Here’s how to build an OS in 1,000 lines of code. I would have killed for this when I told a prospective university lecturer in an interview that my dream was to build an operating system. Thankfully, I shifted my sights eventually.
How an unsolveable problem taught 3Blue1Brown about topology
I like my mathematical problems like I like my— never mind.
Atlas of Space is an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
Amazing for anyone remotely interested in the universe that we live in.
Robotics guy Kevin McAleer used his skills to make a Tamagotchi out of a Raspberry Pi Pico, dubbed the Picotamachibi. The shell is 3D printed and it comes with the standard three buttons to take care of your virtual pet.
Shank Mods on the Sony PVM-4300: the world's largest CRT
That’s a big TV!
Dean Burnett on the misunderstandings of smartphones and their effect on the brain
Is smartphone a misnomer or an ironic name?
Apple reportedly ceasing production of the Vision Pro
7.8 – too much vision, too much pro
For Chemistry World, Katrina Megget on the chemical complexity of a cup of tea: Drinking tea has been popular for millennia. Slowly the science is starting to reveal the complex chemical nature of our favourite brew.
Some arbitrary facts about the number 2025
A powerful number indeed.
The top 11 posts of 2024
What posts were the best in 2024?
With some paper, a 555 timer, a CD4017 decade counter and some LEDs, Ben Jemmett made his very own flashy paper Christmas tree and put all the necessary files and instruction into a GitHub repo. (via)
Jared Hutchins on how big data created the modern dairy cow
Jared Hutchins wrote about the history of dairy cow breeding and how big data replaced the more traditional (and arguably eugenicist-led) approaches of the early 20th century: This is the story of how the power of big data, combined with an ambitious public-private partnership between dairy farmers and the US Department of Agriculture, enabled the …
Maho Motoyama's geometric Christmas paper boxes
Deck the halls with boughs of carefully folded holly!
Tetration and why you probably never learnt about it at school
That’s a lot of exponentiation.
JSTOR Daily on how a ‘single atom’ can transform the colour of birds
Multi-coloured birbs!
HTML for People is a web project by Blake Watson that aims to help people make their own websites using the humble markup language: HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
(via; quote from the original website, shared via CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence)
Update: there’s now a Spanish version.
Eryk Salvaggio put a call out on Bluesky for the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024 and his thread is a treasure trove of critical insight into AI.
This Does Not Compute on Sony's MiniDisc laptop
Who needs an MD player when you can have a whole laptop?
A time-lapse video of a pine cone growing into a pine tree
Watch it grow!
1-bit Puerto Rico is an interactive web project by rubén rodríguez where he has created 1-bit maps of Puerto Rico.