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February 13, 2020
— brilliant stunt to subvert the horrible precedents set by recent high-profile music copyright infringement cases via mailchi.mp #
February 11, 2020
— a social network simulator for iOS where you’re the only human with millions of bots obsessed with you via @billychasen #
February 10, 2020
— including text, images, and audio, presumably impacting a large swath of the pre-2010s web #
— with interviews from the team and behind-the-scenes photos and digital renderings #
— 24 years later, it’s now re-rendered in 1080p 60FPS video from the original 3ds Max source #
February 7, 2020
— stretching machine-generated parallax with the 3D Ken Burns effect to its limits #
February 6, 2020
— experimental app to turn hand-drawn sketches into music and synthesizers #
— or, more accurately, free fan-made apps that mimic the Mario Paint aesthetic #
— slated for this April, excited to see what they come up with #
February 5, 2020
— multiplayer pixel art #
— newly-launched publication from Politico’s publisher covering “the people, power and politics of tech” #
— get texted the credentials for a mystery site daily, first person who figures out what it’s for gets to keep it #
— Rachel Binx’s new open-source web store project #
— the new podcast from Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway, telling stories of creative partnerships #
— very good webcomic about a vampire and werewolf in love, from the creator of Sarah’s Scribbles #
February 4, 2020
— using Gigapixel AI for increasing resolution and DAIN for interpolation #
— explore 3D maps from classic games in the browser, including Katamari, Psychonauts, Mario Galaxy, and many more #
— their commitment to a dumb joke is part of why I love them so much #
— 0.01% of Google Photos users attempting to export, but who knows how many that was #
February 3, 2020
— now they just need to get rid of those crickets #
— a delightful, practical look back at how CSS evolved via Jeremy Keith #
— visual novel where the core interaction is making coffee drinks for customers #
— for more on Doomer memes, see the MEL piece by Miles Klee #
January 31, 2020
— “You don’t actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw.” via Boing Boing #
— dark software patterns fueling the opioid crisis via The Verge #
— kill it dead via Boing Boing #
— competing with the most valuable startup on the planet won’t be easy, but this is a good way to do it #
— intense open-source intelligence automation tool with over 170 modules #
— and the inevitable backlash from internet bozos #
— massive Flash/Shockwave preservation project makes 38,000 webgames and 2,400 animations playable from a single Windows-only launcher via @bfod #
— a companion to the vocal burst map, an interactive visualization of emotions conveyed by music via Web Curios #
— creative use of the pause function to turn tweets into single-button games via Web Curios #
— 3D shader visualizer in the style of Refik Anadol’s stunning art installations via Web Curios #
— relatable content from Ze Frank #
January 30, 2020
— a $42M monument to techno-utopianism inside a mountain owned by Jeff Bezos #
— four years and 156 episodes later #
— 360 scans of a Vietnam street converted to a 3D point cloud and rendered real-time in Unity with custom shaders #
— from the Product Hunt folks, a new social site for sharing stuff you use and love #
— their bi-weekly drops are a great source of random internet weirdness, I highly recommend signing up #
— Increpare made a hellish four-way version of Tetris #
— don’t miss the first part, which focused on male perpetrators #
— a transparent attempt to avoid litigation, which should absolutely go forward or this kind of abuse will keep happening #
— like Pink Trombone meets QWOP, out now for Windows and Switch #
— huge exclusivity deals from Microsoft, Facebook, and YouTube, some brokered by shady talent agencies #
— news orgs need to understand the dynamics of the online culture war #
— a bouncing visualization of FiveThirtyEight polling data via @ftrain #
— long domain is long via @ftrain #
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