop animations from 81 contributors via @cs_kaplan #
— Ron and his dad are widely suspected to be Q #
— “Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?” via @laura_hudson #
— Andre Antunes remixes televangelist grifter Kenneth Copeland #
December 1, 2020
— I hope she keeps doing these forever #
November 30, 2020
— Beardyman channels Randy Newman #
— WaPo goes inside Trump’s attempted coup, a failed quest to overturn election results #
— Paul Ford’s brief conversation with his younger self about web tech via Nelson Minar #
— four men dismantled it on Friday night, implied that they were annoyed by the environment impact of tourists in the area #
— MySpace rebooted by an 18-year-old German student, who was five years old at its peak popularity via Hacker News #
— a 2016 study analyzed 22k YouTube videos and found recommendations fell into 50 clusters via MetaFilter #
— the strange and good HBO docuseries ended with scenes of NYC shot as the pandemic unfolded #
— you’ll want to turn on the captions via pudding.cool #
— fascinating step-by-step breakdown of a procedurally-generated graphic; play with it on Shadertoy via @evilkimau #
— Deborah Solomon dug into the theory that it was created by artist John McCracken #
— just setting up my twttr #
— intriguing new app for decentralized collaborative code development via twitter.com #
— it nearly solves the 3D shapes of complex protein structures, more than doubling accuracy in the last four years via Hacker News #
— outstanding audio investigation by Adrianne Jeffries into Amazon review scammers, why they used seeds, and why it ended so quickly #
November 27, 2020
— clicker games are my Kryptonite, transparently manipulative but I still succumb #
— in the process, he rebuilt Line Rider using modern web standards to fix its bugs, which became the official version #
— people who lost their sense of smell and haven’t realized it yet #
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