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Addis Augmented explores and documents historical, architectural and urban artifacts in the city of Addis Ababa through augmented reality. — rachel

This is a clear explanation of functional programming concepts using Python and practical examples. — rachel

This is a fun example of productive nostalgia: a way to create webrings in JavaScript! — rachel

In this talk at Plotter People, Sher Minn explores computer history, the first plotters and the graphics folks make with them, and some neat examples of fractals and emergent patterns. — rachel

Repominder is a Django project that reminds OSS maintainers when they've forgotten to cut a release. — rachel

This is a great collection of projects and experiments created at Dynamicland, a great place. — rachel

RC has a small collection of vintage computers. Occasionally folks restore them, and do fun stuff like this! — rachel

When someone's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA The Dead sends automated requests to the FBI for their records on the recently departed, and publishes the results. So far it has almost 4,000 pages of (sometimes-mundane, sometimes-fascinating) records on 55 people which probably wouldn't have been released otherwise. — rachel

Nick describes his first commit to "real-deal core GNU Emacs," with some interesting commentary and historical context. — rachel

This paper details how Timnit and her team used Google Street View images of cars, deep learning, and neural networks to (accurately!) predict the demographics and political leanings of a neighborhood based on the types of vehicles detected there. — rachel