STOKEDLIFE
A magazine about things worth being excited about.
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Stoked On: the designer 3D-printing the scaffold a reef grows back on
Alex Goad's studio prints ceramic modules that divers assemble by hand, no cranes. Reef Design Lab has put new reef into the…
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Prototypes from the 1960s that we’re still catching up to
Engelbart's mouse, the Picturephone and a robot that had to think in another room: what the 1960s built decades early, and what…
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Nakagin Capsule Tower is gone — what metabolist thinking left behind
Demolished in 2022, its capsules now sit in museums on three continents. What Metabolism argued, why 140 owners could not renew one…
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Madrid to Barcelona: the train that beats the flight door to door
Spain's two biggest cities are 620 km apart. The AVE does it in two and a half hours from the middle of…
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A 12-year-old laptop, resurrected: what actually got slow, and why
Nothing inside the machine wore out. The pages got heavier, the instructions grew dearer, the paste pumped out, the disk kept waiting…
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Omarchy: the Arch Linux desktop that arrives already finished
DHH's opinionated Arch + Hyprland distribution is the rare Linux desktop that arrives finished. Inside Omarchy 4, what its defaults actually do,…
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Stoked On: the Californian who became the memory of Almaty’s bus stops
Dennis Keen moved to Almaty and started noticing what everyone else had stopped seeing. Nine years later there is an archive, and…
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Tesla’s new Roadster flies, flips, and hits 60 in 0.81 seconds
Nine years after Musk first showed it, the second-gen Roadster was unveiled at a rocket facility in Texas — and it flew.…
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The resurrected beauty of Lancia Delta Futurista
Automobili Amos took the Delta Integrale — the boxiest, most beloved rally car of the 1980s — and rebuilt it in carbon…
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Tesla initiates recall for nearly all U.S.-sold vehicles
Over 2 million cars, for a warning light whose font is too small. An eventful start to 2024 for Tesla.