98.css — a CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98, because why not #

Léo Chéron’s WebGL particles — hypnotic webcam effect, try changing the settings (via) #

This Website Will Self-Destruct — if 24 hours pass without new activity, the entire database of over 24,000 anonymous messages will delete itself (via) #

Clay Boonthanakit’s Buttercup with a twist — clever riff on a very good meme #

How the Memories 256 byte MS-DOS demo works — I linked to this tiny megademo a week ago, and even after reading this, I'm still amazed #

How We Reopen — mathemusician Vi Hart is working with a bipartisan group of experts working on a pandemic response plan #

Every Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same — in these uncertain times, we're here for you #

Imagineering in a Box — Disney Imagineering released a free course on theme park design #

We Are Living in a Failed State — the coronavirus revealed what was already broken in America, exposing and exploiting its underlying conditions (via) #

Simone Giertz made a proud parent machine — voiced by Adam Savage; don't miss the very sweet moment with her real parents at the end #

Seinfeld Adventure — some solid pixel art in here pitching a point-and-click adventure game #

LIKELIKE’s Online Museum of Multiplayer Art — a playful lo-fi multiplayer gallery of virtual installations #

Panic Podcast on Sidetalkin’ — Cabel Sasser was behind the delightful 2004-era meme mocking the Nokia N-Gage #

Vemos — new Netflix Party-esque Chrome add-on for synchronized viewing parties from popular streaming services (via) #

Fiona Apple’s Release the Bold Cutters is out tonight — her first in eight years, and it's getting great early reviews #

Devs is very good and you should watch it — just watched the series finale, the short-run series by Ex Machina/Annihilation's Alex Garland is the best since Russian Doll #

Ars Technica on the Half-Life improv scene — games provide a perfect setting for endless comedy riffing #

Pass the Pepper — over-the-top Rube Goldberg device made from household objects with incredible comedic timing (via) #

Naomi Kritzer reflects on her 2015 short story about a food blogger living through a pandemic — it's incredibly uncanny to read now, like a parallel universe to ours (via) #

Glitch launches paid subscriptions — boost Glitch apps so they never sleep, with additional resources and no rate limits #

ZOOOOOM.US — a screensaver simulating a neverending Zoom call with a rotating cast of characters (via) #

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 #