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February 6, 2018
— I love hearing the secret histories of how early memes spread #
February 5, 2018
— Neil Cicierega made a very fun, very silly game #
— digital magazine that requires you to go offline to read #
January 31, 2018
— a new autobiographical comic from Lucy Bellwood #
January 26, 2018
January 18, 2018
— and what we’ve lost with the long, slow disappearance of blogging #
— this is some first-class satire #
January 17, 2018
January 16, 2018
— after a year-long stint on Medium, the return to ads didn’t work out #
— treasure trove of early CGI footage and experiments #
— good example at how videos spread by email in 1997 #
January 12, 2018
— Robin Sloan used a neural network and Croatian klapa singing to generate new music for his Sourdough audiobook #
January 10, 2018
— sold on Shopify, fulfilled by UpWork workers, dropshipped from China without ever seeing a product #
January 9, 2018
— for the first time in 40 years, works will start entering the public domain again annually on January 1 #
— Google’s preferential treatment of Google-hosted AMP pages is monopolistic and anti-web #
January 8, 2018
— art that moves every time someone views it; here’s a head start where I last saw the art via Kottke #
— after players persisted past impossible holes and endless flat levels, the game designer added a perfect ending #
January 4, 2018
— affects nearly every modern CPU; more detail from Google’s Project Zero team via Nelson Minar #
January 3, 2018
— as always, a snapshot of the best and brightest in indie gaming #
January 2, 2018
— sad to hear, they’ve been a pioneer in open-source geo; their migration guide is a good list of resources #
January 1, 2018
— much of my social time online is now in private Slack communities #
December 22, 2017
— clever approach; a friend tried to reverse-engineer the API, but it’s well secured #
— Botnik’s predictive keyboard suggests words based on any corpus you feed it #
December 20, 2017
— new entry in Justin O’Beirne’s ongoing series #
December 19, 2017
— Bret Victor and friends opened a communal physical computing space in Oakland #
December 18, 2017
— solid list with many of my favorites of the year, including Gorogoa, Universal Paperclips, and Getting Over It #
— impressively-designed article on the uncertain financial future for anyone under 35 #
— 56% of millennials think it’s okay to pee in the shower, and other fun poll results #
— stunning episode on a journalist’s sexual assault in broad daylight, and the ensuing culture war mounted by a Twitter troll army funded by Mexico’s ruling party #
— “We need for the machines to wake up, not in the sense of computers becoming self-aware, but in the sense of corporations recognizing the consequences of their behavior.” #
— Silicon Valley founders still think they’re the good guys #
December 15, 2017
— five years in the making, Jason Roberts’ gorgeous illustrated game is out for iOS/Windows/Switch #
— database of films/TV shows tied to people accused of sexual misconduct #
December 4, 2017
— the rise of hypertext games led to a record 79 entries this year #
— 26 illustrators draw new covers and count down their favorite albums of the year #
December 3, 2017
— Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos officially wrap one of the best web series ever; the bits on Content ID are frustrating and fascinating via @robinsloan #
November 28, 2017
— turn your sound up; also available on iOS #
— like Kottke, I thought they’d be private forever via Kottke #
— the worst game ever made, now in 360º immersion via @revdancatt #
November 16, 2017
— I’ve played for the last month (won once!), and it’s firmly in Black Mirror territory #
— for this year’s NaNoGenMo, Liza Daly rendered a book with physics in a game engine #
November 15, 2017
— some interesting analysis from Emojitracker creator mroth #
— just type stuff, a new toy from Terry Cavanagh #
— The Verge got the scoop with interviews from past and present staff #
November 14, 2017
— double the speed of previous versions, 30% less memory than Chrome #
— 20 questions with a machine, from Google’s voice experiments via Kottke #
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