The Curious Engineer

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December 2020

  1. Caitlin Dewey’s top 25 internet culture reads of 2020
  2. MF DOOM, RIP
  3. AI-generated Beatles album
  4. Mike Davidson reflects on Flash in web design
  5. PSX Party
  6. Lubalin turns random internet drama into songs
  7. Museum curators react to 2020’s best video game museums
  8. Internal pay data shows Coinbase underpaid women and Black employees
  9. Perplex City’s Satoshi finally found after 14 years
  10. The complexities of Covid vaccine prioritization
  11. The Boston Dynamics robots can dance now
  12. Brian David Gilbert finally unravels Pokémon Edibility
  13. Throat Notes
  14. How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor
  15. Why is there a bucatini shortage in the U.S.?
  16. Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
  17. WSJ on how Amazon clones and crushes rivals and partners
  18. Disney made a plaza restaurant
  19. “All I Want for Christmas Is…”
  20. Interview with an anonymous AWS engineer
  21. Garbage Day explains Tumblr
  22. How Bad Is Your Spotify?
  23. Infinite Pizza
  24. Bloomberg’s Jealousy List 2020
  25. Underunderstood digs into the mystery of grocery store animatronic bands
  26. Congress passes disastrous copyright measures without debate in coronavirus relief bill
  27. Ghosthoney and Chansey donut
  28. Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
  29. The truth in Black and white
  30. Videlectrix finishes Stinkoman
  31. Emoji Kitchen
  32. Google hit with third major antitrust lawsuit from 38 states
  33. Cloudflare Pages launches
  34. Brian Moore’s pull cord to end conference calls
  35. Substack launches RSS reader
  36. Works from 1925 entering the public domain next month
  37. Blob Opera
  38. Twitter shutting down Periscope
  39. Nicholas Quah’s Best Podcasts of 2020
  40. Taylor Lorenz on Atlanta’s all-Black collab houses
  41. nobody.live, random Twitch streams with no viewers
  42. Making a digital clock in Google Sheets
  43. Hypha
  44. Polygon’s top 50 videogames of 2020
  45. Scroobly
  46. Amazon-owned Goodreads quietly shutters API
  47. Pony Town
  48. Biggest announcements from The Game Awards
  49. Better Days
  50. Zodiac Killer cypher solved by amateur sleuths after 51 years
  51. Familiars.io, a multiplayer game played entirely inside a Twitter embed
  52. The Quarries
  53. EFF whitepaper on how YouTube’s Content ID discourages fair use
  54. Orwell’s Animal Farm out now
  55. Gifts from Cyberspace
  56. FTC and 46 states sue Facebook for stifling competition with acquisitions
  57. Jazz Cats
  58. Physics of Beauty
  59. Ironic Sans on the itinerant filmmakers of the early 20th century
  60. Reddit’s 2020 Year in Review
  61. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard
  62. Tumblr Year in Review 2020
  63. Interactive Fiction Competition 2020 winners
  64. This Person Exists
  65. Recovering pixelated text from screenshots
  66. 500 Reasons We’ve Loved New York
  67. Zeynep Tufekci on a Covid case study of indoor dining
  68. The self-destructive final months of Tony Hsieh’s life
  69. Windows Ugly Sweaters
  70. The Markup on why web scraping is vital to democracy
  71. 100 Days of Art History Jinjins
  72. How Oisín Moran made a self-quoting tweet
  73. Casey Newton on how Microsoft crushed Slack
  74. Nick Heer on Salesforce’s Slack acquisition
  75. Footage of the Arecibo tower collapse
  76. EFF on the misplaced blame on Section 230 for big tech’s failures
  77. Google Poly shutting down in 2021
  78. Verse by Verse
  79. Combat at the Movies
  80. Swirled Series
  81. AR audio visualizer distorts real-world surfaces
  82. TikTok’s Top 100 of 2020
  83. Sidney Powell teams with 8chan admin Ron Watkins
  84. Laura Hudson reviews Ready Player Two
  85. Judgement on COVID-19 goes Heavy Metal
  86. Adrian Smith discovers his 8-year-old self is a meme
  87. Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fourth Year
  88. A song by the demon of 2020

November 2020

  1. 20 days of fantasy and failure
  2. Web Conversations With the Year 2000
  3. First-person account and photos of the removal of the Utah monolith
  4. SpaceHey
  5. How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
  6. Vulture on the season finale of “How To with John Wilson”
  7. Russian Cyberpunk Farm
  8. Painting a Selfie Girl with Maths
  9. The mysterious Utah monolith disappeared
  10. First Tweets
  11. Radicle
  12. DeepMind’s AlphaFold makes huge leap in protein folding predictions
  13. Closing the Loop on China’s Mystery Seeds
  14. Banners Begone!
  15. David Lu spent 11 years making a Line Rider track
  16. Correlating Covid-19 cases and negative reviews of scented candles
  17. NYT investigation into Coinbase’s treatment of Black employees
  18. Strong Bad Emails on the Internet Archive
  19. Every Movie Cough
  20. Mixtape for the Milky Way’s “Video Games”
  21. Talkin’ Strong Bad
  22. Cursor*10
  23. The Secrets of Monkey Island’s Source Code
  24. If you own an Echo/Ring device, you should opt out of Amazon Sidewalk ASAP
  25. Redditor finds the mysterious Utah monolith
  26. Twitch plays the NYT Crossword
  27. Four Seasons Total Landscaping and Fantasy Island Adult Books in miniature
  28. Why I’m Mourning the Arecibo Telescope
  29. YouTube temporarily demonetizes OANN and suspends uploads for a week
  30. Pop Culture C-SPAN
  31. lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study on a Sony Watchman
  32. Salesforce may buy Slack
  33. Laura Hudson reads Ready Player Two
  34. Email A Dumpster Fire
  35. Gone with a Flash
  36. Maskalike
  37. NYT report on internal Facebook battle over safeguards to limit hate speech and misinformation
  38. Connection Interrupted
  39. Sherwin-Williams fired their employee who went viral for his paint-mixing TikTok videos
  40. Booting DOS from a vinyl record
  41. Algorithmic Trap
  42. Hunter Walk on the multi-SKU creator
  43. Infinite Bad Guy
  44. TikTok Mansions Are Publicly Traded Now
  45. The Substackerati
  46. Pitchfork talks to Shameika Stepney, the inspiration for Fiona Apple on Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  47. Emulating the unreleased Sega VR headset
  48. Why is an obscure Pavement B-side their top song on Spotify?
  49. The Max Headroom Incident
  50. The Markup’s Simple Search
  51. The Pudding looks at representation in crossword puzzle clues
  52. BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost
  53. Internet Archive begins archiving and emulating Flash games and animations
  54. Disney Must Pay Alan Dean Foster
  55. YouTube to run ads on non-partner videos
  56. Gumroad introduces Memberships
  57. How to Tell Social Media Apps Apart
  58. Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
  59. Locast
  60. I should have loved biology
  61. Runway launches Green Screen
  62. Google to finally end preferential treatment of AMP stories for publishers
  63. Taylor Lorenz on Zillow surfing
  64. The viral pig ad is fake, but the couch is real
  65. Nintendo asks brands to keep politics out of Animal Crossing
  66. GitHub restores youtube-dl after EFF response
  67. The battle between Twitch and the music industry, with streamers caught in the middle
  68. WaPo on the rise of invasive cheating-detection software companies and the student rebellion against them
  69. Exploding Whale footage remastered for its 50th anniversary
  70. Constantly Wrong: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories
  71. Four Seasons Total Landscaping in VRChat
  72. Tixy
  73. Talkin’ ’bout A Revolution

