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 #

waybackpack — command-line tool to download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a URL #

How Pop Music Evolved — audio/visualization of ?22,000 Billboard hits from 1956 to today #

Graphtreon — I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #

GeoCities Forever — neural network-generated web nostalgia (via) #

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 #

Vimeo acquires VHX — very smart acquisition, though I prefer more distribution options for indies #

Radiohead erase internet presence — faded away to nothing at all #

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?" #

Player Two — short film based on a YouTube comment #

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?" #

Rube Goldberg with HTML form elements — a thing of beauty #

Breaking YouTube's Content ID with counteracting claims — pretty clever hack #

I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked — examples of web audio synthesis made with the library of the same name (via) #

Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved — make something great for someone, not everyone #

Virtual Art Sessions — interactive replays of artists using Tilt Brush in VR for the Vive #

Fusion interviews the new owner of 8chan — totally missed this move last September, and that he took control over 2ch too #

TEXT-MODE — beautiful tumblr of ASCII/ANSI-influenced art #

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 #

Velocipedia — realistic renderings of bicycles drawn from memory #

manygolf — Desert Golfing as an MMO #

The Humans Hiding Behind Chatbots — more artificial artificial intelligence #

Jen Lewis photoshopped Kanye and an artist reportedly made $100k off it — perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 (via) #

Slither — like Agar.io meets Snake #

UC Davis paid $175k to downrank pepper spray results — a good time to revisit it from multiple angles #

Kite — interesting networked coding utility, if you're comfortable with the privacy issues #

A Neural Network Playground — tinker with machine learning in the browser #

Radiooooo — bizarrely great music recommendations with a quirky interface #

The Verge on the history of content moderation on major social networks — challenging and expensive at scale, with traumatic impact on moderators #

The Guardian's deep dive into harassment and abuse in their comments — analyzing 70M comments, women and minority authors were targeted disproportionately #

Gender and age breakdown of dialogue from 2,000 films — clever methodology maps character names in screenplays to IMDB actors #

Scan of Alan George's Treasure Hunt — from the 1940s, quite possibly the first choose-your-own-adventure/game book (via) #

Emoji miscommunication — the same emoji appears wildly different on various phones and browsers #

Conceptual strategies of Twitterbot poetics — Twitterbots are contemporary, populist poetry #

Koyannistocksi — "Koyannisqatsi reconstructed shot-by-shot with modern, watermarked stock footage" #

Simone Giertz's Popcorn Machine — my favorite robot maker teams up with Adam Savage and Tested #

Neven Mrgan on the costs of Cuprimine — a drug he needs to survive now costs $44,000/month in the U.S., $36 in Australia without insurance #

BABYMETAL appears on Colbert — I wonder what most viewers made of their U.S. television debut #

lyrical school's RUN and RUN — watch this on your phone #

L.A. Times profiles Anita Sarkeesian's new project — one day left to fund the Ordinary Women series, which is about to hit its goal #

Command — Slack-like commands in the browser #

Medium adds new tools for publishers — new designs, revenue options and archive importing preserving timestamps and links #