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Gaming
Lemonade Stand
A deep nostalgic dive into the classic Apple II game Lemonade Stand, digging into how its weather and sales simulation w…
Lenna Meets Lenna in Person
The story of Lenna Soderberg attending an imaging conference in 1997, where researchers met the woman behind the famous…
Let's Build a Simple Interpreter
A hands-on tutorial series that demystifies compilers by walking you through building a simple interpreter step by step…
Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack, 5: TCP Retransmission
A hands-on tutorial in a series building a TCP/IP stack from scratch, this installment covering how TCP retransmission d…
Levy Economics Institute
An independent research institute publishing working papers on monetary economics, financial fragility, and employment p…
Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives
A quirky Oregon history story about how the Lewis and Clark expedition's strongest medicine left a lasting, very literal…
Liberty Street Economics
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's blog, publishing readable analysis of banking, inflation, and financial market re…
Librarians Are Dangerous
A short, warm public service announcement about why librarians are secretly the most powerful people in town, written in…
Lie still in bed
A short personal essay by Ognjen Regoje about the simple, restorative habit of lying still in bed and letting your thoug…
Lies I've Told My 3 Year Old Recently
A father's deadpan list of the absurd things he has told his toddler, from trees that talk at night to every fish being…
Life Advice from NYC Chess Hustlers
Anne Kadet sits down at the outdoor chess tables of New York and collects hard-won life advice from the hustlers who pla…
Life Is Not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
An essay arguing that a computer simulation is not needed to explain our existence, and that logic alone is sufficient,…
Life Lessons from Getting Fired from Burger King
A funny, tender personal essay about being fired from Burger King, wandering through desire, pudding, having it your way…
Lightspeed Magazine
A monthly online magazine publishing free science fiction and fantasy short stories alongside author interviews and nonf…
Lilly Yokoi - Circopedia
Circopedia's entry on Lilly Yokoi, the Japanese ballerina on a golden bicycle whose dazzling trick-cycling act stunned a…
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories
An outline of the many theories surrounding Lincoln's assassination, including one-page summaries, claims that Lincoln e…
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Education
Linear Algebra: What Matrices Actually Are
A plain-language explainer revealing what matrices really are: linear transformations of space, which finally makes the…
Linnaeus and Race
An essay from the Linnean Society examining how Carl Linnaeus classified humans into varieties, what he actually wrote,…
Linux Applications Performance: Introduction
The opening of a series that builds web servers from iterative to forking to threaded designs, using benchmarks to teach…
Linux in a Pixel Shader
A technical writeup of an unlikely hack: a RISC-V emulator running inside a VRChat pixel shader that boots Linux, explai…
Liquid Glass in the Browser
An illustrated tutorial with live demos that recreates Apple's Liquid Glass refraction effect in the browser using SVG d…
Lisping at JPL
A first-person story of the rise and fall of Lisp at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told by an engineer who worked on…
Liutaio Mottola Lutherie Information Website
A deep technical reference of formulae, data tables, and articles for guitar makers, violin makers, and other stringed-i…
live laugh blog: non-AI images
Net artist Jenn Schiffer rounds up websites where you can find real, free, human-made photos and illustrations to use on…
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