The Curious Engineer

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December 2022

  1. Draw SVG rope with Javascript
  2. The Professional
  3. Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things
  4. Ars Technica on Mastodon, ActivityPub, and the pros and cons of open decentralized social networking
  5. Recreating Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” in Mario Paint
  6. Ted Gioia on Barnes & Noble’s surprising turnaround
  7. Erik Grankvist spent three years alone building a log cabin
  8. Tom7’s PAC·TOM Project
  9. Where are the pirated movie screeners this year?
  10. The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts
  11. Reverse engineering the prompts for every Notion AI feature
  12. How human is your dog’s name?
  13. Mastodon founder rejected multiple six-figure investment offers to preserve nonprofit status
  14. Atlas of Blobs
  15. The Originals
  16. NYT on Steamboat Willie entering the public domain in 2024
  17. picoSYNTH
  18. Why The Super Rich Are Inevitable
  19. Jealousy List 2022
  20. Productivity Blocker
  21. Tom Lehrer releases discography into public domain
  22. Jacked directly into the feed
  23. Twitter starts blocking links to many popular Mastodon instances
  24. Twitter starts banning high-profile journalists with no explanation
  25. Inside the world’s biggest tech bazaars
  26. Benj Edwards on ArtStation’s anti-AI artist revolt
  27. Databots and Silverstein’s Fake Feelings
  28. The Luddite Club, a group of NYC teens opting out of smartphones and social media
  29. The Doors of McMurdo Station
  30. Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter
  31. “Just Go to Work”
  32. Apple orders Mythic Quest spinoff based on its bottle episodes
  33. Riffusion
  34. Life Universe
  35. Web Yule Log
  36. Nilay Patel interviews Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition is going
  37. Genders.wtf
  38. Tumbleword
  39. STRG.SNEK
  40. The history of Christmas kiddie monorail rides in U.S. department stores
  41. Benj Edward’s secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
  42. Internet Archive Scholar
  43. A year of new avenues
  44. Animated timeline of most popular social networks from 2003-2022
  45. Level, a clever one-screen puzzle game
  46. Polygon reviews Dwarf Fortress’ graphical update, out now
  47. Building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT
  48. Inventing a new language with ChatGPT

November 2022

  1. ChatGPT, OpenAI’s conversational AI model
  2. mindmelt.party
  3. Vanity Fair interviews Billie Eilish for the sixth year
  4. Movetodon, find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
  5. Why Japanese web design looks different from the rest of the world
  6. The Barnacle Goose Experiment
  7. Marine Beaufils’ videogame needlepoint
  8. C64 2FA
  9. Stable Diffusion 2.0 released
  10. Defunctland’s documentary on who wrote the Disney Channel theme
  11. Last.fm turns 20
  12. Meta made an AI that can win at Diplomacy
  13. Taylor Lorenz interviews @Dril
  14. Can AI generate the perfect Thanksgiving?
  15. ooh! directory
  16. A Letter Groove
  17. Interactive Fiction Competition 2022 winners announced
  18. Corridor Crew on neural radiance fields and the future of 3D scanning for video
  19. Tim Molloy’s production stills for TV shows that never existed
  20. Twitter employees resign en masse, refusing to sign Elon Musk’s “hardcore” pledge
  21. Floor796
  22. Ask My Book
  23. The Verge’s deep dive into the murky waters of copyright and fair use in AI
  24. Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration
  25. Bubbles
  26. Mastodon’s Eternal September begins
  27. Tumblr launches Important Blue Internet Checkmarks
  28. CSS Puzzle Box
  29. Inside the Twitter meltdown
  30. Abortion Bus
  31. The Infinite Conversation
  32. Josh Millard finishes his grandfather’s stained glass project
  33. AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
  34. Diana Smith’s pure HTML/CSS Varga-style pinup
  35. Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

October 2022

  1. Welcome to hell, Elon
  2. Winding Down Skittish
  3. Odd Giants
  4. Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
  5. The Misremembered History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater
  6. Slow Roads
  7. DiscMaster
  8. Stayin’ Alive, performed by a werewolf
  9. The Commodordion
  10. William Shatner writes about going to space
  11. “Through the Fire and Flames” in Trombone Champ
  12. Kevin Costner’s Waterworld
  13. DOOM in Notepad
  14. NYT short doc on Sally Schmidt, creator/chef of the French Laundry
  15. Kilogram
  16. Words Against Strangers
  17. The Battle for the Soul of the Web
  18. Imagen Video
  19. Innovations in Juggling
  20. New Yorker profiles the creator of NTP and its evolution
  21. The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear
  22. Tree Talk
  23. For once, the hurricane shark is real

September 2022

  1. AudioGen
  2. Elon Musk’s text exchanges
  3. AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability
  4. Community movie is finally happening
  5. Louie Zong’s “Business!”, an album of retro corporate music
  6. Phenaki
  7. DreamFusion, text-to-3D using 2D diffusion
  8. Nesos
  9. Teenage Engineering’s PO-80 Record Factory
  10. Google is shutting down Stadia
  11. Meta announces Make-A-Video, a text-to-video AI generator
  12. The Guardian interviews one of the admins keeping Discworld MUD going
  13. Björk’s Sonic Symbolism podcast
  14. Matt Mullenweg on the challenges of hosting adult content in 2022
  15. Days Since Incident
  16. Folding Ideas on “passive income” con artist entrepreneurs
  17. Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine
  18. webЯcade
  19. A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements and nobody knows how
  20. summarize.tech
  21. How platforms turn boring
  22. OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a speech recognition and translation system
  23. Making Minecraft in Minecraft
  24. Snap shuts down Zenly instead of selling it, fearing competition
  25. Tux and Fanny
  26. Return to Monkey Island is out now
  27. After 23 years in prison, Serial’s Adnan Syed freed after judge vacates murder conviction
  28. BDG shutters Input Mag
  29. Resurrecting “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion’s Textual Inversion
  30. Simon Willison on GPT-3 prompt injection attacks
  31. Wikipedia Speedruns
  32. Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers
  33. Have I Been Trained?
  34. The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books
  35. xkcd’s Rotation
  36. The Follower
  37. Behind the scenes of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’s new TV series
  38. Vulture profiles Kate Beaton on the release of her new graphic memoir
  39. Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images
  40. Lexica, search 10M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
  41. Kiwi Farms is effectively offline
  42. Lunar Lander playable in Windows file copy dialogs
  43. The Humiliating History of the TSA

