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90's Cursor Effects
A throwback collection of JavaScript mouse effects that follow your cursor or finger, bringing 1990s homepage glitter ba…
90s VGA Demoscene
A set of 1990s Mode X demoscene effects recreated in JavaScript and Canvas, bringing back the pixel-level visual tricks…
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
A deadpan April Fools research paper showing that random paint splatters can be read as valid Perl, with a gallery of co…
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
A SIGBOVIK joke paper showing that most random paint splatters, run through OCR, turn out to be valid Perl code, with a…
9front
A community-maintained fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, continuing development of the experimental operating system's tool…
9to5Mac
A leading online magazine for Apple news, reviews, and insights on Apple products and the wider tech industry, updated a…
A (More) Modern CSS Reset
An update to a widely shared CSS reset, explaining each rule that sets a consistent baseline across browsers and how the…
A Brief History of Rogue
Glenn Wichman, co-creator of Rogue, recounts how the 1980 dungeon crawler was built on Unix machines at UC Santa Cruz an…
A Brief Interview with AWK Creator Brian Kernighan
A short Q&A with Brian Kernighan about creating AWK, how small languages come to be, and what a lifetime of Unix-era pro…
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
A beloved comic timeline of programming languages from Jacquard's loom to modern times, packed with deadpan jokes and fa…
A Byte of Python
A free beginner's introduction to Python, a freely available book that walks new programmers through the language step b…
A Calculator App? Anyone Could Make That
A fun deep dive into why a seemingly trivial calculator app hides surprising difficulty, from floating-point oddities to…
A Communist Apple II
An engineering archaeology tale about a Cold War era Apple II clone, and how an old machine was tested for years without…
A Computer Scientist in a Business School
Panos Ipeirotis's blog on crowdsourcing, data, and online markets, written as a computer scientist working behind enemy…
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
A YouTube engineer tells how a small team slipped a banner into the video page to nudge users off Internet Explorer 6, a…
A Constructive Look at TempleOS
A thoughtful essay examining Terry Davis's TempleOS on its technical merits and quirks, from a programmer who finds real…
A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table
A data-driven look at how the internet's global routing table changes over a single day, with charts of announcements, w…
A Deep Dive Into Fitts' Law
An explorable explanation of Fitts' Law, with interactive demos that show why big, close targets are easier to hit and h…
A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years
A reverse-engineering detective story about decoding a mysterious game asset format from a classic Splinter Cell title t…
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A Geek's Journal, 1976
What if there had been blogs in 1976? This journal imagines one, written day by day by a teenage geek obsessed with elec…
A Geometric Intuition for LDA
An interactive walkthrough of linear discriminant analysis that builds a geometric picture of how classification and dim…
A High-Speed Laser Camera Trigger for Under $2
A build log for a microsecond-fast laser camera trigger made from cheap parts, created to fire a high-speed flash at exa…
A leap year check in three instructions
A short, clever write-up showing how to test for leap years in the Gregorian calendar with just three machine instructio…
A List Apart
A long-running magazine for people who make websites, publishing articles on design, user experience, code, and content…
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