The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)(kottke.org)

64 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 74 comments

Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers(kottke.org)

242 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 40 comments

The Lego Great Ball Contraption(kottke.org)

277 points by mhb 2 years ago | 45 comments

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert(kottke.org)

108 points by gazsp 2 years ago | 34 comments

I made a floppy disk from scratch(kottke.org)

187 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 72 comments

The Underscore Music Player(kottke.org)

23 points by tobr 1 year ago | 1 comments

Television is 100 years old today(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

612 points by qassiov 9 months ago | 233 comments

A London blog post marking 100 years since the first television demonstration, held above what is now Bar Italia in Soho.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)

434 points by cyrc 9 months ago | 133 comments

A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward(movingimagearchive.com)

202 points by momentmaker 1 month ago | 27 comments

Moving Image Archive, a searchable website of public-domain historical film clips such as San Francisco earthquake footage and vintage educational films.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

What you need to know before touching a video file(gist.github.com)

333 points by qbow883 10 months ago | 202 comments

A GitHub Gist guide explaining common beginner mistakes and essential concepts for novice video editors and encoders working with video files.

Self-hosting my photos with Immich(michael.stapelberg.ch)

609 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 341 comments

Michael Stapelberg's blog post describing how he set up Immich as a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos, covering hardware, installation, iPhone app, and backups.