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Repairing a Ship's Hull in -50C Yakutsk
A vivid first-hand account of how a crew repairs the underside of a ship's hull while it sits in a frozen Siberian river…
Replace Peer Review with Peer Replication
A scientist proposes that journals require independent replication before publication, laying out how it would work and…
Replacing My Best Friends With an LLM
A funny and surprisingly candid experiment fine-tuning a language model on years of group chat history, and the weirdly…
Reports From Unknown Places
Illustrator Ninn Salaun files a new poetic report each day from unknown places, short dreamy dispatches about weather, t…
Repurpose Your Old Kindle
A hobby project that hacks an old Kindle e-reader into an always-on display showing live bus arrival times, with the ste…
Resources for the Future
An independent research institution publishing accessible studies and data on energy, climate policy, and the economics…
RESTful DOOM
A write-up of embedding a RESTful API into the classic 1993 game DOOM so it can be queried and controlled over HTTP and…
Resurrecting a Dead Dune RTS Game
A programmer's write-up on reverse engineering and reviving Emperor: Battle for Dune, a long-dead real-time strategy gam…
Retrieving 1TB from a Faulty Drive with Woodworking Tools
A hands-on tale of rescuing a terabyte from a failing NVMe drive using woodworking tools, patience, and a lot of ingenui…
Reverb News
The editorial arm of the gear marketplace Reverb, publishing long-form articles on instrument history, iconic gear, and…
Reverse Engineering My Cable Modem Into an SDR
A detailed hacking write-up on reverse engineering a cable modem to repurpose its tuner and hardware as a software-defin…
Reverse Engineering SimTower
The story of recreating the 1994 skyscraper-management game SimTower in the browser by picking apart the original progra…
Reverse Engineering the Sega Channel Game Format
A detective story about decoding the file format of Sega Channel, the 1990s cable service that streamed Genesis games, a…
Reversing UK Mobile Rail Tickets
A detective story about decoding the barcodes on British mobile train tickets, tracing a design lineage back to paper AP…
Reversing YouTube's Most Replayed Graph
An interactive write-up that reverse engineers the engineering behind YouTube's Most Replayed graph, showing how the cur…
Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's 1980 critique of Orwell's novel 1984, written as the year approached, examining what Orwell got right and…
Review: The Problem of Animal Pain
A Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews critique of a Trent Dougherty book arguing for a theodicy that accounts for animal su…
RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab Header
A deadpan spoof of an internet standard that defines an HTTP header letting users politely ask websites not to stab them…
Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol: An Appreciation
An appreciation of Richard Williams' Oscar-winning 1971 animated A Christmas Carol, which mimics Victorian engravings an…
Rise of the Triforce
A Dolphin emulator blog deep dive into the Triforce arcade board, a joint Sega, Namco and Nintendo system built on GameC…
Rivers Through Time
A geologist uses decades of Landsat images to animate Amazonian rivers like the Ucayali writhing and cutting off meander…
Roadside Attraction
An essay that starts with giant roadside oddities, from the Biggest Pistachio to restaurants shaped like hats, and wande…
Roaring 20s by Tate
A weekly dispatch that reads the financial papers of exactly 100 years ago, here covering August 1921 with Dow prices, h…
Robert Fulford on the Person from Porlock
Robert Fulford's column on Coleridge's famous person from Porlock, the visitor who supposedly interrupted Kubla Khan, an…
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