Max Goodman goes on a picnic
— Stupid Hackathon project orders a random food delivery to a random location and Ubers you there #
Craig Mod's archival plans for Hi.co
— microscopic etching community contributions on a nickel plate with a 10,000 year lifespan #
How algorithmic news feeds help spread conspiracy theories
— an extension of the filter bubble and the net's ability to affirm all your existing beliefs #
YACHT's stolen sex tape was a PR stunt gone wrong
— misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn't help much #
Marco Arment on Apple's role on podcasting
— the push for more behavioral analytics inevitably leads to centralization, and sacrificing control #
Christoph Niemann's augmented reality New Yorker cover
— watch the video to get a sense of how it looks #
Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2015
— a little late, but great overview of the variety of the type world #
Mandy Brown on gendered bots
— one of my pet peeves is naming every personal assistant app after women #
Pinboard wins Hacker News contest, disqualified for arbitrary reasons
— fascinating thread that speaks volumes about Y Combinator culture #
Graphtreon
— I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #
Matt Haughey looks back on leaving MetaFilter, one year later
— lessons learned running an online community turned business #
PocketCHIP
— real micro hardware for playing and coding games for the wonderful PICO-8 fantasy console #
JayisGames closes after 13 years
— sad to see it go, absolutely essential for everyone who loved casual/Flash games #
I Want Your Email Address
— "Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?" #
Fullest House
— recurrent neural network generating a new Full House script every day; how it works #
The Revelations of Lady Murderface
— Backchannel on the whistleblower who outed low pay at Yelp, which led to raises after her firing #
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
— "Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?" #
I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked
— examples of web audio synthesis made with the library of the same name (via) #
Fusion interviews the new owner of 8chan
— totally missed this move last September, and that he took control over 2ch too #
Rex Sorgatz revisits his tiny, remote hometown
— technology changed it, but in unexpected ways (via) #
I Have No Idea What This Startup Does and Nobody Will Tell Me
— tell me we're not in a bubble again #
NYMag on Social Autopsy, an anti-harassment startup gone wrong
— it's easier to fall for conspiracy theories than understand the complexity of online harassment #
Jen Lewis photoshopped Kanye and an artist reportedly made $100k off it
— perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 (via) #