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 #

zWarDial, Zoom war dialer exposes Zoom’s password problems — you should use a password for any private Zoom call; related: Zoom announced a 90-day feature freeze to fix security issues #

Implied Gallery — minimalist art gallery from Olly Bromham (via) #

Voleflix — dozens of public domain movies from YouTube in a Netflix-esque interface #

bored.solutions — ideas of things to learn, make, and do while self-isolating #

If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode — the writers and showrunners behind 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, and many more speculate on how their characters would react #

Toilet paper shortages can be explained by people using 40% more of it at home — completely obvious in hindsight, but this is the first I've seen this explained #

Everything Is Alive interviews Josh, a chainsaw — voiced by Josh Gondelman, this very good episode was performed live at XOXO last year #

Pandemic in BusinessTown — Tony Ruth's Richard Scarry parody is getting updated for 2020 #

Welcome to the Hunt — a little April 1 internet scavenger hunt from the creators of Emoji Mashup Bot #

Bill Gates on actionable steps to make up for lost time on Covid-19 — we need strong and consistent federal leadership on physical distancing, testing, and vaccine development #

Ghost Crash — Donato Sansone edits out the second car from car crash footage (via) #

Life, Death, and Dinner — from the head chef at one of my favorite local restaurants, a heartfelt post about the experience of shutting it down #

Hey Robot: Quarantine Edition — remote-friendly version of Frank Lantz's brilliant party game played with smart speakers (via) #

Bong Joon-ho’s detailed storyboards for Parasite — the level of visual planning and pacing is unreal #

Janelle Shane trained a neural net to generate prank ideas — just don't try any of these in real-life, because Internet Jackass Day is canceled #

Worthikids’ “Xylophone” — tough crowd #

Stay Safe with Bryan and Nicky Dee — an important PSA from SmallBü #

PICOHOT — official SUPERHOT port to the PICO-8 fantasy console (via) #

Shing Yin Khor recreated Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present in Animal Crossing — along with Spiral Jetty, The Umbrellas, and more #

YTMND resurrected with the help of fans, rebuilt for modern browsers — the 19-year-old meme community fell into disrepair after Google cut it off from ad revenue, and went offline last year #

Ars Technica on the backlash from authors on the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library — allowing unlimited copies feels like an overreach, violating the IA's own Controlled Digital Lending policy #