August 2022

  1. ProPublica exposes a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme exploiting music platforms
  2. Leonardo DiCaprio Refuses to Date a Woman Over 25
  3. Perfect Tides, a Coming-of-Age Point-and-Click Adventure, Kickstarts a Sequel
  4. Know Your Meme’s analysis of meme origins by platform from 2010-2022
  5. Retrospective of Medium’s first ten years
  6. C64 Theremin
  7. How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
  8. ’90s Cursor Effects
  9. The Big [Censored] Theory
  10. Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator
  11. Opening the Pandora’s Box of AI Art
  12. Nutshell
  13. An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
  14. NYT profiles Michael Heizer’s “City”
  15. Making an Internet Time Machine
  16. New World Unlocked
  17. Stable Diffusion public release
  18. Simone Giertz made a bubble wrap music box
  19. Profile of Stable Diffusion, the open-source text-to-image AI model without content filters and safeguards
  20. John Deere tractors jailbroken at DefCon, allowing farmers to repair their own equipment
  21. How magicians made a fortune on Facebook
  22. Paint with Music
  23. The Verge profiles Archive of Our Own for its 15th birthday
  24. The Biggest Deal in Climate History Almost Didn’t Happen
  25. Life on the Internet
  26. Timelooper
  27. Every Internet Video From 2003
  28. Physically simulating an entire car engine for realistic audio
  29. Pass the Wine
  30. U1KE, a playable ukulele in 1KB of JS

July 2022

  1. The Kubrick Times
  2. Map of most notable people around the world
  3. Amazon’s third-party seller piracy problem
  4. The Apple Store Time Machine
  5. Molly White on victim-blaming in the crypto crash
  6. Stray, tilt-shifted
  7. Infinite Mac adds virtual networking
  8. Joni Mitchell performs first full set in over 20 years
  9. Emoji Kitchen Browser
  10. Absurd AI-generated food photography with DALL-E 2
  11. The Secret History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater
  12. MegaPortraits
  13. Scratch, MIT Media Lab’s visual coding platform for kids, is blowing up
  14. The Verge on how indie writers are using AI tools like Sudowrite and Jasper
  15. Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang
  16. An Ode to Desus and Mero, Forever Kings of New York
  17. Lego makes Atari 2600 set for Atari’s 50th anniversary
  18. RIP Sockington
  19. Anil Dash talks about his violent assault at a California coffee shop
  20. Artbreeder Collage
  21. Doom running inside Doom II
  22. Replicating the styles of well-known portrait photographers with DALL-E 2
  23. DALL-E 2 Prompt Book
  24. Matt Levine breaks down Twitter’s Elon Musk lawsuit
  25. How the YouTube Creator Economy Works
  26. Twitter sues Elon Musk
  27. Mind Flayer
  28. Spotify buys Heardle daily music game
  29. After 10 years, Ev Williams steps down from CEO role at Medium
  30. Ed Yong on BA.5
  31. NASA releases first James Webb Space Telescope images
  32. Pokemon-inspired cellular automaton battle
  33. Ravel
  34. Anime ramen shaders
  35. NYT profiles competitive GeoGuessr players
  36. Midjourney temporarily opens for beta access
  37. James Webb Space Telescope delivers deepest infrared image of universe yet
  38. Using GPT-3 to explain how code works
  39. Eat the Rich Popsicles
  40. Lyrical Garfield
  41. The Uber Files, massive exposé from 124,000 leaked internal documents
  42. The Atlantic launches digital archive
  43. LAION-5B
  44. prompt.press
  45. Klifur
  46. After losing his taste and smell to covid, Hank Green tries foods he hates
  47. FCC orders carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls
  48. Elon Musk officially tries to bail on Twitter deal
  49. Absurd Trolley Problems
  50. Netflix Doesn’t Want to Hear It Anymore
  51. Ryan Broderick on schizoposting and the Highland Park shooter
  52. How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged
  53. The modifiers vs. the keepers
  54. How a fake job offer led to Axie Infinity’s $540M crypto heist
  55. Vulture profiles Nathan Fielder
  56. Making a virtual retro PC in Godot that plays Sierra games
  57. Book Exploder
  58. The Terror of Everything Everywhere All At Once
  59. Last Call BBS
  60. An oral history of Contact on its 25th anniversary
  61. Cohost
  62. Max Read on wrong number text scams

June 2022

  1. The Looker
  2. Jia Tolentino on the death of Roe
  3. Where to Send Your Money (That Isn’t Planned Parenthood)
  4. Donate to an Abortion Fund Right Now
  5. Liberal justices deliver blistering joint dissent on Roe
  6. Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, ending federal right to abortion
  7. Platformer Toolkit
  8. Human Record Player
  9. Filmot
  10. Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
  11. Strong Bad meets DALL-E 2
  12. The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
  13. 50 Years of Text Games is now on Kickstarter
  14. Partita Prelude for 8-Bit Ensemble
  15. DJ Cummerbund mashes up Lizzo and Linkin Park
  16. Like like
  17. Vox explainer on the AI text-to-image revolution
  18. Janelle Shane uses DALL-E 2 to mess up corporate logos
  19. Bertrand Fan installs a payphone in his house
  20. Make WordArt
  21. Tracking what happens after TikTok songs go viral
  22. MarkovJunior
  23. Yotam Mann teases his AI music studio
  24. robotsdraw

May 2022

  1. The Inside Outtakes
  2. Sliderland
  3. A City In A Bottle
  4. Who Owns 4chan?
  5. This Image Does Not Exist
  6. Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles
  7. Marble Madness II prototype ROM finally leaks online
  8. SponsorBlock
  9. Imagen
  10. Adversarial Minesweeper
  11. How to Make Automatic Supercuts
  12. Alan Resnick’s DALL·E 2 variant test
  13. Reply All calls it quits
  14. Making sense of VRChat, the “metaverse” people actually like
  15. The woman who created Wabbit for the Atari 2600 has been found
  16. Fly with Birds
  17. Different Strokes
  18. Molly White on creating digital scarcity for artists without a blockchain
  19. First picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy
  20. Twitch Plays Bees
  21. Music from Nancy
  22. Google shows prototype AR glasses with real-time language translation
  23. Today In Tabs on TerraUSD’s unstable stablecoin
  24. NYT analyzes Tucker Carlson’s conspiratorial and insular language over time
  25. Aaron A. Reed on business management games from the 1950s
  26. if the world doesn’t end
  27. Wordle! pivots to Wordle clone after sale to mobile publisher
  28. Visualizing one million U.S. covid-19 deaths
  29. Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years
  30. Dracula Daily takes over Tumblr
  31. Mother Jones feature on the destructive force of private equity on American businesses
  32. Em Lazer-Walker on running virtual events
  33. Ironic Sans makes the case for adding “keming” to the dictionary
  34. The YouTubers are not okay
  35. How one Uyghur woman escaped a Chinese internment camp
  36. Kottke takes a break
  37. Max Read on “the Current Thing” meme
  38. Peeled Maps
  39. Wired feature on Shein’s sudden rise
  40. Noto Emoji
  41. Empire Strikes Back remade for the C64
  42. Adam Neely on the financial risk of touring as an indie band in 2022
  43. The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress
  44. Motherboard reveals SafeGraph is selling location data of people visiting abortion clinics
  45. Plan C
  46. Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
  47. Travel distance for people seeking abortions if Roe v Wade falls
  48. The Supreme Court Leaks All the Time
  49. Donate to an Abortion Fund Right Now
  50. God Damn America
  51. Knotwords

