Web Pickings

In this longread, Derek Thompson explores the death of having people over for dinner. Our leisure time is spent on*easier* activities like scrolling through TikTok - but is that making us happier?

A decoy font that prints a letter on top of text that is easy for humans to read but harder for AI. Obviously AI can be trained to read this, but it's an interesting idea.

Ever wondered how a silicon chip is made? This 3D isometric animation will walk you through the many steps involved.

This very cool little web toy lets you generate beats made from ceramic objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unfortunately it doesn't use real sounds - rather a generative sound of what the object would sound like.

The author has created some prompts for AI that are supposed to generate better poster designs. These all still look like slop. I get sent a lot of AI posters for Canberra Digest and I don't think people like seeing them. Just use Canva, slap some words on the page instead.

Eyedrop is a Mac app that automatically generates captions for images. The generation happens locally and requires no subscriptions. Useful for generating the image ALT tags.

A little game by Hank Green where you find the categories. Four categories. Three words each. One word is in all four.