Stories by Tomte

Glowing clouds surround an exploded star in NASA mission's first image

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Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (2019)

Finding One's Own in Cyberspace (1996) [pdf]

USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

Elon Musk tells a judge the SEC’s investigation is stifling his free speech

I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed

Morality clauses: are publishers right to police writers? (2018)

Boiling the Ocean with Markup (2016)

So You Want to Store a File (2021)

A numbered list of encountered tech

Steve Schoger design tips (2018)

Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship (2017)

'We Will Win Because History Is on Our Side' (2018)

I paid $300 for DNA-based fitness advice and all I got was junk science (2017)

Chrome OS Flex: an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11

Ask HN: Pinboard Archiving Working for You?

Analog for the People: Synth Master Tatsuya Takahashi on Engineering Fun (2017)

Learning from Coarse Information: Biased Contests and Career Profiles (1990)

I hid a $5k camera rig in Brooklyn