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Divide by Depth for Instant 3D
A friendly walkthrough of how 3D cameras and perspective actually work in games, showing that dividing by depth is the t…
DIY Air Purification Designs
Build notes for the cheap DIY box-fan air purifier made from furnace filters, with step-by-step instructions, measured p…
DIY Computer with 7400 Series TTL
A hobbyist's long build log of designing and wiring a working CPU from 7400 series TTL logic chips, with schematics, boa…
DIY Stompboxes
A veteran forum for hobbyists designing and building their own guitar effects pedals, with schematics and troubleshootin…
Do dentists actually know what they're doing?
A curious, readable dig into how much of routine dentistry is backed by strong evidence, from cavities to fluoride and c…
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Entertainment
DO IT ROCKAPELLA! The Epic Tale of Carmen Sandiego
Comedian Gregg Gethard tells the long, painfully funny true story of his teenage appearance on the game show Where in th…
Domino Robot
The build story of a robot that lays out 100,000 dominoes on its own, with photos and videos of the design, testing and…
Donald Knuth - The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves
A short, funny essay on how Donald Knuth paused his book series for years to build TeX, fonts and literate programming,…
Don't Add Your Two Cents
Derek Sivers tells a short story about how a boss's small suggestion can steal ownership from an employee, and why leade…
Don't Get Distracted
A thoughtful personal essay by a developer who took a job building software to kill people, and what that choice teaches…
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Entertainment
Don't Make Fun of Renowned Author Dan Brown
A short comic parody in the style of Dan Brown's prose, piling on absurd descriptions and breathless cliffhangers for an…
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Science
Don't Mess with a Genius
A short, entertaining math-history anecdote about Isaac Newton and the puzzle he answered when others stumbled, with the…
Doomscrolling: The Game
An essay exploring whether a game could work where all you do is scroll, walking through design ideas and playable exper…
Doomsday Algorithm
A step-by-step guide to John Conway's Doomsday Algorithm, which lets you work out the day of the week for any date in yo…
Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
An explainer that recasts double-entry bookkeeping as money flowing along a directed graph of accounts, making debits an…
Doublepreps
The Horniman Museum explains doublepreps, odd natural history specimens that pair skeleton and taxidermy so you can see…
Douglas Adams on the English-American Divide Over Heroes
A short post unpacking Douglas Adams' 2000 Slashdot answer on why English and American cultures disagree about heroes, w…
Douglas Hegdahl
The record of Douglas Hegdahl, a young sailor held in North Vietnam who played dumb so convincingly he was released, car…
Downzoning Chicago
A research article by Yonah Freemark and George Kisiel on how postwar downzoning in Chicago reduced housing construction…
Dracula Daily
A project that emails or posts Dracula's diary entries on the actual calendar dates they occur in the novel, letting rea…
Drawing with Ants
An artist's write-up of making generative drawings with ant colony optimization, with images showing how simulated ants…
Drift Towards Danger and the Normalization of Deviance
Explains Rasmussen's model of practical drift, how organizations slide toward unsafe operations and normalize rule-break…
Driftwood
Tom Armitage's Playark 2013 talk on six years of projects about cities and play, using the Situationist idea of the beac…
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Science
Driving Faster Takes Longer
A math blog post that starts from a simple question about speeding between Boston and New Haven and arrives at a surpris…
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