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Writing an HTTP Server in Prolog
A walkthrough of building a working HTTP server in Prolog, showing how a logic programming language can handle requests…
Writing Arabic in English
An essay on building a phonetic Arabic keyboard that lets you type Arabic with English keys by sound, using capitals for…
Writing Slowly
A reflective post from the Writing Slowly blog on Walter Benjamin and the obsolete book, touching on footnotes, hyperlin…
Writing Well Handbook
Julian Shapiro's free handbook on writing well, covering how to find ideas worth writing about, craft an intro that hook…
XEM WebGL Guide
A tutorial with resources for WebGL raymarching and distance functions, showing how to render 3D shapes from pure math i…
Xerces Society
An invertebrate conservation nonprofit publishing guides on protecting bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in home…
Xerox Scanners Randomly Alter Numbers
The story of how a researcher discovered that Xerox office copiers silently swapped digits in scanned documents because…
Yayoi Kusama by Grady T. Turner
A 1999 BOMB Magazine interview in which Yayoi Kusama talks about her infinity nets, soft sculptures, happenings and year…
Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day
Why grizzly bears in Yellowstone climb above timberline every August to flip rocks and eat tens of thousands of army cut…
Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign
An interview with the Portland roof cleaner and sign painter behind a run of charming hand-painted DIY advertisements ta…
Yes, we did discover the Higgs
A physicist answers a skeptical essay claiming the Higgs discovery never took place, explaining how statistics and evide…
Yesterweb
A community project and manifesto advocating for a more personal, creative old-style internet, with essays, a webring, a…
Yield Curve Inversion History
A data-driven history of every 2s10s yield curve inversion since 1976, with timing, depth, and the lead time before NBER…
Yoann Bourgeois at the Pantheon in the Eye of a Physicist
A physicist looks at Yoann Bourgeois's gravity-defying dance machines staged beside Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon,…
You Are How You Act
An essay setting Rousseau's inner self against Hume's behaviorism to argue that you are the sum of your actions rather t…
You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
A personal essay on believing you were bad at math, and how gaps in earlier fundamentals, not ability, were the real obs…
You Have to Feel It
An essay arguing that real craft means feeling the work rather than ticking off checked boxes, with a personal take on w…
You Misunderstand What It Means to Be Poor
A personal essay on the difference between being broke and being poor, and how poverty reshapes decisions in ways people…
YouGov
An international polling company publishing daily survey results on public opinion, consumer habits, and economic sentim…
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
A story of how a lingerie conglomerate bought up beloved backpack brands in 1986 and slowly cut quality, told as a case…
Your Language Brain Matters More for Learning to Code
A science article on research showing that language aptitude predicts how well people learn to code better than math ski…
You're a Slow Thinker. Now What?
A personal essay on accepting a slow, deliberate way of thinking, with practical ideas for leaning into it in a world th…
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You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
A worldbuilder's myth-busting tour of tidal locking, explaining what it really does to planets and moons and why so many…
Z2: A Lithographically Fabricated IC in a Garage
Sam Zeloof documents building integrated circuits at home in his garage, from photolithography setup to the working Z2 c…
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