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November 21, 2019
— this is brilliant and i hate it via MetaFilter #
— cw: seizure warning; 1,272 photos from Instagram, 200+ hours of work via @hankgreen #
— for example, render any image in LEGO-like bricks via @preetster #
— glowing recommendation from Darius Kazemi, who has good taste in software via @tinysubversions #
— playful upcoming iPad app for making looping animations via @drk #
— intriguing upcoming augmented reality game for mobile devices #
— last day to back Universal Paperclips creator Frank Lantz’s clever tabletop game for smart speakers #
— last chance to apply to Jack Conte’s $50k arts grant for indie creators #
— surprisingly, supports the Oculus Rift/Windows Mixed Reality in addition to Valve VR headsets #
November 18, 2019
— Janelle Shane is testing it out and it seems like it works via @JanelleCShane #
— three months later, the sneaky assholes are working around the ban #
— vertical scrolling as collaborative meme fodder #
— celebrity impersonators paired with deepfake technology via The Verge #
— only 4 of the top 10 were parser-based games, continuing the trend of recent years #
— real-time multiple person segmentation in the browser with TensorFlow.js via @fchollet #
November 17, 2019
— I recommend subscribing to Syrmor’s wonderful Humans of VR series #
November 15, 2019
— the lyrics and music for their new album were written with the help of an AI trained on their back catalog via Web Curios #
— creative choice for shitposting via Web Curios #
— videos perceived as targeting kids lose ads and community features, impacting game streamers among others #
November 14, 2019
— like on Instagram and YouTube, a less polished vibe is more real and relatable via @TaylorLorenz #
— prime Oliver Sacks material here via MetaFilter #
— 124 feet long, 26 years in the making #
— first episode from Reina Scully’s new webseries for First We Feast #
— according to Pornhub, their reversal will affect the livelihoods of over 100k people #
— a competitive industry appears in the middle of nowhere via @mvzelenks #
— I understand none of this math, but it’s nice to know we’ll have fresh baked bread and cookies in the Matrix via @ddiakopoulos #
— a tireless advocate for the comics medium, everyone I know in comics is mourning #
November 13, 2019
— in June, ICANN removed price caps for .org domains #
— incredibly charming, and surprisingly insightful, to see it through a child’s eyes via @hayleyfiasco #
— Dan Sinker’s newsletter rounds up the daily impeachment news #
— scissor switches, a real Esc key, and old arrow keys; the least important news today, but I’m still happy about it #
November 12, 2019
— love this simple effect #
— MSCHF created a fake Seamless restaurant to secretly funnel corporate perks to political candidates who oppose big corporations #
November 11, 2019
— I missed the news of his passing last year; his mental illness inspired fascinating work, along with a history of racist, homophobic paranoia #
— two years in development, a surreal animated short inspired by side-scrolling platformers via twitter.com #
November 8, 2019
— just announced and slow right now, but read about how it works while you wait via @ada_rob #
— more info here, including video via twitter.com #
— it’s shorthand for power, money, and privilege via @TaylorLorenz #
— a third-party named Syniverse was responsible for firing off 168,149 messages, 265 days late via @Jonesieman #
— while some are trying to ban it, TikTok is giving some Pakistani users an audience and new source of income via Web Curios #
— from Neal Agarwal’s excellent Neal.fun, a reliable source of joyful internet via Kottke #
— original animation from Worthikids #
— post-apocalyptic animated short by the very talented Beryl Allee #
— any “best of” list that starts with Demi Adejuyigbe is a winner #
— pure nightmare fodder, but especially the pepperoni pizza made of lips via @jonathanfly #
November 7, 2019
— dead simple tool to train a machine learning model entirely in the browser #
— upsetting texts from ex-partners, dead friends, and family members #
— Hugging Face’s Transformers library had me generating text with GPT-2 on my laptop in about five minutes #
November 6, 2019
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