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October 9, 2017
— new game by Frank Lantz, in which you play an AI making paperclips via @flantz #
October 5, 2017
— 1:6 scale dioramas of a hoarder, from 2012 but new to me; more work by the same artist #
— very very good trailer from the creators of Push Me Pull You #
— free iOS comic that uses the accelerometer to change perspective #
October 4, 2017
— hardware-accelerated machine learning in the browser #
— not quite the Babel Fish, but getting closer #
— sonification of our solar system with the WebAudio API via Jeremy Keith #
— interactive machine learning in the browser with your camera #
October 3, 2017
— Matthew Bogart’s new comic about teens on the ’90s internet, first issue up now #
September 27, 2017
— decentralized videos are hard to make, measure, and monetize #
— wonderful marriage of great writing and creative web design #
September 25, 2017
— absurdly charming hand-drawn train journey; hold left or right to move #
September 21, 2017
— real-time tracking of TV news chyrons, with APIs and bots #
— the EFF resigned in protest this week #
— “Take inaction. You can make an indifference.” #
— rewriting its own history #
September 20, 2017
— the stories behind five web apps that launched in 1995, with extensive research and interviews #
September 15, 2017
— absurdist “I Spy” with a very literal Google Cloud Vision #
— street view of mid-80s NYC compiled from 800,000 city-commissioned building photos #
August 31, 2017
— copies the three-second GIF to a Raspberry Pi cartridge with its own display, fading in Polaroid-style #
August 30, 2017
— from the creators of Plug & Play #
— the cookie from Black Mirror’s White Christmas episode as performance art #
August 29, 2017
— and Laura and Mario, the two stock photo models #
— collaborative WebVR music video from LCD Soundsystem, Jonathan Puckey, and Moniker #
— the Homestuck adventure game, five years in the making, is out on September 14 #
August 10, 2017
— Jeremy Keith on the Google manifesto #
— open-source JS toolkit inspired by Flash animations #
August 9, 2017
— some opportunists are publishing both conservative and liberal sites; data here #
— the 19 genders of Baldur’s Gate #
— they’re creating hate-friendly versions of popular sites instead #
— WebVR is now shipping in Firefox for Windows, Mac support is in nightly #
August 8, 2017
— the Hacker News thread was closed to new users because of trolling #
— intriguing use of machine learning for reporting #
— annotating the real world with augmented reality #
August 1, 2017
— draw pictures, convert to shapes with AutoDraw; try it on mobile #
— hilarious/dangerous module to import highly-voted code samples as Python modules #
— “unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence” #
July 31, 2017
— Matt Haughey signed it over to Josh Millard, community moderator since 2008 and its manager since 2015 #
July 27, 2017
— rolling ten-year-old snapshots of popular sites, courtesy of the Internet Archive #
— for all its faults, Flash’s ubiquity made the web more fun; related: John Cooney’s Flash games postmortem #
— a lot of work for a goofy pun, but I’m here for it #
— SNES hack makes single-player games into two-player games by sharing inventory over IRC #
July 25, 2017
— Nicky Case’s interactive explainer on how trust or distrust evolves in groups #
July 12, 2017
— Lucy Bellwood confronts her personal demons; back her project to make it a book and plushie #
July 6, 2017
— SB Nation’s experimental mashup of football sportswriting and speculative sci-fi #
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