October 2020

  1. Existential Troopers
  2. Homestar Runner’s Halloween Hijinks
  3. AI camera mistakes soccer referee’s bald head for ball
  4. When To Expect Election Results In Every State
  5. MC Frontalot’s This Is Not A Drill
  6. SpaceX declares it won’t recognize international laws in planned Mars colony
  7. Brian Feldman on why conservative news thrives on Facebook
  8. The Pudding digs into how officer complaints are investigated
  9. Mayor Bones Proudly Presents: Ghost Town’s 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival
  10. Zeynep Tufekci’s Insight
  11. K-pop superfans vs QAnon
  12. Michael Hobbes on why older Americans are a vector for misinformation online
  13. Kim Kardashian’s father resurrected as birthday hologram
  14. NYT’s Election Distractor
  15. Visualization of how Covid-19 spreads indoors with various precautions
  16. Not for You
  17. You Must Build A Lighthouse
  18. The House on Blue Lick Road
  19. 8800 Blue Lick Rd is the best accidental video game of the year
  20. The Art Of “Cool As Ice”
  21. Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police
  22. After Patreon ban, QAnon creators move to PayPal, SubscribeStar, and GoFundMe
  23. Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss
  24. cyberpumpkin.zone
  25. Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator in Rust
  26. RIAA orders GitHub to remove youtube-dl
  27. ClipDrop
  28. Krebs on the now-defunct companies behind 8chan, QAnon
  29. Privacy-invading test monitoring startup sues critic for tweeting its unlisted YouTube videos
  30. Em Lazer-Walker on using game design to make virtual events more social
  31. RIP The Amazing Randi
  32. Photoshop adds AI-powered filters and features
  33. AppleTV+ gets exclusive rights to Peanuts holiday specials
  34. Quibi shutting down after six months and $1.75 billion burned
  35. AOC’s Among Us stream quickly became one of Twitch’s biggest ever
  36. Contrapoints on voting
  37. Gowalla rebooted as an augmented reality social game
  38. Tom Lehrer releases his lyrics into public domain
  39. Inside the Fall of the CDC
  40. The Video Game Source Project
  41. TikTok starts banning QAnon accounts, redirecting related hashtags
  42. Touring the official Biden HQ island in Animal Crossing
  43. The Verge digs into three years of Foxconn’s broken promises in Wisconsin
  44. alt.binaries.images.underwater.non-violent.moderated: a deep dive
  45. derivative.works
  46. Taylor Lorenz on the blockbuster success of Among Us
  47. Something Awful under new ownership, after 21 years online
  48. Vulture profiles Sohla El-Waylly and her life after Bon Appétit
  49. Library Takeout
  50. Ganksy
  51. Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition
  52. Underunderstood digs into how Ryan Broderick became a Chinese face model on Amazon
  53. AI-based video completion
  54. Facebook finally removes holocaust denial content
  55. Sean Ono Lennon performs “Isolation”
  56. How many potatoes does it take to run DOOM?
  57. Visualizing Covid-19 cases by state partisanship
  58. The Swamp That Trump Built
  59. Noelle Stevenson’s coming out story
  60. Mattis Dovier
  61. 24/7 lo-fi hip hop beats to drink pepsi to
  62. Telemelt
  63. Facebook bans QAnon Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts
  64. The Problem with the Inconsequential Quest
  65. Compute Cuter
  66. Nvidia’s AI video compression
  67. Ironic Sans interviews pop culture archaeologist Marc Tyler Nobleman
  68. Grocery store musical duets on TikTok
  69. Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
  70. The history of paid newsletters in the mid-20th century
  71. The Cut’s Bridget Read on /r/unemployment
  72. The students left behind by remote learning
  73. My Mum, A Cartoon Life
  74. Same Energy Snap
  75. How Normal Am I?
  76. The Verge on the boom of young animators on TikTok
  77. 1990
  78. Right Now
  79. “Was that your limb? – w4m”
  80. Zeynep Tufekci on dispersion as key to fighting the pandemic
  81. Mouth Dreams is out
  82. NYT investigation into Trump’s false claims of voter fraud

September 2020

  1. HoloVista
  2. Casey Newton on Coinbase’s ban on politics
  3. Why Amazon Isn’t Ripping Off the Post Office
  4. Turturro Time
  5. Think Twice Dice
  6. Mouth Dreams
  7. 20020
  8. Humans of New York interviews Stephanie aka Tanqueray
  9. Trump’s 2016 campaign disproportionately targeted 3.5 million Black Americans to deter them from voting
  10. NYT exclusive on Trump’s tax returns
  11. NYT investigation into how eBay execs secretly terrorized a blogging couple
  12. Techade Quiz
  13. Windows XP source leaked to 4chan by apparent Bill Gates conspiracist
  14. Pow Player
  15. What It Was Like To Buy A Computer In 1994
  16. Protocol on the launch of Telepath, a new social network emphasizing kindness and active moderation
  17. For Fuck’s Sake
  18. Comparing Rolling Stone’s Top 500 albums for 2003, 2012, and 2020
  19. A Disappointed Reader Responds
  20. The Election That Could Break America
  21. How Reddit squashed its QAnon problem
  22. Leaked messages show far-right group’s plans for Portland violence
  23. No officers charged for “wantonly and blindly” killing Breonna Taylor
  24. Da Vinky??
  25. Casey Newton leaves The Verge to launch Platformer
  26. Mark in the Middle
  27. Blacklight
  28. Final Cut – Ladies & Gentleman
  29. New Art City
  30. RIP Longcat
  31. Vulture interviews Demi Adejuyigbe about his September 21 videos
  32. Richard
  33. Justice Department threatens to cut federal funding to Portland, Seattle, and NYC over protests
  34. Schitt’s Creek sets an Emmy record, sweeping comedy categories
  35. 9/21/20
  36. TikTok and WeChat both managed to avoid Sunday app store bans
  37. Twitter’s image previews appear to favor white faces
  38. Reply All on the origins and identity of QAnon
  39. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality, dies at 87
  40. Fast Times At Ridgemont High virtual table read
  41. Monster Mash
  42. ACLU, Instagram CEO slam WeChat and TikTok bans
  43. Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores beginning Sunday
  44. Magma Studio
  45. Hope
  46. Open Mike Eagle’s “Bucciarati”
  47. Song Exploder becomes a Netflix series
  48. Pifuhd
  49. In Search Of A Flat Earth
  50. Nova, Panic’s successor to Coda, is out now
  51. Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate
  52. Never post photos of your boarding pass online
  53. How Did MTV Become the ‘Ridiculousness’ Network?
  54. Dave Grohl escalates drum battle with 10-year-old Nandi Bushell
  55. Scientific American endorses Joe Biden
  56. Whistleblower alleges mass hysterectomies, medical neglect at ICE detention center
  57. Polygon reviews Spelunky 2
  58. City of Louisville agrees to $12M settlement, police reforms with Breonna Taylor’s family
  59. windows 95 dreamscapes
  60. Bill and Melinda Gates say “shocking” US pandemic response is due to “terrible leadership”
  61. Cameron Hunter’s gesture-triggered comic book messages for video calls
  62. Super Mario Bros 3 three-minute speedrun explained
  63. Facebook ignored global political manipulation, says data scientist turned whistleblower
  64. NYT tracks USPS mail delivery times
  65. Biome Online
  66. It’s A Bird
  67. Feds seize OnePlus Buds, mistaking them for “counterfeit” AirPods
  68. Russell Brandom on Oracle’s bizarre TikTok deal
  69. A Monster’s Expedition
  70. How conspiracy theories are shaking the foundation of American democracy
  71. Wildfire photographers threatened by vigilantes who thought they were antifa arsonists
  72. Wandaland
  73. PayPal’s war on tardigrades
  74. The Matrix on polarized 3D TV glasses
  75. Cory Doctorow launches Kickstarter for Attack Surface audiobook
  76. Hundreds of Americans planted the China mystery seeds
  77. AI lip-syncs movie clips to All Star
  78. Doom Pregnancy Test
  79. Pareidolia
  80. Allie Brosh emerges from seven year hiatus with new book
  81. Winamp Skin Museum
  82. walk cycles
  83. Public Enemy updates “Fight The Power” for 2020
  84. Mezerg’s “Watermelon”
  85. press play to pause your thoughts
  86. Kelly’s back with “Masks”
  87. Lo-Fi Player
  88. microCOVID Project Calculator

