every year I’m reminded of the massive cultural loss we suffered with the death of flash

it was so ahead of its time, there’s still no replacement for the creative space it once occupied for artists, animators, and game devs

There’s truth to that! I too have a great dissatisfaction with the recommender systems available to me. But I suspect that many who dismiss algorithms outright are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Chronological feeds are dominated by those who post frequently, and building an audience from scratch can take years. Recommender systems can help to solve problems like these.

In reality, I don’t think people actually want “full control” over what they read, because that’s too much work. What people are more likely to do is over-subscribe themselves, feel overwhelmed and stagnated in their content diet, and move onto a new platform if the old one doesn’t solve their problem for them. I don’t think most people are interested in painstakingly curating their feeds.

Recommendation doesn’t have to be just a tool that big tech companies use to make a number on a spreadsheet go up. How can we develop algorithms that serve the interests of individuals?

From In defense of recommendation by Jacob O’Bryant

This is something that i’ve been looking for a while. I dont think algorithmic timelines are bad as long as they only recommend things from the feeds you are subscribed and using your own thumbs-(up/down) to train that recommendation. Sometimes i have a lot of unread articles, and i dont have the energy to skim through titles, i just want a kind of “top 5 suggested based on your previous votes”.

[…] But even if we restrict our focus to those who want to be founders, the reality is that it can take years for a nascent idea or desire to mature into a real business. YC may be focused on early-stage companies, but sometimes even an early-stage company takes a long time to build.

This has been workable in my case, but it points to a lack of institutional support. Not everyone has the resources (or stakeholder buy-in) to take a 4-year sabbatical. We have institutional support for research—what if there was something like “going to grad school,” but for open-source developers? Could it be scaled up enough so that people can actually get in without applying 8+ times?

From Funding software innovation by Jacob O’Bryant

What this centralization means in practice and whether, for example, the US government could realistically exert control over the root operators and companies discussed here, is a different story altogether. But no matter how you look at it, the internet seems less distributed or decentralized than one might wish, as many businesses and organizations appear to concentrate in a handful of registries and cloud service providers. We don’t have a single point of failure just yet, but I do see multiple points of calamity with increasing blast radius…

From Who controls the internet? by Jan Schaumann

So all in all, the answer to the question of who can read your email pretty much boils down to – yep – “Google and Microsoft”. Even if your domain doesn’t use one of their mail servers, chances are that whoever you are sending mail to does. To be fair: these companies are going to be doing a much better job at running and securing your email than you are, and outsourcing this critical functionality often makes good sense. And yet, this is another example of the continuously increasing centralization of the internet. Our businesses, just like our personal online lives, are concentrated in the hands of just a few companies.

From Who reads your email? by Jan Schaumann

On the weekend of July 4, 2014, Brian Mayer launched a website which listed reservations for sale to popular restaurants in San Francisco. The price of each reservation was a sliding scale, based on how in-demand the restaurant was. But Brian Mayer didn’t own or run any of these restaurants. He didn’t work for or with them. He had simply called the restaurants up weeks in advance, booked a whole lot of reservations under assumed names, and then put them up for sale without the restaurant’s permission. He called it ReservationHop.

[…] He cited other examples of websites that circumvent or otherwise ignore the norms, ethics, and laws tied to those interactions, sites like MoneyParking, which let users auction off parking spots they had no legal right to, and Enq, which ties up IRS phone lines so they can sell that spot to the highest bigger, Doctrow claims that the end goal is “Markets in everything!”

From Web Products Everywhere by The History Of The Web

Can we stop pushing the narrative of “this topic has already been taught in courses before, we don’t need another course/blog/etc. on this topic.”

So what?

That’s like telling an author “there are already thousands of murder-mystery novels, your book is worthless.”

Time Sense is a wearable sensory headband which allows the wearer to feel the passing of the 24-hour clock around the circumference of the head. As the day progresses, a tiny heat sensation passes the length of the headband.

Also

[…] it allows him to feel and hear colours as audible vibrations inside his head, including colours invisible to the human eye such as infrareds and ultraviolets.

The UK national electrical grid delivers power across the country. This mains power supply makes a constant humming sound, yet there are tiny changes to the frequency of this sound every second. Most recordings made in the UK have a trace of mains hum on them and this can be forensically analysed to determine the time and date they were made, and as a result, whether anyone has edited the recording.

