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December 17, 2019
— if the Google Colab version scared you off, this is a simple way to try one the most interesting projects of the year #
December 16, 2019
— an archive of all 13k+ tweet-length generative JS art from Dwitter via @KilledByAPixel #
— out tomorrow for PC/PS4, so excited to finally play it #
— “the Citizen Kane of beekeeping games” is available for free on Itch.io #
— good video cards are expensive, but cloud GPU fees add up quick #
— reminder that the agency behind it, Brud, raised $6M of venture capital from Sequoia #
— there are serious mental health consequences to reviewing a high volume of disturbing and graphic content #
December 15, 2019
— JS version of this year’s winner of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest #
December 14, 2019
— Cyriak’s looping animations are always hypnotic and vaguely disturbing #
December 13, 2019
— Katie Notopoulos, Julia Reinstein, and Ryan Broderick turn in the definitive list with useful context #
— finally, I can make dubstep with my face via @yurisuzuki #
— curated color palettes in context of a real-world example site via Hacker News #
— new app for generating, sharing, and editing 3D captures of physical spaces via producthunt.com #
— build agents to perform automated tasks for you online, like IFTTT or Zapier that you control via Pinboard #
— Google’s interest in small developers is fickle, shifting over time as products evolve #
— great mix of investigative reporting and undeniable visual evidence #
December 12, 2019
— Harper’s feature on the rise of dark web assassination marketplaces via @harpers #
— see also: Toto’s Africa on sweet potato and squash #
— Rich Ziade explains more on their blog #
— newly out-of-beta platform for uncovering local history, like this building that’s still very special to me #
— Jia Tolentino on the increasing use of plastic surgery to resemble FaceTune-filtered photos in real life #
— generative poetry based on your location; more on how it works via FlowingData #
— clears up many of the visual artifacts of StyleGAN, see it in action on This Person Does Not Exist #
December 11, 2019
— nice to see the continued mainstream acceptance of singular they #
— a new game for the fantasy console every day until Christmas, don’t miss the flawless Snowcraft demake #
— a clear reaction to their failure to act in the Carlos Maza/Steven Crowder incident #
— ActivityPub was tailor-made for this use, but they seem committed to reinventing it on the blockchain #
December 10, 2019
— I watched them play for a small crowd at XOXO, and four years later, they’re selling out MSG with no label, manager, or advertising #
— we’re giving away prizes from our own collection of XOXO history, and would love your help hitting the goal by December 17 #
— after surviving her brain tumor, she hopes to move on from shitty robots to space exploration via @SimoneGiertz #
— I still wonder what the cancelled Twin Peaks for the NES would’ve been like via It's Nice That #
— Anil Dash on how links represent a threat to closed systems #
— this year’s articles their editorial staff most wish they’d written #
December 9, 2019
— Chooseco has only owned the trademark since 1999, after Random House let it lapse #
— made from 10,000 LEGOs, the AI-powered sorting machine can recognize and sort every LEGO part ever made #
— first day of the annual project where designers and illustrators create new covers for their top 10 albums of the year #
— days before mass deletion, they banned Archive Team’s volunteer email addresses via @textfiles #
— related: Taylor Lorenz interviewed Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s most accessible executive in the West #
December 7, 2019
December 6, 2019
— delightfully weird short from Kirsten Lepore, who’s currently directing an indie feature film #
— reconstructing the shadows in Plato’s cave with deep matrix factorization via @xsteenbrugge #
— playing with this feels like black magic #
— an AI-driven text adventure that responds realistically to any input, one of the most profoundly amazing projects I’ve ever seen #
December 5, 2019
— lilly is a precious resource and must be protected at all costs #
— taking the safe route with a purely stats-focused roundup after last year’s cringefest #
— Arwa Michelle Mboya is training a neural network on iconic feminist texts via twitter.com #
— trust me and stick with it #
— as Patrick explains, the ultra-hard Kaizo Mario fan-made games almost certainly inspired the original Mario Maker #
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