A developer named Isaac Gemal spent a few hours coding using Anthropic’s Claude last week to make WikiTok, a site with a TikTok-like presentation, but instead of vertical videos, you swipe through random Wikipedia article previews you can tap to read, ArsTechnica reports.
Gemal reportedly has no plans for an algorithm, and “liking” a post saves it to a list locally, according to the developer.
by using this client YOU CAN SYNCHRONIZE YOUR CAPS LOCK STAte with everyone elsE USING THIS CLIENT. WHENEVER I PRESS CAPSLOck it is pressed for you and VICE-VERSA. NO MORE DISAGREEING ABOUT WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. NOw we can all share a siNGLE KEY!
(will this break MY COMPUTER? IDK JUST MAKE SURE YOU KNOW how to stop a procesS BEFORE RUNNING IT.)
[globalcapslock.com]
One app, all your feeds, none of the nonsense of social media. It’s a better way to consume just about everything.
You know the phrase “a scrambled egg makes all happy”? No? Neither did game maker Neven Mrgan when Apple’s search bar suggested it, maybe because it doesn’t exist. A couple of followup posts get to the bottom of this little data artifact mystery — or you can skip to the answer right away.
One of the biggest tech companies you’ve never heard of is helping you listen to this podcast.
In an X post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that Canvas, its ChatGPT coding helper feature, now has the ability to render HTML and React code.
OpenAI added that Canvas has rolled out to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.
The platform announced the wider rollout today, months after opening livestreaming to its most-subscribed publishers in September.
Substack recommends a few uses for the feature, like collaborating with others on the platform or sharing “AI-generated clips” encouraging viewers to subscribe to their substack.
[on.substack.com]
AWS chief Matt Garman says Amazon is already seeing the benefits of its massive AI investments.
The version of AOL that still exists after two decades of media mergers offers a Chromium-based $6.99-per-month browser called AOL Desktop Gold.
In a video posted today, YouTuber Michael MJD tours the app, which is full of ads, subscription offers, turn-of-the-century AOL-style icons, and dated email templates. It even has the old “You’ve got mail!” sound clip!
From Sebastian Staacks of the There Oughta Be YouTube channel, Game Boy Slideshow Generator converts images into grayscale and color slideshows for the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, or anything else that can play a Game Boy ROM.
Your web browser handles the conversion locally, Staacks says. When it’s done, you can run the resulting ROM using one of the ways he lists here.
Mullenweg wrote in a blog post today that he had deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of several contributors, including two — Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi — who have plans for a new WordPress fork, reports TechCrunch.
Both indicated a willingness to spearhead the next WordPress update yesterday, following Mullenweg’s announcement that Automattic is drastically scaling back its involvement in the open-source project.
Here’s a version of Doom, downloadable for Windows or playable in a web browser, where you run around an art gallery, sipping and collecting wine, cash, and hors d’oeuvres. Is it still hell? I don’t know, but the music is nice.
Developer bobatealee says they made it with a friend as a student project. I spotted it when Retro Tech Dreams posted it.
I consistently love Neal Agarwal’s web games, but he’s outdone himself this time. In Stimulation Clicker, you just click the button — and the more you click the button, the more stimulants you unlock. You’ll see every attention-grabby trope here, from Subway Surfers to ... true crime podcasts?
This game is like a PhD thesis. I love it so much. And I’ve been playing it for too long.
[neal.fun]
A recent Chromium build suggests Chrome could get support for linking directly to highlighted text in PDFs just like you can on a normal webpage, writes code sleuth Leopeva64 in a post that Bleeping Computer spotted.
As a person who has tried too many times to copy links to highlighted text in PDFs only to be disappointed, I’m thrilled.
We didn’t all flock to a new platform or build on a thrilling new protocol. We went everywhere, and did everything, all at once.
The internet is forever. Well, it was supposed to be. What happens when websites start to vanish at random?
This expansion is described as capable of supporting a “fully-fledged media business, encompassing rich design, advanced websites, deep analytics, automated marketing features,” plus newsletters, podcasts, videos, etc.
Substack’s “ideal partner for this initiative” is Weiss’ The Free Press, which, surprisingly, has been described as “a publication that has spread misinformation on transgender youth and amplified harmful anti-trans rhetoric.”
[on.substack.com]
Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg was ordered to remove the checkbox that asked users to verify that they’re not affiliated with WP Engine when logging in — and he seems to have replaced it with this:
The WordPress co-founder posted the message in a Slack community and changed his username to “gone 💀” after a judge granted WP Engine’s preliminary injunction, 404 Media reports:
I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.
Jason Koebler on the ritual of analyzing a killer’s online life:
“People—including me—want to know who Mangione is and what made him allegedly do this. It’s just that it’s not clear what we are actually learning from years-old social media accounts.”
The company’s new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.
