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Hugelkultur: The Ultimate Raised Garden Beds
A detailed illustrated guide to hugelkultur, the practice of building raised garden beds over buried rotting logs so the…
Human Programming Interface
An essay on treating your own digital data, from messages to workouts, as something you can query programmatically, with…
Human Transit
Transit planner Jarrett Walker's long-running blog explaining how bus and rail networks are designed, with sharp critiqu…
Humorous RFCs
A curated list of the funniest internet standards documents, from ARPAWOCKY to joke protocols, proving specs do not have…
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
Hank Shaw's site on foraging, hunting, and fishing shares field identification tips alongside recipes for wild plants, g…
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Hyperbole and a Half: Menace
Allie Brosh's illustrated story about the intoxicating power of being a tiny child with opinions, told in her famous cru…
I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
A candid personal essay from a young founder after a big payout, wrestling with money, purpose, and what to do with life…
I Ate Nothing but Nutella for a Week
A funny personal essay recounting a broke 21-year-old's misguided week-long experiment of eating nothing but Nutella, an…
I Built a Synth for My Daughter
A parent designs and builds a custom hardware synthesizer for his young daughter, from circuit and enclosure to the firm…
I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia
A hobbyist trains a machine learning model on satellite imagery to count every yurt in Mongolia, with maps, methods and…
I Created the Nerdiest Game Ever
The story behind a video game in which you play an operating system, scheduling processes and juggling memory, told by i…
I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
A personal essay on what reminiscing is like without mental imagery, exploring aphantasia, memory and how a mind without…
I Drove 300 Miles, Then Asked Police for the Footage
A reporter drives 300 miles of rural Virginia, then files public records requests for police camera footage of his own c…
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
A Navy Crusader pilot's first-hand story of ejecting from a burning jet, falling 15,000 feet when his parachute failed,…
I Found a 55 Year Old Bug in the First Lunar Lander Game
The story of digging into the original 1969 Lunar Lander game code and uncovering a decades-old bug in how its physics c…
I Gave the Internet My Printer
A write-up of the experiment where 190 strangers from 42 countries printed to the author's home printer in India over th…
I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00
A programmer recounts finding errors in Donald Knuth's books and receiving one of his legendary reward checks, paid in h…
I Hate New Year's Day
Antonio Gramsci's short essay explaining why he hates New Year's Day and would rather make every morning a new year, rep…
I hired an illustrator to draw my house
A charming project story of commissioning an illustrator to draw a family home, then turning the art into a living Home…
I Just Chose Words Carefully
A short piece on a 30-page monospaced guide whose words were chosen so that every line hits the exact line length, a fea…
I Love Software Rendering
An illustrated essay on the charm of software-rendered graphics: sharp pixels, gritty colour banding and DOS-era games r…
I Made 56874 Calls to Explore the Telephone Network
A researcher dials tens of thousands of Finnish toll-free numbers and reports the odd things that answer, from forgotten…
I Made a 3D Printed VTOL Drone
A maker's write-up of designing a 3D printed VTOL drone with no background in CAD or aerodynamics, covering the build an…
I Made a 3D SVG Renderer That Projects Textures
A write-up on building a 3D renderer in pure SVG that fakes perspective with affine transformations, projecting textures…
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