Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

Transcript of Mary Poppendieck's landmark presentation titled "The Tyrrany Of The Plan"

Explore an archive of Doom ports showcasing how the game has been adapted to run on various devices, even those not originally intended for gaming.

An old-but-gold debugging story of how canonicalization of Unicode can often give unpredictable and confusing results, when you don't actually know how the canonicalization process works.

Very neat explanation of how databases work hard to keep your data safe. I was surprised to learn about the failure mode of reading from page cache twice and the database convincing itself that the data has been written out even though it really hasn't.

Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create

A great essay diving into an obscure font that is present all over New York City, and tracing its history all the way back to physical milling presses in the early 1900s. Both the information and its presentation are top notch

Highly interactive and beautiful view of some 100,000 books, it's hard for me to describe what makes it so great to me. Seeing is believing!

Great read on the state of the AI industry post the release of DeepSeek R1, which has shattered the idea of AI training only being available to the biggest players in the field.

Beautifully written and illustrated video explaining shar's journey of creating a frog pond idler game

Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.

Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!

Great read on why the distinction between technical and non-technical folks is simply meant to be exclusionary, and whether the word holds any weight at all.

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.