From Filtered for clocks by Matt Webb

All of this is to say that open source has absolutely nothing to do with being cloned. Open source licenses will not save you, copyright won’t save you, patents will not save you: if you have a successful product it will get cloned. This is inevitable and trying to prevent it is a waste of your resources. Not even the almighty Apple can prevent the mass cloning of the AirPods.

From A reply to Josef Průša by Stargirl Flowers

The simple power of a URL is that anyone can click it and instantly access it. All you need is a browser. There is no need to install an application or worry about what operating system you are running on.

A quote from Thomas Nattestad in Photoshop’s journey to the web

Web applications are inherently universal. They run on whatever operating system is capable of running a Web browser and they do not need to be compiled for each operating system separately. The same code base powers the application on all platforms. This does not mean that there are no compatibility issues—there are plenty actually—but there is a solid, shared, increasing baseline that all applications can build upon.

Investing in a memorable domain name can sometimes actually be better for discoverability. Even for app stores, people still rely most on recommendations from friends and family members to discover new apps according to research done by Google.

The tooling and framework situation in the Web development world is infamous for being confusing and hard to keep up with. In practice, though, companies would use one technology and tooling stack and stay true to it for many years. The world of tech Twitter is one thing, the reality in businesses, where the decades-old jQuery is still (and by a large amount) the most popular framework, is the other.

Web applications have seen impressive performance improvements thanks to advanced technologies such as WebAssembly (including SIMD), WebGPU, and general JavaScript engine progress in recent years. Nonetheless, a carefully developed, platform-specific app will typically outperform a Web-based application (albeit the situations where this actually matters may be limited). With even high-performance audio-editing tools like Soundtrap (thanks to the Web Audio API and AudioWorklet), interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook, and graphics-editing tools like Figma (thanks to WebAssembly), and of course graphics-intensive games like Quake (thanks to WebGL and WebGPU in the future), the boundaries are being pushed at a rapid rate.

From Not everyone’s currently building for the Web, but probably more people should by Thomas Steiner

So, has Open Source won? Mostly, I’d say. At the very least there are good Open Source alternatives to nearly every programming language and paradigm. There are some niches - science, finance, gaming - which rely on proprietary languages. And Cloud services run custom software on their custom OS running on custom processors. The new paradigm of LLM AI might eventually be fully open, but rely on processing power so out of reach of mortals that it might as well be closed.

From Are there any modern closed-source programming languages? by Terence Eden

Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing. Even when these tools exist, they are not a replacement for writing. Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.

From AI: Do we really “get it”? by Anton Sten but is quoted from Why Write?

Experiments like Arc feel like they could have more in common with tools-for-thought software like Obsidian and Roam Research. Those tools build knowledge graphs of connected nodes. A kind of hypertext of ideas. But we’ve already got hypertext tools we use every day: web browsers. It’s just that they don’t do much with the accumulated knowledge of our web browsing. Our browsing history is a boring reverse chronological list instead of a cool-looking knowledge graph or timeline.

From Browser history by Jeremy Keith

Couldn’t have said it better.

Make a website. Publish your content there. Syndicate elsewhere if you like. But own your content. https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1646993047853633536

You don’t have to prove everything. Sometimes you gotta follow what’s interesting, follow your gut, even if you can’t immediately measure it and extrapolate it to a theory. If it proves to work, that’s its own metric, however opaque the mechanics.

From AI & The Science of Creativity by Jim Nielsen

And this idea of AI making you “more collaborative in Teams”? Collaboration is about relational exchanges, cooperation, and connection. Writing a product strategy update for your team takes into consideration the individual circumstances, unspoken doubts, and historical context of the individuals on your team — not just the emails and messages the computer parsed (AI can’t synthesize what hasn’t been captured).

The most rewarding work I’ve done always originated outside of my tools. My satisfaction of feeling collaborative, or creative, or expressive, or ____ came about first outside any given tool.

