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RunOffGroove
A veteran DIY effects site with bare-bones schematics and articles for musicians building their own guitar pedal circuit…
Same Stop
A retired Apple programmer reflects on life after 26 years of coding and the odd, personal projects that fill his days,…
Schotter - Georg Nees
A deep dive into recreating Georg Nees's iconic 1968 generative artwork Schotter, tracing archives, a thesis and the ran…
Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
A design critique of the computer interfaces in the 1995 film Hackers, looking at which screens and visual effects were…
SCREAM CIPHER
A playful post showing how the many Unicode variants of the letter A can encode a message as a cipher that looks like a…
Scrollbars are becoming a problem
A witty and thoughtful rant on how scrollbars have grown thinner, hidden, and harder to use, and why this small interfac…
SDO Study
A tour of a Brooklyn work-from-home study that squeezes a flight simulator, an electronics lab and a music studio into a…
Secret Colours of the Commodore 64
A nostalgic deep dive by a teenager-turned-developer who discovered hidden extra colours in the C64 display, with images…
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Ron Rosenbaum's 1971 Esquire story on the phone phreaks who hacked the telephone network with blue boxes and whistles, t…
Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars
Tim Dierks recounts why Netscape's SSL became TLS in the late 90s, a short inside story of Microsoft and Netscape standa…
Sega AI Computer
A deep dive into Sega's obscure Japanese educational AI Computer, with specs, the touch-pad keyboard, software and scans…
Self Driving Cars Are Fun!
A student's write-up of building a self-driving car autopilot in Keras, walking through training a neural network to ste…
SHISHUA: The Fastest Pseudo-Random Generator in the World
A technical write-up on SHISHUA, a pseudo-random number generator built for speed, explaining how it works and how it co…
Shortest URLs on the Internet
A curious hunt for the shortest web addresses that actually serve a page, from single-letter domains to top-level domain…
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
An investigation into a strange antenna tower outside Chicago that turns out to be part of a shortwave radio network bui…
Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair
A detailed teardown of a broken camera lens bought for under sixty dollars, with close photos of the optics and mechanis…
Simple 2D Terrain With Midpoint Displacement
A tutorial on generating 2D terrain with the midpoint displacement algorithm, with live demos and code showing how a jag…
Simulating 20,000,000 Particles in JavaScript
A performance deep dive into simulating millions of particles in plain JavaScript at 60 fps on a phone using only the CP…
Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time
A richly illustrated walkthrough of how real-time fluid, fire and smoke simulation works, with live demos that show each…
Simulating Water Over Terrain
A visual walkthrough of building a shallow-water simulation over terrain, with interactive demos showing rivers, floods…
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Hans Moravec's 1998 essay on whether we might live in a simulation, mixing ideas about computation, mind and the nature…
Smashing Magazine - For Web Designers And Developers
An online magazine publishing in-depth articles, books, and workshops on web design, front-end development, and user exp…
Smuggling Arbitrary Data Through an Emoji
A clever walkthrough of hiding secret bytes inside a single emoji using Unicode variation selectors, with an interactive…
So Good, It Works on Barbed Wire
A classic engineering essay explaining how radio signals can travel along a barbed wire fence, and how ordinary transmis…
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