Skip to content
October 31, 2019
— feel spirits move your cursor planchette from the great beyond! via @potch #
October 29, 2019
— for designers, a typeface scarier than Comic Sans and Papyrus via Belong.io #
August 1, 2019
— typeface made from gerrymandered districts #
July 23, 2019
— Chris previously started and ran Google Reader, a product sorely missed by everyone who used it via Belong.io #
July 18, 2019
— interesting twigbunch on Rosegarden #
July 8, 2019
— Darius Kazemi’s guide to running a small social network for your friends; emphasis on “small” #
July 3, 2019
— frustrating and funny interactive dark patterns via Belong.io #
— he should have let it die instead of selling it to this asshole #
July 2, 2019
— and more generally, about ethics in technology via @meyerweb #
July 1, 2019
— novel use of AI to search newspaper archives with solid results #
— stunning video essay from Pop Culture Detective‘s Jonathan McIntosh on America’s shifting perceptions of the prison-industrial complex #
— sharply-written modern descendant of Devil’s Dictionary 2.0 via Pinboard #
— great profile of a spectacular artist #
— compete against 99 other birds; open-source, and free for web, iOS, and Android #
May 10, 2019
April 30, 2019
— with a retrospective and a bunch of easter eggs across the site #
April 23, 2019
— participatory music video where visitors upload images that make up the world #
— a free visual game builder for making Game Boy games #
April 16, 2019
— critical gaming history including unreleased and unfinished prototypes; more context from Jason Scott via @textfiles #
March 15, 2019
— writing gems like this under the handle “Psychedelic Warlord” #
— Charlie Warzel writing for the NYT #
March 13, 2019
— they make a strong case #
— the IGF-winning puzzle game is out today for PC/Mac/Switch, and it’s stunning #
February 19, 2019
— somehow, against all odds, Jon Bois finds a way to make me interested in football #
— reload for a new GAN-generated face; see also: This AirBNB Does Not Exist via Belong.io #
February 18, 2019
— a new Twitter bot/game from Neil Cicierega #
February 11, 2019
— Strong Black Legends is an instant subscribe #
February 7, 2019
— remarkably unusual story of how Gumroad’s founder turned a VC-funded startup into a “lifestyle” business via @shl #
January 18, 2019
— fascinating to see people spilling dirt about their respective industries via Boing Boing #
— I’m disturbingly good at this via @mewo2 #
January 11, 2019
— laughable legal claim, with a great response from the EFF #
— a wild story of copyright, remix, and early web culture via Web Curios #
— stunning stop-motion reminiscent of PES’s work via Web Curios #
January 4, 2019
— from a Phoenix remix and Larry Lessig lawsuit to a failed smear of a badass Congresswoman #
January 3, 2019
— as always, great selection of the best of the new and upcoming indie game scene #
— extensions as building blocks, an offline editor, and new tutorials #
January 2, 2019
— 365 small games, each only available to play for a single day #
January 1, 2019
— Darius Kazemi’s new year-long project to blog one RFC daily in chronological order #
— published works from 1923 entered the public domain today, the first additions in over 20 years #
— sex dungeons, Russian mobsters, and Dick Cheney #
December 30, 2018
— step-by-step breakdown of how two very different phrases can sound similar via Belong.io #
— watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on a custom ePaper display at 24 frames per hour via Jeremy Keith #
December 27, 2018
— Max Read on “the Inversion,” the point when fake traffic is perceived as real by algorithms #
December 26, 2018
— this is an excellent use of Medium, and also, I want to subscribe to this newsletter please #
December 25, 2018
— the final day of Christmas XP, the WebGL advent calendar #
— Frank Cifaldi’s in-depth writeup on the unreleased prototype, with downloadable ROM via @frankcifaldi #
December 14, 2018
— make generative art using the Turtle graphics API #
— combining every 3D model of Mickey Mouse found online into a single physical object #
Waxy Links