From More Everything With AI by Jim Nielsen

A single ant eats about 2mg per day according to a random website, so you could support a colony of a million ants with 2kg of food per day. Supposing they accepted pay in sugar, or something similarly expensive, 2kg costs around $3. Perhaps you would need to pay them more than subsistence to attract them away from foraging freely, since apparently food-gathering ants usually collect more than they eat, to support others in their colony. So let’s guess $5. My guess is that a million ants could do well over $5 of the above labors in a day.

How do you hold an ant accountable if they fail to deliver on a contract? Do individual ants even have agency? Can we require an ant colony to purchase public indemnity insurance?

So while we, in the 21st century, are tying ourselves in knots trying to figure out the appropriate remedy when civil unrest caused by a social media app leads to deaths, maybe in Athens how ever many millennia ago they simply would have sunk a few of the servers in the Aegean.

From Filtered for ants and laws by Matt Webb

There used to be a salmon smokery in north London. Aside from the juniper and beech wood, Ole Hansen (proprietor) would, once a day, sit down and play piano to the hanging fish – live jazz and occasional singing.

Last September, Swiss cheesemaker Beat Wampfler and a team of researchers from the Bern University of Arts placed nine 22-pound wheels of Emmental cheese in individual wooden crates in Wampfler’s cheese cellar. Then, for the next six months each cheese was exposed to an endless, 24-hour loop of one song using a mini-transducer, which directed the sound waves directly into the cheese wheels.

Let’s take hip-hop ovens to CES 2024 by Matt Webb

YET – I find myself labelling this task as a failure of the industrial design. Oh, the charging port gets fluff in it! Get rid of the port! Invent a whole thing for wireless charging! Which is a shame. Because in other worlds it is a marketing benefit to use oil in your car that makes it run better over time. It is a pleasure - and a performance benefit - to oil a cricket bat, or wax a violin bow, or season an iron pan. A vocation to prune a bonsai.

“if you don’t fix something when you first see it beginning to fail, it is very likely to finish failing just when it is the most dangerous and the hardest to deal with, such as in the midst of a storm.”

From Don’t bother me now I’m waxing my phone by Matt Webb

So my theory is that AI finger mistakes are actually representative of the pre-tetrapod transition 7-fingered body map buried deep in the collective unconscious, now unearthed by LLM gestalts.

And it points out that kisses now needn’t be synchronous. Async kisses could, I suppose, be recorded, replayed, traded, added to the permanent collection of the museum of kisses of famous smoochers (perhaps), pirated!, kept for lending in a nationwide state-run kissing library, etc. Deepfake kisses would enable kissing inaccessible celebrities (ick) or people from long ago or fictional people. Or what if the AI boffins at DeepMind got their hands on this. AlphaGo, AlphaProteinFolding, AlphaSnogs. The Kasparov/Deep Blue moment. 2024 will be the final year that humans are better than computers at kissing, what then.

Filtered for causes and kissing by Matt Webb

For anyone who missed the lofi girl’s countdown and the boy’s intro

Instead - I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily in the future) and archived (i.e. you have a list of things you’ve written all in one place rather than spread across publications and URLs) and memorable (i.e. has your own design, logo or style). Writing that can live and breathe in small networks. Scale be damned. When you write for someone else’s publication your writing becomes disparate and UN-networked. By chasing scale and pageviews you lose identity and the ability to create meaningful, memorable connections within the network.

Forget about “visibility” for your post. The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations.

From Writing, Riffs & Relationships by Tom Critchlow

✨ Introducing: “An Interactive Guide to Flexbox” ✨

It’s a brand new interactive blog post with 20+ demos that help you build an intuition for how Flexbox works. 🔥

I’ve never been more excited about a blog post 😄

→ Check it out: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox/

When it comes to day-to-day production code, here’s the barometer I like to use: will a junior developer, someone at the very start of their career, struggle to understand this code? In the context of a shared codebase, good code is simple code. Code that doesn’t do anything fancy. Code that makes minimal use of abstractions. Code that you’d use to explain fundamental concepts to novices.

If the goal is to reduce complexity, and abstractions add complexity, should we abolish abstractions altogether? Well, no. Abstractions are everywhere. Loops are abstractions. Functions are abstractions. Programming languages themselves are abstractions over machine code, which itself is an abstraction over transistors flickering off and on really fast. It’s abstractions all the way down. The key is to weigh the cost of an abstraction against its benefit.

