Miscellaneous collection of blogposts from people who had to debug some really strange computers.

A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

A historical publication written during the early 1940s amid World War II, "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" serves as a unique historical artifact that illustrates grassroots resistance efforts and the belief in the collective power of ordinary people during wartime.

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

A sweet and simple guide for declarative integration of the Catppuccin themes for Gitea/Forgejo on a NixOS host.

A quick look into the process of creating a font.

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.

Some clever tricks you can employ to salvage an essentially un-salvageable machine. I learned a lot of new things from this!

Super interesting look into the #Steam discovery queue system and the impact it has on your game's visibility on the platform

The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.

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

I've wanted to have consistent OpenGraph images for my website for a long time but did not want to involve any expensive-to-run services. The approach outlined here worked perfectly for what I needed.

A great read about a bunch of smart hackers who converged around the One Million Checkboxes game and started hiding secret messages inside it, their eventual discovery by the game's creator and everything they accomplished while the game was still up. Honestly made me a tiny bit emotional.

Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.

Surprisingly bullshit-free breakdown of all the considerations that went into creating a brand new front page carousel component for the JioCinema apps.

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

Being able to make slides with Compose sounds fun!