Everything tagged loom, across every stream.
Lofi Cities shows animated pixel-art nights in 21 cities with endless music synthesized live in the browser from chords and drums, without samples or AI audio models. The code was written with AI coding agents.
A short, funny, concrete example of how AI Overviews misread intent.
A blogger searched an old 76ers fan joke about Dario Šarić "never coming over" and got a Google AI Overview offering emotional support for being spurned by a man named Dario. The post was the most-upvoted story in this set on Hacker News (2,015 points).
After exploring When did Google get so f-ing weird?, one theory of why is Enshittification.
The idea that online platforms decline in quality over time as they shift value from users to themselves.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
The Drawn World overlays every border and coastline drawn from memory by players of a geography game onto the real map, country by country.
After exploring The Drawn World, the idea behind the project is Mental mapping.
In behavioral geography, a mental map is a person’s own perception of the world around them, which is what these drawings capture.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
WIRED’s writer has covered Black Twitter since 2021.
WIRED reports that Threads has become a central venue for Black social media conversation, citing the reaction after a Mississippi grand jury declined to charge anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells.
After exploring Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads, for the community’s history, read Black Twitter.
Background on Black Twitter, the community this piece says has found a new home on Threads.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
Vogue’s weekly best-dressed list during the spring 2027 shows: sheer gowns from Dakota Johnson and the Princess of Wales, and big silhouettes from Florence Pugh, Cardi B and Rihanna.
Lex Friedman recounts the 2011 Apple Cards letterpress app, codenamed Speed Racer, including an account from the print partner’s program lead describing it as a pinnacle of mismanagement.
The slideshow is the point.
Vogue’s VMAs round-up: Charli xcx in archival Saint Laurent velvet, Teyana Taylor in Zuhair Murad couture and Adam Lambert in a caped Philip Treacy look led an autumnal, gothic red carpet.
Useful if you issue tickets or loyalty cards.
Apple released Pass Designer, a tool for designing and previewing Apple Wallet passes with live iPhone and Apple Watch rendering and built-in validation.
56k.rip recreates 1997 dial-up in the browser: the modem handshake, pages that load at the speed you "dialed", and the call dropping when someone picks up the phone.
After exploring 56k.rip – the 1997 dial-up internet experience, for the real thing, read Dial-up Internet access.
How dial-up worked: connecting to an ISP over the phone network by dialing a number.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
Code and build photos.
Jagi Natarajan built an LED display with a cell in each segment of a Voronoi-tessellated sunflower spiral that reacts to music.
After exploring Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display, the botany behind the pattern is Phyllotaxis.
The arrangement of leaves on a stem, and the spiral patterns that give sunflowers and this display their shape.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
The Moving Image Archive makes short public-domain film clips, from 1915 onward, searchable.