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August 16, 2023

[SC 2.4.4] Nostalgiaweb

There's inadvertently a lot of nostalgiaweb-related content in this one. Wonder what that's all about.


Turn-On Found
Should have sent a poet.

BadAppleFont
"In this post we explorer the idea to embed a animation into a font."

Splitting the Web
"You have to choose your camp. When browsing on the 'normal web', it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content."

Netscape Meteors
"I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation."

Accidentally Load Bearing
Today I learned what Chesterton's Fence is.

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google
This is both not how you do SEO and also a really not smart move!

Rewriting wipEout
wipEout's whole ish was so cool. I'm glad this exists.

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black
oh.

The Emotional Toll of Working in UX
This one hurt in a lot of important ways.

A Va. woman's burp was louder than some motorcycles. It set a record.
🫡

An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books
"the Mason City School District is bringing in AI to parse suspect texts for banned ideas and descriptions since there are simply too many titles for human reviewers to cover on their own."

Shaker for Winamp
A Winamp plugin that shakes your windows to the beat.

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