Harmonia — Liza Daly's stunning entry for IF Comp 2017 #

Why the ♻️ Emoji is Taking Over Twitter — some interesting analysis from Emojitracker creator mroth #

Constellation — just type stuff, a new toy from Terry Cavanagh #

Kickstarter announces Drip, subscription funding for artists — The Verge got the scoop with interviews from past and present staff #

Firefox Quantum is out — double the speed of previous versions, 30% less memory than Chrome #

Mystery Animal — 20 questions with a machine, from Google's voice experiments (via) #

Cards Against Humanity Saves America — I've bought every Holiday Bullshit, and never regretted it #

How Generative Music Works — interactive presentation on the landscape of generative music #

The Atlantic on fake friend services in Japan — actors hired to play the public role of friends, family, or romantic partners #

SpeechBoard — edit podcast audio by editing the transcript #

Let’s Enhance — use machine learning to upscale photos with high fidelity #

The Digital Antiquarian’s series on the history of pre-WWW networks — Jimmy Maher turns his eye from history of computer games to the proto-internet #

Story Speaker — ingenious interactive fiction for Google Home, games written in plain english in Google Docs #

Dotgrid — beautifully constrained pay-what-you-like drawing tool from Hundred Rabbits #

Obama Sinks Family Savings Into Developing Presidential Tabletop Game  #

Louis CK’s movie and Netflix special canceled after NYT report of sexual misconduct — as Lauren Duca said, "2017 is the year of male consequences" — let's hope the president is next #

The Verge on Re:scam, a chatbot that responds to email scams for you — like Lenny, the time-wasting telemarketer responder, for email #

James Bridle on the dark, strange underworld of YouTube kids videos — it only takes five or six related video clicks to get from benign to disturbing stuff #

Fooling neural networks with adversarial objects — 3D printing a turtle that looks like a rifle to a machine, and an espresso baseball #

The Simpsons’ Steamed Hams as a Guitar Hero song — related: Publio Delgado's Harmonizator and /r/zappafied #

Hewlett-Packard historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires — frustratingly preventable, they moved everything out of a fire-protected vault #

Mark Frauenfelder on losing $30k in Bitcoin — he forgot his PIN, forcing him to hack his own wallet #

Spelunky 2 announced — I couldn't be more excited #

Engare — gorgeous new game inspired by Islamic art and architecture #

Floppy Disks in Anime  #

Jazzari — make music with Javascript; try the Partly Purdie example #

Ftrain at 20 — Paul Ford on 20 years of blogging #

Echochamber.js — LocalStorage comments viewable only to the person who made them #

One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end — Mike Monteiro on how Twitter's inability to address harassment became a global threat #

Line Rider – Mountain King — fun to see Line Rider still thriving more than a decade after its release (via) #

Universal Paperclips — new game by Frank Lantz, in which you play an AI making paperclips (via) #

Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse — 1:6 scale dioramas of a hoarder, from 2012 but new to me; more work by the same artist #

Untitled Goose Game — very very good trailer from the creators of Push Me Pull You #

Protanopia — free iOS comic that uses the accelerometer to change perspective #

deeplearn.js — hardware-accelerated machine learning in the browser #

Google Pixel Buds, wireless earbuds that translate 40 languages real-time — not quite the Babel Fish, but getting closer #

SolarBeat — sonification of our solar system with the WebAudio API (via) #

Teachable Machine — interactive machine learning in the browser with your camera #

Incredible Doom — Matthew Bogart's new comic about teens on the '90s internet, first issue up now #

The Secret Costs of Pivoting to Video — decentralized videos are hard to make, measure, and monetize #

Long Live the Group Chat — wonderful marriage of great writing and creative web design #

Short Trip — absurdly charming hand-drawn train journey; hold left or right to move #

Internet Archive’s Third Eye Data project — real-time tracking of TV news chyrons, with APIs and bots #

The Outline on the W3C’s official embrace of DRM — the EFF resigned in protest this week #

Centrism Dot Biz — "Take inaction. You can make an indifference." #

Mapbox’s time maps — try the live map #

Wired on the Snopes’ legal battle — rewriting its own history #

The First Web Apps — the stories behind five web apps that launched in 1995, with extensive research and interviews #

AI Spy — absurdist "I Spy" with a very literal Google Cloud Vision #

80s.NYC — street view of mid-80s NYC compiled from 800,000 city-commissioned building photos #