August 2020

  1. Rain in Games, Part I
  2. xiaoxiaodou’s TikTok cooking videos
  3. Capturing the Police
  4. Darius Kazemi on Twitter usernames with lots of numbers
  5. Michael’s Community Chat
  6. Virtual Recurse Center
  7. Phantom of the WAPera
  8. Kevin Roose on the right-wing media dominating Facebook
  9. Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura
  10. Charlie Warzel on the R.N.C.’s alternate universe
  11. Covid gag rules at U.S. companies are putting everyone at risk
  12. Trevor Noah on why police shot Jacob Blake, but let a white gunman walk
  13. Kenosha police chief blames protesters for their own deaths, defends vigilante groups
  14. How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
  15. What They Saw
  16. BuzzFeed News investigation into China’s vast infrastructure for imprisoning Muslim minorities
  17. On all that fuckery
  18. TikTok CEO resigns
  19. exclusive.website
  20. Rafat Ali thinks the event industry is having its Napster moment
  21. NBA, WNBA, MLB, MLS players strike for racial justice and police accountability
  22. Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting
  23. In alarming move, CDC now says asymptomatic people exposed to Covid don’t need testing
  24. Billie Eilish’s Tiny Desk Concert
  25. How Louis DeJoy ordering USPS mail trucks to run on time backfired horribly
  26. Internet Archive acquires the Tytell Typewriter Collection
  27. Nour
  28. The Washington Post’s Editorial Board on “Our Democracy in Peril”
  29. Making optimal peanut butter and banana sandwich with deep learning and computer vision
  30. Superheroes
  31. Eve Ewing on police unions
  32. Visualizing how the @nyt_first_said Twitter bot works
  33. The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Words of Her Mother
  34. Much of Scots Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who doesn’t speak Scots
  35. The Great Fire
  36. GPT-3 writes an op-ed on human intelligence
  37. Bigtop Burger: Season One
  38. Everest Pipkin’s Neopets crime syndicate
  39. The Daily Beast digs into the world of private Roku channels
  40. TikTok to sue Trump administration over executive order
  41. Brian Feldman interviews GDQ’s first VR speedrunner
  42. Pigeon Jazz
  43. Alex Kantrowitz interviews The Verge’s Casey Newton
  44. Covid Tracking Project reports some hopeful trends
  45. The Golden Age of computer user groups
  46. Live From the Space Stage: A HALYX Story
  47. Flight Simulator players are finding some amazing world glitches
  48. O Human Star ends after eight years
  49. Trump praises QAnon supporters because “they like me”
  50. sharpest egg kitchen knife in the world
  51. Flight Simulator players flocking to Jeffrey Epstein’s island
  52. Motherboard launches The Mail, a newsletter and zine about the USPS
  53. Spiritfarer
  54. Postmaster general to suspend policies blamed for causing mail delays
  55. The oral history of Steamed Hams
  56. The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful
  57. America’s poor broadband making online education impossible for millions of students
  58. stoxart
  59. Brand New shifts to paid subscription to offset event losses
  60. Wayne Radio TV watches all of The Simpsons for the first time
  61. PEmbroider
  62. Orwell’s Animal Farm
  63. AI AI Weirdness
  64. Alongside his attack on the USPS, Trump’s mounting a legal war on mailed ballots
  65. Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite
  66. The Wikipedia War Over Kamala Harris’s Race
  67. QWOP is real life, actually
  68. Karaoke Nite
  69. 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
  70. Twitter launches new API to make amends with third-party developers
  71. The scars of “non-lethal” weapons deployed in protests
  72. Pseudonymous postal carrier writes about the disastrous changes to the USPS
  73. Mozilla Talent Directory
  74. Sudowrite
  75. Broken cable damages Arecibo Observatory
  76. Mozilla lays off a quarter of the company
  77. tech brain
  78. Vid2Player, controllable video sprites from tennis footage
  79. Exploring accidental triggers of smart speakers
  80. Wehole
  81. Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” gets an official video, 46 years later
  82. masterWiki
  83. TwikTwok
  84. ACLU calls for dismantling the DHS
  85. Making Mixolumia from idea to release
  86. USPS overhauls leadership, centralizing power around new Postmaster General
  87. Gripping Food With Force
  88. Blaseball
  89. After 72 years, federal judge ends antitrust rules on studios owning theaters
  90. Steven Levy interviews Bill Gates on Covid
  91. Antimander
  92. Trump signs executive order to ban transactions with Bytedance and WeChat beginning September 20
  93. Adam Neely harmonizes the Jay-Z deepfake
  94. Spelunky 2 will be released on September 15
  95. Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man’s life sentence for stealing hedge clippers more than 20 years ago
  96. Facebook employees find evidence of special treatment for right-wing sources of misinformation
  97. This RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 maze takes trillions of years to complete
  98. Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
  99. Georgia students suspended for posting photos of crowded hallways
  100. Three of Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen stars of color quit over pay discrepancies
  101. Paper interviews Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson
  102. Trump’s TikTok crusade makes US censorship look a lot like China
  103. New York, D.C. attorneys general sue NRA for widespread fraud, seek to dissolve organization
  104. Instagram launches Reels, its TikTok competitor
  105. A blog secretly written by GPT-3 made it to the top of Hacker News
  106. Adrian Hon on what ARGs can teach us about QAnon
  107. TikTok and the Sorting Hat
  108. Melanie Faye’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
  109. TikTok and the Law
  110. Star Turns
  111. Alanis Morissette performs “Ablaze” with her daughter
  112. Trump threatens TikTok will “close down” on September 15th unless an American company buys it
  113. Calendar 2020
  114. How the Pandemic Defeated America
  115. Future Islands’ “For Sure”
  116. Antibodies (Do You Have The)
  117. Matt Muir’s Web Curios goes on hiatus after 300 issues
  118. Sourceful
  119. Meeting Intruders
  120. Black Lives Matter protests in Portland resume peacefully as feds withdraw

