We’d like to introduce you to Thington! — Welcome to Thington — Medium
Big day today! We’re coming out of stealth and talking openly about what we’ve been building »
Spies In The Skies: Here’s Where FBI Planes Are Circling U.S. Cities
Important story from @paldhous on aerial surveillance over major American cities »
Why Portland Needs Open Data — Medium
“Portland is in the process of rewriting its Comprehensive Plan, a 20-year…” — @hellopicoc »
Why Portland Needs Open Data — Medium
@spinnerin @reidab this? »
Being tired isn’t a badge of honor — Signal v. Noise — Medium
“Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It’s a mark of stupidity.” — @jasonfried »
Why Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Went All In On Live Video - BuzzFeed News
I talked to Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Cox about why Facebook went all in on Live video. Here's what they had to say »
Center for Livable Media
and a new research lab from @edelwax and @rmozone to support those who care about livable media. Get involved! https://t.c… »
Thington: Get the most from your smart devices
My thoughts on Thington on @ProductHunt cc @tomcoates @mattb »
thetamath.com
Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU (the rendering tech behind https… »
Self Racing Cars
anyone know cool automotive tech car companies? who should i invite to this? »
The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview. | The Nation
My piece is live. The Problem With Hillary: Not Just Her Corporate Cash - Her Corporate Worldview »
bit.ly/1SASSCu
We've officially launched #Sumer on #steamgreenlight ! Come, Sumerians, lend us your thumbs. »
Creators for Creators
Not a Kickstarter. Not crowd-sourced. An actual juried grant. »
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying To Do Right By Marvel Comics’ First Black Superhero
My talk with @tanehisicoates about the debut of his Black Panther series »
Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund | Hacker News
We're going to try something new--let Hacker News pick two startups for YC Fellowship to invest in. »
TwinPeaks
team twin peaks at #sndmakes made babbage: a community that gets connections up and running! https:… »
liljcleaning.com
PDX friends need help housecleaning and able to hire someone? This is a college friend who started his own business: https://t.… »
Mick Foley
Learn how @DDPYoga & a long, lost friend from HS got me ready for #Mania »
Building a Device Lab
.@Thisiscarlsagan and I are proud to announce that our book "Building a Device Lab" is now FREE to read online! »
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
The blog Status 451 is @lambda_conf's silver sponsor. Here's a tweet from one of their writers (cw racism) »
Adactio: Journal—A brief history of the World Wide Web by web developers
Kind of a lot has happened in the last 20 years really. Love this from @adactio. »
The Techies Project And Why Unpaid Labor for Diversity in Tech Needs to Stop | Model View Culture
MVC has a good article up on the Techies Project (and i swear i'm not just saying it's good just 'cause it cites me) »
Tiny Kitten Teeth — LIMITED EDITION PRINT! HELP US SAVE OUR CAT MAPLE!
Maple is back but she's sick and needs surgery! Please buy a print & help us care for her! »
Senator Elizabeth Warren at Banking Hearing on Consumer Finance Regulations - YouTube
I asked Chanin: Given his abysmal track record at the Fed, why should anyone take him seriously? Watch »
Erick Wong on Periscope: "SNDMakesSF presentations"
We are starting #SNDMakes-SF presentations in 5m. Tune in via Periscope, thanks to @EwongSFC »
BABYMETAL Makes Their U.S. Television Debut - YouTube
Here’s BABYMETAL from last night’s @StephenAtHome performing “Gimme Chocolate” »
Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU — Medium
Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU (the rendering tech behind https… »
news.vice.com/article/cia-helped-produce-top-chef-covert-affairs
These are the 8 entertainment projects CIA helped produce that were previously classified https:/… »
Commenting on leaks — Track Changes — Medium
I also wrote about the Panama Papers today on my corporate newsletter »
TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter
Yesterday I needed some work done. Basically, I'm making a video that has a ton of people in it, and I (cont) »
Command: Making the web better with Slack-like slash commands.
