No mini-theme this week.
- Soft Electronics. Linked for the physical designs. (via)
- Magic Numbers. What shaped the 1500 byte Ethernet MTU.
- Languages as Symbols. (via)
- Odie Directory. Found Google Docs turned into HTML. (also via)
- NON-OBJECTIVE. All sorts of neat clock faces. (also also via)
- Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History. I worry that there will be so many knockoffs you can’t find originals.
- Another example of knockoffs overwhelming the originals.
- Emoji history: the missing years. Thanks, Ben Collver.
- “using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture” (via)
- Thumb Nation: How We Learned to Play With Our Fingers. (via)
- Reversing Choplifter. (via)
Oh yeah, the classic rant about parsing HTML! Oldie, but goldie. And I only knew Choplifter by name, so that’s interesting.