Proof of concept history sniffing, where visitors do the hard work.

Have you ever had the experience of photographing something faraway, and, in the photo it looked far too small compared to its surroundings?

Combine emoji to create new ones.

The game is simple, pick a card, read the code, throw a 20 sided dice (wherever you see the ⚂ symbol) to get a value and evaluate the code together with your kid.

Article describing Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager for Linux. It’s currently in very early stages of development and not yet ready for day-to-day use.

Modding a 5.5th gen iPod (aka iPod Video) with more storage, new battery and running Rockbox OS.

jless is a command-line JSON viewer. It is written in Rust and can be installed as a single standalone binary

Explanation of UTF-8 with lots of diagrams.

Interview with Adam Kling on what lead him to write a full operating system from scratch: Serenity OS

Short guide with some key facts about the various related writing systems found in Bronze Age Crete and mainland Greece, starting with the one deciphered writing system — Linear B — and then surveying the undeciphered ones roughly in order of how much is known about them.

Interview of Hundred Rabbits — an artistic duo hacking their way around the Pacific on their sailboat — by Drew DeVault.

Latin is often thought to be a particularly difficult language to learn and master. But this perception is somewhat recent, and mostly due to changes in the way it is taught.

Python notebook detailing how to get the daily Wordle on the first try using the obfuscated replay results that are shared on twitter and other social media platforms.

Guess a 5-letter word in 6 tries.

Each guess must be a valid 5 letter word. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.

Electric Tables is a research project and prototype to explore the idea of structured data, personal databases and web as texture. It works by taking a URL, extracting some key data and adding it to a table. It’s implemented using a bookmarklet and local storage.

This is an adversarial version of Josh Wardle’s Wordle. “Adversarial“ means that Absurdle is actively trying to avoid giving you the answer. With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if need be.

Thoughts on characterization of Mat by Sanderson in Chapter 20 of The Gathering Storm, where Mat shows up for the first time in the book.

Introduction to systemd.

Make an animation by dragging a character around the screen.

Process substitution is a great little feature and it feels very Unixy, but it took a surprisingly long time to appear in Unix and in shells. This is because it needed a crucial innovation, namely names in the filesystem for file descriptors, names that you can open() to be connected to the file descriptor.