Command: Making the web better with Slack-like slash commands. via @jessepollak »
Spend Less on Candles – Mom vs. Debt
RT [x] oh my god dril's candles tweet has been discovered by personal finance mommybloggers »
The Man Who Recorded, Tamed and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America | Atlas Obscura
interesting history of the "enviroments" LPs and their relation to walter de maria, tony conrad & hermann helmholt... »
Lieve Oma by Florian Veltman
Lieve Oma, a game about my grandmother, is RELEASED! #indiegames #altgames #indiedev https://t.c… »
Making new homes — Femsplain — Medium
Did you miss us? We’re back! »
GDC Vault - Polishing the Boots - Designing 'Downwell' Around One Key Mechanic
If you make games or want to, @moppin_ 's GDC talk about designing Downwell is a great watch htt… »
More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments - WSJ
More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments »
A Progressive Case for Clinton - In These Times
"Clinton believes that you need to be in the system in order to change the system, and I think that is true." https://t.c… »
Losswords. A game of literary portions. by Colleen M, John S, & Eric Z — Kickstarter
Losswords is LIVE! Check out Local No. 12's newest project - a very literary iPhone game - on Kickstarter »
Instagram
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. —Mary Oliver »
GDC Vault - Math for Game Programmers: Building A Better Jump
My GDC16 talk "Building a Better Jump" is now available for free! (Thanks GDC folks!) https://t.… »
I Love Charts
Get this book about creative unconventional careers! With @ilovecharts, @toomuchnick, @manymanywor… »
GDC Vault - Level Design Workshop: Level Design in Impossible Geometry
My GDC talk, "Level Design in Impossible Geometry" is now up on the vault for free »
18F — Take our code: 34 reusable projects from 18F
Since 18F's code belongs to you, I wrote a list of our open source projects you might want to reuse for your work »
Racial equality and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Racial equality and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood »
vulture.com/2016/04/ta-nehisi-coates-black-panther-annotated.html
Whoever came up with the idea of having Ta-Nehisi Coates write a Black Panther series was so effing on fleek. »
AXIS by Aisha Tyler — Kickstarter
The homie @aishatyler’s dream is to direct a movie. She's so fresh! Kickstart her & make it come true! »
GDC Vault - SOMA - Crafting Existential Dread
The SOMA post-mortem talk that I gave at GDC this year is now free online »
Black Panther (2016-) #1 - Comics by comiXology
@JohnGalvano You can grab it now at - they have subscriptions as well so you can have it as soon as it's out. »
Organizations can now block abusive users · GitHub
Oh thank goodness: GitHub orgs can now block abusive users. »
Ed Greenwood - I am saddened by what I hear of the current... | Facebook
So, Ed Greenwood, the creator of Forgotten Realms, just chimed on the Dragonspear transphobia mob »
Virtual Reality - SteamVR featuring the HTC Vive - YouTube
Been waiting for VR since obsessively reading "Killobyte" by @PiersAnthony as a kid. It's truly finally here, folks! »
What Bernie would look like with a Trump-like tan and a hair transplant / Boing Boing
If Bernie had a fake tan and hairplugs. You're welcome. »
Cleartext is a text editor that only lets you use the 1000 most common words in English / Boing Boing
How to terminate the voluble panoply of excessively supercilious verbiage in your internet-based perorations »
Minneapolis, MN | AlterConf
Midwest folks: there are only 15 tickets left for the diversity in tech & gaming conference this Sat in Minneapolis! h... »
Steam Greenlight :: Sumer
Sumer is trying to get greenlit—megabooth gdc selection and one of the best multiplayer games in development rn »
Coudal Partners Notebook Showdown
Concerning our mention of the Lifehacker article on today's podcast: Notebook Showdown »
PS4 Remote Play Windows® PC / Mac
Remote Play for Mac and Windows is out Could save a lot of marriages. Just sayin’ »
The Verge | Facebook
Just astonishing reach on Facebook Live video — I snapped my fingers and 36K people appeared »
Professional and unprofessional hairstyles are as different as black and white / Boing Boing
'Professional' and 'unprofessional' hairstyles are as different as black and white »
Classic ’80s and ’90s Personal Ads From New York -- The Cut
Love this deep dive into @nymag's archive: the best personal ads from the mag in the 80s/90s »
NPR built a private personal finance Facebook group that now has more than 10,000 members » Nieman Journalism Lab
Facebook groups are a great way to build community. NPR, WSJ and ProPublica have all had luck with them »
Ordinary Women: Just a few days left! - YouTube
Share this message from Anita about why Ordinary Women matters with a friend and ask them to match your donation! »
Techies: A Study of Silicon Valley — Medium
aaaand we're live. So excited to share this with you. »
Charles Barkley: Charlotte All-Star game should move in protest | SI.com
Barkley: NBA should move 2017 Charlotte All-Star game to protest NC anti-LGBT legislation »
Gray whale spotted in Ballard Locks today | Q13 FOX News
Wow! A grey whale made an appearance at the Ballard Locks today »
Open Source Convention - O'Reilly OSCON, May 16 - 19, 2016 in Austin, TX
Time is running out, only 2 days left to take advantage of #OSCON's early pricing discounts. https://t.c… »
