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March 28, 2016
— I love IFTTT, but this is a bummer #
— first-of-its-kind code injection, by hand, on an unmodded SNES console #
March 26, 2016
— combining 3D capture with multiple participants with an augmented reality display #
March 25, 2016
— superb Sarah Jeong piece on bot ethics with four of my favorite bot creators #
March 24, 2016
— interactive musical experiment #
March 23, 2016
— given free access to a tiny handful of site, they’re making the most of it #
March 22, 2016
— I fully expect these to be a mundane part of everyday life in a few years #
— detecting faces, bodies, and other focal points #
— it’s out now for PC, Mac, and PS4; worth it for developer commentary alone #
— starts with a shocking quote from Nixon’s Watergate co-conspirator, making made headlines on its own #
March 21, 2016
— play with wobbly mountains #
March 20, 2016
— GTA V hacked to follow a single deer as it randomly roams the landscape #
— experiments with using machine learning for writing prose, poetry, and other texts #
March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016
— interesting postmortem from Panic’s first foray into videogame publishing #
March 15, 2016
— short fiction, totally not written by Robin Sloan, about Facebook on Facebook #
— Twitter’s killing “elevated” access to its streaming API #
March 13, 2016
— making every movie better, one Dire Straits song at a time via Kottke #
March 11, 2016
— “Lifehacks for Dads Who Do Fifty Percent: Big Data Will Choose the Next President.” #
— some great music writing in here #
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016
— try it with Cardboard, if you have one #
March 8, 2016
— his ambitious followup to Mountain #
— I should have questioned this myself, but I assumed they did lots of post-processing cleanup via Boing Boing #
— love all the different student interpretations via @molleindustria #
March 7, 2016
— “In the US, under-30s are now poorer than retired people” #
March 5, 2016
— the original vaporwave via @textfiles #
— the data and source are available on Pwanson’s site #
March 3, 2016
— hold digital files hostage until your client pays up #
March 2, 2016
— gripping reading for anyone with a fear of public speaking via Daring Fireball #
— “Donald Trump could be just the first of many Trumps in American politics” #
— a depressing case study for bootstrapped paid iOS apps #
— performative music instrument built from 2,000 marbles and 3,000 parts #
March 1, 2016
— a Slack bot that searches every line from Seinfeld and posts an animated GIF #
February 28, 2016
— Twitter bot making headlines #
February 25, 2016
— Diana Kimball’s speculative fiction memo on super-persuasive AI #
— a partnership with the Guardian to imagine an automated future #
— massively-multiplayer Minesweeper via MetaFilter #
— four years after Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro’s demos, real-time face substitution is an app #
— more than just ironic, it ties into how we experience art online and where we “live” #
— the short film claims no CGI, no Photoshop #
— “Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star” #
— art-inspired technology gives us new ideas instead of incremental improvements #
— cheeseburger drums and gummy bear xylophones on a day-glo VR island #
February 24, 2016
— there’s no Gopher client for Chrome, but you can use an HTTP gopher proxy to browse it #
— that guy with the hockey stick will be first against the wall after the robot uprising #
— targeted to non-US businesses, but seems pretty damned useful for U.S. businesses too #
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