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How to Apply Letraset Dry Transfers
SPLAT, a society devoted to vintage Letraset Action Transfers, explains how rub-down lettering and transfers were applie…
How to ask for help from people who don't know you
A practical essay on writing cold messages that get answers from busy strangers, covering how to be specific, respect th…
How to Assess the Quality of Garments
A beginner's guide to judging whether a piece of clothing is well made, covering fabric, seams, stitching and finishing…
How to Avoid Losing Items? Holding Pens
A short, practical essay on why we lose things at home and how designating a holding pen for items in transit keeps keys…
How to Become a Computer Science Engineer at MIT for Free
A curriculum of about 40 free university courses arranged over four academic years, giving a self-taught route through a…
How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly
A practical essay on outline speedrunning: recursively outline a minimum version, rush through filling it in, then polis…
How to Cheat at Settlers by Loading the Dice
A researcher bakes dice to load them, rolls them thousands of times and uses p-values to show how much of a Settlers of…
How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop
A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…
How to Create a Lego Relief Map
A cartographer explains how she turned elevation data into a physical topographic relief map built from childhood LEGO b…
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
Chip Morningstar's classic, very funny essay about a software engineer wandering into an academic conference on postmode…
How to Do Things If You're Not That Smart
A candid, encouraging essay for people who want to do important work but doubt their talent, with practical habits like…
How to Draw Dotted Lines on Chalkboards, MIT Style
A short, charming MIT admissions blog post teaching the hand trick of flicking chalk to draw perfect dotted lines on a b…
How to Draw Ideas
An illustrated essay on the four roles drawing can play in a creative process and how sketching helps you find, test and…
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How to Generate Procedural Racetracks
A devlog article explaining how to generate procedural racetracks without noise functions, with diagrams of the algorith…
How to Get Better at Guitar
A practical essay on a simple practice method from guitar teacher Justin Sandercoe that the author says changed his play…
How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
An essay arguing that podcasts, talks and blog posts give curious people the feeling of learning without the effort that…
How to Learn C# Part 3 - Coding Basics
The third part of a beginner tutorial series on C# and .NET, covering the core syntax, variables and control flow you ne…
How to Learn Chess as an Adult
A personal and practical guide to going from a 300 to a 1500 rating in nine months as an adult beginner, covering study…
How to Learn English
A guide to learning English really well through immersion, with advice on vocabulary, listening, and building habits for…
How to Live an Intellectually Rich Life
An essay arguing that a curious life is easier than it looks, starting with simple habits like following Wikipedia links…
How to Live on $432 a Month in America
A long essay on a cheap house on the northern plains and how a person could cover every living expense on a few hundred…
How To Make A CPU
A picture-driven walkthrough of how a CPU is built from basic logic, starting with simple parts and working up to a mach…
How to Make a Living as an Artist
A long, candid essay by the artist fnnch on how to earn a living from art, covering pricing, audiences, products and the…
How to Make Full Colour PCB Art
A write-up of the ideas, pitfalls, and finally working method for adding full colour art to circuit boards, from the Pix…
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