April 2022

  1. Inform 7 is now open source
  2. My Heart Will Go On (but it’s Smash Mouth’s “All Star”)
  3. Dril Responds to Elon Musk Buying Twitter
  4. Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection
  5. Bureau of Telephone Fornication
  6. The Pudding needs help debunking a flawed study on age and randomness
  7. the html review
  8. Rickroll animated QR code
  9. The Qubit Game
  10. Art Bits from HyperCard
  11. Earth Reviews
  12. Are You The Asshole?
  13. Redactle
  14. Underunderstood tries to find the MTV dial position sticker
  15. The 8-year process behind Playdate’s glorious crank
  16. Painting a Landscape with Math
  17. Panic! On the Editorial Page
  18. Waxy.org Turns 20
  19. A rare interview with Phil Fish on Fez’s 10th birthday
  20. Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in hostile takeover bid
  21. Bitch Media to close in June
  22. Who’s In Your Wallet?
  23. Tiny Elden Ring
  24. Summon Demons
  25. Harder Drive
  26. The complete r/Place 2022 timelapse
  27. Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court
  28. Home Sweet Homepage
  29. Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis?
  30. Mastodon adds post editing, explore page, moderation dashboard
  31. Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites
  32. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On trailer
  33. MIT scans the brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
  34. Unreal Engine 5 released
  35. OpenAI’s DALL·E 2
  36. Parker Molloy’s experiments with Midjourney, a new AI art generator
  37. Comparing what TikTok shows to Russian vs. Ukrainian users
  38. Elon Musk buys 9% of Twitter stock as he pressures company on “free speech”
  39. Footage of 11-year-old Prince found in archival film of 1970 Minneapolis teachers’ strike
  40. Taylor Lorenz on the popularity of Reddit’s Place revival
  41. Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman making a new Monkey Island game
  42. On Seeing Both
  43. xkcd’s Instructions
  44. The Past and Future of Flag Emoji
  45. Strong Bad answers his first email in four years
  46. A Short Hike 99
  47. Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser
  48. Lumon Industries Macrodata Refiner
  49. Amazon workers vote to unionize Staten Island warehouse
  50. Comic Helvetic

March 2022

  1. Building Pong inside a single sprite on the Commodore 64
  2. In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid
  3. The Incredibly Satisfying Birth of a Marble
  4. Mike Masnick on how moderating content supports the principles of free speech
  5. Hackers are faking emergency data requests to access sensitive customer data
  6. Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
  7. Funomena shutting down after report on emotionally abusive founder
  8. Photorealistic 3D renders of classic TV game show sets
  9. Pirating the Oscars 2022: The Rise and Fall of the Screener Over 20 Years
  10. The Sound of Love
  11. Russians are racing to download Wikipedia before it’s banned
  12. Anti-war Russians find a lifeline on Clubhouse, which Russia hasn’t blocked yet
  13. Drug discovery AI suggests 40,000 new possible biochemical weapons in six hours
  14. Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
  15. The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft
  16. People Make Games investigates three indie studio founders accused of emotional abuse
  17. This City Does Not Exist
  18. What happened to Torah learning software TropeTrainer after the death of its creator
  19. Yarn Spinner
  20. Nilay Patel interviews Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg
  21. Vimeo ordering creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars or they’ll delete their videos
  22. Rocketman Bob Maddox rides his “Beast” jet engine go-kart
  23. Marino Totino’s incredible miniature video store
  24. Drop a playable Mario from Super Mario 64 into any Blender project
  25. Shader Park
  26. Amateur open-source researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine
  27. The Gender Bias Inside GPT-3
  28. Connor Ratliff finally interviews Tom Hanks for the Dead Eyes podcast
  29. New Spline beta adds real-time collaborative 3D editing
  30. fly around
  31. DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions
  32. Pockit, a tiny powerful modular computer
  33. Atari acquires MobyGames for $1.5 million
  34. Brandon Stanton’s Empire of Empathy
  35. The Many Escapes of Justin Sun
  36. Kyle Orland’s taxonomy of game difficulty
  37. Smithsonian to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria
  38. Talking to the creators of Gender Pay Gap Twitter bot
  39. One man’s journey from Portland to Ukraine’s frontlines
  40. Chowhound closing after 25 years online
  41. Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine
  42. The Verge on the Bitsy community
  43. Adam Neely casts doubt on the plagiarism claims against Dua Lipa’s Levitating
  44. The Verge on Hundred Rabbits’ Uxn, a virtual ecosystem for experimental tools and games
  45. How Peter Thiel backed an “anti-woke” film festival that ended in tragedy
  46. feral.earth
  47. Where does the tone come from in an electric guitar?
  48. Russia blocks its last independent television channel
  49. Primitive Technology’s Thatched Workshop
  50. 600 Songs From 1990-1999 Remixed Into 34 Minutes
  51. Bandcamp acquired by Epic Games
  52. The internet is a force multiplier for Ukraine
  53. Playdate SDK released
  54. Wordle! for Netscape

February 2022

  1. ProsePainter
  2. Debunking the viral story of false teeth returned to their owner after 11 years
  3. wilderness.land
  4. Map of Reddit
  5. Casey Newton interviews Molly White of Web 3 Is Going Just Great
  6. Dictionar.io
  7. Titanic with a Cat
  8. The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s “high five” photos
  9. Making It Work 2022
  10. Revisiting Threes, 2048, and the endless chain of ripoffs
  11. Burds
  12. The Backrooms (Found Footage)
  13. Radio station bricks Mazda infotainment systems by broadcasting image files with no extension
  14. Astronomic Comics
  15. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
  16. Straight 2 Spam
  17. MAME turns 25
  18. Iconographic Encylopædia
  19. Brutalita
  20. Lost for Words
  21. The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
  22. PaperPaul’s pop-up meme cards
  23. Is “Cancel Culture” Really a Threat To America?
  24. The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
  25. That’s How It Works When You’re a Woman on the Internet
  26. Janelle Shane’s AI-generated Valentine’s cards
  27. Casio CA-100 Simulator
  28. Matt Round used GPT-3 to generate romantic poetry as if written by 8-bit computers
  29. GPT-NeoX-20B
  30. New Yorker cartoons so dated that they’re just people doing normal things
  31. Dialing Up
  32. Etienne Jacob’s Self-Description
  33. The Seinfeld Theme Mixed With A Hit Song From Every Year Seinfeld Was On TV
  34. Webvm
  35. Kaitlin Tiffany on the history and cultural impact of Tumblr