July 2020

  1. Court orders immediate release for Michigan teen incarcerated for not doing online homework
  2. Double Fine’s 20th Anniversary Humble Bundle
  3. Vanity Fair on the White House’s secret aborted Covid-19 national testing system
  4. Tampa 17-year-old arrested for massive Twitter hack
  5. The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries
  6. Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok as Trump weighs ban/sale order
  7. Reconstructing Journalistic Scenes in 3D
  8. TikTok opening algorithm, moderation, and data to regulators
  9. Medium beta testing themes, microblogging
  10. Portland protesters forced to stop attending protests as a condition of jail release
  11. Tech’s four biggest companies are going on trial
  12. “We’re Your Family Now”
  13. Former Deadspin staffers launching Defector Media
  14. E gg
  15. 60 Years and Still
  16. The Last Bronycon
  17. macintosh.js
  18. Bijan Stephen profiles MSCHF
  19. Why your USPS packages are delayed
  20. Minecraft running in Minecraft
  21. The Guardian on Bortac, the quasi-military border patrol units sent to Portland
  22. ProPublica releases thousands of NYPD police discipline records
  23. The Pudding launches Winning the Internet, a meta-links newsletter
  24. More federal officers deploying to Portland as protests gain momentum
  25. The Verge on the Nintendo Gigaleak
  26. Success Kid, 13 years later
  27. Alexagate
  28. Tedium on the history of RIP graphics
  29. How Flash Games Shaped the Videogame Industry
  30. Good Sudoku
  31. Friends intro recreated as stock footage
  32. Racial demographic dot-density map
  33. Defining the ’90s Music Canon
  34. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Reunion Table Read
  35. Hurting People at Scale
  36. On Lacework
  37. The Endless Doomscroller
  38. Twitter finally cracks down on QAnon
  39. The Daily Beast on local police unions colluding with federal law enforcement
  40. Judge won’t free Michigan teen in juvenile detention for not doing online schoolwork
  41. Gotta Eat the Plums!
  42. Federal law enforcement use unmarked vehicles to grab protesters off Portland streets
  43. Giving GPT-3 a Turing test
  44. Solving the Mask Shortage in Huntington Beach
  45. Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state
  46. rev-ind, reverse indent your code
  47. Yale Union transfers land and historic building to Native American arts nonprofit
  48. Biden, Gates, Musk, Bezos, Apple, Uber, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack
  49. ProPublica investigates a Black teen sent to juvenile detention for not doing her online homework
  50. NYT investigates NYPD violence during protests
  51. AI Dungeon upgrades to GPT-3
  52. “Palm Springs” breaks Hulu records
  53. Influencer Pay Gap surfaces pay disparities between Black and non-Black influencers
  54. Tom Scott visualizes a million vs. a billion dollars
  55. Bohemian Rhapsody in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
  56. Kaitlin Tiffany on celebrity baby conspiracy theorists
  57. GPT-3 layout generator
  58. Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Broken Age free on Mac App Store this weekend
  59. American Passports Are Worthless Now
  60. Super You
  61. The U.S. Army’s Twitch channel is banning people for asking about war crimes
  62. How the Trump administration could “ban” TikTok
  63. Samplr
  64. Mmhmm
  65. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the ridiculous Harper’s open letter
  66. NYT on the racial inequity of coronavirus
  67. Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
  68. Motto
  69. Checkboxland
  70. Vanity Fair talks to comedian Ziwe Fumudoh about her IG Live show
  71. Poynter on how the move to capitalize “Black” happened at the AP and in many newsrooms
  72. Websites That Look Like Desktops
  73. Gwern’s experiments in creative writing with GPT-3
  74. Responsively
  75. Silicon Valley elite discuss journalists having too much power in private app
  76. 91-DIVOC adds new graphs, reports, and additional data options
  77. OpenAI’s GPT-3 model generating Python code from natural language
  78. Our Ghost-Kitchen Future
  79. MrBeast ends Finger on the App after 70 hours
  80. Siddhant Adlakha on watching Hamilton on film, five years after its Broadway debut
  81. Black Lives Matter may be the largest movement in U.S. history
  82. Josh Gad reunites Ferris Bueller cast
  83. The Verge on the fight for control over The Nod

June 2020

  1. Reddit bans /r/The_Donald, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, and 2,000 other subreddits
  2. Verizon joins Facebook/Instagram ad boycott over hate speech
  3. Guardian investigation into how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook
  4. Katalog
  5. Amazon Honeycode
  6. Apple reverses ban on Struck, a clever astrology dating app for iOS
  7. Animal Talking debuts second season with Sting
  8. How the Virus Won
  9. The Dixie Chicks rename, dropping the “Dixie”
  10. Walt Disney World and Disneyland retheming Splash Mountain to “Princess and the Frog”
  11. Wesley Lowery on the reckoning over objectivity in newsrooms led by Black journalists
  12. No-coding SMS bots with Google Sheets and Twilio
  13. NASA names headquarters after “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson
  14. Straight 2 Spam
  15. Finger On The App
  16. McSweeney’s catalog of Trump’s worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes
  17. Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
  18. Brooklyn Nine-Nine rewriting new season from scratch
  19. Immersive Light Field Video
  20. ProPublica editor tries to investigate an NYPD car that hit a Black teen on Halloween
  21. Hot Pod on the public dispute over Another Round’s archives
  22. Polygon’s investigation into Cards Against Humanity and cofounder Max Temkin
  23. Black Artists for Freedom
  24. Algonuts
  25. The Return of the 90s Web
  26. MakeSpace
  27. Bandcamp donating all proceeds today to NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  28. The Internet Archive’s historical anti-slavery collections
  29. Juneteenth, explained
  30. The healing power of Black art
  31. How We Juneteenth
  32. Stolen
  33. Jason Kottke’s links to resources on police abolition and defunding
  34. Anonymous Camera
  35. Janelle Shane plays with OpenAI’s upcoming API
  36. Paramount cancels “Cops” in wake of protests
  37. the k-pop stans pick a side
  38. 13th
  39. Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
  40. How Do We Change America?
  41. How Apples Go Bad
  42. Last Week Tonight on Police
  43. Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
  44. Greg Doucette’s mega-thread of police violence videos from recent protests
  45. Defund12.org
  46. The 3.5% Rule
  47. Police violence supercuts go viral
  48. 8 Can’t Wait
  49. Black Lives Matter Support Bundle
  50. Black Journalists and Covering the Storm That Never Passes
  51. Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library
  52. Donation Match Party
  53. Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest inaction on Trump posts
  54. Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong
  55. Mapping Police Violence
  56. 8 minutes 46 seconds
  57. Kinopio
  58. Image Scrubber
  59. Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US

May 2020

  1. The EFF on Trump’s unenforceable and unconstitutional Section 230 executive order
  2. Selfies by Claudius Gentinetta
  3. How some countries brought their Covid-19 cases to nearly zero
  4. Ocarina of Time Sudoku
  5. Facebook ignored own research showing algorithms divided users
  6. Wholesome Direct
  7. A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
  8. Jazz Keys
  9. Bertrand Fan on the Animal Crossing economy
  10. Adult Swim revives Tuca & Bertie after contentious Netflix cancellation
  11. NVIDIA recreated Pac-Man with AI
  12. John Krasinski’s Some Good News sold to ViacomCBS in massive bidding war
  13. Paul Ford is blogging again
  14. Holding meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2
  15. MSCHF Magazine
  16. Community cast reunites for table read
  17. ITP’s Spring 2020 Show
  18. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
  19. The Miracle Sudoku
  20. Orb.farm
  21. Inside Decentraland, the surreal Second Life for crypto true believers
  22. Shelter In Place Gallery
  23. Anomalous Materials
  24. Vr dos
  25. DEVO making Energy Dome face shields
  26. Facebook to buy Giphy for $400M
  27. lyrics.rip
  28. Boom/Bust: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia
  29. Shadowland, The Atlantic’s project about conspiracy thinking in America
  30. Chrome adds tab groups
  31. Kevin Roose on the vaccine misinformation war
  32. Unreal Engine 5 running on the PlayStation 5
  33. The real Lord of the Flies
  34. Tristan Cross recreated his local pub in VR
  35. A Practical Guide to Covid-19 Risks and How to Avoid Them
  36. SCOPETREX
  37. Pose Animator
  38. Making convincing 1990s-era browser fonts in modern browsers
  39. RIP “Double Rainbow” viral star Paul Vasquez
  40. The Office on Slack
  41. Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
  42. 15 ai
  43. Nook Street Market
  44. Passed the Brush
  45. Wonder of Wonder Art
  46. Salman Khoshroo’s Wool on Foam Portraits
  47. Birbs sounds
  48. Zork source code from 1977 recovered from MIT tapes
  49. Dissolving Realities: Dong Xuan Market
  50. Ars Technica on the massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code
  51. Scunthorpe Sans
  52. Trends
  53. GitHub announces Codespaces and Discussions
  54. 1loc
  55. Facebook open sources BlenderBot, a state-of-the-art conversational chatbot
  56. This Fursona Does Not Exist
  57. Ars Technica on art, fashion, and commerce in Animal Crossing
  58. Augmented Reality Cut-and-Paste to Photoshop
  59. Desktop Meadow
  60. Tim Bray quits Amazon for firing whistleblowers
  61. Animal Talking
  62. True Facts: Killer Surfing Snails
  63. MPAA to end physical Oscar screener distribution in 2021
  64. A Parks and Recreation Special
  65. Consistent Video Depth Estimation
  66. The Songs of 1984
  67. Shift Shift Forward
  68. Space Songs, a YouTube concert from the National Air & Space Museum
  69. ICANN rejects sale of .ORG to private equity firm

