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I Made a Camera Lens with an Iceberg
A photographer carves a working camera lens out of Icelandic glacier ice and shoots portraits with it before it melts, w…
I Made a Chair
A beginner's cheerful account of designing and building a wooden chair by hand, with the mistakes, lessons and small tri…
I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket
A developer's write-up on building an iOS podcast player in Racket, covering why the language was chosen and how the app…
I Made an Open-Source Laptop From Scratch
A build log on designing a highly integrated open-source laptop from the ground up, walking through the hardware choices…
I Made My Blog Solar-Powered, Then Things Escalated
A hobbyist's tale of running a blog on a tiny solar-powered server, and how the project snowballed into batteries, panel…
I Organized a 20-Acre Game of Capture the Flag
A student's first-person account of planning and running a huge capture-the-flag game across twenty acres, with rules, l…
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10
A warm personal story of a ten-year-old who mailed a roller coaster idea to Disneyland in 1978 and what happened next, t…
I Printed My Instagram Feed for a Month
A writer prints out her Instagram feed every day for a month instead of scrolling, and reports what changed about attent…
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Science
I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
A science teacher's playful and thoughtful post on why testing an absurd idea, like washing a toaster, teaches more abou…
I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity
A data post that scrapes Hacker News submissions to count which top-level domains get linked most, ranking the TLDs behi…
I Sell Onions on the Internet
A charming first-person essay on getting laid off and stumbling into running a Vidalia onion shop online, with candid le…
I should have loved biology too
A personal essay on going from hating biology to being obsessed with it, and how great writing can make a subject come a…
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
A short, playful hack-of-the-week write-up on hiding a whole working web page inside the tiny favicon image of a site, w…
I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape
A hilarious first-person account of tasting Honda's capsaicin-laced rodent-repelling wire tape, and what happens when cu…
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games
A cavapoo named Momo types random keys and an AI turns them into playable Godot games, with the full pipeline, rewards a…
I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
A maker documents turning the Lego Game Boy set into a functioning handheld, fitting real electronics inside the brick m…
I Walked Across Luxembourg
A first-person account of hiking the Grand Duchy from west to east on foot, with trail notes, villages, weather and thou…
I Watched An 857-Hour Movie
A writer sits through Logistics, an 857-hour film that follows a pedometer in reverse from a Swedish shop to a Chinese f…
I Wired Up My Bike's GPS to Order Me Pizza
A fun write-up of a geofence hack that triggers a pizza order from a bike's GPS mid gravel race, so dinner is waiting wh…
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 notice
A curious developer mails a letter to the old Free Software Foundation address printed in the GPLv2 notice and shares wh…
Ianvisits
A London-focused blog covering transport infrastructure, historic buildings, and quirky corners of the city, from new tu…
I'd Rather Read the Prompt
A short, sharp essay arguing that when someone hands you machine-generated prose, you would rather see the prompt they t…
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Tech
If Looks Could Kill
Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, recalls demoing the PET at a trade show and a memorable run-in w…
If We Can Soar
A long-form Pipe Wrench story about the Black men of South Central Los Angeles who have raised Birmingham Roller pigeons…
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