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A Love Letter to Cassette Futurism
An essay on cassette futurism, the chunky, tactile retro-tech look of 1980s sci-fi screens and hardware, and why it feel…
A Love Letter to Flashcards
A personal reflection on how hand-made flashcards and spaced repetition keep knowledge alive, with practical advice on w…
A MacBook Touchscreen for $1
A clever hack that uses a small mirror and some computer vision to make an ordinary MacBook respond to touch, with demos…
A most profound video game
Biologist Michael Levin argues that the puzzle game Baba Is You trains the kind of flexible thinking needed to explore l…
A Neural Network That Writes Hangul by Hand
A write-up on training a recurrent neural network to generate Korean handwriting strokes, from collecting 4,500 lines wi…
A New Spline
Raph Levien explains a new spline that continues his Spiro curve work from his PhD thesis, with examples of smooth curve…
A partial list of Rome
A lyrical list-essay from Rebecca May Johnson's recipe diary, cataloguing bitter drinks, meals and small moments from a…
A Physically-Based GPU Ray Tracer in Julia
A blog post from the Makie team showing how a physically-based ray tracer was written in Julia and run on the GPU, with…
A question of time - Parisian Fields
A Parisian Fields post on the pneumatic clocks of 1880s Paris, a network of compressed air pipes that pulsed every minut…
A Readable Wikipedia
A design experiment that restyles Wikipedia articles with a clean grid and better typography, showing how the world's bi…
A Real-Time 3D Shader on the Game Boy Color
A tinkerer pushes a Game Boy Color to render a real-time 3D shaded scene, explaining the math, the workflow and the tric…
A Receipt Printer Cured My Procrastination
A writer with ADHD prints each task on a thermal receipt and explains how video-game psychology helped him finally focus…
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
A first-person investigation into a viral Reddit post complaining about bots that turns out to be a bot itself, selling…
A Regular Expression to Check for Prime Numbers
The famous trick of testing whether a number is prime using nothing but a regular expression on a string of ones, explai…
A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
A tongue-in-cheek 1994 verse lament for the VMS operating system, sent to the Unix-Haters Handbook editors and preserved…
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Internet Culture
A review of Julian Assange's favourite meme
Artist Chris Hayes reviews the wake-up-sheeple meme as if it were a gallery artwork, dissecting its composition, symboli…
A Revolution in Biology?
An essay on how developmental biology and bioelectric signaling might hold clues to how bodies form, how intelligence ar…
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Education
A Rocket Cat?
A Penn special-collections post on the bizarre rocket cat and rocket bird illustrations in a 16th-century artillery manu…
A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar
A clear guide to how lidar works in self-driving cars, covering time of flight, scanning methods, wavelengths and the tr…
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Food & Cooking
A Simple (Visual) Guide to Eggs
An infographic that decodes egg carton labels such as cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised and organic, showing what ea…
A Simple GPU Hash Table
An article on building a simple hash table that runs on the GPU, explaining how thousands of threads insert and look up…
A Solarpunk Manifesto
The widely shared Solarpunk Manifesto, a list of principles for an optimistic, sustainable, community-minded future that…
A Sound Effect
A community hub for sound designers sharing free sound libraries, interviews, and behind-the-scenes stories of film and…
A Spark Extinguished
A review of a book on Tombstone, the 1960 account of students exiled to the countryside during the Great Famine who dare…
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