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Linux in a Pixel Shader
A technical writeup of an unlikely hack: a RISC-V emulator running inside a VRChat pixel shader that boots Linux, explai…
live laugh blog: non-AI images
Net artist Jenn Schiffer rounds up websites where you can find real, free, human-made photos and illustrations to use on…
Mac Themes Garden
A showcase of more than 3,000 Kaleidoscope color schemes from the Classic Mac era, with the backstory of how the collect…
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
A gallery-style appreciation of 1980s MacPaint artwork, showing how artists made striking pictures in black and white pi…
MagSafe Fishing for an iPhone in a Berlin Canal
A funny first-person account of rigging a magnet on a string to fish a dropped iPhone 12 Pro out of a Berlin canal, usin…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mastodon for Apple II
A retro-computing project that brings a working Mastodon client to the Apple II family, with screenshots and a downloada…
Maximum Rocknroll
A monthly volunteer-run fanzine that has documented the global underground punk rock scene through reviews and interview…
Medieval Staircases Were Not Built Clockwise for Defenders
A myth-busting article tracing the popular castle-tour claim that spiral stairs favored right-handed defenders, and show…
Megabite
A write-up of an algorithm that automatically turns photos of food into faces, with the image-processing approach and th…
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup
The opening chapter of Erin Kissane's meticulously researched series on how Facebook became entangled in Myanmar's crisi…
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under 5 pounds
A maker walks through running a classic Macintosh on a tiny RP2040 microcontroller, with homemade video output and a wor…
Midori-san, the blogging houseplant
Pink Tentacle explains how a succulent in a Kamakura cafe blogged daily via leaf sensors that turned its bioelectric sig…
Minimum Wage Clock
A playful blog write-up of a quick experiment that turns minimum wage into a ticking clock, showing how fast different j…
Missouri State School and Hospital
Asylum Projects wiki entry on the Missouri State School and Hospital in Marshall, part of a vast volunteer archive docum…
MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy
A classic piece of hacker folklore: the rules for tourists using the MIT AI Lab's ITS machines in the days when the lab'…
MIT Pirate Certificate
The official rules for MIT's famously quirky Pirate Certificate, earned by completing PE classes in sailing, archery, pi…
Monotype Font Licensing Shake-Down
A typography nerd's account of receiving a font licensing demand from Monotype, and why trying to shake down someone who…
Monster Cables Picked the Wrong Guy to Threaten
A lawyer's gleeful 2008 account of Monster Cable sending a cease-and-desist to the wrong target and getting a masterclas…
MP3 for Image Compression
A playful 2006 experiment that feeds photos through an MP3 audio encoder to see how well it compresses images, with side…
Mr. Baby Paint
A designer's tale of building a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers and stumbling onto a new flood-fill cell…
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