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Installing Every Firefox Extension
A funny and technical account of attempting to install every extension in Firefox's add-on store at once, with the chaos…
Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU
A deep illustrated look at the Intel 80386, the chip that cemented the x86 line, covering its design, features and its r…
Inter Alternatives: How to Choose a UI Font
An article on choosing a UI font beyond Inter, covering cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height as criteria, p…
Internet Coke Machine
The story of the Carnegie Mellon Coke machine that students wired to the early network so anyone could check whether col…
Internet Radio With Real Buttons Using Stream Deck
A maker write-up on building an easy internet radio for a relative, using a Stream Deck so each station gets a real icon…
Introducing BrainTripping
A write-up introducing BrainTripping, Matt Huebert's language model comedy project, where an AI is pushed to produce str…
Introducing ColorMe
A post introducing ColorMe, a tool that visualizes the CSS Color Function so you can see how color values behave as you…
Introducing Flickr PARK or BIRD
A Flickr engineering write-up on building a computer vision system that answers a famous xkcd question: whether a photo…
Introduction to Distributed System Design
A classic tutorial from Google Code University explaining the core ideas behind designing distributed systems, preserved…
Investigating Corrupt Winamp Skins
A deep dive into corrupted Winamp skins, following the oddities found inside broken files down some very strange rabbit…
IOCCC Flight Simulator
The author of a winning Obfuscated C Code Contest entry presents his full flight simulator written in under 2 KB of code…
IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
A student recounts his senior prank: taking over the IPTV system of a huge Illinois school district to rickroll thousand…
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
A funny, Rube Goldberg style account of wiring a home doorbell through a chain of cloud services, and the absurd complex…
It's a DE9, Not a DB9
A fun bit of electronics trivia explaining why the common serial connector is really a DE9, how D-sub naming works, and…
Jitbit's SQL Interview Questions
The exact SQL questions a software company asks developer candidates, with the schema and the answers, handy for practic…
Jokes and Humour in the public Android API
A tour of the jokes, easter eggs and silly placeholder strings that Android engineers left in the platform's public API,…
JPEG Compression
A clear illustrated guide to how JPEG works, from exploiting human visual perception to the change of basis, quantizatio…
Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
A long read on whether neural networks, microbes and blockchain could save a thousand-year-old South Indian silk loom tr…
Kid Pix - The Early Years
Craig Hickman tells the story of creating Kid Pix, the beloved children's painting program, from a rough prototype for h…
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
The story of how a faulty software deployment at Knight Capital sent millions of unintended trades in 45 minutes and wip…
LackRack
The famous hacker-wiki guide to turning a cheap IKEA LACK side table into a 19-inch server rack, with measurements, phot…
Lambda Calculus
An illustrated explanation of lambda calculus, Alonzo Church's 1936 model of computation, showing how functions and vari…
Laserology
An engaging write-up on CD laser failures, the KSS 151A and CDM4 pickups, and what really kills them, for audio hobbyist…
Launch 98
A 1998 photo report of a Linux user group rocket launch where the fins were cut from Windows 98 beta CDs, with launch pr…
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