A message in binary

<p>Nolen Royalty writes about his wondrous <a href="https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/">One Million Checkboxes</a> project, and how <a href="https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/">something very peculiar happened</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database?</p> <p>A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens.</p> <p>[...] I hadn’t been hacked.</p> <p>Someone was writing me a message in binary.</p> </blockquote> <p>Nolen also gave a fantastic talk at XOXO last week where he told a part of this story and I think it was one of the most inspiring talks I’ve seen in a while. It took every ounce of effort in me not to run back to my hotel room and hurriedly build something out of pure excitement.</p>