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Creating Stylized Textures the Procedural Way
A layperson-friendly walkthrough of a procedural workflow for creating stylized textures and game assets, explaining eac…
CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader
Blur Busters explains how a GPU shader can mimic the phosphor scanning of an old CRT, with motion demos showing why it c…
CSS is DOOMed
An explanation of how every wall, floor, barrel and imp in DOOM becomes a div, rendered in true 3D with nothing but CSS…
CSS Transitions and Transforms for Beginners
A beginner-friendly tutorial on adding simple animation and movement to a design with CSS transitions and transforms, bu…
CSS Width: Stretch
A short lab note explaining what the CSS width: stretch value does, how it differs from width: 100%, and which fallbacks…
CSS-Tricks - A Website About Making Websites
A long-running resource of articles, guides, and references on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and front-end web development tech…
Custom USB Trackball
A build log for a 3D-printed trackball mouse replacement powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico and a PMW3360 sensor, with desig…
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
The story of Cyc, the secretive project begun in 1984 to hand-build a huge knowledge base for common-sense reasoning, an…
Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs
A long technical essay on causal trees and operation-based CRDTs, showing how to build collaborative editing that works…
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Databending using Audacity Effects
A visual catalogue of what happens when you open an image as raw audio in Audacity and run echo, reverb, phaser and othe…
Debian Linux Release Announcement (1993)
The original 1993 Usenet announcement of the Debian Linux release by Ian Murdock, a short historical document from the b…
Decoding the Obfuscated Bash Script on a Uniqlo T-Shirt
A playful investigation into an obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script printed on a retail t-shirt and what it turned o…
Decoding the Telephony Signals in Pink Floyd's The Wall
A telecom engineer analyzes the dial tones and phone signals in Pink Floyd's The Wall, working out which real telephone…
Deep Blue Sea VFX Oral History
An oral history of how the visual effects team pulled off Samuel L. Jackson's shock shark death in Deep Blue Sea, told b…
Deep Learning Training vs. Inference
An explainer on how AI models are trained and then put to work, covering the difference between deep learning training a…
Design for 3D-Printing
A long, richly illustrated deep dive into designing parts for 3D printers, covering how layers, overhangs, tolerances an…
Design Tradeoffs
Course notes from the Computation Structures series on the tradeoffs engineers weigh when designing digital systems, suc…
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Designing Windows 95's User Interface
A retro-computing look at the usability studies Microsoft ran while designing Windows 95, showing early prototypes and h…
Developing the OptiGap Sensor System
An R&D case study on OptiGap, a bend-localization sensor for soft robotics made from 3D printer filament, walking throug…
Diagonal Thumbnails Gallery
A roundup of web designs that break from standard grids with diagonal thumbnail layouts, collected as inspiration for mo…
Diceware Passphrase Home
The original Diceware page by Arnold Reinhold, explaining how to build strong passphrases from ordinary dice rolls and a…
Did You Lose Your AirPods?
A hands-on write-up of how the author reunites strangers with lost AirPods using a few clever tricks, a small do-gooder…
Dieselgate, But for Trains
The story of hackers reverse engineering Polish trains that mysteriously locked up after third-party repairs, revealing…
Discord, or the Death of Lore
Archivist Jason Scott laments communities moving from searchable public forums into closed chat servers, and what vanish…
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