January 2022

  1. New York Times buys Wordle
  2. Garbage Day on Joe Rogan and Spotify
  3. Apartment
  4. Nicole He modded her and her fiancé into Skyrim
  5. Disney movie scenes recreated in Animal Crossing
  6. Dinner Party
  7. GD Colon’s Thirty Dollar Website
  8. YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino
  9. Alex Falcone has nothing to hide
  10. Blockedchain
  11. Searching for Susy Thunder
  12. Cease & Desist Grand Prix
  13. Multitrack breakdown of Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive”
  14. Perfect Tides
  15. New breakfast cereals from AI
  16. 22 indie games to look forward to in 2022
  17. Folding Ideas on the problem with NFTs
  18. Hank Green on how TikTok is failing to adequately pay creators
  19. Google ends support for free legacy G Suite users
  20. Major record labels sue youtube-dl’s web host
  21. Anti-vaxxers, QAnon influencers, and white nationalists are flocking to Substack
  22. Playdate Pulp goes into public beta
  23. homecoming.diary
  24. COVIDtests.gov launches a day early
  25. Daniel Radcliffe to play Weird Al in biopic
  26. Wiki History Game
  27. After the Beanie Baby bubble burst
  28. Books & Sleeves
  29. The Most Frequently Used Emoji of 2021
  30. Paper Website
  31. Gerrymandering mini golf
  32. Let’s Settle This
  33. Moxie’s impressions of web3
  34. minimator
  35. Absurdle, an adversarial version of Wordle
  36. Laurie Voss on the good, bad, and ugly of crypto
  37. You’re not doomed to get Omicron
  38. Wordle Is A Love Story
  39. Ten notable pre-1923 recordings now in the U.S. public domain
  40. 50 Years of Text Games on “Scents & Semiosis”
  41. me ow
  42. Monti on the ‘Bin
  43. tahti.studio
  44. The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing
  45. Public Domain Day 2022

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December 2021

  1. The “Have You Ever Had A Dream?” kid reflects on becoming a meme
  2. Deep dive into a sophisticated zero-click iMessage exploit
  3. WebXR projects on Glitch
  4. Busy Simulator
  5. CHUNGUS 2, a 1Hz Minecraft CPU
  6. NFT art thieves
  7. TikTok Couch Guy writes about the experience of being investigated online
  8. Memory Palace’s “Ride”
  9. Everything Is A Remix Part 2 (2021)
  10. Businessweek Jealousy List 2021
  11. Taylor Lorenz interviews the creator of Birds Aren’t Real
  12. Yankee Candle’s Stages of Abstraction
  13. Remote workers are using “mouse movers” to stay active while AFK
  14. Dining at the worst Michelin-starred restaurant ever
  15. Interview with the woman behind Depths of Wikipedia
  16. Discord testing Premium Memberships to let creators monetize servers
  17. Modern for Wikipedia
  18. Family safety app Life360 is selling precise location data on tens of millions of users
  19. Trump’s GOP is preparing to subvert the next election
  20. New Yorker profile of Succession’s Jeremy Strong
  21. Charlie Warzel interviews Spotify power users
  22. Doja Code
  23. TikTok drama channels are turning into online intelligence agents
  24. Wombo Dream
  25. Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fifth Year
  26. WeirdSpot
  27. Simulating large-scale plant ecosystems over time
  28. Emoji to Scale
  29. Max Read on web3
  30. Blockify Yourself
  31. Townscaper demo

November 2021

  1. Amazon Brand Detector
  2. Team builds the first living robots that can reproduce
  3. Beifall
  4. Casey Newton on Jack Dorsey stepping down as Twitter CEO
  5. Aliendscapes
  6. That Funny Feeling
  7. NYT interviews Jack Ferver, the little lad who loves berries and cream
  8. Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History
  9. DOONT, A Bad Lip Reading of Dune
  10. Ed Yong talks to health-care workers with long COVID
  11. AI breaks NES Tetris
  12. AI Weirdness plays with Pixray Swirl
  13. How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
  14. Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit
  15. Garbage Day unravels the mystery of Thinkarete Lifestyle, Facebook’s most viral publisher
  16. Justin Ling interviews the reclusive creator of Pictures for Sad Children
  17. Apple announces self-service iPhone repair program
  18. Wordle 2
  19. Skittish Is Live!
  20. Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45
  21. The New Jersey arcade with a banned-for-life blacklist
  22. NYT on Neopets fans after the death of Flash
  23. An oral history of Processing
  24. The growing partisan gap of U.S. covid deaths
  25. Steve Albini reflects on his edgelord past
  26. Rocks
  27. The Untold Story of Sushi in America
  28. 50 Years of Text Games on Porpentine’s Howling Dogs
  29. The Woman With No Face
  30. Clive Thompson on the legacy of COBOL in the banking industry
  31. Mundane Halloween 2021

