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Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
Steve Yegge's famous satirical essay that retells software design as a fairy tale where verbs are second-class citizens…
Executive Function Theft
An essay coining a name for the way other people's disorganization quietly drains your attention, planning and energy, w…
Experiments on a $50 DIY Air Purifier
A hands-on experiment that builds a box-fan air purifier in 30 seconds, fills a room with smoke and measures particle co…
explained.ai
A set of deeply illustrated, interactive explainers that unpack how machine learning and statistics concepts like random…
Exploring EXIF
An interactive essay by Harley Turan that mines the EXIF metadata of 73,000 personal photos, with playful interfaces for…
Exploring Rectangle Subdivisions
An exploration of irreducible rectangle subdivisions, sparked by a talk on a procedurally generated city, with diagrams…
Extra-bodily States in Buddhism
An explainer from Study Buddhism on how Buddhist texts describe consciousness traveling outside the body, from dream bod…
FactCheck.org - A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center
Nonpartisan project that monitors the factual accuracy of claims by US politicians in ads, speeches, and interviews.
failbetter
An online literary magazine, publishing since 2000, that features free short fiction and poetry from emerging and establ…
Faith Ringgold - Craft in America
A Craft in America profile of Faith Ringgold, the artist and author best known for painted story quilts that combine pai…
Fallout RPG in Excel
A hobbyist explains how he built a full Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic role-playing game inside an Excel spreadsheet,…
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
A short list of surprising false assumptions about flights, airports, callsigns and time, revealing how messy and fascin…
Fan Fiction
Fan Fiction is a self-published zine by Tavi Gevinson, a sly and confessional mix of Taylor Swift fandom and memoir, fre…
Fatal Dose
A detailed account of the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, whose software errors killed patients in the 1980s, a cla…
FBO Particles
An article by creative coder Nicolas Barradeau on GPU particle systems with frame buffer objects in three.js, with demos…
Features of Your Font You Had No Idea About
An illustrated tour of the hidden features inside good fonts, from swashes and stylistic sets to ligatures and tabular n…
Feelyat: A Corpus-Based Analysis
A linguistic analysis of the faux-Germanic gibberish spoken in a 1994 Kids in the Hall sketch, treated like a real langu…
FerrarGIS
See today's OpenStreetMap data of Belgium redrawn in the style of the 1777 Ferraris map, with hand-painted looking field…
Feynman vs. The Abacus
An excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman in which the physicist races a skilled abacus user and learns how fast…
Feynman's Appendix F on Shuttle Reliability
Richard Feynman's personal observations on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a famous appendix on wildly optimistic…
Fiction on the Web
A blog that has posted a free short story every week since 2009, spanning classic reprints and new writers across every…
FictionPress
A companion site to FanFiction.net devoted entirely to original, non-fanfiction stories that writers post chapter by cha…
Fields of the Moon
A visit to the Cinder Lake crater field in Arizona, where NASA blasted hundreds of craters into a volcanic plain in 1967…
Fightin' Words: Netcode
An illustrated deep dive into why online fighting games feel laggy, comparing delay-based and rollback netcode with anim…
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