Six degrees of Samuel L. Jackson

  1. The Pudding finds the real Kevin Bacon: A 169,000-actor filmography dataset reveals Hollywood's true best-connected center, and spoiler, it isn't the guy the game is named after. (pudding.cool)
  2. People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again: A wave of vibe-coded tools like dumbtv and cleanyourtv strip ads, tracking, and bloat from smart TVs with custom launchers built by AI coding agents. (techcrunch.com)
  3. The future of CSS: Josh Comeau lays out his top ten wishlist for CSS Interop 2027, from native CSS functions to current browser support, with runnable code examples throughout. (joshwcomeau.com)
  4. AI will not automate radiologists like you think: Jason Wei argues that AI's jagged edge across hundreds of diagnosable conditions, plus cheaper imaging driving more demand, keeps radiologists busy rather than obsolete. (jasonwei.net)
  5. Simulate 3D plants in the browser with nodes: A browser-based node editor lets you grow procedural 3D plants interactively, wiring up rules instead of modeling leaf by leaf. (nodes.max-richter.dev)
  6. A procedural planetary shader with its own weather: Artist aaunaa's shader renders a planet that generates and evolves its own weather system in real time, no simulation footage required (unverified). (artstation.com)
  7. booleanSequence: a modern yin and yang: Antonio Pezzella's generative system builds shifting clusters and patterns from nothing but a single binary rule and two opposing values. (creativeapplications.net)
  8. Battle Drones: a vibe-coded RTS with audio multiplayer: Simon Willison documents building a browser-based Command & Conquer-style RTS almost entirely through AI coding agents, including a mode that syncs two devices' multiplayer state through audio. (simonwillison.net)
  9. p5-flipdots, an open-source API for physical flipdot displays: Golan Levin released a p5.js library for driving physical flipdot displays, built as a teaching tool for introducing students to shader-style data-parallel thinking. (github.com)
  10. qrsticks: This generator draws QR codes as fields of tiny stick figures that still scan correctly, exploiting how decoders only sample the center of each grid cell. (qrsticks.greg.technology)
  11. Memory institutions: the ecosystems of digital art preservation: LACMA's Michael Govan and Rhizome's Michael Connor discuss the technical and social work of keeping digital art alive, from broken links to obsolete hardware. (rightclicksave.com)

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