October 2021

  1. haveagood.today
  2. Weeklypedia
  3. Tweet Shelf
  4. DIY lava lamp Halloween costume
  5. Metaverse Noir
  6. 5,162 attempts Super Mario Bros speedruns combined into a single video
  7. DOOM playable as 16,000 HTML checkboxes
  8. Rebecca Jennings on the Mountain Goats’ “No Children” going viral on TikTok
  9. Penzil
  10. Cleanup.pictures
  11. Garbage Day on the Facebook Papers
  12. Cabel Sasser shares a prototype original iPod
  13. Lay All Your Love On Me, performed by a vampire
  14. Glitch Art in Medical Imaging
  15. “History Will Not Judge Us Kindly”
  16. Casey Newton on how Facebook decides which countries need protection
  17. Ben Smith on how the Facebook Papers coverage was coordinated
  18. Washington Post’s key takeaways from the Facebook Papers
  19. Facebook’s lost generation
  20. Running list of all the Facebook Papers stories
  21. Stinky Tokens
  22. bread land
  23. Michael Hobbes on the methods of moral panic journalism
  24. Janelle Shane plays with Ask Delphi, the ethical AI
  25. Trump’s new social media site collapses after trolls flood it before launch
  26. Clickbait Genius
  27. Resignation screenshots on r/antiwork
  28. The story behind Mariah Carey’s secret ’90s alt-rock album
  29. What we can learn from _why
  30. bill wurtz – more than a dream
  31. The Worst Thing on Earth
  32. magneticscrolls.net
  33. Student stealing notes with iOS 15
  34. NYT simulation of how gender bias affects promotion cycles
  35. Adam Savage goes incognito at NYCC with an incredible Ghostbusters costume
  36. Adam JK launches “You Are Here (For Now)” podcast
  37. Investigation finds Amazon puts its own brands above better-rated products
  38. “Every Frame A Painting” creators to co-direct VOIR, David Fincher’s new Netflix docuseries
  39. We’re Thinking About Facebook Wrong
  40. Ryan Broderick on TikTok’s low stakes toxicity
  41. Rickrolling an entire high school district
  42. How Slack Upended the Workplace
  43. ProPublica investigation into Tennessee juvenile court that jailed Black kids for nonexistent crimes
  44. Please Don’t Destroy makes their SNL debut
  45. Netflix suspends trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle special
  46. After three years, Michael Hobbes leaving You’re Wrong About
  47. ScummVM turns 20
  48. Deep Fried Web
  49. Kino Cult
  50. Tweet2Doom
  51. just the punctuation
  52. 50 Years of Text Games on “Violet” and Inform 7
  53. Bloomberg goes looking for Tether’s billions
  54. I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand
  55. Song Exploder on John Lennon’s “God”
  56. Reuters investigation into how AT&T helped build alt-right news network OANN
  57. Entirety of Twitch leaks to 4chan
  58. Stanley Kubrick loves the DOS 2 manual
  59. Who Is the Bad Art Friend?
  60. An anonymous former Treehouse employee on the company’s mass layoffs
  61. Pitchfork revisits 19 album review scores they’d change “if they could”
  62. Gimlet’s Heavyweight goes Spotify-exclusive
  63. Cloudflare explains how Facebook disappeared from the internet
  64. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus back online after hours of downtime
  65. Facebook whistleblower on 60 Minutes
  66. Meet the original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993
  67. Garbage Day on the mystery of the “I Want To Live In This Era” photo
  68. The Pandora Papers
  69. virodome17 Is A Gmail Scammer
  70. Demi Adejuyigbe’s thread of behind-the-scenes footage from his final September 21 video
  71. Fully Justified Metroid

September 2021

  1. Google Maps tracks global warming with new “Fire” layer
  2. Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow
  3. Imgur sold to Medialab
  4. Adrienne LaFrance on Facebookland, the largest autocracy on Earth
  5. Licorice Pizza trailer
  6. LittleJS
  7. What Do We Do With All This Rage?
  8. BuzzFeed profiles Tyler Gaca aka Ghosthoney
  9. The Flickr Foundation
  10. Anne Helen Petersen on revenge bedtime procrastination
  11. Anil Dash on “cooperative overlap”
  12. The Creative Independent turns five
  13. File Not Found
  14. 9/21/21
  15. Amplosion
  16. Playable Quotes for Game Boy
  17. The Facebook Files
  18. Shades of Doom
  19. Phil Berge’s flip-book tattoos
  20. Twenty Is Myth
  21. The surprisingly big business of library e-books
  22. 20% of a picture of a dog
  23. Sprout, formerly MakeSpace, goes live
  24. Facebook is making smart glasses
  25. sheet-posting
  26. 404PageFound
  27. Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age
  28. Prompting an AI to write and illustrate famous novels
  29. Everything Is A Remix is back
  30. Casey Newton on Loot
  31. Sein of Blue
  32. Marcin Wichary on removing moire patterns from halftone printing
  33. Plan C
  34. Support Texas Abortion Funds
  35. The Deviousness of Texas’s New Abortion Law
  36. Texas abortion ban is next-level cruelty

August 2021

  1. High-fidelity image generation using diffusion models
  2. The Anti-Fan Phenomenon
  3. Refuse Uline
  4. Why are hyperlinks blue?
  5. Ravedj
  6. multizork
  7. Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore?
  8. China bans videogames for minors except from Friday to Sunday 8-9pm
  9. iFixit’s teardown of the Framework laptop
  10. Cofounder Quest
  11. FD Signifier on Bo Burnham’s Inside and “white liberal performative art”
  12. Text2PixelArt
  13. Dynamic Machines’ marble contraption 3D challenge
  14. 50 Years of Text Games on The Beast
  15. Ars reviews Psychonauts 2
  16. Ludotune
  17. How I Experience The Web Today
  18. Olivia Rodrigo adds Paramore as songwriters for “Good 4 U”
  19. The Hidden Melodies of Subways Around the World
  20. Taylor Lorenz on Marissa Meizz and the No More Lonely Friends movement
  21. Snopes cofounder/CEO plagiarized articles for clickbait under a fake name
  22. 50 Years of Text Games on Emily Short’s Galatea
  23. Summer Grill
  24. Ed Yong on how Delta changed the pandemic endgame
  25. Nylons
  26. OpenAI Codex
  27. Nestflix
  28. Matches
  29. Constraint Systems
  30. Max Woolf experiments with AI code generation with GPT-J
  31. GPT-J, an open-source 6 billion parameter NLP AI model
  32. I Know a Place
  33. Instagram banning-as-a-service
  34. JS Kid Pix
  35. How the founder’s toxic culture tore apart Fullbright, the studio behind Gone Home
  36. solopsist’s surreal phone booth videos on TikTok
  37. Garbage Day interviews DashCon’s creator
  38. Hacked Facebook users buying Oculus headsets to try to get priority support
  39. Alien Dreams

