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Using GPS in the Year 1565
A blog post that overlays a satellite-style track on a 1565 map to show how accurately old maps matched the real landsca…
Using Perlin Noise to Generate 2D Terrain and Water
A graphics tutorial showing how to build 2D terrain and water from Perlin noise, with explanations of the layering and s…
Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs
A short technical article showing how an SVG can combine a compressed JPEG with a mask to deliver transparent images at…
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
A long, illustrated adventure in image processing that turns train journeys into very wide panoramic photographs, explai…
Utilitarianism.net
An online introduction to utilitarian ethics written by academic philosophers, covering its history, variants, and stron…
Varieties of Dualism, Part Four: I am the master of my body
A philosophy essay on dualism arguing that believing the mind is separate from the body has physical and psychological c…
Verse Daily
A long-running site that posts one new poem every day sourced from recent poetry publications, functioning as a daily sa…
Verywell Mind: Know Your Mind, Take Charge of Your Life
Mental health and psychology site with expert-reviewed articles on conditions, therapy, relationships, and self-improvem…
Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize
How a burned 2000-year-old Herculaneum scroll was virtually unrolled and read for the first time, and what the ancient t…
VFD Amplifiers for Primitive Radio
A hobbyist's page on using vacuum fluorescent displays as tiny tube amplifiers in homemade primitive radios, with circui…
Vibe Coding a Bookshelf with Claude Code
A first-hand account of building a personal bookshelf website through vibe coding with Claude Code, from the first promp…
Vibe Physics: The AI Grad Student
A Harvard physicist guides Claude Opus 4.5 through a full quantum chromodynamics research project in two weeks, in a can…
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Victorian Monkey Tennis?
A Victorian history blog shares a manager's notes of attraction ideas for Alexandra Palace around 1880 - including, appa…
Vikings tagged the great lion in Venice with runes
Researchers revisit the runic graffiti carved on a marble lion in Venice, evidence that Scandinavian Vikings served as M…
Vintage Drum Forum
A community forum and virtual museum for collectors and players of vintage drum kits, sharing identification help and hi…
Violent Enough to Stand Still
An essay asking why human societies changed so little over 300,000 years, weighing violence, cooperation and social stru…
Violinist.com
A community and news site for violinists and violists sharing blogs, forum discussions, and interviews about playing and…
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau: Living Statue
An art-historical essay on Virginie Gautreau, the Parisian beauty painted by Sargent as Madame X, and how she made her o…
Visiting Canada's $50 Million 1980s Ghost Town
A first-hand visit to Kitsault, British Columbia, a fully built 1980s mining town abandoned after 18 months and kept eer…
Visiting Scarfolk
A tour of Scarfolk, Richard Littler's darkly funny 1970s British town of fake public-information posters, cursed ephemer…
Visual Design Rules You Can Safely Follow
A short, practical checklist of visual design rules that reliably work, from spacing and alignment to contrast, each exp…
Visual Wilderness
An online learning community for landscape photographers offering courses, articles, and critique on composition and lig…
Visualizing 13 Million Bluesky Users
A visual essay mapping Bluesky's follow graph into clusters, with layouts and plots that reveal the distinct communities…
Visualizing All Books in ISBN-Space
A deep visual dive into mapping every book ever assigned an ISBN, with zoomable maps showing which titles libraries and…
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