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Making a Flexible Neon T-Shirt with LED Filaments
A hands-on maker write-up about sewing flexible LED filaments into a glowing neon-style t-shirt, with the experiments an…
Making a Font
An indie comic artist explains how and why they made a handwriting font for their webcomic, with sketches and step-by-st…
Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
A playful experiment in pushing the PDF format to its limits by building a single page so enormous it would cover an are…
Making and Knowing: Training a Dog
A page from the digital edition of a sixteenth-century French artisan manuscript, with translation, notes and recipes on…
Making Eyesite
A development journal for Eyesite, an experimental website that combines computer vision with web design, explaining how…
Making Games
A candid essay by a veteran indie developer on four years of full-time game making, what he believed about the dream, an…
Making My Own Wedding Rings
A hands-on write-up of casting wedding rings at home, from carving molds to melting and pouring purple gold, with photos…
Making Perlin Noise 30% Faster
A write-up on optimizing Perlin noise generation to run 30 percent faster, walking through the changes made to squeeze o…
Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper
A how-to post on building a small script that sets your desktop wallpaper from the album art of whatever music you are c…
Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
A homeowner's tongue-in-cheek experiment in fighting summer fruit flies with carnivorous plants, with notes on which spe…
Mandolin Cafe
A community hub for mandolin players offering news, forums, tab archives, and classifieds centered on the instrument.
Maniac's Ascension Guide
A quirky, detailed walkthrough of how to ascend a NetHack 3.4.2 character, with strategy, item lore and tips from a vete…
Mapping the French Culinary Network
A data project write-up that extracts a knowledge graph of French restaurants and chefs from Le Fooding reviews using la…
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
A profile of the 18th-century Duchess of Portland, whose obsession with shells, plants and curiosities made her one of t…
Marine Conservation Society
A UK ocean charity sharing beach cleanup data, seasonal seafood guides, and reports on the health of Britain's coastline…
Marines Defeat DARPA Robot With a Cardboard Box
A short, funny account of how Marines fooled an AI human-detecting robot with cardboard boxes, somersaults and tree-bran…
Market Urbanism
A blog arguing for looser zoning and free-market approaches to housing and city building, with essays on land use rules…
MarketWatch
Financial news site providing stock quotes, market data, investing tools and personal finance coverage.
Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard
A literary essay in Salmagundi revisiting Martin Amis from his 1983 debut in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists is…
Mary Schmich Is World Famous
The story of how a Chicago Tribune columnist wrote Wear Sunscreen, watched it go viral as a fake Kurt Vonnegut speech, a…
Mary Shelley, Horror's Greatest Mother
An essay marking 200 years since the birth of Frankenstein, tracing how Mary Shelley's novel shaped Gothic fiction and m…
Mastodon for Apple II
A retro-computing project that brings a working Mastodon client to the Apple II family, with screenshots and a downloada…
Math Breakdown: Anime Homing Missiles
A visual tutorial on recreating anime-style swarming missile trails using cubic Bezier curves, Perlin noise and minimal…
Math from Three to Seven
A lively review of Zvonkin's classic about a Moscow math circle for preschoolers, with delightful examples of how very y…
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