Stories by Tomte

Itchio outshines Steam by staying small and weird (2018)

House of Fates: Hungary’s controversial Holocaust museum (2018)

Everything you wanted to know about “Memento” (2001)

Make Bjorn's life easier (and grease the path of your patch) (2017)

George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9–and it was awful (2018)

We have food safety laws thanks to 19th century “poison squad” (2018)

The Rise and Fall of the “Freest Little City in Texas” (2017)

The Distant Executioner (2010)

The thorny ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies to the public (2021)

CC Accidenz Commons: An Open-Licensed Font (2019)

TeX by Topic (2007) [pdf]

The ins and outs of genomics, 30 minutes at a time (2018)

Ars Technica’s ultimate board game buyer’s guide (2017)

Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight (2010)

Writing in the 21st Century (2014)

IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)

Book imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct (2018)

The typeface that helps dyslexics read (2017)

I invented a “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths