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Moirai: A Language for Procedural World Histories
A write-up of Moirai, a small language for generating timelines of facts, people, and events in the spirit of Dwarf Fort…
Monotype Font Licensing Shake-Down
A typography nerd's account of receiving a font licensing demand from Monotype, and why trying to shake down someone who…
Mosaic Art Source
A resource for mosaic artists offering tutorials, material guides, and project inspiration for tile, glass, and stone mo…
Motion Blur All the Way Down
An illustrated exploration of what happens when motion blur is pushed to its logical extreme, with mesmerizing animation…
Movie Posters of 2014: Hits and Misses
A designer's annual roundup of the best movie posters of 2014, with the standout hits, a few misses and some in-between,…
Mr. Baby Paint
A designer's tale of building a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers and stumbling onto a new flood-fill cell…
Mutt & Jeff: The First Successful Daily Strip
How Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff, born as a horse-racing gag in a San Francisco paper, became the first hit daily comic st…
My Country, Tis of Thee - New Prussia
A look at a 1916 Life magazine cover that imagined the United States carved up into a German-occupied New Prussia, with…
My Home Made Pipe Organ
A hobbyist tells the story of building a working pipe organ at home, with photos and details of the pipes, windchests an…
My website as a home
A personal essay on treating a website like a home rather than a portfolio, tracing how a spirograph experiment grew int…
Natural Process
The story of exonemo's art piece in which a Google homepage screenshot was painstakingly hand-painted onto a giant canva…
Nature TTL
A nature photography education site with in-depth tutorials on wildlife, landscape, and macro technique, plus gear revie…
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
A visual essay showing that the boundary between settings where a neural network trains and settings where it blows up i…
NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card
A build write-up of a PCB business card that harvests power from a smartphone's NFC field to run a microcontroller and 2…
Nick Cave's Soundsuits
An illustrated guide to artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits, wearable sculptures of twigs, buttons, sequins and hair that ratt…
Not a real engineer
A short, dark prose poem about being told you are not a real engineer, and the strange monstrous thing you become instea…
Odin Leather Goods Education
A leather goods maker's free educational hub with classes, podcasts, and articles teaching traditional leatherworking te…
Okhsv and Okhsl
Bjorn Ottosson explains why classic HSV and HSL color pickers are perceptually broken and introduces two better color sp…
OKSolar
A refreshed take on the Solarized color scheme that rebuilds the palette in the OKLab perceptual colorspace, so lightnes…
Old House Web
A resource site for owners of historic homes, offering restoration articles, maintenance tips, and period-appropriate re…
Old Town Home
A couple's detailed blog documenting their historic Alexandria home renovation, with practical tutorials across eleven a…
OldHouseGuy Resources
A restoration enthusiast's blog chronicling his own Victorian home renovation and curating resources for other old-house…
Oliver Byrne's Euclid
A look at Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid, which replaced letters with bold red, yellow and blue shapes and became…
Olivetti Programma 101
An in-depth Inexhibit case study of the Olivetti Programma 101, the 1965 Italian desktop machine often called the first…
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