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How to Negotiate Your Salary Package
Patrick McKenzie walks through salary negotiation for engineers and others who feel uneasy about it, with concrete tacti…
How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove
An illustrated explainer of how one vinyl groove carries two channels, comparing vertical and horizontal modulation and…
How to Pick a Random Number from 1-10
A playful data story that uses answers from over 8500 people to show how biased humans are at picking random numbers, an…
How to Pick More Beautiful Data Visualization Colors
A practical, well illustrated guide to choosing chart colors that look good and read clearly, with palettes, examples an…
How To Plant A Meme
Artist Joshua Citarella describes a secret 18-month project to infiltrate radical online Gen Z communities and nudge the…
How to Put More Character Into Your NPCs
A Pause Button essay in which Geoffrey Golden explores narrative design and how to give non-player characters life and p…
How to Run a Small Social Network Site for Your Friends
Darius Kazemi's widely shared guide to running a small social network for friends, focused on community-building princip…
How to Sequence Your DNA for Under $2k
A hands-on account of sequencing your own genome on the cheap, covering the kit, the mess, the data and what the results…
How to Sequence Your Own DNA at Home
A first-person guide to sequencing a human genome five times at home with an Oxford Nanopore MinION, covering the kit, w…
How to Study
A brief, practical guide by computer science professor William Rapaport on how to study effectively, with concrete advic…
How to Study Mathematics
A university professor's essay of practical strategies for studying college math, covering definitions, theorems, proofs…
How to Survive Boiling Water
The story of MIT's most notorious milk carton, bought in 1994 and rediscovered in a dorm fridge, and the probiotic parad…
How To Talk Comedy Writer
Cartoonist Andy Riley's funny glossary of the jargon British comedy writers use in the writers' room, decoding terms for…
How to Use the En Dash, Em Dash and Hyphen
A clear guide with examples showing when to use a hyphen, an en dash and an em dash, plus quick rules that help your wri…
How to Use the Internet Again
A five-unit crash course in wandering, breaking and building online, with practical exercises for escaping the algorithm…
How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly
A practical guide by educator Stephen Downes to writing articles and essays quickly and well, with plain, no-nonsense ad…
How Tokyo Developed a Culture of Transit in a World of Cars
A radio feature on how a city of 37 million relies on trains and public transit, with little congestion or pollution, an…
How Users Read on the Web
Jakob Nielsen's classic 1997 study finding that web readers scan rather than read, with the experiments on concise, high…
How We Animated Trillions of Tons of Flowing Ice
A graphics editor explains how he animated the slow crawl of Antarctica's ice sheet using an old video game color-cyclin…
Howard Zinn's Reading List
The books historian Howard Zinn recommended, from Zora Neale Hurston to Noam Chomsky, on a site that collects reading li…
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
Technology site offering how-to guides, reviews, and explainers covering software, hardware, mobile, and smart home topi…
HTML Can Do That
A reference page listing dynamic functionality that modern HTML can now handle on its own, much of which used to require…
htmz
A tiny low-power HTML snippet that adds dynamic page updates without a framework, explained on a single page that walks…
HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up
A short article proposing a joke HTTP 419 response that rickrolls unwanted bots, mixing web server humor with a very old…
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