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I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket
A developer's write-up on building an iOS podcast player in Racket, covering why the language was chosen and how the app…
I Made an Open-Source Laptop From Scratch
A build log on designing a highly integrated open-source laptop from the ground up, walking through the hardware choices…
I Made My Blog Solar-Powered, Then Things Escalated
A hobbyist's tale of running a blog on a tiny solar-powered server, and how the project snowballed into batteries, panel…
I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity
A data post that scrapes Hacker News submissions to count which top-level domains get linked most, ranking the TLDs behi…
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
A short, playful hack-of-the-week write-up on hiding a whole working web page inside the tiny favicon image of a site, w…
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games
A cavapoo named Momo types random keys and an AI turns them into playable Godot games, with the full pipeline, rewards a…
I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
A maker documents turning the Lego Game Boy set into a functioning handheld, fitting real electronics inside the brick m…
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 notice
A curious developer mails a letter to the old Free Software Foundation address printed in the GPLv2 notice and shares wh…
I'd Rather Read the Prompt
A short, sharp essay arguing that when someone hands you machine-generated prose, you would rather see the prompt they t…
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If Looks Could Kill
Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, recalls demoing the PET at a trade show and a memorable run-in w…
I'm a Scam Prevention Expert, and I Got Scammed
A security professional gives a long, candid step-by-step account of how a convincing phone scam fooled her anyway, and…
IMG_0416
A short, fascinating dive into the long-forgotten iPhone feature that sent photos to YouTube, and the odd digital artifa…
Imposter Attack
A write-up of building an Among Us-themed game with ESP32-powered infrared targets, custom lighting, and sound effects,…
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson's classic 1999 essay on operating systems, user interfaces and culture, comparing Windows, Mac, Linux an…
in transitu
A performative photography project by Ada Ada Ada probing how artificial intelligence classifies gender and nipples, wit…
Increment
A software engineering magazine publishing long-form articles from practitioners at companies about how they build and o…
IndieWeb Wiki
The living wiki documenting the IndieWeb movement, a community-driven effort to help people own their content instead of…
Infinite Cities with Wave Function Collapse
A blog article explaining how the Wave Function Collapse algorithm generates an infinite procedural city, with the autho…
Infotopia
A philosophy paper arguing that a society becomes more just the more fairly intelligence is distributed across it, publi…
Inside a Low Budget Hardware Espionage Implant
A teardown of the S8 data line locator, a USB cable with a hidden GSM tracker that can listen in, call back and report l…
Inside a Viral Website
The creator of a viral site tracking the ship stuck in the Suez Canal shares what five days of internet fame looked like…
Inside FAISS
An illustrated, interactive walkthrough of how billion-scale similarity search works, from vectors and clustering to qua…
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Inside the first issue of Macworld
Scott Knaster flips through the first issue of Macworld from 1984, showing scanned pages, vintage ads and the early Mac…
Inside the Mirrortocracy
An incisive essay on how Silicon Valley hiring drifts toward mirroring existing employees, and how that quiet bias shape…
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