April 2020

  1. OpenAI’s Jukebox Opens the Pandora’s Box of AI-Generated Music
  2. OpenAI trained an AI to generate music, with singing, in the style of various artists and genres
  3. This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory
  4. A History of Subversive Remix Video before YouTube
  5. Citizen DJ
  6. Got Your Back
  7. World’s biggest film festivals unite for 10-day streaming event
  8. Alasdair Beckett-King’s Interactive Murder Mystery WHODIDIT?
  9. With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake audio parodies off YouTube
  10. Josh Gad reunites the cast of The Goonies in quarantine
  11. Spying on the Scammers
  12. AR Face Doodle
  13. Severed Spots
  14. #KutimanComeTogether
  15. Auto Museum 64
  16. Wolfman Museum of Art
  17. Jay-Z raps Hamlet
  18. If We Were Allowed to Visit
  19. Due to COVID-19
  20. Raymarching Fractals
  21. Drive and Listen
  22. Porcupine Racetrack 2020
  23. 12.3M people watched Travis Scott’s psychedelic Fortnite event
  24. Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii
  25. “Parks and Rec” cast reuniting for one-off benefit special set in pandemic
  26. Do Not Draw A Penis
  27. surf.city
  28. The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment
  29. Retro Japan Recreated In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  30. Paste Parties: The Ephemeral, Chaotic Joy of Random Clipboards
  31. 98 css
  32. Léo Chéron’s WebGL particles
  33. This Website Will Self-Destruct
  34. Clay Boonthanakit’s Buttercup with a twist
  35. How the Memories 256 byte MS-DOS demo works
  36. How We Reopen
  37. Every Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same
  38. Imagineering in a Box
  39. We Are Living in a Failed State
  40. Simone Giertz made a proud parent machine
  41. Seinfeld Adventure
  42. LIKELIKE’s Online Museum of Multiplayer Art
  43. Panic Podcast on Sidetalkin’
  44. Vemos
  45. Fiona Apple’s Release the Bold Cutters is out tonight
  46. Devs is very good and you should watch it
  47. Ars Technica on the Half-Life improv scene
  48. Pass the Pepper
  49. Naomi Kritzer reflects on her 2015 short story about a food blogger living through a pandemic
  50. Glitch launches paid subscriptions
  51. ZOOOOOM.US
  52. Finland adds demoscene to National Inventory of Living Heritage
  53. Beatsplit
  54. Online Town
  55. The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
  56. Fan-made Minecraft Disneyland recreation is opening California Adventure on April 24
  57. Console Concertos
  58. Our Pandemic Summer
  59. Pets in Isolation
  60. GitHub is now free for teams
  61. Bitsy 7.0 released
  62. Kickstarting Flatter Me: A Compliment Battle Card Game
  63. 3D for Reddit
  64. Dj3d
  65. DOMi and JD Beck
  66. Hyper P.T., P.T. recreated in HyperCard
  67. SNL At Home
  68. Field Museum’s Emily Graslie giving live tour of Animal Crossing’s in-game museum
  69. Memories by Desire
  70. TIC-80 tiny computer
  71. Meteoriks Awards 2020
  72. Russians recreate famous works of art in quarantine
  73. Internet Archive releases stats on the National Emergency Library
  74. The impact of coronavirus on online sex workers
  75. Nicky Case’s comic on using privacy-preserving contact tracing to stop Covid-19
  76. Spatial Software
  77. Pipedream
  78. Cables.gl
  79. Project 88, crowdsourced fan recreation of Back to the Future II
  80. Pandemic Stories from Around the World
  81. NYT Mag profiles Weird Al and his enduring appeal
  82. How Low Can Your Logo?
  83. The Pudding analyzes how Kidz Bop censors songs
  84. The Midnight Gospel
  85. Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
  86. DNS over Wikipedia
  87. Cute House
  88. Nether Meant
  89. Vox reviews Quibi, the new short-form streaming video app
  90. Tom Scott on API optimism, sustainability, and abuse in the Web 2.0 era
  91. Computer store untouched since 2001
  92. Ilo Sitelen
  93. Like roots in the soil
  94. Now Play This (At Home)
  95. Some Good News: Zoom Surprise
  96. California King
  97. Still Bill
  98. xkcd’s Collector’s Edition
  99. The Outline lays off all staff
  100. LIKELIKE Online
  101. Strange Keyworld
  102. USPS facing bankruptcy from coronavirus crisis
  103. zWarDial, Zoom war dialer exposes Zoom’s password problems
  104. Implied Gallery
  105. Voleflix
  106. bored.solutions
  107. If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode
  108. Toilet paper shortages can be explained by people using 40% more of it at home
  109. Everything Is Alive interviews Josh, a chainsaw
  110. Pandemic in BusinessTown
  111. Welcome to the Hunt
  112. Bill Gates on actionable steps to make up for lost time on Covid-19
  113. Ghost Crash
  114. Life, Death, and Dinner
  115. Hey Robot: Quarantine Edition
  116. Bong Joon-ho’s detailed storyboards for Parasite
  117. Janelle Shane trained a neural net to generate prank ideas
  118. Worthikids’ “Xylophone”
  119. Stay Safe with Bryan and Nicky Dee
  120. PICOHOT
  121. Shing Yin Khor recreated Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present in Animal Crossing
  122. YTMND resurrected with the help of fans, rebuilt for modern browsers

March 2020

  1. Ars Technica on the backlash from authors on the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library
  2. True Facts: The Wacky Giraffe
  3. Humble Conquer Covid-19 Bundle
  4. Substack launches $100k writer grant program
  5. Agent57
  6. Everest Pipkin’s open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup
  7. Gifcap
  8. Concatenation
  9. Simulating An Epidemic
  10. The Last Best Time
  11. Glimpse
  12. Nba fm
  13. Some Good News
  14. Mackerelmedia Fish
  15. First Order Motion Model for Image Animation
  16. Shaderbooth
  17. Google cancels its April 1 jokes
  18. Yelp to stop auto-creating GoFundMe fundraisers without consent
  19. Stewart Butterfield on leading Slack during a pandemic
  20. Without social safety nets, desperate Americans turn to GoFundMe
  21. The Verge’s guide to watching movies with friends online
  22. Breaking Down The Disinformation Ecosystem Around Coronavirus
  23. 6 Feet Covers
  24. Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library
  25. How the Pandemic Will End
  26. Ben Gibbard’s Live from Home series
  27. Color Push
  28. Krisp
  29. Home Screen
  30. SXSW 2020 Shorts
  31. O’Reilly Media permanently ends in-person conferences
  32. Concealed Spaces
  33. 91-DIVOC
  34. Virtual Travel Photography in the Age of Pandemic
  35. it’s time to get good at darts
  36. Tom Scott on the problems with copyright
  37. Skynet Simulator
  38. Patent troll uses monkey selfie law firm to sue to block Covid-19 testing with Theranos patents
  39. Substation
  40. Best practices for locking down Zoom community calls
  41. Listen Together
  42. Steam Game Festival
  43. Inklewriter is back
  44. together.
  45. CVS Bangers FOUR
  46. Our Plague Year
  47. The Green Fog
  48. Flatter Me
  49. XOXO 2020 is canceled
  50. #Coronamaison
  51. The Bird Museum
  52. Washington Post’s outbreak simulations
  53. Power Slides
  54. How Did It Feel to be Eaten?
  55. Glitch unionizes
  56. The Uncensored Library
  57. Quarantine Book Club
  58. Work in the Time of Corona
  59. Conversations with People Who Hate Me
  60. Pluralistic
  61. Frank Force explains how to make a 3D racing game in 2KB of Javascript
  62. Sinfeld Chronicles, a Seinfeld horror game made in Dreams
  63. Facemesh and Handpose
  64. Exponential growth and epidemics
  65. Merzmensch’s roundup of Google Colab notebooks
  66. All The Streams
  67. City of Austin declares local disaster, cancels SXSW 2020
  68. New York Apartment
  69. The Atlantic estimates only 1,895 people tested for coronavirus in the U.S.
  70. The 34 species of trees hidden in Photoshop
  71. Subcutanean
  72. Reply All’s The Case of the Missing Hit
  73. Family remakes Spider-Verse scenes with traditional animation techniques
  74. Subpar Parks
  75. Warren drops out
  76. Election Profit Makers returns
  77. Do Not Touch Your Face
  78. 0107 – b moll
  79. Mazeletter
  80. A one-year update from Alex Trebek on his pancreatic cancer progress
  81. is it canceled yet?
  82. Google cancels I/O conference
  83. Malcolm Harris reports on Shell’s private climate change conference
  84. Vox on the Oregon GOP’s subversion of democracy
  85. Eggdog

