Finland adds demoscene to National Inventory of Living Heritage — "the first time that a digital culture is listed as UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage, anywhere, ever" #

Beatsplit — turn any MP3 into a drum pad #

Online Town — another interesting experiment with spatial software #

The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder — Wired profiles a Cloudflare cofounder whose personality shifted after a degenerative brain disease (via) #

Fan-made Minecraft Disneyland recreation is opening California Adventure on April 24 — can't recommend this enough, the Disneyland rides are incredibly charming #

Console Concertos — converting classic video game sounds into sheet music on Soundslice #

Our Pandemic Summer — another must-read Ed Yong piece on the near future and weathering the next stages of the pandemic #

Pets in Isolation — another Ze Frank gem #

GitHub is now free for teams — unlimited private repos for everyone #

Bitsy 7.0 released — great little editor for making browser-based games and worlds #

3D for Reddit — top /r/pics posts in a virtual art gallery (via) #

DJ3D — watch YouTube videos with others in a playful 3D space (via) #

DOMi and JD Beck — fell into a deep YouTube hole, watching these two freakishly talented teens shred in video after video (via) #

Hyper P.T., P.T. recreated in HyperCard — part of the Merveilles Hyperjam, a game jam to make short interactive monochrome games inspired by HyperCard #

SNL At Home — the most surreal SNL ever, from the Tom Hanks monologue to the solo sketches #

Field Museum’s Emily Graslie giving live tour of Animal Crossing’s in-game museum — watch it live on Twitch today at 2pm PT/5pm ET #

Memories by Desire — DOS demo with eight effects, transitions and music in 256 BYTES, with executable and source code available #

TIC-80 tiny computer — new-to-me fantasy computer, a free alternative to the wonderful PICO-8 #

Meteoriks Awards 2020 — celebrating the best of the last year's demoscene, I particularly loved Minim, Atlas, and Fallspire #

Russians recreate famous works of art in quarantine — the Getty launched a similar project last month (via) #

Internet Archive releases stats on the National Emergency Library — really limited usage and impact, which reinforces my belief that they risked the future of controlled digital lending unnecessarily (via) #

The impact of coronavirus on online sex workers — a flood of new competition, paired with the widespread loss of disposable income, is hurting cam models #

Nicky Case’s comic on using privacy-preserving contact tracing to stop Covid-19 — great explanation of the DP-3T protocol (via) #

Spatial Software — interesting essay with some recent experiments that add a spatial dimension to social apps #

Pipedream — like IFTTT for developers (via) #

Cables.gl — visual WebGL/Web Audio editor for making interactive art in the browser without code (via) #

Project 88, crowdsourced fan recreation of Back to the Future II — split into 88 scenes in wildly-varying styles, a la Star Wars Uncut, Empire Uncut, and Shrek Retold (via) #

Pandemic Stories from Around the World — Jason Kottke solicited personal stories from readers on how they're doing #

NYT Mag profiles Weird Al and his enduring appeal — includes a glimpse into his meticulous songwriting process #

How Low Can Your Logo? — very good designers compete to the worst possible logo for a fictional marketing company #

The Pudding analyzes how Kidz Bop censors songs — weirdly enough, inspired by a tweet of mine from last September #

The Midnight Gospel — Adventure Time creator Pen Ward's surreal new Netflix series will debut, appropriately enough, on 4/20 #

Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen — new state-of-the-art green screen technique with inference code on Github #

DNS over Wikipedia — ridiculous but funny hack #

Cute House — you're cute and don't let anyone tell you otherwise (via) #

Nether Meant — American Football, Anamanaguchi, Baths, and others are throwing a coronavirus fundraiser concert in Minecraft #

Vox reviews Quibi, the new short-form streaming video app — I signed up this morning and canceled 10 minutes later, I expected more for the $1.75 billion they're spending on it #

Tom Scott on API optimism, sustainability, and abuse in the Web 2.0 era — come for the clever title hack, stay for the entropy #

Computer store untouched since 2001 — Jason Scott dug up some of the backstory #

Ilo Sitelen — Increpare made a computer terminal for Toki Pona, a constructed language with about 120 words #

Like roots in the soil — lovely post-apocalyptic interactive short story for Windows/Mac #

Now Play This (At Home) — the UK games festival adapted to social distancing with virtual events inside games like Animal Crossing, Half-Life, and No Man's Sky, all on their Twitch channel #

Some Good News: Zoom Surprise — the second episode of John Krasinski's unusually good YouTube series features some impressive cameos #

California King — the You Look Nice Today boys are back with a new podcast after a seven-year hiatus #

Still Bill — this 2009 documentary looks at the life and career of Bill Withers, who died Monday at age 81 #

xkcd’s Collector’s Edition — follow the hints to find stickers buried in the xkcd archives, then help others combine them into a massive collage #

The Outline lays off all staff — it had some great writers and interesting design, but agreed the editorial vision was confusing #

LIKELIKE Online — an interactive multiplayer exhibition of Bitsy games, happening right now #

Strange Keyworld — devious game with a simple mechanic: you can only use the keys displayed on-screen to move (via) #

USPS facing bankruptcy from coronavirus crisis — could be forced to cease operations as early as June without emergency funding #