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Brookings Economic Studies
A century-old think tank's economics program publishing centrist, data-driven research on fiscal policy, trade, and labo…
Brownstoner
A Brooklyn real estate and architecture blog tracking historic building restorations, neighborhood history, and the boro…
Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand
A build log of a laptop stand cast from solid concrete in the style of brutalist architecture, drawing on themes of urbe…
B-trees in Factorio
A playful attempt to learn how database B-trees work by building them out of belts and logic in the factory-building gam…
Buddhist Economics
E. F. Schumacher's classic essay arguing for an economics built around right livelihood and human wellbeing rather than…
Build Your Guitar
A resource site of free plans, tutorials, and reference tools for hobbyists building or repairing their own electric gui…
Building a 42-Inch E Ink Art Frame
A build log of a 42-inch E Ink frame for displaying generative AI art in an office, covering the hardware choices and th…
Building a Dashboard with E-Ink Displays
A maker's write-up of building an e-ink calendar dashboard and the small UI toolkit that grew out of the project, with h…
Building a Game With a 6-Year-Old
A developer's essay on making and open-sourcing a game over Thanksgiving weekend with his 6-year-old son, and what the c…
Building a game with the Real Engine
A playful blog post about making a game with the Real Engine, meaning real-world physical materials instead of Unreal, w…
Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers
The opening of a deep-dive series on building a GPS receiver from scratch, starting with how faint satellite signals are…
Building a Homebrew Video Game Console
An illustrated write-up of designing and building a retro-style video game console from scratch, covering the hardware c…
Building a T1D Smartwatch from Scratch
A father documents building a single-purpose smartwatch for his son with type 1 diabetes, covering hardware choices, enc…
Building a Web Search Engine From Scratch
A deep-dive write-up on building a web search engine in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings, from a GPU cluster…
Building an Interactive Plotter Art Installation
A behind-the-scenes essay on building an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH, covering the planning, applicatio…
Building Grove
A builder's write-up of Grove, a 2016 Burning Man installation of interactive trees that come alive to a visitor's breat…
Building My Own CPU Architecture and Virtual Machine
A developer's tale of designing a 16-bit CPU instruction set, writing an emulator for it in C, and banging his head agai…
Building on Tradition: 1,400 Years of a Family Business
Works That Work magazine on Kongo Gumi, the Japanese temple builders that ran as a family company for over 1,400 years,…
Building the Ultimate Solar System
Astrophysicist Sean Raymond assembles a physically plausible solar system packed with as many habitable worlds as possib…
Building Walkable Neighborhoods Is Harder Than It Should Be
An article on why even willing developers and city officials struggle to build walkable neighborhoods, as a little-known…
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 Winners
The 2024 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical competition for the worst possible opening sentences…
Burning a NeXTCube (1993)
Simson Garfinkel's famous 1993 post telling how a NeXTcube was set on fire, a darkly funny piece of early Internet lore.
Buying Classic Cameras VI
David Silver's article on collecting vintage vest pocket cameras, a requiem for a great format with history, models and…
Cabinet
A quarterly magazine of art and culture publishing eccentric, deeply researched essays on unusual subjects, from dust to…
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