O’Reilly Media permanently ends in-person conferences — they don't plan to run a physical OSCON, Strata, Velocity, or anything else ever again #

Concealed Spaces — José Manuel Ballester removes human figures from classic paintings #

91-DIVOC — the best visualization I've found so far to track country-by-country growth of COVID-19, updated daily #

Virtual Travel Photography in the Age of Pandemic — Noah Kalina is snapping moments from live feed webcams of public places around the world #

it’s time to get good at darts — the dartening is near #

Tom Scott on the problems with copyright — he mentions me and Kind of Bloop around the 5:50 mark #

Skynet Simulator — new incremental game, like A Dark Room meets Telehack #

Patent troll uses monkey selfie law firm to sue to block Covid-19 testing with Theranos patents — and they're funded by SoftBank #

Substation — from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch (via) #

Best practices for locking down Zoom community calls — a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk's livestream yesterday #

Listen Together — communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify #

Steam Game Festival — preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend #

Inklewriter is back — the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source #

together. — John Green on how we'll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo #

CVS Bangers FOUR — bless you, Hennessy #

Our Plague Year — new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale's Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl #

The Green Fog — Guy Maddin's experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from found footage (via) #

Flatter Me — my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me #

XOXO 2020 is canceled — on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks #

#Coronamaison — French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in #

The Bird Museum — Louie Zong crowdsourced over 1,000 bird drawings on Twitter and turned it into a museum for PC/Mac #

Washington Post’s outbreak simulations — effective and interesting dynamic visualizations #

Power Slides — Powerpoint Karaoke as a Glitch app, built on top of Neil Cicierega's excellent SlideShare Gems (via) #

How Did It Feel to be Eaten? — a very good short sci-fi story by Amit Gupta #

Glitch unionizes — the first modern tech company to voluntarily recognize an employee union, I believe #

The Uncensored Library — Reports Without Borders built a massive open library in Minecraft to bypass government censorship (via) #

Quarantine Book Club — virtual book events over Zoom with a $5 cover, upcoming authors include Heather Armstrong and Michael Bierut #

Work in the Time of Corona — Alice Goldfuss's sensible advice for maintaining mental health while working from home (via) #

Conversations with People Who Hate Me — very late to Dylan Marron's podcast where he connects people with those who wrote negative comments about them online #

Pluralistic — Cory Doctorow's new daily digest of interesting links, also available as an email newsletter #

Frank Force explains how to make a 3D racing game in 2KB of Javascript — detailed and readable breakdown; move with the mouse, double-click to jump (via) #

Sinfeld Chronicles, a Seinfeld horror game made in Dreams — the Dreams ecosystem is so fun to explore #

Facemesh and Handpose — uses Tensorflow.js for face and hand tracking in the browser, and performs well on mobile #

Exponential growth and epidemics — a great primer with the current context of COVID-19 #

Merzmensch’s roundup of Google Colab notebooks — an easy and powerful way to play with creative applications of AI and machine learning in the browser for free (via) #

All The Streams — MSCHF's new hyper-infringing drop lets you channel surf Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO, Prime Video, and Showtime #

City of Austin declares local disaster, cancels SXSW 2020 — I'm stunned, I truly can't believe it; here's SXSW's official announcement #

New York Apartment — every NYC real estate listing combined to make one 65,764 bedroom/55,588 bath $43.9B apartment; don't miss the virtual tour (via) #

The Atlantic estimates only 1,895 people tested for coronavirus in the U.S. — by comparison, South Korea tested over 66k people within a week of its first case of community transmission #

The 34 species of trees hidden in Photoshop — Filter > Render > Tree #

Subcutanean — a generative horror novel by interactive fiction author Aaron E. Reed, where no two copies are alike (via) #

Reply All’s The Case of the Missing Hit — no spoilers, I just highly encourage you to listen to what instantly became one of my favorite podcast episodes ever #

Family remakes Spider-Verse scenes with traditional animation techniques — you may remember Pinot from his 8-bit This Is America remake #

Subpar Parks — one-star reviews of U.S. national parks, lovingly illustrated and hand-lettered by Amber Share #

Warren drops out — 😭 #

Election Profit Makers returns — for the first time since the 2016 election, David Rees, Starlee Kine, and Jon Kimball are back to their bullshit #

Do Not Touch Your Face — in seconds, train a machine learning algorithm to scold you #

0107 – b moll — this was emailed to me out-of-the-blue by the director, and I'm blown away #

Mazeletter — a collection of nine infinitely-tiling maze pattern fonts (via) #

A one-year update from Alex Trebek on his pancreatic cancer progress — "if we take it just one day at a time with a positive attitude, anything is possible" #