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How Pitfall Builds its World

An approachable deep-dive into how the Atari 2600 game Pitfall squeezed 255 jungle screens into a few kilobytes using a…

pizzalegacy.nl Article

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

A reverse-engineering deep dive into how the 1994 game Pizza Tycoon moved dozens of cars around its city on tiny hardwar…

download.samba.org Article

How Samba Was Written

Andrew Tridgell's famous 2003 account of reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, told with a witty analogy a…

howsecureismypassword.net Interactive

How Secure Is My Password?

A tool that estimates how long a computer would take to crack the password you type, a quick way to see what makes passw…

staniks.github.io Article

How Serious Sam Handled Masses of Enemies on 56k Modems

An analysis of the Serious Engine 1 source code explaining how Croteam synchronized hundreds of enemies over slow dial-u…

stale.jock.pl Interactive

How Stale Is Your AI

A live dashboard showing the release date and training cutoff of 20 AI models, with two ticking clocks for how old each…

asianometry.substack.com Article

How the Soviets Put a Lander on Venus

How Soviet engineers, after repeated failures, built Venera probes tough enough to survive crushing pressure and furnace…

laconicml.com Article

How to Become a Computer Science Engineer at MIT for Free

A curriculum of about 40 free university courses arranged over four academic years, giving a self-taught route through a…

unterminated.com Article

How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop

A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…

htdp.org Website

How to Design Programs

The complete text of the classic introductory programming book, which teaches a systematic design recipe for writing pro…

bordeen.blogspot.com Article

How to Generate Procedural Racetracks

A devlog article explaining how to generate procedural racetracks without noise functions, with diagrams of the algorith…

jeremymorgan.com Article

How to Learn C# Part 3 - Coding Basics

The third part of a beginner tutorial series on C# and .NET, covering the core syntax, variables and control flow you ne…

blog.robertelder.org Article

How To Make A CPU

A picture-driven walkthrough of how a CPU is built from basic logic, starting with simple parts and working up to a mach…

pixel.curious.supplies Article

How to Make Full Colour PCB Art

A write-up of the ideas, pitfalls, and finally working method for adding full colour art to circuit boards, from the Pix…

scamavert.com Website

How to Report Online Scams

A guide for finding the official place to report online scams and cybercrime in your country, with immediate safety advi…

runyourown.social Article

How to Run a Small Social Network Site for Your Friends

Darius Kazemi's widely shared guide to running a small social network for friends, focused on community-building princip…

staff.polito.it Website

How to Write Your Own Compiler

A university tutorial that walks through writing a compiler from scratch, organized as a table of contents of chapters c…

useit.com Article

How Users Read on the Web

Jakob Nielsen's classic 1997 study finding that web readers scan rather than read, with the experiments on concise, high…

howbigg.com Interactive

Howbigg

A display comparison tool that shows monitor, TV and phone sizes side by side, with exact dimensions, pixel density and…

howtogeek.com Article

How-To Geek - We Explain Technology

Technology site offering how-to guides, reviews, and explainers covering software, hardware, mobile, and smart home topi…

hpmuseum.net Website

HP Computer Museum

An archive of classic Hewlett-Packard computing products from 1966 to 1991, including calculators, desktop computers, an…

chrisburnell.com Article

HTML Can Do That

A reference page listing dynamic functionality that modern HTML can now handle on its own, much of which used to require…

joshondesign.com Website

HTML Canvas Deep Dive

An online book that teaches the HTML canvas API from basic drawing through charts, animation, a small game, WebGL, WebAu…

htmlreference.io Website

HTML Reference

A free visual guide to every HTML element and attribute, with short explanations and examples that make it a quick looku…

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