From Clever Code Considered Harmful by Josh Comeau

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power.

Sorry I didn’t quote tweet anything in order to say that.

For example: imagine for a moment the value of google.com. What would that domain cost? People’s entire personal and professional lives — email, photos, calendar, documents, etc. — built up over years and years, solely accessible at that domain.

Now imagine someone who invested years of their life creating value for others and amassing a following on Twitter. They now face a dilemma: all that value lives at a URL they can’t control twitter.com/{username}. Even the word-of-mouth username is something they have zero control over.

However, if own your domain, create value there, and drive people to it, you’re paying ~$10 a year to build unbounded value over the years — value you control.

That is why owning a domain (and publishing your content there) is like planting a tree: it’s value that starts small and grows. The best time to own a domain and publish your content there was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

This is the what I love about rel=me: it reinforces the value of owning a domain that people respect and trust because, through the years, it becomes a source of quality information. In an internet connected world, domains are a currency of value. Do you want to own your value, or let someone else own it?

From The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today by Jim Nielsen

Early cartridge and disk-based games have been fairly easy to preserve. If you have an NES and a game cartridge, you can play the game. But this is not possible for iPhone apps. To run an old iPhone app, you’ll need an older device and the related cloud services to be running as they were at the time.

Modern software is in a strange place where it’s more at risk of being erased from history than software created in the pre-internet era. Everything we work on is so incredibly ephemeral.

From Celebrating App Icon Design by Michael Flarup

This struck me as intriguing. To run an old game, you need the hardware (console) and the software (game cartridge). But with the interconnected, interdependent nature of so much software today, you not only need the hardware and the software, but also all the cloud services the software depends on.

From Digital Preservation and “The App Icon Book” by Jim Nielsen

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power.

From this tweet by Miriam Suzanne

I still find it fully miraculous that webpage source code is freely viewable, and browsers allow for trivial editing of the source live and inline. Can just imagine the pushback against if someone tried to launch a platform like this today

From this toot by Craig Mod

It’s quite incredible that the money and power birthed through the advent of the web haven’t yet been able to completely overtake this “mashup art experiment” medium which “gives consumers all the power”.

All quotes from The Anti-Capitalist Web by Jim Nielsen

The Life Script – a play for algorithms https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/the-life-script-a-play-for-algorithms/

Some thoughts on a web+follow protocol (for the likes of Mastodon federated follow)

https://paul.kinlan.me/thoughts-on-web-follow/

The informal, untracked, messily human space that the bots and algorithms haven’t infiltrated yet.

From The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web by Maggie Appleton

All computing is to some degree artificially intelligent. At one point a TI-83 calculator was artificial intelligence. When Google search first came out it was artificial intelligence. Frankly, a modern refrigerator counts as artificial intelligence: it’s programmed to achieve an objective by taking action and uses environmental feedback to adjust its behaviour. These things are now so banal and pervasive we are unimpressed by their “intelligence.”

From Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI by Maggie Appleton

The web is lots of things. Very good things. Versatile, Decentralized, Resilient, Responsive, Adaptable, Accessible, Inexpensive, Diverse, Standardized, and Open. Makes ya proud to work on it sometimes, doesn’t it?

What the Web Still Is by @ericwbailey https://css-tricks.com/what-the-web-still-is/

I wrote about the presence of censorship in automatic captions and voice control software. With thanks to @codingchaos for help swearing/being sworn at. https://ericwbailey.website/published/swearing-and-automatic-captions/

I think that’s one quality of a good old blog; reader agency. I remember late nights roaming through my favorite blogs and I’d find something, a small trinket of the tiniest little poem, from way back in 2002. And because there were no likes or comments or anything attached to the post, I decided it was important.

From Notes On Hypertext by Robin Rendle

It’s neat to ponder over how for however many people you know about from their internet presence, there is a sort of “dark matter” of other super smart people you never hear about. For one example I think of the very talented Antoine, author of gnarly comments like these and seniormost person on ChromeOS, who appears to be otherwise mostly invisible on the internet.

