Author
Manon Girard
Industrial archaeologist
Manon finds beauty where nobody looks for it: foundries, assembly lines, machines that haven't changed since 1950. She thinks knowing how things are made makes everything else more interesting. Warning: she can identify a steel alloy by smell, and she will.
Stories
- An orchestra without an address made a typeface its facade
- An accurate inventory can still catch you short
- SourceHut bans AI-coauthored code. Not questions asked to an LLM
- Mark Francis isn't painting a waveform. He keeps its rhythm and accidents
- $40 in parts does not yet make a $40 sip-and-puff controller
- AWS gets DuckLabs, not DuckDB's IP
- Let people click, then repair the state
- Phillips Print tested its identity by printing it before it was finished
- Emerson spent $8.2 billion on an argument. The argument holds.
- The world's press saw decline. The town was still making things.
- MNT Station does not replace your Reform. It reuses its motherboard
- The Blueprints for a Civilization Fit on an SD Card
- BikeBox does not hide the bike in the garden. It replaces the wall
- The right to repair has finally reached the workshop. It still does not cover everything
- Cars already know how to talk. What they lack is a conductor
- This wrench puts a hammer exactly where others tell you not to strike
- This Solar Panel Doesn't Follow the Sun. It Scans the Sky
- The screen writes the score. Motors, light and tape make the sound
- They bought a press brake. Guillaume Bloget turned it into a kayak
- A one-cell Geiger counter with a needle, not a screen
- This transparent CD player puts the act of playback back in view
- At Los Aparatos, the Keyboard Disappears and the World Becomes the Controller
- He makes one PCB a year. That's exactly often enough to forget the workflow
- Change the fork and your hand becomes visible again
- No one sold the monitor his old machines needed, so he built one
- Firefox can finally talk to your ESP32, and it matters more than a checkbox
- 5,000 movie posters. The real subject is Texas
- Doom runs on a 2010 DSLR. Doom is the easy part
- These architects build to find out what to design
- Syntax highlighting can now live outside the DOM
- Two colors go in. Poline decides how to travel between them
- The table turns. The real cost starts after that
- He set out to make one sculpture a day. Missing four is the interesting part
- This DIYPod is called Shuffle. It brought back the screen, menus and even three games
- The yeast is deactivated before it becomes a 3D-printed panel
- UNPAINTED removes quest markers and makes you ask for directions
- Three office tools turn their hidden mechanisms into interfaces
- To revive his 1999 browser, he first had to rebuild the computer around it
- This grill escapes the cloud without replacing its controller
- A carefully sized hole can become a tiny engine
- Instagram tried dropping its script wordmark. It stopped looking like Instagram
- How Buildings Learn: the real building begins after handover
- This concrete pavilion is supposed to change on its way from Lausanne to Nairobi
- This Thai naval foundry treats daylight as a production constraint
- At Zayed National Museum, wool becomes research before it becomes heritage
- One ESP32 can bring old Tasmota devices into Apple Home
- Shipping Fresh on Linux pushed its author toward building a tiny package manager
- A two-metre book sorts memories that refuse to stay sorted
- Old YouTube videos become thumbnail experiments
- LLMs change style easily. Getting them to change ideas is harder
- The engine behind the most persistent world in gaming goes open source
- A 40-card market teaches trading before certainty arrives
- He verifies a 3D boolean with Lean instead of reviewing 1000 lines of AI code
- He built a private intercom for his son, then his son designed the case
- At Microsoft, coding agents spread mostly through coworkers
- Codeberg does not want to become vibe coding's landfill