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 #

Instagif Camera — copies the three-second GIF to a Raspberry Pi cartridge with its own display, fading in Polaroid-style #

DOOM running on a phone running on Unreal Engine 4 — it's playable, too #

Coin — from the creators of Plug & Play #

Lauren, the human intelligent smart home — the cookie from Black Mirror's White Christmas episode as performance art #

Select All interviewed the Disloyal Boyfriend photographer — and Laura and Mario, the two stock photo models #

Dance Tonite — collaborative WebVR music video from LCD Soundsystem, Jonathan Puckey, and Moniker #

Hiveswap — the Homestuck adventure game, five years in the making, is out on September 14 #

AR Experiments — what if walls could scream #

HyperCard on the Internet Archive — add your stacks #

Intolerable — Jeremy Keith on the Google manifesto #

Wick — open-source JS toolkit inspired by Flash animations #

BuzzFeed News analysis of hyperpartisan political sites — some opportunists are publishing both conservative and liberal sites; data here #

Baldur’s Gender — the 19 genders of Baldur's Gate #

I’m a Google Manufacturing Robot and I Believe Humans Are Biologically Unfit to Have Jobs in Tech  #

Alt-Right vs. Silicon Valley — they're creating hate-friendly versions of popular sites instead #

Following links through portals in A-Frame — WebVR is now shipping in Firefox for Windows, Mac support is in nightly #

Google fires knucklehead engineer who wrote screed on gender differences — the Hacker News thread was closed to new users because of trolling #

Buzzfeed analyzed flight patterns to find spy planes — intriguing use of machine learning for reporting #

Mirage — annotating the real world with augmented reality #

NONI NONI — draw pictures, convert to shapes with AutoDraw; try it on mobile #

Stack Overflow Importer — hilarious/dangerous module to import highly-voted code samples as Python modules #

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 #