I mention this because when we learned we got the award, and each person was told how much they would get, one of the most senior people on the team announced soon after that he was leaving the company. I remember being surprised by it and asking him about it. His response has stayed with me, something along the lines of: “Once I knew the highest upside I would get for staying, I could better evaluate it against my other options.” I think there’s a lesson there about how rewards can have the opposite effect you intend.

At one point the question came up: how many redirects should a browser follow? Say you try to load A, but it redirects you to B, which redirects to C, and so on; at some point you should give up and say something is broken. Someone picked some reasonable-seeming threshold, like 10 or so, after which Chrome would give up. Then Darin, who had previously worked on Firefox, said “no, it has to be 30, or it breaks the New York Times — I know this from experience”. (Today Darin is working on another browser, hopefully getting a third use out of that hard-won lesson.)

At the time I’d joke that “Chrome 12 [an old version] was the best Chrome”, but since I’ve come to see underneath that for me what I wanted was a fast tight browser, and once I had that, pretty much by definition most subsequent work was just gonna make it worse. Sure, there’s work like fixing rendering crashes or improving scroll performance, but most work involves adding features that make it bigger or slower.

Longer term, what I have come to appreciate about this is that I put a lot of myself into the product and I am proud of what I made at the time, but that product is a living thing that I do not control and it has gone on in directions I wouldn’t have taken it.

It’s also funny to reflect on how much time we spent agonizing over making the most minimal thing — Chrome initially had no “Home” button and I remember there being long arguments about whether adding it even as an option was contrary to the goal of the thing — vs today’s browser which is covered with buttons and settings, just like the browsers it was intending to revolt against.

All from Chrome, 10 years later by Evan Martin

The tools we choose have a major impact on our access to core web platform features. Are we choosing tools that help us move forward, or do some of these tools hold us back?

My latest post @OddBird https://www.oddbird.net/2022/11/11/platform-tools/

My algo -> following.tweets.sort_by(date, desc)

I just want to smoosh my face into that neck floof.

#princessmononoke #ghibli #wolf

First official preview of how PicTacToe works! Watch my 12 yrold niece in purple against my sister in red and yellow! #PicTacToe #LockPick

a tea break from the AI firehose

maybe all the years spent on designing and shipping touch controllers, should have worked on kitchen appliances ⏲️

Gilliams Great Escape, a game where you are golf-ing a fish with a toaster @Official_GDC 💜

We use this quote in the first lecture of our usability course to make the point that most successful startups (and even the Web itself!) were primarily usability innovations.

You could do all these things before, but in a clunky way requiring high technical expertise. https://twitter.com/bradneuberg/status/1638590177672323073

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2023-03-23-devices-for-internet/

✍️ New post: Transient Frameworks

Happy #bluebeanieday, everyone! 💙

https://matthiasott.com/notes/transient-frameworks

I wrote about how a framework choice can harm people in a moment of crisis. https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/

“In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.” https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies

Or, as I always say: UX > DX. https://twitter.com/scottohara/status/1638135841187823620

I talked about app stores are a massive step back in software distribution that favours the publisher over the user. The argument is that the web is unsafe and curated stores are protecting users. Except when they pay enough. https://christianheilmann.com/2023/02/20/so-you-want-to-safely-authenticate-with-2fa-app-stores-are-still-not-the-solution-why-the-web-is-dead-revisited/

How sad should I be about ChatGPT? Machines are encroaching on things I care about and now everyone needs to pay attention.

https://robertheaton.com/chatgpt

It kind of reminds me of this blog post that Rach Smith wrote, about how learning in public is challenging when you’re very deep in layers of niche engineering. It’s hard for me to lay out, for example, a specific type of strategy I learned in the game go, because so few people I know actually play it. It’s hard for me to explain the details around keycap designs I’ve worked out, because so few people understand how much effort that takes or why it’s exciting. It’s hard for me to describe some of the little (and big) problems I’ve solved, because y’all simply don’t have the context I have to understand why it’s thrilling that it’s finally done.

From The small, private wins - Cassidy Williams

Take one of my work days recently. I was struggling with something and thought writing a note about it might help. The problem was that the “something” was generating TypeScript types from GraphQL files using GraphQL Code Generator in a Next.js project using a custom webpack config, that lives in a monorepo powered by Lerna. There were …seven tools or technologies in that sentence. My potential note is niched down so hard, it feels like there is maybe one other person in the world who can relate. His name is Geoff and chances are he’s not reading this site.