July 2021

  1. paint everything everywhere
  2. First “time crystal” built using Google’s quantum computer
  3. xkcd’s Mine Captcha
  4. Apple Bottom Jeans
  5. Windsor Road
  6. RP-FX, the Reese’s Puffs drum machine
  7. World Record Domino Robot
  8. Highlights from Annapurna Interactive’s game showcase
  9. How furries are making VR actually worth visiting
  10. Panic Podcast on the story of Playdate
  11. Gawker is back
  12. Discord adds threads
  13. Natsukashii, a nostalgic tile drawing tool
  14. VICE talks to the Parkland shooting survivor whose QAnon dad thinks it was a hoax
  15. Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti
  16. Space Invaders meets Kubernetes
  17. Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese videogame industry
  18. How The World Works
  19. Zeynep Tufekci on the U.S. dysfunction hindering response to the delta variant
  20. Connoisseur CAPTCHA
  21. Pogged.tv
  22. Researchers show malware can be hidden in neural network models
  23. Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive turning 25
  24. The inevitable weaponization of app data is here
  25. Serial swatter who caused death of QWK packet creator gets five years in prison
  26. Metafilter goes deep on Bo Burnham’s Inside
  27. DeepMind releasing structures for almost every sequenced protein
  28. This beach does not exist
  29. Sonic Half​-​Remembered
  30. WSJ investigation into the TikTok algorithm
  31. Inside the UK’s black market for fake vaccine passports
  32. Coconut Kitty and the complexities of sex workers editing themselves to look underage
  33. Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain sale
  34. Twitch streamers make millions promoting shady crypto gambling
  35. Realless
  36. Ars Technica previews Playdate
  37. Zendaya Is Chani
  38. Pose Estimation and WebGL
  39. Google’s Olympics doodle is a full sports JRPG
  40. Tumblr lets writers offer paid subscriptions
  41. The Jessica Simulation
  42. Flip-digit fluid simulations
  43. Puparia
  44. The Print Shop Club
  45. New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfaked his voice with AI
  46. One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
  47. Kevin Roose reports on the internal Facebook freakout over @FacebooksTop10
  48. The Internet Dungeon of Unexplained Phenomena
  49. A Unified Theory of Online Anger
  50. The privacy war inside the W3C
  51. Half a Life in 2 Minutes
  52. Kevin Parry turns into things
  53. Apple’s Weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees
  54. You are now Possessed
  55. Rebecca Jennings on digital accents
  56. Andrea Love’s stop-motion felt animations
  57. Cheating at first-person shooters with computer vision and capture cards
  58. Under A Star Called Sun
  59. How Marcin Wichary learned to hate InDesign
  60. Dead Startup Toys
  61. Freespin
  62. Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare
  63. All the right words on climate have already been said
  64. Bloomberg on a Microsoft contractor who stole $10 million in Xbox gift cards
  65. Janelle Shane on teasing higher-quality images out of neural nets
  66. Portland Year of Protest
  67. The songs that inspired the Super Mario Bros soundtrack
  68. John Lennon and Space Invaders
  69. Oakland police officer admits to playing Taylor Swift to keep video off YouTube

June 2021

  1. Joy Generator
  2. “the persistence of memory by lisa frank”
  3. “I Kissed A Girl” to “Call Me By Your Name”
  4. NYT visualizes the intensely weird PNW heat wave
  5. GitHub Copilot
  6. Little Alchemy
  7. Don’t Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
  8. What the Robot Saw
  9. NVIDIA Canvas
  10. Shmorby’s Guide To The Internet!
  11. Court records show Britney Spears quietly tried to end her conservatorship for years
  12. Paul Rudd shows a clip on Conan, one last time
  13. A Eulogy for the Free Press in Hong Kong
  14. The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok
  15. How Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5 billion tax-free piggy bank
  16. John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison
  17. Joni Mitchell’s Blue turns 50
  18. Alternate Realities
  19. The Digital Antiquarian on the best of The Voyager Company
  20. Wayfinder
  21. Dot Dot Dot
  22. Associated Press will no longer name suspects in minor crimes
  23. NYT investigation into JFK8, Amazon’s massive NYC fulfillment center
  24. Tuca & Bertie returns
  25. Feels
  26. Discriminator
  27. Jay-Z’s verse on Monster except he’s listing as many monsters as he can
  28. Photopea
  29. The Shortcut
  30. 50 Years of Text Games on Curses
  31. Wired on finding Satoshi, the final Perplex City ARG puzzle
  32. A Supercut of Supercuts
  33. Bo Burnham: Inside
  34. ProPublica investigation into the tax avoidance strategies used by billionaires
  35. Playdate Update
  36. The Mystery of the $113 Million Deli
  37. 9/11 and 1/6
  38. Bo Burnham’s “Welcome to the Internet”
  39. Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid
  40. Skittish Hosts Its First Public Events
  41. 50 Years of Text Games on “Silverwolf”
  42. Polygon’s list of “stupid but absolutely genius” internet videos

May 2021

  1. Disney made a tiki room
  2. Four Laps
  3. U.S. soldiers exposed nuclear weapons secrets via online flashcard apps
  4. Charlie Bit My Finger will stay online after NFT sale
  5. We Need To Get Real About How the Pandemic Will End
  6. Dynamo Dream: Salad Mug
  7. Invisible Roommates
  8. Motherboard’s exposé of Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
  9. Rublight
  10. The Pudding tries to get an AI to win New Yorker cartoon contest
  11. Qamom
  12. Charlie Bit My Finger video sold as an NFT, will be deleted from YouTube
  13. A Press Conference About What Happened To This Morning Where I Was Going To Get So Much Done
  14. What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
  15. Caught in the Study Web
  16. Taylor Lorenz on Adrian’s Kickback
  17. BuzzFeed profiles The Linda Lindas
  18. A Mind Is Born
  19. Uberduck
  20. The Battle of Sharks!
  21. Remain Seated Please
  22. NYT retrospective of the Space Jam website from 1996
  23. Harvard Law School’s analysis of link rot in the New York Times
  24. Terms & Conditions Apply
  25. New Session
  26. River Runner
  27. You Can Pet the Dog in VRChat
  28. Beware the Copyleft Trolls
  29. Ed Yong on the aftermath of America’s pandemic trauma
  30. The Linda Lindas play the L.A. Public Library
  31. Were microwaves invented to thaw cryogenically frozen hamsters in the 1950s?
  32. Fansubbing BookStory
  33. Determining the time of a photo by measuring its shadows
  34. Preserving Worlds
  35. Aaron A. Reed on LambdaMOO
  36. AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google
  37. 25 Edits That Defined the Modern Internet Video
  38. Exploring a general store untouched for nearly 60 years
  39. Pouët looks at 20 years of demoscene trends
  40. Visit the first Apple Store from 2001 in augmented reality
  41. Twitter shares learnings about biased image cropping algorithm
  42. Freenode staff resigns after hostile takeover of IRC network
  43. NYT’s Amanda Hess talks to Sinead O’Connor
  44. Google adding an RSS reader to Chrome on Android
  45. Trash the Planet
  46. Vandal
  47. pmndrs market
  48. After 20 years, eBay closing its adults-only categories next month
  49. Google previews Project Starline, a life-size holographic 3D video chat booth
  50. Prosecutors can’t prove cheerleader mom deepfake is actually a deepfake
  51. Sending an international email in 1984
  52. Colossal Cave Adventure as a playable long-polling GIF on AO3
  53. Itch.io waiving all fees today for Creator Day
  54. Vox on the Gaza doom loop
  55. Researchers find 12 people responsible for the majority of anti-vaccine content online
  56. The Palestinian Dispossession at the Heart of the Gaza Conflict
  57. Wired’s Megan Molteni on the 60-year-old scientific error that helped Covid kill
  58. Aaron A. Reed on Monster Island, a play-by-mail MMO from 1989
  59. David Farrier gets scammed by a foot fetishist
  60. Enhancing photorealism in GTA V with a convolutional networks
  61. Google Docs to switch from HTML to canvas based rendering
  62. The Absurdity is the Point
  63. mmm.page
  64. How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
  65. WaPo interviews the Japanese biker dad who uses FaceApp to post as a young woman
  66. P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. (1988)
  67. Genesis Noir leads IGF 2021 finalists
  68. Stumbled
  69. Negativland’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
  70. Neopets’ blackmarket pet scandal, explained
  71. LiveLeak shuttered after 15 years
  72. Report finds ISPs funded fake net neutrality comments
  73. Signal banned from running Instagram ads revealing how much Facebook knows about you
  74. How Basecamp Blew Up
  75. Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm
  76. Web Curios returns
  77. Lena
  78. Captain Yajima

