Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons
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clipart.studio
make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF
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Buddy List
an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary
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KamTape
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Not your keys, not your songs
fascinating postmortem of blockchain music startup Nina Protocol, which is shutting down this week
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Wired on NYC’s Summer of Ludd festival
wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/
run by anonymous organizers and promoted without social media, the whole thing sounded great
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Jim’s QR Code Font
OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes
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Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training
I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15
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Double Fine is independent once again as Xbox lays off 3,200
the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it
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People and Blogs interviewed me
thanks to Manu for asking me to be the second-to-last blogger in his interview series
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The Verge on 25 years of BitTorrent
seems like the company failed precisely because the protocol was so successful in achieving its goals
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Hank Green interviews Ze Frank
as a huge fan of The Show, I’ve been anxiously waiting for this episode of Hank’s new podcast
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Horrorfan1’s Guide to Horror
another brilliant guide to the movies by internet cinephile Neil Cicierega
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Half-Life 2 in the browser
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GigaOm founder Om Malik has passed at age 59
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Teen Vogue on focus gaming apps as digital third spaces
teenvogue.com/story/focus-gaming-apps-that-help-combat-adhd-like-behavior
On-Together: Virtual Co-Working sits at the bottom of your desktop while you work with others
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Starlog is back after 17 years
with my old friend Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief!
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Texturing 3D models in real-time with oil painting
if you like that, he did followups on dynamic lighting and shaders for 3D objects with oil-painted textures
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The Pudding’s early history of U.S. restaurant dining
don’t miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL’s Buttolph collection
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Legibility of Effort
Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort
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4 x 3
I’m enjoying this Connections variant made by Hank Green, the scoring provides some additional challenge
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Moss Moss
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How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people
thedissident.news/exclusive-how-the-new-york-times-changed-its-coverage-of-trans-people/
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You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower
Hank Green on the hidden beauty of maintenance and infrastructure
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cssQuake
Quake in the browser without WebGL, it uses PolyCSS to render textured 3D meshes in the DOM with CSS
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Marcin Wichary on designing finger-friendly interactions
an interactive essay demonstrating all the ways interfaces can interfere with our motor skills
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Gerrymandle
daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results
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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
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Neal.fun’s Wiki Spy
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Town Square, a cute little chat space for webpage footers
“turn your site into a place people can bump into each other”
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