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What's Best Forum
A high-end audio discussion forum where hobbyists and industry professionals debate speakers, amplifiers, and playback g…
What's Up With All Those Equals Signs?
Explains why old emails quoted online are littered with equals signs, tracing the mystery to quoted-printable encoding a…
When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story
A personal story of a research project on website-fingerprinting side channels, where a machine learning result turned o…
When Random Isn't
A decade-old story of how a supposedly random number generator turned out to be predictable, told as a security detectiv…
Where Did the Old Web Go?
A crawl of over 650,000 links from 2009 to 2014 reveals how much of the old web has vanished, with breakdowns of what di…
Where does my computer get the time from?
A fascinating tour of how clocks reach your computer, from atomic clocks and GPS to NTP servers and leap seconds, writte…
Who's Received a Black Bar on Hacker News
A living list of notable people who earned the black bar on Hacker News after they died, compiled with dates and links t…
Why Haven't Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
Craig Gidney explains why quantum computers factored 15 in 2001 but still have not factored 21, and what that really say…
Why I Wrote PGP
Phil Zimmermann's essay from the original 1991 PGP user guide explaining why ordinary people need strong encryption, a f…
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed?
A clear, nostalgic explanation of why dial-up modems topped out at 56k, covering phone line bandwidth, sampling limits a…
Why Love Generative Art?
A richly illustrated essay on generative art, tracing it from early plotter pioneers like Frieder Nake to today's coders…
Why Semi-Trucks in the US and Europe Are So Different
An illustrated explainer on why American semi-trucks have long noses while European ones are flat-fronted cab-overs, cov…
Why SICP Matters
Brian Harvey of Berkeley argues why the SICP textbook changed how people think about programming, and what it teaches be…
Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
A former Sony engineer explains the supply chain, tooling and parts problems that make reviving the classic cassette Wal…
Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical use
A security researcher digs into what3words and finds near-identical word triples sitting close together, showing how eas…
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WonkaVision
A Shopify experiment recreating Johnny Lee's famous Wii Remote head-tracking trick with just a webcam, making flat scree…
Words
A minimalist essay arguing that written content should come before design and that words are the web's most powerful too…
Working as a Software Developer
An essay adapted from a talk to first-year engineering students that explains what software development work is actually…
Worse Is Better
Richard P. Gabriel's classic 1991 essay on why simple, imperfect software often beats elegant design, a foundational rea…
Worst of Breed
A deadpan satire of enterprise design patterns and tech horror, here walking through the business-critical Excel spreads…
Writing a Small Software Renderer
A clear walkthrough of how a basic software rasterizer works, building triangle drawing, depth buffering and shading fro…
Writing an HTTP Server in Prolog
A walkthrough of building a working HTTP server in Prolog, showing how a logic programming language can handle requests…
Writing Arabic in English
An essay on building a phonetic Arabic keyboard that lets you type Arabic with English keys by sound, using capitals for…
XEM WebGL Guide
A tutorial with resources for WebGL raymarching and distance functions, showing how to render 3D shapes from pure math i…
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