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The Isolator
Hugo Gernsback's 1925 piece on The Isolator, an oxygen-fed helmet meant to block all noise and distraction, free to read…
The Kilopixel
The story of a ridiculous 1000-pixel wooden display built over six years, with the mechanics, mistakes and the quirk tha…
The Kryptos Project: Ed Scheidt
Profile of Ed Scheidt, the CIA cryptographer who helped Jim Sanborn design the Kryptos sculpture cipher, on a fan resear…
The Last Recording Artist
Jaime Brooks' long essay on ghostwriters, vocaloids, virtual idols and AI voices, tracing how pop music has quietly sepa…
The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda's ten laws of simplicity, from Reduce and Organize to The One, each distilled into a single line with a small…
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
Chip Morningstar and Randall Farmer's classic 1990 paper on building Habitat, an early online virtual world, and what it…
The Limits of Computational Photography
An engineer tries to photograph fine laser etching on optical equipment and discovers how smartphone image processing in…
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
The story of a sneaky two-line change slipped into the Linux kernel source in 2003, how it was caught, and what it says…
The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude
An essay on the words that do the heavy lifting in Claude's writing, looking at which vocabulary choices shape the recog…
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable
A look at the vanished craft of hand-lacing cable bundles in old broadcast studios, from an abandoned NBC room to why th…
The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
A profile of Edsger Dijkstra, the influential and often controversial computer scientist, tracing his ideas, personality…
The NES Composite Palette Project
An obsessive project to recreate authentic NES colors from real hardware captures, with downloadable palettes and notes…
The Neural Network Zoo
A colorful illustrated cheat sheet of dozens of neural network architectures, from perceptrons to GANs, each drawn as a…
The Nintendo Switch Switch
A playful hack that turns a Nintendo Switch console into a real Ethernet network switch, explaining the pun-driven idea…
The Octo-Bouncer
A maker's write-up of a hypnotic machine that keeps a steel ball bouncing on a tilting plate using a camera and eight mo…
The Open Library Explorer
A write-up of the Open Library Explorer, a visual way to browse the Internet Archive's book collection by shelf and subj…
The Overengineered Solution to My Pigeon Problem
A maker builds a wifi-connected water gun to chase pigeons off his balcony, controlled over the internet by a Python scr…
The Page With No Code
A web puzzle about a page whose View Source shows nothing at all yet still has content, with the author unpacking the tr…
The Recovery Kit Version Two
A build write-up for a rugged, portable Raspberry Pi computer in a case, updated with a battery, an NVMe boot drive and…
The Reverse Geocache Puzzle
The story of a locked puzzle box with a GPS inside that only opens at one secret location, built as a wedding gift, with…
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
The story of how a small team at the University of Minnesota built Gopher, briefly ruled the early internet, and then lo…
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The Rubik's Contraption
A build log for a homemade robot that solves a Rubik's cube in 0.38 seconds, opening with the slow-motion video and then…
The Shape of Apps
Icon designer Louie Mantia traces how Mac app icons lost their distinctive silhouettes to uniform rounded squares, and w…
The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday
A tongue-in-cheek essay that fits curves to AI progress data and concludes the singularity will hit on a specific Tuesda…
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