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Weak Men Are Superweapons
Scott Alexander's classic essay on how attacking the weakest version of a group's ideas can quietly discredit the whole…
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate
An Our World in Data piece with charts showing that a four-day forecast now matches the accuracy of a one-day forecast 3…
Weather Model Based on ADS-B
A short project write-up showing how the speed and heading data every plane broadcasts can be turned into wind and weath…
Web and HyperText History
A timeline of the history of the web and hypertext, tracing the ideas and milestones from early visions of linked inform…
web.dev
Google's resource of guidance and tutorials for building fast, accessible, secure, and modern websites that work across…
WebGL Image Processing
A hands-on blog series on image processing algorithms in WebGL, covering color correction, blend modes, thresholding, di…
WebMD - Better Information. Better Health.
Health information portal with condition guides, a drug database, symptom checkers, and wellness content.
Weird A.I. Yankovic
A cursed deep dive into AI voice cloning, in which the author makes the artists parodied by Weird Al sing Al's parodies,…
Weird Tools Made by Small Teams
A long essay and list of strange, beautiful and experimental creative tools by solo developers, with thoughts on buildin…
Welcome to the Land
A long-form travel essay from Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States, about standing on Arctic ic…
Welcome to the Land of Children
A Princeton library post on Kodomo no Kuni, the 1920s Japanese children's magazine whose vivid modernist illustrations b…
Welcome to the Public Domain
A plain-language guide from Stanford explaining what the public domain is, how creative works enter it, and how to tell…
Welded from Nature: Shota Suzuki
A Kyoto Journal interview with metal artist Shota Suzuki, who hand-forges astonishingly lifelike dandelions, weeds and r…
Welding Tips and Tricks
A hobbyist welder's site full of practical technique videos and articles covering MIG, TIG, and stick welding for home s…
We're Knot Friends
A personal April Cools essay from the Math Intersect Programming blog, written off-topic and looking back on summers spe…
We're Not Going to Run Out of New Anatomy Anytime Soon
An award-winning SV-POW! post on why sauropod vertebrae still hold undiscovered anatomical features, and how much unexpl…
Wes Anderson and Jacques Henri Lartigue
A side-by-side look at the photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue that appear in Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, tracing a…
What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet?
A short etymology piece tracing the ampersand from its Latin roots to its former place as the 27th letter of the English…
What Colour are your bits?
A classic essay by Matthew Skala on why computer science thinking fails to capture copyright law, explaining how the leg…
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
A clear walk through Ada Lovelace's 1843 Note G, explaining how the first published program for Babbage's Analytical Eng…
What Did the Depressed Clown Say to Buddha?
An essay built on Kierkegaard's idea that the crowd is untruth, weighing the danger of feeling compassion without ever a…
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What Do People Do All Day?
A witty close reading of Richard Scarry's Busytown that unpacks the economics, labor and politics of the children's clas…
What Do Visa and Mastercard Do?
A clear introduction to how card networks work, who pays whom when you tap a card, and why interchange fees exist, writt…
What does an idle CPU do?
A clear, illustrated explainer of what happens inside a computer when there is nothing to run - the idle task, the halt…
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