February 2020

  1. Detailed tutorial on making and releasing a PICO-8 game
  2. Adi Robertson imagines a world without YouTube
  3. China blocks Archive of Our Own
  4. GDC 2020 canceled over coronavirus fears
  5. The Sounds of Covid-19
  6. Heathrow airport moving walkway performs The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now”
  7. 17th Century Death Roulette
  8. Justice Department establishes office to denaturalize immigrants
  9. Clearview AI client list revealed
  10. Sony, EA, Microsoft, and others pull out of GDC over coronavirus fears
  11. Recreating the Parasite house in Sims 4
  12. Smithsonian releases 2.8 Million high-res images into the public domain
  13. Cat and Girl’s Attack of the Ghouls
  14. sok-worlds
  15. Rian Johnson breaks down a scene from Knives Out
  16. Clearview AI’s client list was hacked
  17. Human Test Regarding Your Creativity
  18. JS Paint
  19. Fraidycat 1.1 released
  20. Jason Kottke on 15 years of doing Kottke.org full-time
  21. Firefox enables Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS by default for US users
  22. The Atlantic on the challenges of containing coronavirus
  23. What does T5 know?
  24. The Markup officially launches
  25. JIF and Giphy teamed up to make GIF peanut butter
  26. Web series successfully appeals YouTube copyright claims
  27. NYMag’s guide to the memes in The 1975’s The Birthday Party video
  28. The Economics of 24/7 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop YouTube Livestreams
  29. My 72 Hours in a Viral Tweet Vortex
  30. Songs That Sound the Same
  31. The virtual production of The Mandalorian
  32. Condé Nast ends use of NDAs to silence harassed and discriminated employees
  33. Study finds 25% of climate-related tweets are from bots
  34. BBC Micro Bot runs Conway’s Game of Life
  35. Claire de Lune on a modular synth
  36. MSCHF Box
  37. Glimmer
  38. Nathalie Lawhead’s roundup of small, wonderful digital art tools
  39. Commodore 64 plays Huey Lewis
  40. Art42
  41. TinkerSynth
  42. EvoBoxx
  43. CSS Microfauna
  44. STAFFcirc’s WINDOWS VARIAT~1
  45. t¥p3w0rld
  46. These Lyrics Do Not Exist
  47. Patreon Capital
  48. Youka, generate karaoke from any song on YouTube
  49. Kickstarter unionizes
  50. Robin Sloan on building a tiny messaging app for his family
  51. The Strokes’ At the Door animated video
  52. VR demo turns words into 3D objects
  53. @wiki_tmnt eats itself
  54. HQ Trivia shuts down
  55. VICE’s Samantha Cole on ProjektMelody, the first hentai camgirl
  56. SynLimb
  57. Hear Pearl Jam’s new song by pointing your phone at the moon
  58. Cartoonist Dami Lee interviews Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch
  59. Media Molecule’s Dreams out now for PS4
  60. A 75-year-old woman’s reflections on learning to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and games as art
  61. Emotion Eric, 20 years later
  62. The Neighbors’ Window
  63. GPT-2 candy hearts
  64. Avocado ‘n’ Toast
  65. BBC Micro Bot
  66. Repper
  67. Printing Money
  68. Former Uber CEO’s new startup is running sketchy ghost kitchens
  69. Inside the world of “femcels”
  70. Taylor Lorenz on the unsung 14-year-old creator of the Renegade viral dance
  71. Bloomberg campaign floods Instagram with sponsored memes
  72. Netflix loses bid to drop Choose Your Own Adventure lawsuit
  73. DoNotPay’s new project to help you locate and sue robocallers
  74. Nonchalance
  75. Billie Eilish answers questions from an AI
  76. Copyrighting every possible melody to avoid accidental infringement
  77. Botnet
  78. Chrome to start blocking links on SSL pages to non-SSL downloads
  79. Vulture on the set design from Parasite
  80. Dancing Baby meme gets an HD remaster
  81. dreAIms
  82. Sketch Synth
  83. The Verge on the Mario Paint music scene
  84. Basecamp announces Hey, an upcoming email app for iOS/Android/web
  85. Check Republic
  86. Protocol
  87. Password of the Day
  88. Beluga
  89. Partners
  90. Fangs
  91. Lumière Brothers’ “Arrival of a Train” from 1896 upscaled to 4K 60fps video
  92. Noclip.website
  93. Panic Podcast tells the story of Pantscast
  94. Google Takeout data export service sent some private videos to wrong people
  95. Cards Against Humanity buys ClickHole, grants majority ownership to employees
  96. Eevee’s whirlwind history of CSS and web design
  97. Coffee Talk
  98. Kaitlyn Tiffany on the reappropriation of the Doomer Girl meme

