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Everything I Know About Floppy Disks
A thorough, friendly walk through how floppy disks work: the physical media, drive mechanisms, tracks, sides, rotation s…
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Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
Steve Yegge's famous satirical essay that retells software design as a fairy tale where verbs are second-class citizens…
Exploring EXIF
An interactive essay by Harley Turan that mines the EXIF metadata of 73,000 personal photos, with playful interfaces for…
Exploring Rectangle Subdivisions
An exploration of irreducible rectangle subdivisions, sparked by a talk on a procedurally generated city, with diagrams…
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
A short list of surprising false assumptions about flights, airports, callsigns and time, revealing how messy and fascin…
Fatal Dose
A detailed account of the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, whose software errors killed patients in the 1980s, a cla…
FBO Particles
An article by creative coder Nicolas Barradeau on GPU particle systems with frame buffer objects in three.js, with demos…
Features of Your Font You Had No Idea About
An illustrated tour of the hidden features inside good fonts, from swashes and stylistic sets to ligatures and tabular n…
Feynman's Appendix F on Shuttle Reliability
Richard Feynman's personal observations on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a famous appendix on wildly optimistic…
Fightin' Words: Netcode
An illustrated deep dive into why online fighting games feel laggy, comparing delay-based and rollback netcode with anim…
Filing the Corners off My MacBooks
A short, cheerful defense of sanding the sharp corners off his MacBooks, with close-up photos and an invitation for ever…
Finger: The 1971 Social Network That Never Died
A look at the Unix finger protocol, arguably the first social network, with no accounts or ads, and how people still use…
Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights
A practical, cheap fix for the painfully bright blue standby LEDs on TVs, stereos and set-top boxes, explained by an ele…
Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600
A walk-through of how to patch the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. game, explaining why its pits frustrate players and the smal…
Fixing Macs Door to Door
A first-person account of working as an AppleCare dispatch contractor in Chicago, visiting homes and offices to repair M…
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
A deadpan fictional job interview in which the candidate solves the simplest coding exercise, FizzBuzz, by training a ne…
Flipdisc Display Build Guide
A build guide for an 84x42 flipdisc wall display, covering the hardware, power, frame and software stack behind driving…
Floppinux
A walkthrough for building a tiny embedded Linux that boots from a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, a retro-computing challen…
Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype
A thrift-store find turns into a hardware mystery: an unbranded bright blue gadget is taken apart, booted and traced bac…
Four Column ASCII
A tiny post resurfacing a four-column layout of the ASCII table that makes the structure of control codes, digits and le…
Fresh From the Lab
A lab report from the OpenAWG project, which is building an open-source atmospheric water generator that pulls drinking…
Furiosa's Cat Feeder
A maker's witty build log of hacking an automatic cat feeder after one clever cat keeps outsmarting it, with photos of e…
Furiosa's Cat Feeder
A maker's step-by-step build log of a homemade automatic cat feeder for a cat named Furiosa, with photos of the mechanis…
Galactic Compass
Matt Webb introduces an app with a compass that points to the center of the galaxy, with notes on how and why he built i…
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