Human Test Regarding Your Creativity — Ze Frank is making stuff again and it makes me happy #

JS Paint — open-source MS Paint remade in Javascript (via) #

Fraidycat 1.1 released — Kicks Condor's open-source app lets you follow accounts anywhere, now supporting for Twitch, Kickstarter, Pinterest, Github, and more (via) #

Jason Kottke on 15 years of doing Kottke.org full-time — I'm on the Superstar member level, and will continue to be for as long as he keeps doing it #

Firefox enables Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS by default for US users — you can switch to NextDNS or disable it entirely in Network Settings (via) #

The Atlantic on the challenges of containing coronavirus — "widely banning travel, closing down cities, and hoarding resources are not realistic solutions for an outbreak that lasts years" #

What does T5 know? — brilliant and playful use of Glitch to demonstrate Google AI's new transfer learning technique (via) #

The Markup officially launches — the NYT wrote about the challenges launching the nonprofit newsroom investigating technology news #

JIF and Giphy teamed up to make GIF peanut butter — I managed to get one before it sold out #

Web series successfully appeals YouTube copyright claims — they only won after two months because the claimants let the appeals expire; YouTube holds ad revenue until disputes are resolved #

NYMag’s guide to the memes in The 1975’s The Birthday Party video — like Ryan says, it's "bumping into the third rail of total cringe" (via) #

The Economics of 24/7 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop YouTube Livestreams — artists don't get paid directly, granting permission for exposure and making money elsewhere #

My 72 Hours in a Viral Tweet Vortex — I tweeted a joke that got 100k+ likes a while back and it sucked, 800k+ sounds horrifying (via) #

Songs That Sound the Same — dozens of examples of why these music copyright lawsuits are a horrible precedent #

The virtual production of The Mandalorian — astounding use of Unreal Engine for real-time environments and lighting with 360-degree LED walls (via) #

Condé Nast ends use of NDAs to silence harassed and discriminated employees — good riddance, NDAs fundamentally allow toxic workplaces to persist by silencing victims #

Study finds 25% of climate-related tweets are from bots — a massive concerted effort to amplify climate denialism #

BBC Micro Bot runs Conway’s Game of Life — embedded 6502 machine code running on a simulation of a BBC Micro in 266 characters (via) #

Claire de Lune on a modular synth — lovely version by Portland's own ann annie (via) #

MSCHF Box — MSCHF is selling $100 boxes filled with prizes worth $0-7k, but if you choose not to open it, they'll pay you $10/day up to $1,000 #

Glimmer — a new publication from Glitch celebrating makers, coders, and creators #

Nathalie Lawhead’s roundup of small, wonderful digital art tools — most made by a solo dev with a distinct voice, which then impacts your own creative expression (via) #

Commodore 64 plays Huey Lewis — a teenage fan made these songs with Music Construction Set in 1985 and rediscovered the floppies this month (via) #

Art42 — infinite stream of AI art trained on cubist paintings #

TinkerSynth — generative art maker from last year but new to me, try it on desktop #

EvoBoxx — synthesizer based on Conway's Game of Life (via) #

CSS Microfauna — ongoing 100 day CSS art project by Sandra Davis #

STAFFcirc’s WINDOWS VARIAT~1 — amazing remix album of arrangements of old MIDI files that shipped with Windows (via) #

t¥p3w0rld — Instagram filter turns your face into an anthropomorphized 3D letter #

These Lyrics Do Not Exist — neural-network lyric generator with options for subject, mood and genre (via) #

Patreon Capital — Patreon is starting to offer large cash advances with future Patreon earnings as collateral #

Youka, generate karaoke from any song on YouTube — generates isolated instrumental/vocal tracks and pulls lyrics from public databases; try it before it gets C&Ded #

Kickstarter unionizes — the first union of white-collar, full-time workers in the tech industry #

Robin Sloan on building a tiny messaging app for his family — he compares it to the coding equivalent of home cooking: deliberately amateur, loose, and unscalable  #

The Strokes’ At the Door animated video — the video was heavily inspired by late '70s/early '80s animation like Heavy Metal and Watership Down #

VR demo turns words into 3D objects — it downloads the models real-time from Google Poly #

@wiki_tmnt eats itself — a beautiful Twitter bot moment #

HQ Trivia shuts down — a wild rise and fall from its 2017 launch to 2.4 million peak concurrent players in 2018 to complete collapse #

VICE’s Samantha Cole on ProjektMelody, the first hentai camgirl — like Lil Miquela and Ami Yamato, Melody never breaks character #

SynLimb — hacking an arm prosthesis to a modular synth to make thought-controlled music (via) #

Hear Pearl Jam’s new song by pointing your phone at the moon — their AR app plays animations around the moon seen through your phone's camera #

Cartoonist Dami Lee interviews Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch — he didn't own a smartphone until three years ago #

Media Molecule’s Dreams out now for PS4 — the remarkable creation tool can be used for game development, 3D rendering, music, animation, and more (via) #

A 75-year-old woman’s reflections on learning to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and games as art — Dr. Davis is the mother of the actor who played Dutch in RDR2 (via) #

Emotion Eric, 20 years later — I was lucky enough to get to know Eric when we were both at Yahoo, just a super kind and cool person (via) #

The Neighbors’ Window — this year's Oscar-winning live-action short film (via) #

GPT-2 candy hearts — Janelle Shane asked GPT-2 for some new Valentine's Day slogans #

Avocado ‘n’ Toast — comic strip generated from articles about millennials killing things (via) #

BBC Micro Bot — run your BASIC tweets on a virtual BBC Micro (via) #

Repper — web app for creating patterns (via) #