InspiroBot — "unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence" #

MetaFilter has a new owner — Matt Haughey signed it over to Josh Millard, community moderator since 2008 and its manager since 2015 #

Ten Years Ago — rolling ten-year-old snapshots of popular sites, courtesy of the Internet Archive #

Adobe to retire Flash in 2020 — for all its faults, Flash's ubiquity made the web more fun; related: John Cooney's Flash games postmortem #

Augmented reality’s A-ha moment — a lot of work for a goofy pun, but I'm here for it #

emu-coop — SNES hack makes single-player games into two-player games by sharing inventory over IRC #

The Evolution of Trust — Nicky Case's interactive explainer on how trust or distrust evolves in groups #

100 Demon Dialogues — Lucy Bellwood confronts her personal demons; back her project to make it a book and plushie #

17776 — SB Nation's experimental mashup of football sportswriting and speculative sci-fi #

it is as if you were doing work — Pippin Barr's work simulator for a post-AI era #

NYT speaks to two dozen women on sexual harassment in tech — new disclosures about prominent VCs like Chris Sacca and Dave McClure #

Detailed postmortem on making Silicon Valley’s Not Hotdog app — bespoke neural networks for image recognition running locally on mobile #

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure — brilliant use of the Wikipedia API, try examining or taking objects (via) #

time for sushi — David Lewandowski's followup to going to the store and late for meeting (via) #

Is Travis Still CEO? — good riddance, though I doubt this changes much at Uber #

The Verge interviewed me about Lorde’s “Supercut” — delighted to see a word I coined here in 2008 become the central metaphor in a song by an artist I love #

Visualizing ice flows with animated color cycling — a technique made popular in 8-bit games #

The Verge interviews Maciej Ceglowski on Pinboard, Delicious, and fandom — Britta took over the newly-acquired @delicious Twitter account and official blog, and it's awesome #

The Secret History of the iPhone — "yeah, the iPhone ruined more than a few marriages" #

Undertale’s Japanese localization causes a fan frenzy — over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations #

NYT Mag profiles Jonny Sun — melancholic joy at the intersection of weird Twitter and M.I.T. #

Theoriz’ Mixed Reality — projection mapping experiments with motion tracking #

Instagram adds Archive feature to hide old photos from public view — this should be an option in all social software #

NYT moves to machine learning-assisted comment moderation — built on top of Perspective, a project from Instrument and Google's Jigsaw incubator #

Super Mario Odyssey — the Mario universe meets David OReilly's Everything #

Ars Technica’s investigation into the litigious jerk who thinks he invented e-mail — after suing Gawker, he's going after Techdirt for reporting on his easily-debunked claims #

Mallory Ortberg’s Internet — an oral history of The Toast #

Gun Emoji Pairings — analyzing 100k tweets to understand how people use the gun emoji (via) #

Ian Bogost on Binky, a fake social networking app for iOS/Android — an infinite timeline of random images with fake likes and comments #

#c0ffee is the color — valid words as hex colors (via) #

eleVR’s expressive programming in VR — making LOGO Turtles in Anyland, a creative social space in VR #

Design in the Era of the Algorithm — Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning #

Giorgio Cam — take a picture to make music with a computer; source is here (via) #

What Will Happen to Us? — four cartoonists on life without the Affordable Care Act #

Reddit designs the worst possible volume controls — related: enter your phone number #

Taeyoon Choi’s The Handmade Computer — first biweekly chapter documenting the artist's project to build a computer #

Portraits of Imaginary People — machine-generated uncanny valley faces upressed into 4k images #

The Deleted City 3.0 — stunning interactive visualization of Archive Team's 650GB GeoCities backup #

Russian malware controlled through comments on Britney Spears’ Instagram photos — we live in a weird future (via) #

How microdots exposed The Intercept’s anonymous source — most new printers are exposing you #

Simone Giertz’ wearable mattress — ready for a nap anywhere, anytime #

Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie webcomic wraps after ten-year run — the fifth book will be out on June 29 #

Let Her Speak, Please — men talking over women in science, captured on video #

Merch Mulch — 360º photogrammetry study of abandoned malls; see also: Dan Bell's Dead Malls series (via) #

The Kids Are Alt-Right — the rise of Trump inspiring waves of sexist, racist rhetoric in school #

Leaked Fyre Festival emails — as a festival organizer, reading these is pure schadenfyre #

Notes from an Emergency — Maciej Ceglowski on how five American tech companies built a toolkit for authoritarian movements #

Beaker Browser — experimental browser distributed openly in a peer-to-peer mesh with revisions and forking #

Real Press Sec — Twitter bot turns every Trump tweet into the correct Presidential statement format #

Jon Satrom’s glitch art homepage — seizure warning #