April 2021

  1. Basecamp employees quit en masse after politics ban and severance offer
  2. Snopes or Nopes
  3. Colin’s Bear Animation, Revisited
  4. Casey Newton on what really happened at Basecamp
  5. Making animated glitter text with SVG
  6. The Yayagram
  7. SiriusXM acquires 99% Invisible
  8. Yahoo, the Destroyer
  9. The Slander Industry
  10. Student illustrators envision post-pandemic New Yorker covers
  11. The copyright quagmire of Emily Ratajkowski’s NFT
  12. Pixel Fill
  13. things are a little crazy rn
  14. Using emoji as favicons
  15. Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in trials
  16. TikTok creators struggle with its opaque and unpredictable algorithm
  17. longARcat
  18. Aaron A. Reed on Judy Malloy’s Uncle Roger
  19. Join my birthday paste party
  20. Ed Zitron on the misplaced wrath directed at social media managers
  21. Charlie Warzel on Facebook’s worrying embrace of the creator economy
  22. IRS estimates tax cheats are costing the U.S. $1 trillion a year
  23. Crypto casino apps on iOS are masquerading as children’s games
  24. The Guardian on India’s devastating virus surge
  25. Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts of George Floyd’s murder
  26. The war between McDonald’s and a startup trying to fix their unreliable ice-cream machines
  27. Zoom Jeopardy!
  28. OpenAI-powered Linux shell
  29. The Nothings Suite
  30. GANcraft
  31. Google Earth Timelapse
  32. The Story of “A Thousand Miles”
  33. NYPD deploys Spot Mini to public housing complex
  34. Discord will block NSFW servers on iOS
  35. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
  36. Just One Day – 2winz²
  37. Visualizing the risk-reward of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
  38. Charlie Warzel on Twitter and context collapse
  39. Murder Offsets
  40. Officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright resigns, as does Brooklyn Center police chief
  41. Teaching a Spot Mini to pee beer
  42. Patrick Klepek on Cruel World, a multiplayer game designed to degrade as people play it selfishly
  43. Guardian investigation finds Facebook ignored “Page abuse” loophole used for political manipulation by world leaders
  44. Ben Smith on Substack
  45. What was the original URL for Yahoo before it was called Yahoo?
  46. The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
  47. Rocky Horror played to an empty theater for 54 weeks. Now, audiences return to Portland’s longest-running movie
  48. Pocari Sweat commercial’s astounding in-camera effects
  49. DMX, dead at 50
  50. Google blocks advertisers from using social/racial justice keywords for ad targeting on YouTube
  51. Fyre Fest attendee auctioning viral tweet for a new kidney on Ja Rule’s NFT platform
  52. Justin McElroy’s loving ode to Yahoo! Answers
  53. NYT analyzes restrictions in Georgia’s new voting law
  54. Leaked internal database of police departments using Clearview AI
  55. The Hidden Game Within Microsoft Flight Simulator
  56. Lauren Goode on algorithms that won’t let her forget her canceled marriage
  57. New Yorker’s Rachel Aviv profiles memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus
  58. Have I Been Zucked?
  59. Yahoo Answers shutting down on May 4
  60. NYT on the Trump campaign’s dark design patterns for fundraising
  61. StyleCLIP, manipulating StyleGAN imagery with text
  62. Anil Dash on inventing NFTs with artist Kevin McCoy in 2014
  63. How QAnon Is Tearing Families Apart
  64. Wormhole
  65. Reddit’s Second

March 2021

  1. itslennnie
  2. Slamilton, A Basketball Musical
  3. Skittish March Updates
  4. Imaginary Friends Reunited
  5. 68k.news, a lo-fi Google News for retro computers
  6. Simone Giertz makes a chair for needy pets
  7. Sixtyforgan, playing church organ music on a modded Commodore 64
  8. The New Yorker digs into the Lawyer Cat Zoom call
  9. Search Record
  10. The Pudding visualizes the names of 6,816 complexion beauty products to reveal bias
  11. Pirating the Oscars: Pandemic Edition
  12. The Mess at Medium
  13. Beeple Generator
  14. Zoom court videos are making people’s darkest hours go viral
  15. The inside story of All Gas No Brakes
  16. GPT-3 pickup lines
  17. In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
  18. Remember the Internet
  19. Stunning drone footage of Iceland volcanic eruption
  20. What does it mean to buy a GIF?
  21. How a splintering internet damages the Internet Archive’s archival efforts
  22. Inside the world of Spotify artificial stream manipulation
  23. Cookie Consent Speedrun
  24. Dungeons & Directories
  25. Fontemon
  26. Chrome adds automated live captioning for any video and audio on the web
  27. Folding screen of pixel-art animated battle of Sekigahara
  28. XXXX Swatchbook
  29. Jonty Wareing on how NFTs actually reference the media you’re “buying”
  30. Curious World of Animals
  31. The long history of U.S. racism against Asian Americans
  32. Nicole Chung’s advice to a parent whose son bullied his Asian classmate
  33. The answer to Anti-Asian racism is not more policing
  34. Asian-Americans experience far more hate incidents than numbers indicate
  35. Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment
  36. 61 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities
  37. There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year
  38. Vaccines at the Movies
  39. Chess world champion plays Bongcloud Attack opening in tournament
  40. Hackers can reroute text messages without permission using commercial SMS services
  41. Zoom Escaper
  42. Online Hacker Simulator
  43. The Universe Is Dark
  44. Turntable.fm revived after eight years, as two competing sites
  45. Gabe Ferreira’s immersive video proposal
  46. VoCSSels, a voxel editor for 3D CSS/HTML models
  47. Finding Mona Lisa in Conway’s Game of Life
  48. Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
  49. ChatChat
  50. What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
  51. Beeple sells NFT of a JPG for $69M, the most ever for a digital work
  52. NYT interviews 75 artists about their pandemic year
  53. Buzzfeed’s oral history of March 11, 2020
  54. Incarceration in Real Numbers
  55. Seeing CO₂
  56. Adi Robertson’s Verge feature on Twine
  57. Taylor Lorenz on startups letting creators monetize every aspect of their lives
  58. Basement video rental shop
  59. Deepfaked Tom Cruise breakdown
  60. Phantom Tollbooth author Norton Juster dies at 91
  61. Google urged employees reporting discrimination to take mental health counseling and medical leave
  62. Remembering Allan McDonald
  63. Who I Lost
  64. ertdfgcvb’s livecoding playground for text-based art
  65. OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes
  66. Now Play This 2021
  67. The Garden of Earthly Delights
  68. Needledrop
  69. Jazz Popcorn Robot
  70. The Kilobyte’s Gambit
  71. Everest Pipkin on the environmental issues of cryptoart and NFTs
  72. Indie.vc calls it quits
  73. Glitch workers sign tech’s first collective bargaining agreement
  74. Remote, Oregon
  75. Gab hacked
  76. picoCAD
  77. AI learns to speedrun QWOP

