Links — #fun
- Datahäxan (Apr 4, 2026)
Digital witchcraft art gallery from 0dd Company.
#fun - Voyager 1 Runs on 69 KB of Memory (Apr 4, 2026)
A 1977 time capsule: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.
#fun - Baochip-1x (Apr 4, 2026)
An open hardware chip project — what it is, why now, and how it came about.
#fun - Georgian Wine: 8,000 Years of Uninterrupted Culture (Apr 4, 2026)
The world’s oldest wine tradition, stretching back approximately eight thousand years.
#fun - Timeframe (Apr 4, 2026)
Building a family e-paper dashboard — a maker project from design to daily use.
#fun - ISBN Visualization (Apr 4, 2026)
A visual exploration of the structure and distribution of ISBN numbers.
#fun - Building a TB-303 from Scratch (Apr 4, 2026)
A detailed tutorial on building the legendary acid house synthesizer from components.
#fun - Memo (Apr 4, 2026)
An esoteric programming language that only remembers the last 12 lines of code.
#fun - Payphone Go (Apr 4, 2026)
A game about finding and visiting real payphones in the wild.
#fun - “Billy Bookshelves as a Retro Motherboard Rack” (Apr 4, 2026)
“Using IKEA BILLY shelves to rack vintage motherboards — form following function.”
#fun - Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (Apr 4, 2026)
A treasure hunter spent years in jail for contempt rather than reveal the location of shipwreck gold.
#fun - What's the best way to learn a new language? (Apr 4, 2026)
BBC on the science of language acquisition — immersion, apps, and what actually works.
#fun - The Day the Telnet Died (Mar 8, 2026)
GreyNoise documents the decline of telnet traffic — internet infrastructure history in real time.
#fun #essays - Lessons From Living in a Very Snowy Place (Mar 8, 2026)
Eukaryote Writes Blog on the practical wisdom of deep winter.
#essays #fun - Clinejection (Mar 8, 2026)
How a GitHub issue title led to prompt injection that compromised 4,000 developer machines via AI coding tools.
#fun #essays - Aesthetics of Single Threading (Mar 8, 2026)
Why single-threaded designs have genuine aesthetic and practical appeal.
#essays #fun - nCPU (Mar 8, 2026)
A CPU that runs entirely on a GPU. Deeply weird and genuinely educational systems hack.
#fun #essays - Good Software Knows When to Stop (Mar 8, 2026)
On the discipline of knowing when a feature set is complete.
#essays #fun - I'm Reluctant to Verify My Identity for Any Online Service (Mar 8, 2026)
A privacy-first take on why age and identity verification is a bad default.
#fun #essays - The Windows 95 UI: A Usability Case Study (1996) (Mar 8, 2026)
A detailed ACM case study on the usability engineering behind Windows 95's interface.
#fun #essays - Loon (Mar 8, 2026)
A functional language with invisible types, safe ownership, and algebraic effects.
#fun #essays - No Coding Before 10am (Mar 8, 2026)
On structuring creative work around your actual productive hours.
#essays #fun - 406.fail (Mar 8, 2026)
A protocol spec for rejecting AI-generated pull requests. The RFC parody format is half the fun.
#fun #essays - Spying Chrome Extensions (Mar 8, 2026)
Research uncovering 287 Chrome extensions silently tracking 37 million users.
#fun #essays - The Eternal Promise: Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (Mar 8, 2026)
From COBOL to AI — the recurring cycle of promising that programmers are about to become obsolete.
#essays #fun - Those Who Can, Teach History (Mar 8, 2026)
A defense of teaching as intellectual work, not a fallback career.
#essays #fun - On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) (Mar 8, 2026)
A 1974 paper on what makes a programming language well-designed. Still relevant.
#fun #essays - What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form (Mar 8, 2026)
Real answers from security clearance forms, collected in 1988. An internet classic.
#fun #essays - Why C Has the Best File API (Mar 8, 2026)
A case for C's file I/O design being more thoughtful than its successors.
#essays #fun - Why Vampires Live Forever (Mar 8, 2026)
Approaching vampire mythology through biology and evolutionary logic.
#essays #fun - Claude's Cycles (Mar 8, 2026)
A Knuth paper on mathematical cycles. The naming coincidence with the AI is a bonus.
#fun #essays - “An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus” (Mar 1, 2026)
“Introduction to the strangest book ever published -- an encyclopedia of an imaginary world.”
#fun - “The Hunt for Dark Breakfast” (Mar 1, 2026)
“A mathematical exploration treating breakfast as a simplex of milk, eggs, and flour ratios.”
#fun #math - Nullboard (Feb 7, 2026)
Minimalist kanban board in a single HTML file. Focused on compactness and readability.
#fun #tools - pseudo3d (Feb 7, 2026)
A raycaster in bash. Because why not.
#fun - bash-dungeon (Feb 7, 2026)
An educational dungeon crawler written entirely in bash.
#fun - shell.how (Feb 7, 2026)
Paste a shell command, get a plain-English breakdown of what it does.
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