Kesha’s Case Against Sony Thrown Out - The Daily Beast
NY judge tells @KeshaRose she’s acting “unreasonably,” and then sided entirely w/ Sony. Her fight in court is over. https… »
Framer JS Public Group | Facebook
as promised: check out the live reactions prototype @alexcornell and i built in @framerjs for facebook live »
France surrenders to the Vatican over plans for gay ambassador · PinkNews
Remember how this new Pope was gonna be more inclusive and accepting of homosexuals? Nope. »
Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown | Re/code
Real “holy shit” stuff about YHOO from @karaswisher »
themanual.org/read/issues/5/jessica-collier/article
Change the industry by imagining it differently: The shifting narrative of "content" and role of writers in design https:… »
Funk legend Bernie Worrell is sick, buy this David Byrne remix to help pay his medical bills / Boing Boing
Funk legend Bernie Worrell has metastatic cancer. Help pay his medical bills. Buy this David Byrne remix. »
Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People | WIRED
.@moxie encrypts wahtsapp. “resistance to authority, standing up not only to the US government, but all governments” »
doombot » How not to get your question answered
“I don’t need friends, I need answers.” My true 2007 tale of answering readers’ tech support emails. »
Texts From Young Werther - The Toast
Texts From Young Werther | »
Ta-Nehisi Coates Fights the Power—Literally—With Black Panther | WIRED
An interview with @tanehisicoates on fighting the power with "Black Panther," out today »
funkzonepodcast.com/2016/04/05/episode-069-parry-gripp
Brand new #FunkZone #podcast with @parrygripp of @NerfHerder_band and waffles fame!! Check it out!!!… »
Tl;dr: Your Talk Is Accepted - Bridget Kromhout
tl;dr: Your Talk Is Accepted✨ in which I annotate a tech conf speaker acceptance letter for the curious/interested: h… »
Chile students' debts go up in smoke | World news | The Guardian
Artist in Chile sneaks into private university and burns tuition contracts; $500millon of student debt gone »
Meet the Poet Who Inadvertently Took Down Gay Talese, and the Journalist Talese Insulted - Rewire
"For .. Porche & Hannah-Jones, Talese’s remarks cut because they felt familiar. Talese echoed decades of exclusion." »
The Internet's Great War: An Interview With Andrew Groen, Author of 'Empires of EVE' - The Atlantic
hi this here is a real good story about sovereignty and fictions and humans, disguised as a games story »
The Voyeur’s Motel - The New Yorker
This piece is absolutely extraordinary. »
The Imaginary Accomplishments Podcast: Todd McHatton's New Thing — Zooglobble
Geeked to report that @toddmchatton is producing a podcast for kids heading your way this month »
Here’s how to say ‘Donald Trump’ in American Sign Language - The Washington Post
"Only the most colorful politicians get special names in sign language assigned to them by the deaf community... https://t.co… »
Will You Sprint, Stroll or Stumble Into a Career? - The New York Times
Will You Sprint, Stroll or Stumble Into a Career? - The New York Times via @edteck »
Idle Thumbs > Shows > Playscape: Los Angeles > Episodes > Vernon Shaw
LISTEN: Playscape: LA - Vernon Shaw: @TeddyDief takes Maron’s WTF format and applies it to games lovingly. »
Twitch
We're streaming tonight's LIVE BAT ENCOUNTER »
The Triple Door - Seattle's Best Live Music Venue - Triple Door
Also hey Seattle, I'm at the TRIPLE DOOR on Sunday! And you don't have to be an ECCC type to attend »
Techies
aaaand we're live. So excited to share this with you. »
Ordinary Women | Seed&Spark
Pledge $85 and get our Ordinary Women movie poster or pledge $100 & get one signed by Anita! »
Ordinary Women | Seed&Spark
Two days and 15% left to go for Ordinary Women, @femfreq's new web series premiering at @xoxo. So close! »
Diesel Sweeties Store: Music & Pixel T-Shirts & Socks - Secret Menu
BTW, keep this between us but I accepted a secret mission from General Leia »
Developer - Google Docs
Cards Against Humanity a programmer! You'll get to use a digital computer as part of your job... every day! »
Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Archives
If you're looking for a tech podcast unlike any other, check us out: And DO please tell others, that's the best. »
Having trouble coming up with talk ideas? Here's our wishlist! | AlterConf
I’m looking for marginalized ppl in tech/games for *paid* speaking opps. No exp reqd! Free ideas for you »
Thington
Find out more about Thington here: and why we're building it »
Thington
pretty excited to show the world what Thington looks like »
Thington
So happy to be an investor in @thingtonhq – they connect smart devices in ways that feel and work naturally »
Thington
Hi, @thingtonhq! Enthused to see the launch of (@tomcoates and @mattb)'s awesome smart spaces service. + neb cameo »
will.global
I made a company. Introducing Will Global. »
Relay FM
About to record Episode #199 of @Pen_Addict Podcast! Come join us »
Eschersketch
I could sink hours in this. »
Shows | Marian Call
Specifically, Seattle, I am here to play at the Triple Door for you on Sunday in an amazing show. Get tix »
HarmonTown
It's a regular whodunit when @PFTompkins makes his first visit to HARMONTOWN! Audio/Video: https:/… »
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@xeni @willsmith I found I had to go a step further- I use Gasmask to route to localhost. feels so much better. »