A timeline of reverse-engineered pop-culture knitwear
Videos which demonstrate two methods for working Tunisian crochet in the round.
Some ideas for shaping the crown of knit hats.
"He was 70 when he appeared on the cover of The Chessmaster 2000, and that same image was used on Chessmaster games for the next 16 years. A professional actor to the very end, Hare passed away in 1997, not in a hospital but on stage, during a rehearsal at Manhattan's famous Actor's Studio"
Doug Ford's classic 2009 article on how oscilloscope probes work including how 10x probes use lossy coax to improve frequency response.
"This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you couldn’t, or didn’t even know you could."
A talk by Gary Bernhardt from Strange Loop 2015 about ideology in computer programming (the beliefs that guide programmers without them realizing/admitting that they hold those beliefs).
There are at least seven insurmountable obstacles between the world as we know it and meta-utopia
I like this guy's rants.
I like these link aggregators by Peter Krumins. Also:
https://mathurls.com/
https://hwurls.com/
https://techurls.com/
https://tuxurls.com/
This is a large collection of single purpose, chainable (like a pipeline) tools for text and image processing (csv conversion, etc) and other tools that are written in javascript and run in the browser. I'm impressed whenever I come across one of them (and they've been useful to me a few times).
Jeff Sarwer was the intimidating 8-year-old chess prodigy who drew against Josh Waitzkin to share a US Junior Chess championship title (the basis for the dramatic finale in the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer"). He's a professional poker player now.
Jennifer Shahade also interviewed him for the USCF website a few years ago: http://www.uschess.org/index.php/January/Lost-and-Found-An-Interview-with-Jeff-Sarwer.html
Knitting (and some crochet) magazines on the Internet Archive
All of the "computer magazine" collections on the Internet Archive
"Magazines and periodicals dedicated to computers manufactured by Commodore International (1954-1994), including the PET, Commodore 64, Amiga, and other related models."
Discussion of various techniques for dispatching instructions in virtual machine interpreter. (I got here while reading about Forth and "threaded languages".)