January 2020

  1. Reddit thread of little-known but obvious facts
  2. In secret deal with drugmaker, health records tool pushed opioids to doctors
  3. Private equity takeover of .org delayed by California attorney general
  4. Byte will share 100% of revenue with creators during partner pilot program
  5. Spiderfoot
  6. VICE on tabletop RPG creators’ efforts at inclusivity
  7. BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
  8. Strikethrough’s Carlos Maza leaves Vox to go independent
  9. Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog
  10. Map of Emotions Evoked by Music
  11. Taro Oono’s animated Twitter microgames
  12. CineShader
  13. Human Test For People Who Work In An Office
  14. The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time
  15. West Wing Weekly ends podcast with huge live show with 30+ cast and crew members
  16. Dissolving Realities
  17. YourStack
  18. NYT profile on MSCHF
  19. Schwerkraftprojektionsgerät
  20. Pop Culture Detective on the sexual assault of men by women in comedy
  21. Avast Antivirus shuts down data-collection arm after exposé
  22. Speaking Simulator
  23. Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat
  24. Kotaku on the big streamers leaving Twitch
  25. Charlie Warzel on the Post’s suspension of a journalist for her controversial tweets
  26. Presidential Hopefuls Screensaver
  27. a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 1g 1h 1i 1j 1k 1l 1m 1n 2o 2p 3q 4r 6s 8t 11u 15v 22w 31x 44y 63z
  28. Desktop Goose
  29. The uncertain legal state of streaming games online
  30. Knewz
  31. Meena, Google’s AI chatbot
  32. 117 new emoji in list for 2020
  33. Zuckwatch
  34. The Verge on Kentucky Route Zero’s fifth and final act
  35. The Making of Outer Wilds
  36. Barcoder
  37. Legible News
  38. Horror Stories From Inside Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
  39. Recs
  40. AR Pianist
  41. Byte goes out of invite-only beta
  42. Generative Placeholders
  43. De La Soulviet
  44. Collaboration of the Cosmos
  45. Clearview AI has history of dubious marketing claims, ties to far-right and white nationalists
  46. Google ads now look just like search results
  47. The Geocities Gallery
  48. Panic Podcast
  49. BoingBoing.net turns 20
  50. Instagram for Win95
  51. OneZero tracks down the source of wikiHow’s bizarre illustrations
  52. The Feather’s “Sister”
  53. Tiny Helpers
  54. EFF on YouTube’s new feature to trim copyright-claimed content from videos
  55. Ars Technica plays AI Dungeon 2
  56. Reverberations
  57. Hand tracking on flat surfaces for the Oculus Quest
  58. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
  59. Zombo.com VR
  60. What facial recognition steals from us
  61. Nototo
  62. NYT on Clearview, a powerful facial recognition database used by law enforcement
  63. Underunderstood
  64. The Pudding’s analysis of 34 YouTube apologies
  65. Biden wants to revoke Section 230 of the CDA
  66. Fast.ai’s guide to starting a free, simple blog you own on GitHub Pages
  67. Google Search adds favicons, blurs lines between ads and search results
  68. Mojo Vision’s augmented-reality contact lenses
  69. Vox on how misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
  70. Hello Void
  71. The Apple Archive
  72. Who Wrote That?
  73. Billboard sells Stereogum back to its founder/editor
  74. YouTube creators claiming copyright on their own videos
  75. Players are speedrunning Nintendo’s exercise game for 18+ straight hours
  76. How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2
  77. Raph D’Amico on Yo and low-friction attention
  78. Reconstructing speech from silent videos
  79. Mute.vc
  80. Sweater Rat Creator
  81. AIGA interviews Darius Kazemi about Friend Camp
  82. Sandspiel
  83. Rough.js
  84. Everyday Twenty Years
  85. It’s Nice That on the snail art of Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland
  86. MTA takes down artist’s NYC subway map on Etsy
  87. VVVVVV open-sourced for its 10th birthday
  88. A Sick Giant
  89. vj for your home
  90. IAC sells CollegeHumor to COO, lays off 100+ employees
  91. The Mane Quest
  92. Nick Heer on Teen Vogue’s weird, now-removed puff piece on Facebook’s election security
  93. Twitter adding feature to disable replies or limit to people you follow
  94. NYT on the battle over the .org TLD
  95. Tomorrow’s On Fire
  96. Nelson Minar on Yandex’s face recognition
  97. Two Minute Papers on MuZero, DeepMind’s new game-playing AI
  98. NYT on the rise of ridiculous pop music copyright lawsuits
  99. Disinformation For Hire
  100. WaPo investigation into how the federal government misled the public about the war in Afghanistan
  101. Kentucky Route Zero’s fifth and final act releasing on January 28
  102. Major union launches campaign to organize videogame and tech workers
  103. Don’t F**k With Cats
  104. DangerousBot, a random noun Zelda bot for Twitter and Mastodon
  105. IGF 2020 nominees announced
  106. Bellingcat’s guide to reverse image search
  107. Deceased gerrymandering GOP strategist’s daughter makes files public
  108. Generating beetles with machine learning
  109. Taylor Lorenz on Hype House and other L.A. collab houses
  110. Which emoji scissors close?
  111. Canvas Cards
  112. Zdog
  113. Synopsis
  114. Hydra
  115. TidalCycles
  116. Public Domain Day 2020
  117. Borogrove, online editor for Vorple and Inform interactive fiction games
  118. ContraPoints on cancel culture
  119. Light

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December 2019

  1. Katamari Christmassy
  2. After 11 years, 8tracks closes with five days’ notice
  3. Seeking Awesome Republican Goddess
  4. Tesseract.js
  5. Gretchen McCulloch on boomerspeak
  6. SmugMug’s struggling to make Flickr sustainable
  7. Wenyan
  8. Smallbu Animation’s Daffodil shorts
  9. Making Escher, a web-controlled robotic Etch-a-Sketch
  10. Turning animated GIFs into pure CSS
  11. Building a Slack client for Windows 3.1
  12. FlowingData’s best dataviz of 2019
  13. NYTIMES ALL CAPS
  14. NYT analyzes a database of 50 billion locations from 12 million phones
  15. Kubito’s Secret Base
  16. Trump impeached
  17. Fake AI-generated faces used for fake Facebook accounts promoting right-wing content
  18. Emily Short’s retrospective of the year in interactive fiction
  19. Song of Bloom
  20. The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy in HyperCard
  21. The Far Side relaunches official site
  22. Joe Sabia’s list of groundbreaking internet videos
  23. Endless Jingling
  24. USE CUPS
  25. Go to Sleep, Baby Yoda
  26. AI Dungeon released for iOS/Android
  27. The Dweetabase
  28. The Verge reviews Wattam, the new game from Katamari creator Keita Takahashi
  29. Bee videogames reviewed for accuracy
  30. Ars Technica’s Timothy B. Lee on making his own deepfake
  31. Creators of “virtual influencer” Lil Miquela criticized for fictional sexual assault vlog
  32. The Verge’s Casey Newton talks to moderators responsible for removing violent extremism from Google/YouTube
  33. Dual Axis Rotation Illusion
  34. The Moon Is Right
  35. Circle World
  36. 100 Memes That Defined the 2010s
  37. Face the Music
  38. Happy Hues
  39. Display.land
  40. Huginn
  41. Why Nukemap isn’t on Google Maps anymore
  42. NYT uses infrared cameras to show industrial methane leaks in Texas
  43. Click Here to Kill
  44. All Star played on melons
  45. Postlight launches Yap, an ephemeral free chat room for small groups
  46. Urban Archive
  47. The Age of Instagram Face
  48. OpenStreetMap Haiku
  49. Nvidia releases StyleGAN2, state-of-the-art generative image modeling
  50. “They” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2019
  51. Pico-8 Advent Calendar 2019
  52. YouTube expands anti-harassment policies
  53. Twitter announces Bluesky project to develop (another) decentralized open standard for social media
  54. Vulfpeck Live at Madison Square Garden
  55. XOXO’s Worldbuilders fundraiser for Heifer International
  56. Wired Magazine’s cover story on Simone Giertz
  57. Twin Peaks VR
  58. “Link In Bio” is a subtle undermining of the web
  59. Bbbreaking News: Discovering Amateur News Videos by Monitoring Journalists on Twitter
  60. Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List
  61. The Tools I Use: My Setup, 11 Years Later
  62. Choose Your Own Adventure publishers try to get phrase banned from Itch.io
  63. The Universal LEGO Sorting Machine
  64. 10x19
  65. Verizon blocks Archive Team from preserving 20 years of Yahoo Groups history
  66. TikTok’s Top 100 of 2019
  67. People with Cool Avatars
  68. Daniel Keogh’s maximalist illustrations
  69. Natural History Museum
  70. Recovering hidden video from lighting changes
  71. Janelle Shane experiments with AI Dungeon 2
  72. AI Dungeon 2
  73. 25 Rock Facts from me, Greg
  74. YouTube Rewind 2019
  75. Teaching AI Feminism and Making Art
  76. Tracking the bestselling songs for every decade back to 14,000BC
  77. Nintendo took down Super Mario ROM hack video that likely inspired Mario Maker 2 feature
  78. Hair Love
  79. The Hungry Terminator
  80. Looop.dev
  81. Motherboard on Ring’s evolution into Amazon’s private surveillance network
  82. Craigslist finally gets an official iOS app
  83. flatpak
  84. Lost Code
  85. Matthias Eberl’s research on TikTok’s privacy issues
  86. How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Theft
  87. The Verge’s Adi Robertson on fighting lies, tricks, and chaos online
  88. How Joey Clift “celebrated Native American Heritage Month by ruining a comedy podcast”
  89. href.cool’s Links of the Decade
  90. Campo Santo confirms “In the Valley of Gods” on hold
  91. Keybase and the chaos of crypto
  92. Volunteer archivists are working to seed LibGen’s 33 TBs of scientific material
  93. The Atlantic’s Kaitlin Tiffany looks back at Tumblr’s first year without Porn
  94. Riot Games to pay every female employee since 2014 with $10M settlement
  95. DrumBot
  96. Cooking with Wool
  97. China now requires facial recognition scans for mobile phone users
  98. Shelfbrain’s Word of the Day
  99. Amazon’s DeepComposer lets humans compose generative music with AI
  100. The Deep Sea
  101. Annalee Newitz’s NYT op-ed on the future of social media
  102. Visualizing the most popular TV series from 1986-2019

