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How I Experience Web Today
A satirical one-page parody of modern browsing, piling on pop-ups, cookie banners, and newsletter prompts until the page…
How I Grew My Substack From 439 to 451 Free Subscribers
A deadpan satire of growth-hacking advice, promising to reveal how to gain twelve whole subscribers in eleven months wit…
How I Reverse Engineered Google Docs
James Somers explains how he dug into Google Docs revision data to replay any document keystroke by keystroke, and shows…
How Is Felix Today?
A real-time dashboard of one man's entire life in a single database, showing his location, mood, meals, sleep, workouts…
How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET
A short, funny piece of early internet lore about how a science fiction author managed to get himself banned from the AR…
How Long Is My Data?
A playful calculator that measures your data the way librarians would: by how many metres of shelving it takes if you st…
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks looks at a Reddit post of an ancient jaw fossil spotted in travertine tile and explains h…
How Many Cigarettes?
A wonderfully specific film blog that counts how many cigarettes get smoked on screen, movie by movie, with a separate l…
How Many People Are In Space Right Now
A single-purpose page that answers exactly one delightful question: the current number of humans in space, with names an…
How Much Toilet Paper
A tiny calculator that tells you whether your toilet paper stash will last, based on how many people live with you and h…
How My Images Are Dithered
A personal-site walkthrough of how the author turns photos into crunchy dithered images for the web, with before-and-aft…
How Normal Am I?
A webcam experience where face detection algorithms estimate how normal you are, showing what such software guesses abou…
How People Actually Lie With Charts
A research write-up showing that most misleading charts shared online are not doctored axes but correct graphs used to s…
How Random Are You?
A browser experiment where you say numbers aloud as randomly as you can while a predictor seals its guess before each on…
How Soon Is Now?
A personal site built from old-web nostalgia, mixing blog posts, scrapbook pages, musings, and keepsakes in the handmade…
How to Apply Letraset Dry Transfers
SPLAT, a society devoted to vintage Letraset Action Transfers, explains how rub-down lettering and transfers were applie…
How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop
A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
Chip Morningstar's classic, very funny essay about a software engineer wandering into an academic conference on postmode…
How To Fix a Toilet
A visual essay on everything people ask search engines how to do, from fixing toilets to tying ties to kissing, comparin…
How To Plant A Meme
Artist Joshua Citarella describes a secret 18-month project to infiltrate radical online Gen Z communities and nudge the…
How to Professionally Say
A searchable phrasebook that turns what you really want to say at work, like that meeting is a waste of my time, into po…
How To Rob A Gas Station
A tongue-in-cheek step-by-step game tutorial on robbing a gas station that you can finish in minutes, with 22 different…
How to Run a Small Social Network Site for Your Friends
Darius Kazemi's widely shared guide to running a small social network for friends, focused on community-building princip…
How to Survive Boiling Water
The story of MIT's most notorious milk carton, bought in 1994 and rediscovered in a dorm fridge, and the probiotic parad…
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