Inspired by a handful of sites that have popped up in the last few weeks to mock a design change made in the official Twitter app for iPhone, my buddies Robb and Johnny and I have put together a project called the Dickens Bar. The idea is simple — enter the URL of any website, and see it immediately enhanced by the “trending topics” of one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian Era. See, for example, this very site with Dickens Bar addition.
about me
Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. more »
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recent posts
- New Rossword puzzle 7 March, 2021
- 1923 zine and website launch 23 March, 2019
- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal 3 March, 2019
- Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot 26 August, 2018
- Twitter should allow users to “hide” old tweets: my correct opinion 5 August, 2018
top posts
- Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode
- "We will need writers who can remember freedom": Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards
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- A Twitter list of somebody else's timeline
- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal
