The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — "If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we're alone in the loss." #

Heather Havrilesky interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans and his new book — Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book's out today #

Only Slightly Exaggerated — Oregon's tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations #

National Geographic confronts its racist history — related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored #

Inside Cuba’s El paquete semanal, a weekly 1TB dump of copyrighted media — absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads #

The Rubik’s Contraption — building a robot to solve a Rubik's Cube in 0.38 seconds #

Steamed Hams Inc. — inspired by Steamed Hams But It's All Star #

Hypercard Zine — an upcoming zine of new Hypercard stacks #

The Verge on the history of Know Your Meme — not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron's arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees #

You Think You Know Me is now available — my wife's delightful Kickstarter-funded card game is out, so I made a website for it #

Jeremy Keith on forced SSL, AMP, and abuse of power — Google and Mozilla are trying to improve the web, but making new barriers to entry #

Vi Hart’s Peace for Triple Piano — "a spherical video in a mathematically triplified space with symmetry in space-time"; how it was made #

One Hour One Life — Jason Rohrer's new game merges Passage and Sleep Is Death into something completely new #

Future Fonts — get access to fonts in development at a deep discount; like Steam Early Access for type designers #

Battleship Solitaire — like Picross meets Battleship #

You Got This! — a free 20-page zine about making web apps with Node.js #

Buzzfeed profiles the Florida teens working to stop mass shootings — this is amazing (via) #

Every art reference in BoJack Horseman — I want that Hockney print #

Add “View Image” back to Google Images — sorry, copyright maximalists, I can't live without it #

Crying in Public — an emotional map of NYC (via) #

Niemen Lab interviews Jason Kottke about blogging in a post-blogging world — interesting to hear how membership made writing viable for him again #

Kotaku interviews the women of Atari — a nuanced look at the company's past from those who were there #

Salon asks ad-blockers to opt into crypocurrency mining instead — like Les said, better to exploit my CPU than my brain, I guess #

84, the secret members-only Nintendo-themed bar in Tokyo — take that, Club 33 #

Janelle Shane’s neural network candy hearts — STANK LOVE #

How Rusty Moyher designed and coded Dig Dog without a keyboard — incredible use of head tracking and voice coding #

Paradise OS — from Steve Kistner, who makes neat web stuff #

Thermal receipt printer with code page 437 — when I was a Cool Teen, we called it high ASCII #

Everything Easy is Hard Again — Frank Chimero on resisting complexity in modern web design #

Roast Me — a neural network trained to insult people, based off data from the subreddit (via) #

John Perry Barlow, RIP — EFF co-founder, Grateful Dead member, and digerati icon #

Reddit bans deepfakes and other fake pornography — the budding genre of machine-generated face-swap porn #

How Facebook Is Killing Comedy — and, more broadly, every online publication that relies on ads #

Winamp2-js now supports all three windows — the list of features it supports is pretty impressive #

Vulture interviews Quincy Jones — every line of this interview is unreal, a man who truly has no fucks to give #

Rob Sheridan on his role in the Dancing Baby meme — I love hearing the secret histories of how early memes spread #

Monster Breeder — Neil Cicierega made a very fun, very silly game #

The Disconnect — digital magazine that requires you to go offline to read #

To Feel Strong — a new autobiographical comic from Lucy Bellwood #

Gustavo Viselner’s pixel-art TV tributes — even more on his Instagram (via) #

Jia Tolentino on the end of The Awl — and what we've lost with the long, slow disappearance of blogging #

The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018 — this is some first-class satire #

Larry’s Quest — related: Tango and Ariston and on #

The Awl and The Hairpin to shut down — after a year-long stint on Medium, the return to ads didn't work out #

VintageCG on YouTube — treasure trove of early CGI footage and experiments #

Joe Veix traces the history of badday.mpg, one of the first viral videos — good example at how videos spread by email in 1997 #

Making the Music of the Mazg — Robin Sloan used a neural network and Croatian klapa singing to generate new music for his Sourdough audiobook #

Moira Donegan on why she started the Shitty Media Men list — essential reading #

Alexis Madrigal on the rise of Instagram middlemen retailers — sold on Shopify, fulfilled by UpWork workers, dropshipped from China without ever seeing a product #

Marbles, Magnets, and Music — like Line Rider Mountain King meets Biisuke Ball's Big Adventure #