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My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone can't
A fond look at an HP Jornada palmtop from 2000 and the surprising things it still does that modern smartphones cannot, f…
My Broken ThinkPad Plays Music upon Booting
A puzzle-like investigation into a dead laptop that plays a strange tune at startup, involving spectrograms, murky video…
My Business Card Runs Linux
A hardware hacker designs a thin PCB business card that actually boots Linux, covering the chip choice, the tricks for s…
My Graduation Cap Runs Rust
A fun hardware hack where a college graduation cap gets a custom display and microcontroller programmed in Rust, with bu…
My Manager Spent $1M on a Backup Server I Never Used
A sysadmin's war story about an absurdly expensive backup server that nobody ever used, with lessons on how big organiza…
My Mother Declared My Bedroom a Disaster Area
A boy writes to President Reagan asking for federal disaster relief to clean his messy bedroom, and receives a wonderful…
My Six Stages of Learning to Be a Socially Normal Person
Sasha Chapin's candid, funny personal essay tracing how he slowly learned the unwritten rules of social life, from cluel…
My VHS Nightmare
A funny, honest story about 2000 old VHS tapes in a garage and the foolish hobby of digitizing them, and what it says ab…
My website as a home
A personal essay on treating a website like a home rather than a portfolio, tracing how a spirograph experiment grew int…
My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
A personal write-up on the calming hobby of aimlessly roaming Tokyo in Street View, zooming into odd shops, signs and ev…
Natural Process
The story of exonemo's art piece in which a Google homepage screenshot was painstakingly hand-painted onto a giant canva…
Neil Armstrong's Moon Rocks Customs Form
The actual customs declaration the Apollo 11 crew signed on returning from the Moon, listing moon rocks and dust as carg…
Net Exploration: What is Netstalking
An introduction to netstalking, the hobby born on Russian imageboards of searching the deep web for hidden pages, with i…
New Moon Letter 1
John Higgs opens his New Moon Letters essay series with a thoughtful look at counterculture: what it was, why it mattere…
No Hello
A one-page plea to stop sending a lonely hello in work chat, with a mock chat log showing the wasted minutes and a bette…
Nokia N900 Necromancy
A hardware-hacking diary of reviving a dead Nokia N900 Linux phone with a fake battery, a USB-C port and booting from an…
Non-Horror Spotlight: The Sims
An essay on the hidden eeriness of The Sims, from drowning pools to ghost Sims, and the psychology of why players rememb…
Not a real engineer
A short, dark prose poem about being told you are not a real engineer, and the strange monstrous thing you become instea…
NYC Pizza Price Data
Liam Quigley documents 464 slices of pizza eaten across all five boroughs from 2014 to 2022 and analyzes rising prices a…
Okayplayer
A music and culture site founded by The Roots covering hip hop, soul, and Black music culture with features and intervie…
Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
A tongue-in-cheek but carefully argued fan theory that Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings is secretly the most sini…
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On Geek Versus Nerd
A machine-learning researcher uses Twitter data to chart which words lean geek and which lean nerd, with a scatter plot…
on scrolling
A personal web essay about the compulsive act of scrolling, recommendation algorithms and enshittification, and wanting…
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun
A playful orbital-mechanics essay that works out, with real equations and footnoted jokes, why launching something into…
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