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Is this a good book for me, now?
A short essay arguing that a book has no fixed objective value, only value to a particular person in a particular contex…
Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
The infamous 2001 Adequacy.org satire that warns parents their son may be a hacker if he uses Linux, owns a modem or kno…
Ise-ji: Walk With Me
A walker's notes from the coastal Ise-ji pilgrimage route in Mie, Japan, savouring small villages, worn coffee shops, sh…
Ishii Shigeo - Protest Art in 1950s Japan
Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures, an illustrated essay on Ishii Shigeo, whose woodcuts and paintings captured postwar pr…
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
A funny, Rube Goldberg style account of wiring a home doorbell through a chain of cloud services, and the absurd complex…
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
A short, true-story dialogue by ed weissman showing how layers of process turn a one-line software change into days of m…
Iterating Towards Bethlehem
A Peter Watts essay on spider cognition and what tiny brains can do, a thoughtful science writing piece from a hard scie…
It's a DE9, Not a DB9
A fun bit of electronics trivia explaining why the common serial connector is really a DE9, how D-sub naming works, and…
Japanese Ambient Music: 7 Essential Records
A listening guide to seven essential Japanese ambient and new age records from the 1980s, from Hiroshi Yoshimura to Sato…
Japanese American Internment: Ansel Adams Photos
A history-teaching resource that walks through Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar internment camp and how to read…
Japanese Archaeology and Breath of the Wild
An academic but readable paper tracing how Japanese archaeological heritage, from ancient shrines to ruins, shaped the w…
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
A look at how small local libraries across Japan are becoming travel destinations for book lovers as bookstores shrink,…
Jay Alammar's Illustrated Guides
Illustrated guides that break down how transformers, GPT, and other AI models work using detailed step-by-step diagrams…
Jazz History Online
A site of essays and reviews exploring jazz history, from biographies of overlooked musicians to reassessments of classi…
JazzStandards.com
A reference site cataloguing the history, composers, and notable recordings of the jazz standards musicians play most of…
JazzTimes
A long-running American jazz magazine offering news, artist profiles, and critical writing about the genre's past and pr…
Jazzwise
A British jazz magazine site covering news, reviews, and features on musicians across the genre's traditional and contem…
Jeff VanderMeer: Southern Reach and the New Weird
An interview with author Jeff VanderMeer about his creative process, the Southern Reach trilogy and the uncanny, touchin…
Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe
Jeff Varasano's legendary, exhaustively detailed guide to making Neapolitan-style pizza at home, covering dough, starter…
Jesse Thorn: Make Your Thing
Radio host Jesse Thorn lays out his tongue-in-cheek 12-point program for success in independent media - a funny, practic…
Jitbit's SQL Interview Questions
The exact SQL questions a software company asks developer candidates, with the schema and the answers, handy for practic…
John Bortle's Dark Sky Scale
An explanation of the Bortle scale, the nine-step measure of night sky darkness, describing what you can see at each lev…
John Giorno (2012)
A long 2012 interview with poet and performer John Giorno about Dial-A-Poem, Giorno Poetry Systems, sound poetry, Burrou…
Jokes and Humour in the public Android API
A tour of the jokes, easter eggs and silly placeholder strings that Android engineers left in the platform's public API,…
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