August 29, 2017
BuzzFeed News analysis of hyperpartisan political sites
— some opportunists are publishing both conservative and liberal sites; data here #
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 #
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 #
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 #
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 #
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) #
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 #
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 #
Undertale’s Japanese localization causes a fan frenzy
— over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations #
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 #
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 #
Ian Bogost on Binky, a fake social networking app for iOS/Android
— an infinite timeline of random images with fake likes and comments #
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 #
Taeyoon Choi’s The Handmade Computer
— first biweekly chapter documenting the artist's project to build a computer #