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Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

For years, inventive companies like The Onion and Funny or Die capitalized on a culture that just wanted to laugh online. But after massive disruptions in digital advertising and on social media platforms, those companies find themselves imperiled. Did the internet kill its comedy?

My MortMort

Jack-of-all-trades Henry Rollins talks about not labelling what you do, why he’s not interested in advice, the need to make things constantly, and why he’s never had a creative block.

I like all kinds of myths and legends and fantasies, but sometimes I just want a simple fable. Of the lot, fables are the shortest and simplest, and unlike other more complex story forms, fables don’t dance around their own meaning. Fables are blunt. Fables are like a friend who can explain why right is right and wrong is wrong. Fables straight-up tell you how to live. (Here’s a bunch by the legendary Aesop.)

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.

How the suburbs are “retrofitting” obsolete malls, box stores, office parks, parking lots, motels, and more.

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

A rundown of the general principles used for arcade-style vehicle physics using Unreal Engine 4 for the upcoming party combat racer Space Dust Racing. Dev bl...

Ironically, before I posted, I debated posting as though I wasn’t the CEO of Readup. That would have been dishonest, but it probably would have worked. It’s a bad omen when dishonest things work. It means the platforms themselves don’t work.

A conversation with Wilson Miner

Anne Toth, Amazon's director of Alexa Trust, explains what it takes to get people to feel comfortable using your product — and why that is work worth doing.

Enough is enough, part 2

Using spaced repetition to create understanding

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx's shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit exactly into FedEx's shipping boxes and then ships the

John Gardner - Uncommon American

How we work at Gumroad

Saving the world and off-menu omakases

Corpus IT-school

A minimalist coding environment. Control 16x16 points with a single JavaScript function.

I consider feeds to be the “operating systems” of this generation — hubs for almost everything the average person will do on a computer. For many people, especially those with limited attention spans…

An in-depth guide to finding opportunities, researching customers, and staying sane in a downturn. Stories from Rand Fishkin, Amy Hoy, and more.

In this interview with Tyler Bryden, CEO of Speak Ai, we talked about the relationship between wellbeing and productivity, the quantified self and more.

Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, SQL, O…

Today, the Maker Mind newsletter just hit 25,000 subscribers! To celebrate, I asked you to share your questions about launching and managing a newsletter. Here are my thoughts. Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you find these answers helpful. How long did it take you to build up that audience? (David) I launched ... Read More

Tech is always political. The way data is collected and handled is often biased, and many products are neither accessible nor inclusive. Ethical Design Guide is made to share resources on how to create ethical products that don't cause harm.

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