The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
This is a really neat design. And I did get a kick out of "And through the magic of buying two of them..."
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
This is mind bending!
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
This is pretty epic. Debugging this must be a bit of a nightmare...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qRzKuskK0
Learn Git Branching
An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!
Radiolab - There and Back Again
One of those stand-out "huh!" Radiolab episodes about animal migration.
Paul Graham: The Lesson to Unlearn
A unified theory of sorts.
Gallery of ggridges examples
Useful chart style, seasonal temperature chart is cool. The "Evolution of movie lengths over time" examples is fascinating too.
Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme
Useful page to split a secret into n parts such that k are required to reconstruct the original using the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ildEW9-Q
Finding HIGH POWER 240V in a 120V Country
Another amusing Electroboom video.
Grandpa Amu - wooden arch bridge
Genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgEf3eWqA
BBC 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Sewing machine
A much more nuanced history than you may expect.
Generating Fractals… With SQL Queries!!!
A bit like wingsuit flying or longboard downhill runs: Impressive achievement, but not something that should be copied!
Training AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward Modelling
Good explanation of an interesting approach.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability
A really good example of Cory's current shtick.
Police Squad - No, I only shot once
So many jokes in such a short clip!
Clean Architectures in Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wwrv490rK4
Faster apps with JSON.parse (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)
This is good to know.
A Mile an Hour - Running a different kind of marathon
This is a fun little film.
Intro to Hardware Reversing: Finding a UART and getting a shell
This is pretty interesting. I like the idea of searching the FCC approval database...
NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
This is an epic April Fools project!
The Pac Tom Project: Rules
Pretty interesting project to run every street of Pittsburgh.
Comicgen: Comic Creator
Create comics for your website or app with a JavaScript library. Choose a character, angle, emotion and pose. Size the image. Embed in your page.
Designing a Star Wars Pop-Up Book!
Matthew Reinhart makes amazing popup book creations. Incredible that so 4-dimensions can be folded flat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JFYMJMQZ0
Sketchviz
Nice interactive tool to create hand-drawn style graphviz diagrams.
BPS.space: Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5245EBfis