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May 14, 2016
— brilliant episode of Tony Zhou’s Every Frame A Painting #
— microscopic etching community contributions on a nickel plate with a 10,000 year lifespan #
May 11, 2016
— an extension of the filter bubble and the net’s ability to affirm all your existing beliefs #
May 10, 2016
— the best of the modern PC demoscene; the latest two 64k demos are incredible #
— semantic style transfer turns doodles into fine art #
— works best on a touchscreen; excited for his upcoming BlokDust #
— misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn’t help much #
May 9, 2016
— Super Mario hacked into a Twitter client with a custom wireless “modem” #
— the push for more behavioral analytics inevitably leads to centralization, and sacrificing control #
— watch the video to get a sense of how it looks #
— it’s the speedrun of a nonexistent videogame I’d really like to play #
— a little late, but great overview of the variety of the type world #
— one of my pet peeves is naming every personal assistant app after women #
May 5, 2016
— fascinating thread that speaks volumes about Y Combinator culture #
May 3, 2016
— command-line tool to download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a URL #
— audio/visualization of ?22,000 Billboard hits from 1956 to today #
— I’m familiar with most of Patreon’s top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #
— neural network-generated web nostalgia via @tinysubversions #
— lessons learned running an online community turned business #
— real micro hardware for playing and coding games for the wonderful PICO-8 fantasy console #
May 2, 2016
— very smart acquisition, though I prefer more distribution options for indies #
May 1, 2016
— faded away to nothing at all #
April 29, 2016
— sad to see it go, absolutely essential for everyone who loved casual/Flash games #
— “Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?” #
— short film based on a YouTube comment #
— recurrent neural network generating a new Full House script every day; how it works #
— Backchannel on the whistleblower who outed low pay at Yelp, which led to raises after her firing #
— “Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?” #
April 28, 2016
April 27, 2016
April 26, 2016
— examples of web audio synthesis made with the library of the same name via Nelson Minar #
— make something great for someone, not everyone #
April 19, 2016
— interactive replays of artists using Tilt Brush in VR for the Vive #
— totally missed this move last September, and that he took control over 2ch too #
— beautiful tumblr of ASCII/ANSI-influenced art #
— technology changed it, but in unexpected ways via Kottke #
— tell me we’re not in a bubble again #
— it’s easier to fall for conspiracy theories than understand the complexity of online harassment #
April 18, 2016
— realistic renderings of bicycles drawn from memory #
— more artificial artificial intelligence #
— perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 via @thisjenlewis #
April 15, 2016
— like Agar.io meets Snake #
April 14, 2016
— interesting networked coding utility, if you’re comfortable with the privacy issues #
April 13, 2016
— tinker with machine learning in the browser #
— bizarrely great music recommendations with a quirky interface #
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