February 2021

  1. Finger.farm
  2. Twitter announces Super Follow paid creator subscriptions
  3. The Verge report on employee discrimination at Mailchimp
  4. Virtual Coachella
  5. gan.style
  6. who’s my little chef
  7. ink 1.0 released
  8. Amulet
  9. Fry’s Electronics shutting down
  10. Adventures in Stereograms
  11. Iceberger
  12. Sgt. Pepper Photos
  13. Flim, search engine for objects in movies
  14. Lonely, angry, eager to make history
  15. Nyan Cat GIF sells for $590k
  16. Jennifer Daniel’s turtle emoji mashups
  17. Former employee explains ByteDance’s complex content moderation operation in China
  18. Minit Fun Racer
  19. Rickroll 4K, upscaled with AI
  20. Facebook wildly overstated potential audience size to advertisers
  21. The Verge on Skittish
  22. Facebook calls Australia’s bluff, bans external links to Australian news media
  23. Two Reply All hosts step down after allegations of union busting and toxic behavior
  24. Slate Star Clusterfuck
  25. Castle
  26. Announcing Skittish
  27. TikTok stars and social media creators can now join SAG-AFTRA
  28. The IGF 2021 playlist
  29. City Guesser
  30. Children of QAnon believers are trying to deradicalize their own parents
  31. Vicki Boykis on volunteer efforts to build state vaccine availability websites
  32. Krebs on the Florida water system hack
  33. Hacking Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Yelp, Uber, and others with package dependencies
  34. Bird Folder, name new folders after random birds in macOS
  35. Chessformer
  36. Vole’s public domain “Happy Birthday to You” covers
  37. Same Energy
  38. The mysterious Wikimedia photo of a purple flower getting 78 million hits daily
  39. A Heart from Space
  40. Paul Ford on the secret, essential geography of the office
  41. Twitter’s Trump ban is permanent even if he runs again
  42. MetaHuman Creator
  43. Is this cop playing copyrighted music to avoid being livestreamed?
  44. David Friedman explores the “Everybody Hurts” YouTube comments
  45. Rabbit Rabbit: A Game of Superstitions
  46. The Live Music Project
  47. Adi Robertson on the 25th anniversary of Section 230
  48. Chin Masker
  49. Super Mario World Restored
  50. Robin Sloan on the strange world of NFTs and crypto art
  51. Reply All on the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen’s online reckoning
  52. How misinformation fueled a coup in Myanmar
  53. Smac McCreanor’s Hydraulic Press dance videos
  54. Danielle Baskin shares the story behind her satirical Blue Check Homes site
  55. Inside China’s police state tactics against Muslims
  56. Sonification of coronavirus deaths in the U.S.
  57. Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Song
  58. Wikipedia introduces Universal Code of Conduct
  59. After 27 years, Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO later this year
  60. NYT report on Trump’s campaign to subvert the election
  61. The COVID Tracking Project will end on March 7
  62. Cab Ride
  63. Janelle Shane gets GPT-3 to make candy hearts
  64. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not
  65. tree.fm
  66. LEGO White Noise
  67. The Princess Bride remade in lockdown by all-star cast
  68. WSJ reports Facebook knew calls for violence plagued Groups
  69. archives.design
  70. Black Bart, the unaired TV sequel to Blazing Saddles

January 2021

  1. Lessons from A Pandemic Anniversary
  2. Mini Modern House
  3. NYT’s Kashmir Hill on how one woman destroyed the online reputations of more than 145 people
  4. Oko
  5. Shaderworlds
  6. NYT Mag’s Yudhijit Bhattacharjee confronts an Indian phone scammer
  7. Ben Zotto reconstructs a corrupted Apple II game he made in elementary school
  8. Casey Newton on the battle inside Signal
  9. Twitter introduces Birdwatch, community reporting of misinformation
  10. How Reddit traders pushed GameStop’s struggling stock to the moon
  11. Garbage Day on Reddit manipulating GameStop stock
  12. Turning random internet drama into songs pt. 4
  13. The moderation war is coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse
  14. Adobe’s Flash kill switch shuts down Chinese railway
  15. Rememory
  16. Facebook continued to push users to join partisan political groups after saying they stopped
  17. TUCOWS retiring downloads after 23 years
  18. Vaccine Progress bot on twitter
  19. Kalidoface
  20. Inside QAnon’s virtual inauguration watch party
  21. Amanda Gorman reads “The Hill We Climb”
  22. Biden sworn in, Harris becomes first woman and woman of color to serve as VP
  23. paint.wtf
  24. Three.js Journey
  25. Bot that turns Reddit arguments into Ace Attorney scenes
  26. Bill Wurtz’s “here comes the sun”
  27. What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
  28. The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza
  29. Reverse-Engineering Prodigy
  30. Knee-Deep in the Shred
  31. Panic re-releases Audion for modern macOS
  32. Among the Insurrections
  33. U.S. police three times more likely to use force against left-wing than right-wing protestors
  34. Modern Retro Computer Terminals
  35. Most House Republicans did what the rioters wanted
  36. The Greater Gatsby
  37. Song Exploder interviews Yusuf/Cat Stevens on recreating “Father and Son” 50 years later
  38. The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t
  39. The Internet Archive’s Flash Loops collection
  40. Sea Shanty TikTok
  41. Janelle Shane digs into the drawings of DALL-E
  42. VOC-25, a vocal synth made with 25 sets of plastic teeth
  43. Mining Parler metadata to pinpoint Capitol crimes
  44. How a Presidential Rally Turned Into a Capitol Rampage
  45. Apple gives Parler 24 hours to remove incitements to violence and detail moderation plan
  46. Twitter permanently banned Trump
  47. Open Mike Eagle pays tribute to MF DOOM
  48. The end of Mr. Boop
  49. OpenAI’s DALL·E generates images from text
  50. Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
  51. Emily Pothast on Bean Dad and Gen X irony
  52. Tabfs
  53. 50 Years of Text Games
  54. Today In Tabs returns

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