From Learning in public isn’t so easy when you’re buried by layers of engineering - Rach Smith

I feel like with AI right now there is something there there, sure, but folks are just trying to slam it into everything regardless of whether or not that makes the product better. They don’t start with the idea first and then explore multiple options that leads to this one technology— machine learning or whatever—which just happens to be the right thing to solve it.

Tech-last

An AI should be doing my taxes while I paint cool stuff. I shouldn’t be doing taxes while an AI badly paints women with too many fingers and teeth and tits the size of a fucking Toyota Prius

okay @elonmusk why can’t we see the reason a tweet is on your timeline anymore?

there used to be notes like “because X liked this tweet” or “because X follows them”, but now we’re getting completely unsourced tweets from accounts we don’t follow - what happened to transparency? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1613995936585519104

Just like we should always ask “Could this meeting have been an email?”

…we should always ask “Could this PDF have been web page?”

@OneRadAlienDude https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2020-11-26-origen-messi/

@OneRadAlienDude

Folks, make sure your webapp has a fallback for when your JavaScript fails to load or your fetch request back to the server fails.

Three times this morning, THREE TIMES, I’ve been stuck on a blank page on three different apps because something failed to load.

THIS IS WHY 3D PRINTERS EXIST OK DO YOU GET IT NOW 🥹 https://twitter.com/Brieyonce/status/1630051041524760576

I coded playable Tetris for the FlipDot display! #processing code and build instructions on Github: https://github.com/owenmcateer/FlipDots #kineticart #flipdot

Yeah you can add as many characters as you want, but I’m probably not going to be reading posts this long. Twitter may become a place for long-form posting, but it is not and will not be the place for long-form reading. At least not for me.

RSS Foreva! https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1623411536243965954

@fechu @f0go El gran compumap? En the internet archive creo hay una version demo subida.

Proposed solution to twitter’s ridiculous API pricing https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/10rxlve

let me get this straight: Twitter shows me cute animals once an hour, and the rantings of idiots every second of the day, and they’re banning the animals

Swamping us with unnecessary features (no refrigerator should be connected to the internet); squeezing us for money, time, and personal data; collapsing through buggy software or spam/troll/hacker/DDoS susceptibility or mass layoffs/cost cutting leading to subpar service.

me acaban de pasar esto y me parece absolutamente fantástico y ocurrente saben quien/es? son los autores? gracias gente de frontend por ser consistentemente geniales, aguante Vuejas Locas, la radio esta re buena

Es 2002 tenes 7 pesos para administrar en tu almuerzo y sin saberlo tomas la mejor decisión posible:entras al cyber Hay dos personas jugando un juego raro miras asombrado y te haces una cuenta.Elegis tu raza y de repente ahí estás siendo feliz en Lorencia No salgas es una estafa

I don’t get it. Why not focus on getting AI to perform more mundane tasks that don’t require creativity and nuance? Use it to free up time for actual human beings to focus more on the things they love? Pushing for it to write novels, make music, and create art is weird as hell.

I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud

New SNES game, everyone! Sadly, there was no SNESDEV Game Jam this year, so @bennysnesdev, @sfc_moogle and me had a little #snesdevparty instead and created Supercooked! for the best 16Bit system out there. Enjoy! https://goldlocke.itch.io/supercooked

“MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds”

https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000

If you’re attending @ffconf or not, I’ve got a special little treat for you either way:

I built an ffconf Gameboy game.

That works on a real Gameboy, on an emulator AND the web.

URL (and ROM) released during @ffconf tomorrow.

Wow, so @internetarchive is launching Palm Pilot emulation soon and it turns out they have my #Diabetes app GlucoPilot up and running in the browser. I released this in 1998 and it was the first portable diabetes management app! plus charts! https://archive.org/details/palm3_glucopil

RT @jwz

As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web.

tl;dr avoid Hive and Post.

If posts in a social media app do not have URLs be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated…

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/

“Our web design tools are holding us back”

— “we need tools that are not based on a historical subset of what’s possible, but tools that allow us to experiment with all the thing that are possible today.”

