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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
A history of how a group of historians spent years imagining Zotero, the research tool that eventually reached millions,…
The Speed Report
A ranking of news websites by how fast they load, showing which outlets serve their stories quickly and which ones lag b…
The Story of How RSS Beat Microsoft
The history of Microsoft's ICE syndication format and how open, simple RSS beat it, with lessons on why open formats lik…
The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
A tour of an unusually dark and funny computer manual unlike any other, with excerpts that show off its odd voice and hu…
The Tao of Backup
A classic piece of computer humor written as a Zen parable, in which a master teaches a novice the seven heads of backup…
The Taylorator
A hobbyist builds software to flood the FM broadcast band with Taylor Swift songs, walking through the radio hacking and…
The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases
A hobbyist engineer builds an underwater remote-operated vehicle to search lakes for missing persons, with the design ch…
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The TRON Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT
A long read on TRON, Japan's ambitious 1980s open operating system project, and how politics, US trade pressure and bad…
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
A sharp, much-cited essay explaining why consumer software tends to get worse over time, and how chasing the marginal us…
The User Condition
Silvio Lorusso's online essay on computer agency and behavior, asking how users can evade automatisms inside software bu…
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
A detective-style blog post that digs into why HP shipped laptops with a strange FreeDOS option, with screenshots and th…
The Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold's 1993 book The Virtual Community, free to read online: a firsthand account of the WELL and early onlin…
The Vocal Effects of Daft Punk
A detailed breakdown of the vocoder, talk box, pitch and filter effects behind Daft Punk's robotic vocals, with song exa…
The Website Obesity Crisis
Maciej Ceglowski's classic talk on bloated web pages, arguing that page weight and needless complexity are making the we…
The Wi-Fi Only Works When It's Raining
A hardware detective story about a home Wi-Fi link that only worked in the rain, following every false lead to a surpris…
The X Window System Boot Stipple
A nostalgic look at the grey checkerboard stipple and X-shaped cursor that greeted Unix users at startup, and how that t…
The Xenon Death Flash
The strange true story of how a camera flash could instantly crash the Raspberry Pi 2, and how the community traced the…
The Yamaha DX7 Keyboard
A nostalgic, well-told history of the Yamaha DX7, the digital FM synthesizer that defined the sound of 1980s pop, and wh…
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
A loving history of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor on its 50th anniversary, covering its design, the home computers and co…
The Zombocom Problem
An essay using the old joke site Zombocom, where you can do anything, to ask why unlimited freedom in software often lea…
There Oughta Be a Bullet Time Video Booth
A maker builds a wedding video booth from an array of DSLR cameras to create Matrix-style bullet-time clips, with a vide…
Theremin World
A global community for theremin enthusiasts covering the instrument's history, builders, performers, and film appearance…
This Newsletter Does Not Exist
A curated list of more than 25 websites in the spirit of This Person Does Not Exist, each generating convincing things t…
Thought as a Technology
Michael Nielsen's essay on how interfaces change the way we think, with interactive examples and a meditation on compute…
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