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  1. The Unreal Engine in film production

    3 min read Technology

    Unreal engine used to shoot the Mandalorian using large LED screens synced with cameras The film industry is an opaque producer of quality entertainment, which I have...

  2. How I listened to music growing up

    5 min read Personal Essays

    I didn’t listen to music in elementary school. The only other person in my neighborhood my age had an older sister. She gave him CDs, then Weird al Yankovich came into my...

  3. How to write Desktop-first responsive emails

    3 min read Technology

    Most web pages are written with the assumption that all the content is loaded, then the CSS determines the priority for styling. In emails, you have to design your...

  4. Can’t finish a New Yorker story online?

    1 min read Technology

    Can’t finish a New Yorker story online? The remind-to-read tool was developed by New Yorker senior software engineer Leonard Bogdonoff, who began working on it as a...

  5. 1 minute brief on Beacons

    2 min read Technology

    Beacon technology was named after the iBeacon API that Apple released with iOS7. The API listens for a bluetooth UDID broadcast. At the time of iOS7, the API had to be...

  6. Social networks as communities for weak social ties

    3 min read Technology

    Facebook began as a digital representation of a person’s strong social ties. People friended people they knew in real life. They found the people that they wanted to keep...