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50 Ways to Be Ridiculously Generous
Writer Alexandra Franzen lists fifty small, concrete ways to be generous without spending much money, from handwritten n…
52 Things I Learned in 2018
A list of 52 surprising, well-sourced facts gathered over a year, from how infants lie in their cribs to odd bits of his…
52 Things I Learned in 2025
Kent Hendricks' yearly list of 52 surprising things he learned, from odd science findings to quirks of history and human…
63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide
A sprawling regional guide that goes far beyond the usual eight cuisines, mapping dozens of Chinese food traditions with…
6sqft
A New York City real estate and urbanism news site covering development projects, historic buildings, and the forces res…
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Travel
70F Road Trip
A climate blogger plans a year-long US road trip that keeps you in 70 degree weather every day, mapping the route from t…
8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
The story behind 8088 MPH, a legendary demo that coaxes hundreds of colours, 3D effects and polyphonic music out of a st…
84-24
A beautifully designed scrolling tale of one developer's midlife quest to find and restore an original 1984 Macintosh, f…
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
A deadpan April Fools research paper showing that random paint splatters can be read as valid Perl, with a gallery of co…
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
A SIGBOVIK joke paper showing that most random paint splatters, run through OCR, turn out to be valid Perl code, with a…
A $15 Casio F91W 5,000 Meters Underwater
An experiment that lowers a cheap Casio F91W watch to the depths of the ocean, comparing it with expensive dive watches…
A (More) Modern CSS Reset
An update to a widely shared CSS reset, explaining each rule that sets a consistent baseline across browsers and how the…
A Beginner's Guide to Basic Urdu Grammar
An introductory guide to Urdu grammar rules for beginners, covering the basics of sentence structure and word forms to g…
A Beginner's Guide to Making Beautiful Slides
Ines Montani shares her practical tips and three beginner-friendly steps for designing clear, attractive talk slides, wi…
A Brief History of Hotels' Photographic Darkrooms
Hotels once offered fully equipped darkrooms for travelling photographers, and this illustrated history traces how the a…
A Brief History of Lace
The Lace Guild traces lace from its 16th-century beginnings through bobbin and needle lace, the rise of machine lace and…
A Brief History of Rogue
Glenn Wichman, co-creator of Rogue, recounts how the 1980 dungeon crawler was built on Unix machines at UC Santa Cruz an…
A Brief History of Spore
An essay on the long, winding design history of Will Wright's game Spore and the ideas that shaped it from early prototy…
A Brief Interview with AWK Creator Brian Kernighan
A short Q&A with Brian Kernighan about creating AWK, how small languages come to be, and what a lifetime of Unix-era pro…
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Internet Culture
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
A beloved comic timeline of programming languages from Jacquard's loom to modern times, packed with deadpan jokes and fa…
A Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
A short true story from 1999 about a late-night taxi pickup and an elderly passenger, a quiet reminder of kindness and t…
A Calculator App? Anyone Could Make That
A fun deep dive into why a seemingly trivial calculator app hides surprising difficulty, from floating-point oddities to…
A Chronology of Star Wars Games
A long, lovingly researched chronology of every Star Wars videogame ever released, from arcade cabinets to tie-in odditi…
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Lifestyle & Health
A Common Urban Intersection in the Netherlands
A detailed look at how a typical Dutch intersection separates cars, bikes and pedestrians so everyone flows smoothly, wi…
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