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November 21, 2024
— author Steven Johnson used Gemini Pro to make an interactive fiction game out of his latest book and wrote about it via @joningold #
— YouTube as TV channels, click the book icon for a channel guide #
November 20, 2024
— enter your birthdate, estimated lifespan, and choose from over 500 movies to see where you’re at in the movie via MetaFilter #
— calculating the difference between their birth and death place; George Mallory is high up there, but can you find the person with the greatest negative change? #
November 19, 2024
— 100M+ global places of interest now available for commercial use under an Apache 2.0 license #
— the full story of how two pallets of Playdates worth $400,000 were stolen in Las Vegas and eventually recovered #
— every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online via @anildash.com #
— Niantic leveraging its database of scanned real-world places and objects for “robotics, content creation and autonomous systems” #
November 18, 2024
— inspired by Ben Wallace’s recent blog post, Riley Walz crawled 5 million “IMG_XXXX” videos on YouTube and made a viewer for them #
— Alexander Graham Bell kicked off the event with a few words via Caitlin Dewey #
— someone needs to turn this into DOOM next via @theo.io #
November 16, 2024
— like Half-Life’s 25th anniversary, Valve commemorated it with a two-hour documentary, new commentary, and the games are free until Monday 1pm ET #
November 14, 2024
— don’t miss Deletion, the “questionable little app” that lets you glimpse deleted Bluesky posts #
— incredible standalone sequel for fans of detective deduction games like Obra Dinn #
— Elizabeth Lopatto investigates streaming music distributors profiting off royalty fraud by not policing bad metadata #
November 13, 2024
— short sci-fi story about a speedrunner in a game that lets you play through a human lifetime in 25 minutes via MetaFilter #
— crate digging through YouTube for homegrown videos with generic default filenames as titles; see also: astronaut.io via ben-mini.github.io #
— the love song may not be dying, but it’s changing #
November 12, 2024
— short fiction about “the near future of art and creative work” #
November 8, 2024
— useful Chrome/Firefox add-on that finds your X/Twitter friends on Bluesky via Web Curios #
— inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings #
November 4, 2024
— anything out of frame is immediately forgotten, making it very dream-like and surreal to explore via MetaFilter #
— they’re asking people not to access NYT games or cooking apps until it’s over, so give up that Wordle streak #
— I didn’t even realize iOS automations could do this #
— the incredible web-based Mac/NeXT system emulator somehow keeps getting better #
— Aardman Animation worked with Patrick McHale and the original voice cast for an elaborate stop-motion tribute #
November 1, 2024
— short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island via Web Curios #
— Papers Please/Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope dropped a surprise spooky free web game inspired by 1980s LCD handhelds #
— for the last 19 years, Michael Pusateri has tracked children’s Halloween costumes at his front door and published the stats online #
— a dozen surprise new games released to everyone at the same time on a regular schedule #
— look in the direction you want to move, open and close your mouth to go faster #
— Louie Zong, Worthikids, and Brian David Gilbert formed a supergroup making Steely Dan-inspired music and are playing L.A. next month!? #
October 31, 2024
— Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines #
October 30, 2024
— he has an extraordinary memory, reliving the stories behind a beautifully simple song #
— grateful to Mia Sato for staying on this beat, which affects so many smaller sites I care about #
— getting it to run DOOM is only a matter of time #
— BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post “RIP” when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition #
— the BBS goes read-only on Friday, replaced by Substack comments, and the community is not happy #
— a useful case study given the current debacle stemming from WordPress’s “benevolent dictator for life” model via @johnonolan #
— in some cases, Meta is automatically creating the pages via Garbage Day #
— research and short essays about cultural loss and the critical importance of preservation and access #
October 29, 2024
— The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s clearheaded “endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris” #
October 20, 2024
— like curling meets shuffleboard on a tabletop board #
October 16, 2024
— Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #
— a series of articles looking back 20 years, worth exploring just for the playful article design inspired by early Gmail, Digg, Kazaa, and more #
October 11, 2024
— all of this year’s XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #
October 10, 2024
— The Pudding’s deep analysis of 10 years of fanfic ships on AO3 #
October 9, 2024
— Chris Person compiled a list of active forums, grouped by subject area, hosted outside of the major platforms via Garbage Day #
— Green Day collaborated with BRAIN to demake their 1994 album in 15 obscure formats, including Game Boy, Teddy Ruxpin, wax cylinder, and player piano roll #
October 7, 2024
— there’s a nice companion piece for Dave Winer’s milestone in The Guardian #
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