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March 25, 2020
— simple app filters out incoming and outgoing background noise for online calls #
— a playful new newsletter from The Verge’s T.C. Sottek #
— Mailchimp licensed 40+ SXSW-nominated shorts for streaming via @sarita__alami #
March 24, 2020
— they don’t plan to run a physical OSCON, Strata, Velocity, or anything else ever again #
— José Manuel Ballester removes human figures from classic paintings #
— the best visualization I’ve found so far to track country-by-country growth of COVID-19, updated daily #
— Noah Kalina is snapping moments from live feed webcams of public places around the world #
— the dartening is near #
March 23, 2020
— he mentions me and Kind of Bloop around the 5:50 mark #
— new incremental game, like A Dark Room meets Telehack #
March 18, 2020
— and they’re funded by SoftBank #
— from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch via @anildash #
— a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk’s livestream yesterday #
— communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify #
— preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend #
March 17, 2020
— the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source #
— John Green on how we’ll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo #
— new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale’s Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl #
— Guy Maddin’s experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo from found footage via @mikerugnetta #
— my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me #
March 16, 2020
— on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks #
— French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in #
March 15, 2020
— Louie Zong crowdsourced over 1,000 bird drawings on Twitter and turned it into a museum for PC/Mac #
— effective and interesting dynamic visualizations #
March 14, 2020
— Powerpoint Karaoke as a Glitch app, built on top of Neil Cicierega’s excellent SlideShare Gems via @anildash #
— a very good short sci-fi story by Amit Gupta #
March 13, 2020
— the first modern tech company to voluntarily recognize an employee union, I believe #
— Reports Without Borders built a massive open library in Minecraft to bypass government censorship via Web Curios #
— virtual book events over Zoom with a $5 cover, upcoming authors include Heather Armstrong and Michael Bierut #
March 11, 2020
— Alice Goldfuss’s sensible advice for maintaining mental health while working from home via @alicegoldfuss #
March 10, 2020
— very late to Dylan Marron’s podcast where he connects people with those who wrote negative comments about them online #
— Cory Doctorow’s new daily digest of interesting links, also available as an email newsletter #
— detailed and readable breakdown; move with the mouse, double-click to jump via MetaFilter #
March 9, 2020
— the Dreams ecosystem is so fun to explore #
— uses Tensorflow.js for face and hand tracking in the browser, and performs well on mobile #
— a great primer with the current context of COVID-19 #
— an easy and powerful way to play with creative applications of AI and machine learning in the browser for free via @Merzmensch #
— MSCHF’s new hyper-infringing drop lets you channel surf Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO, Prime Video, and Showtime #
March 6, 2020
— I’m stunned, I truly can’t believe it; here’s SXSW’s official announcement #
— 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 @sam_lavigne #
— by comparison, South Korea tested over 66k people within a week of its first case of community transmission #
— Filter > Render > Tree #
— a generative horror novel by interactive fiction author Aaron E. Reed, where no two copies are alike via @lauraehall #
March 5, 2020
— no spoilers, I just highly encourage you to listen to what instantly became one of my favorite podcast episodes ever #
— you may remember Pinot from his 8-bit This Is America remake #
— one-star reviews of U.S. national parks, lovingly illustrated and hand-lettered by Amber Share #
March 4, 2020
— for the first time since the 2016 election, David Rees, Starlee Kine, and Jon Kimball are back to their bullshit #
— in seconds, train a machine learning algorithm to scold you #
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