Sunday, 2am. I couldn’t sleep and I was annoyed at search engines again. Every query I actually cared about, portfolios, zines, weird little art projects, one-person software, drowned under a foot of corporate documentation and SEO sludge. So I did … Read more
Most genomic studies begin by asking participants to upload one of the most identifying and irrevocable pieces of data they own, their DNA. I continue to investigate whether multi-party computation can offer a different model, one in which a study … Read more
“David, you need to call eBay and give them a heads up. You’re supposed to leave soon!” my wife told me every night as I walked into the house, demoralized, covered in grease, mumbling about how doomed my WWII Jeep … Read more
I gave an AI a civilisation to run. By the midgame it was winning: a trade network that dominated the map, alliances on every border, a diplomatic victory within reach. It had outbuilt, outearned, and outmanoeuvred every rival on the … Read more
Rootless Spatial Windows Each X11 top-level opens as its own visionOS window. Position them anywhere in your space. External X11 Clients Accept connections from trusted machines over standard, native X11 TCP. Beautiful Pixel Rendering X framebuffer content is presented at … Read more
Single Leg Design – The Easy Part Naturally, after building a single joint, it only makes sense to design a single leg. From CARA 1.0, I knew that a coaxial 5-bar linkage design would be the most ideal design since … Read more
My father grew up on a subsistence farm, the kind that raised chickens and grew just enough to get by. Farmers were the original hackers. You couldn’t wait for the right tool or the right expert. You fixed what was … Read more
The Problem: Browsers Don’t Want to Be Cameras Here’s a deceptively simple product requirement: take a web page with animations, and turn it into a video file. Sounds easy, right? Open a browser. Record the screen. Export MP4. Ship it. … Read more
Reddit user Dycus built a camera using the sensor from an optical mouse. After about 65 hours of work, Dycus had a low-resolution black-and-white camera with multiple shooting modes, housed in a nifty 3D-printed body. PetaPixel has previously reported on … Read more