November 2019

  1. Xfinity ruins E.T. for the holidays
  2. Adam Koford’s Bootleg Peanuts Reboot
  3. Runway Palette
  4. Jamie Brew on How to Write With an Artificial Intelligence
  5. The voxel art of Dima K
  6. Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible
  7. Twitter will start removing inactive accounts in December
  8. Oops! Predicting Unintentional Action in Video
  9. RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses
  10. Leaked Chinese operation manuals reveal new details of mass internment and AI-driven “predictive policing”
  11. Christian Weiske’s replacement OUYA server goes live
  12. Vanity Fair interviews Billie Eilish for the third year with the same questions
  13. Unraveling the Mystery of “Visit Eroda,” The Tourism Campaign For An Island That Doesn’t Exist
  14. Save .ORG
  15. Sunday Afternoon at Denny’s
  16. The Register digs into the disturbing sale of the .ORG domain registry to a private equity firm
  17. The Verge’s Mia Sato on the Hmong diaspora’s use of free conference calling as pirate radio
  18. Sacha Baron Cohen blasts Facebook, Google, and Twitter for allowing hate and propaganda to thrive
  19. List of Lists: The Best of the 2010s
  20. The Jungle Prince of Delhi
  21. Guess My Word
  22. Janelle Shane teaches an AI to begin a novel
  23. The Digital Antiquarian looks back at Graham Nelson’s “Curses”
  24. Descript adds um detection, full-text search
  25. The Verge on Syniverse, the company responsible for the Valentine’s Day SMS debacle
  26. The Final Days of Japan’s Most Incredible Arcade
  27. Information is Beautiful Awards 2019 winners
  28. Hit the High Notes
  29. Snake and Tetris At the Same Time
  30. Typologies of New York City: A Crowdsourced Hyperlapse
  31. LegraJS, JS library to draw with LEGO-like brick shapes
  32. Typora, a minimalist Markdown editor
  33. Looom
  34. HoloVista teaser trailer
  35. Hey Robot
  36. Super Patron Fuck Yeah
  37. Half-Life: Alyx trailer
  38. Turning Photos into 2.5 Parallax Animations with Machine Learning
  39. Chrome/Firefox extension detects AI-generated text
  40. 8chan is still using Cloudflare
  41. TikTok Group Chat meme
  42. Collider’s Deepfake Roundtable
  43. IFComp 2019 winners announced
  44. BodyPix 2.0
  45. How the Deaf community is adapting ASL in VRChat
  46. YACHT’s GAN-generated music video by Mario Klingemann
  47. Teens posting cursed images to school pages on Google Maps
  48. The Verge on the repercussions of YouTube’s new kids’ content flagging
  49. Pitchfork’s Anatomy of a TikTok Hit
  50. Oscar-winning actor Mary Steenburgen went in for routine surgery, and woke up a songwriter
  51. Rod Stewart’s absurdly-detailed model railway
  52. Gochi Gang explores Brooklyn’s Japan Village with Claire Saffitz and Mike Chen
  53. PayPal drops payments to Pornhub performers
  54. The Verge on the cottage industry of Amazon “preppers”
  55. Baking and cooking simulations with mixture theory
  56. The Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon, dead at 51
  57. NYT Mag’s special issue on the future of the internet
  58. Private equity company acquires .org registry
  59. The Daily chats with Leo, a 3rd grader, about Trump’s impeachment
  60. Impeachment.fyi
  61. The new 16″ MacBook Pro has a good keyboard
  62. Dancing text with CSS
  63. The Blue Donkey
  64. BBC Radio 4 on the work and tragic death of TempleOS creator Terry A. Davis
  65. Little Runmo
  66. Unmixer, extract and remix loops from any song
  67. Picket signs from the Disney Artists’ strike of 1941
  68. “OK Boomer” isn’t really about age
  69. NYT’s Caity Weaver digs into the Valentine’s Day text message mystery
  70. Sanam Maher on TikTok in Pakistan
  71. The Size of Space
  72. Witches on Tinder
  73. Wayward
  74. AV Club’s 100 best, worst, and weirdest of the internet in the 2010s
  75. Neural network tries to reconstruct photorealistic faces from emoji and emotes
  76. Teachable Machine 2.0 launches
  77. Mysterious text messages from Valentine’s Day were received late last night
  78. State-of-the-art language processing with ten lines of TensorFlow 2.0
  79. Airbnb promises to verify all 7 million listings after VICE report exposes scam
  80. Uber’s self-driving car involved in fatal crash couldn’t detect pedestrians outside of crosswalks
  81. Rating every horse emoji
  82. Drum machine in Excel
  83. The Deletion of Yahoo! Groups and Archive Team’s Rescue Effort
  84. Blot
  85. Light Commands
  86. Sephora Reviews that Mention Crying, Sobbing or Tears
  87. Reporter writes about getting fired by the Des Moines Register
  88. Polygon’s 100 Favorite Videogames of 2010s
  89. Painting with Pure CSS
  90. Fast and Free Music Separation with Deezer’s Machine Learning Library
  91. Bijan Stephen profiles Hot Ones for The Verge
  92. VICE’s Allie Conti investigates an Airbnb scammer
  93. Blade Runner intro but it’s actually Los Angeles in November 2019
  94. Kotaku’s Death Stranding review

October 2019

  1. Untitled Goose Costume
  2. Websocket Ouija Board
  3. Hellvetica.ttf

August 2019

  1. Ugly Gerry

July 2019

  1. Chris Wetherell reflects on building the Retweet for Twitter
  2. Robin Sloan on the scale and feedback of social media platforms
  3. Run Your Own Social
  4. User Inyerface
  5. Profile of 8chan creator, Frederick Brennan
  6. Mike Davidson on Superhuman’s creepy email tracking
  7. Using machine learning to find public domain Krazy Kat comics
  8. How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners
  9. The Guardian’s Silicon Valley dictionary
  10. The New Yorker goes on the road with Mitski
  11. First Look Media ends funding for The Nib, shuts down Topic
  12. Flappy Royale

May 2019

  1. Panic Announces Playdate
  2. How Lil Nas X used the meme ecosystem to make a #1 hit

April 2019

  1. Kickstarter turns 10
  2. Neuhaus
  3. GB Studio
  4. Source code released for 45 Infocom games

March 2019

  1. Beto O’Rourke was in Cult of the Dead Cow
  2. The Christchurch attack was made to go viral
  3. Spotify files antitrust complaint against Apple
  4. Baba Is You

February 2019

  1. Chart Party’s search for the saddest punt
  2. This Person Does Not Exist
  3. Endless Jeopardy
  4. Netflix launches new podcast with Another Round’s Tracy Clayton
  5. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
  6. Dad

January 2019

  1. Holly Wood’s mega-thread of anonymous dirty secrets in various professions
  2. Simone Giertz’ brain tumor is back
  3. Guess the most expensive domain name
  4. Bird Scooters threatens Boing Boing over Cory Doctorow post
  5. The oral history of the Hampsterdance
  6. In A Nutshell
  7. Suck.com, Gone for Good (For Good)
  8. The meta-meme history of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing video
  9. 2019 Independent Games Festival finalists announced
  10. Scratch 3.0 released
  11. Meditations
  12. 365 RFCs
  13. Happy Public Domain Day!
  14. Lauren Hough’s compelling account of a decade doing cable repair in D.C.

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