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March 27, 2018
— quarantines your Facebook identity in a container inaccessible to third parties #
March 26, 2018
— fun little looping animation tool by Casey Reas via prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com #
— open-source recreation of HyperCard; you can run emulated stacks on the IA too #
— handheld electronic games emulated by MAME, now in Javascript #
— weird little peg string game; try it as a musical toy #
— they systematically and illegally targeted older workers for layoffs #
March 22, 2018
— 838 events happening worldwide on Saturday, hope to see you there #
— one of the best ads I’ve ever seen via @kepano #
March 20, 2018
— nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience #
— to celebrate Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show #
March 16, 2018
— we’re back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today #
March 14, 2018
— “kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through” #
March 13, 2018
— cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity #
— “If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we’re alone in the loss.” #
— Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book’s out today #
March 12, 2018
— Oregon’s tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations #
— related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored #
— absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads #
March 8, 2018
— building a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds #
— an upcoming zine of new Hypercard stacks #
March 7, 2018
— not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees #
March 5, 2018
— my wife’s delightful Kickstarter-funded card game is out, so I made a website for it #
February 28, 2018
— Google and Mozilla are trying to improve the web, but making new barriers to entry #
— “a spherical video in a mathematically triplified space with symmetry in space-time”; how it was made #
— Jason Rohrer’s new game merges Passage and Sleep Is Death into something completely new #
February 27, 2018
— get access to fonts in development at a deep discount; like Steam Early Access for type designers #
February 20, 2018
— like Picross meets Battleship #
— a free 20-page zine about making web apps with Node.js #
— this is amazing via Kottke #
— I want that Hockney print #
— sorry, copyright maximalists, I can’t live without it #
February 16, 2018
— an emotional map of NYC via @YellzHeard #
February 13, 2018
— interesting to hear how membership made writing viable for him again #
— a nuanced look at the company’s past from those who were there #
— like Les said, better to exploit my CPU than my brain, I guess #
February 12, 2018
February 9, 2018
— from Steve Kistner, who makes neat web stuff #
— when I was a Cool Teen, we called it high ASCII #
— Frank Chimero on resisting complexity in modern web design #
February 8, 2018
— a neural network trained to insult people, based off data from the subreddit via @lanewinfield #
February 7, 2018
— EFF co-founder, Grateful Dead member, and digerati icon #
— and, more broadly, every online publication that relies on ads #
— every line of this interview is unreal, a man who truly has no fucks to give #
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