#webdesign https://vasilis.nl/nerd/our-web-design-tools-are-holding-us-back/

It finally happened:

The Force Engine has finally reached version 1.0 after 3 years of development.

Now you can play Dark Forces on modern PCs with QOL improvements, including high resolution, mouselook, 3D rendering and quicksaves.

This is the true remaster of Dark Forces.

More car hacking!

Earlier this year, we were able to remotely unlock, start, locate, flash, and honk any remotely connected Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles, completely unauthorized, knowing only the VIN number of the car.

Here’s how we found it, and how it works:

DUDE WTF https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

Now that everyone is fresh with the country (which I emigrated from recently) after the world cup, here are some funny facts about it and open source game engines.

Godot, Cocos2D and Ogre 2.0 were all originally created by Argentinians.

GOLDEN AXE DOOM

The classic side scrolling brawler reimagined in GZDooM as a First Person Hack ’n Slash!

1.0 version WILL include: -3 playable characters -unique magic attacks -Battle rush “The Duel” gamemode alongside Story mode

DEMO available here: https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/downloads/golden-axe-doom-demo

Half-Life: Another Story - return to Black Mesa in this awesome DOOM total conversion mod!

Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2Sb48tIzk

Article: https://www.alphabetagamer.com/half-life-another-story-alpha-download-doom-mod/

by #gamedev lolikoli #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

https://twitter.com/Bargcelona10/status/1606084180730839043

IMPORTANTE: Mañana lanzamos un pequeño videojuego/narración interactiva sobre historias extrañas pero reales de CABA. Estuvimos varios meses trabajando en esto gracias al apoyo del programa MECENAZGO. Va a poder jugarse GRATIS a través del navegador en PC, Mac, celular, tablet.

OK let’s try this again, ordering a nothing burger from McDonalds. this time nothing else in the order.

will they cancel it? deliver an empty bag? i am doing this so you don’t have to

Esta imagen nos representa, nuestros potreros y nuestra cultura.

Argentina acaba de salir campeón del mundo. Los hijos y hermanos de los jugadores entran a la cancha y se ponen a jugar al fútbol. ¿Con una pelota? No, con una BOTELLITA DE PLÁSTICO.

Argentina, no lo entenderías.

When tech companies do well it’s because they’re smart and when they don’t it’s because mAcRoEcOnOmiCs

@jaffathecake You could write an entire slide system with new css

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2022-10-14-fully-responsive-css-slide-system/

I’m extremely on team “you do not have to” (as someone who only makes tiny websites, mostly by myself) https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1602769032427540480

Google Maps changed its URL from “https://maps [dot] google [dot] com” to “https://google [dot] com/maps”. Looks like it’s not a big deal, but when you grant the location permission in your browser you now grant it to the whole #google [dot] com domain. 🤨

#privacy #googlemaps

GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats! https://girliemac.com/blog/2017/12/26/git-purr/ @girlie_mac is the bomb

Definitely not a fan of threads.

I almost never make it past two tweets, esp for threads that are longer than 3 tweets. Most folks who write long threads follow the same writing rules (start with the hook, etc etc etc) and so all threads end up sounding the same. https://twitter.com/adambsilver/status/1596397978603819008

No one is more prepared to lose their entire online social media identity than millennials who have lost their AIM, MySpace, Google Reader, Google+ and remember the early years of Facebook. We will only return more powerful, more annoying than before.

Sergey Brin revives Google Plus team from cryogenic chamber.

“It’s time.”

A relevant reminder for anybody interested in mobility innovation.

A silver lining to the craziness in the past weeks is that you should realize that you are as capable, or more capable, than the heroes and leaders of the industries we are a part of.

a good website is when “john” from support pops up in the corner with a big smile asking how your shopping experience is going, and then when your cursor is about to leave the window a fullscreen message appears with a special offer begging you to stay

color picker is just a 1x1 screenshot tool

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

I got fed up writing FFmpeg commands. Its unintuitive, and can get ugly and complicated quickly

A couple of months ago, I built this GUI to help me write complex ffmpeg filtergraphs that we have been using internally and decided to launch today.

http://ffmpeg.guide

Me working on side projects:

Works for 15 minutes

“I deserve a break”

Takes a 45 minute break

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity https://twitter.com/kane/status/1587540685392990208