TheirTube
Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people’s YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube home page would look for six different personas.
Link tags: filter
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Tinnitus Tracker
Rob has turned his exhaustive spreadsheet of all the concerts he has attended into a beautiful website. Browse around—it’s really quite lovely!
Rob’s also writing about the making of the site over on his blog.
The Many Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them) | CSS-Tricks
This article by Cassie is so, so good!
First off, there’s the actual practical content on how to change the hover styles of SVGs that aren’t embedded. Then there’s the really clear walkthrough she give, making some quite complex topics very understandable. Finally, there’s the fact that she made tool to illustrate the point!
Best of all, I get to work with the super-smart developer who did all this.
Dark theme in a day – Marcin Wichary – Medium
On Ev’s blog, Marcin goes into great detail on theming an interface using CSS custom properties, SVG, HSL, and a smattering of CSS filters.
I was kind of amazed that all of this could happen via CSS and CSS alone: the colours, the transitions, the vectors, and even the images.
The Contrast Swap Technique: Improved Image Performance with CSS Filters | CSS-Tricks
A clever performance trick for images:
- Reduce image contrast using a linear transform function (Photoshop can do this)
- Apply a contrast filter in CSS to the image to make up for the contrast removal
Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) - The New York Times
Steven Johnson dives deep into the METI project, starting with the Arecibo message and covering Lincos, the Drake equation, and the Fermi paradox.
He also wrote about what he left out of the article and mentions that he’s writing a book on long-term decision making.
In a sense, the METI debate runs parallel to other existential decisions that we will be confronting in the coming decades, as our technological and scientific powers increase. Should we create superintelligent machines that exceed our own intellectual capabilities by such a wide margin that we cease to understand how their intelligence works? Should we ‘‘cure’’ death, as many technologists are proposing? Like METI, these are potentially among the most momentous decisions human beings will ever make, and yet the number of people actively participating in those decisions — or even aware such decisions are being made — is minuscule.
Instagram-style filters in HTML5 Canvas | Viget
Una’s [Instagram filters in CSS}(https://github.com/una/CSSgram) are great, but the browser support for CSS filters isn’t as good as, say, the browser support for canvas. Here’s a clever bit of scripting to polyfill filters using canvas.
The “Blur Up” Technique for Loading Background Images | CSS-Tricks
Quite a few moving parts in this technique from Emil, but it’s very clever.
The Internet’s First Family in Hazlitt Magazine
A heartwarming profile of Metafilter.
The hits keep going… | MetaFilter
This gives me a warm fuzzy glow. The Mefites are using Radio Free Earth to find out which stars are receiving the number one hits from their birthdays.
Online communities
Caterina Fake takes a heartfelt look at the history of online communities:
The internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the internet its life and meaning.
PaintbrushJS v0.1 Demo Page
A fantastic bit of image manipulation JavaScript from Dave.
GodBlock - Protect your children
A filter (for Mac and PC) to block violence, misogyny, superstition and other mainstays of religious content.
StupidFilter :: Main / HomePage
Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.
tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures
Use TiltShiftMaker to easily transform your standard photos into fun tilt-shift style miniature pictures.
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
Not all communities are created equal. The web needs Metafiltering and less YouTubing.