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The Java Memory Model

A classic reference hub on the Java Memory Model by William Pugh, collecting papers, FAQs, and discussion on how threads…

benholmen.com Article

The Kilopixel

The story of a ridiculous 1000-pixel wooden display built over six years, with the mechanics, mistakes and the quirk tha…

thekryptosproject.com Article

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…

jaimebrooks.substack.com Article

The Last Recording Artist

Jaime Brooks' long essay on ghostwriters, vocaloids, virtual idols and AI voices, tracing how pop music has quietly sepa…

lawsofsimplicity.com Article

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…

thelegendofq.co.uk Website

The Legend of Q

An enthusiast's encyclopedia of every gadget from the James Bond films, plus the real wartime spy-gadget makers like Cha…

fudco.com Article

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…

yager.io Article

The Limits of Computational Photography

An engineer tries to photograph fine laser etching on optical equipment and discovers how smartphone image processing in…

lod-cloud.net Interactive

The Linked Open Data Cloud

A diagram mapping datasets published as linked open data, showing how the sources connect to one another in a sprawling…

freedom-to-tinker.com Article

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…

tldp.org Website

The Linux Documentation Project

The Linux Documentation Project, an archive of community-written guides and HOWTOs covering Linux administration since t…

timeline.lerandom.art Interactive

The Living Timeline

A generative art history timeline with over 1,100 moments from 71,000 BCE to 2025, linking art, machines, people and ide…

louisabraham.github.io Article

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…

thebroadcastbridge.com Article

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…

tomasp.net Interactive

The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC

An interactive essay where you build a Breakout game in Commodore 64 BASIC right in the browser, while exploring how old…

inference-review.com Article

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…

themarkup.org Website

The Markup

A nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions use technology, testing algorithms and platforms with d…

meatverse.dev Website

The Meatverse

A gleefully gross parody of a big-tech founder letter announcing the Meatverse, where the next platform is flesh itself…

medicalfuturist.com Website

The Medical Futurist

A publication exploring how technology reshapes healthcare, from digital health gadgets and AI to the future of medicine…

misinfogame.com Interactive

The Misinformation Game

A free open-source social media simulator built for research that lets participants scroll, like and share posts to stud…

missing.csail.mit.edu Website

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

A free MIT course of lectures and notes on the tools computer science classes skip, from the shell and Vim to Git, debug…

javascript.info Website

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

A comprehensive, constantly updated free tutorial covering JavaScript from basics to advanced topics like closures, prom…

owickstrom.github.io Website

The Monospace Web

A minimalist design exploration showing how far a pure monospace grid can go: tables, forms, lists, ASCII drawings and m…

monster6502.com Website

The MOnSter 6502

A working, transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502 processor built from discrete components on a huge board, wi…

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