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STOKEDLIFE

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 (reefdesignlab.com)

    STOKED ON · ·5 min read

    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 (wired.com)

    WONDER · ·6 min read

    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 (en.wikipedia.org)

    LIVE · ·6 min read

    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 (aena.es)

    GO · ·6 min read

    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 (almanac.httparchive.org)

    MAKE · ·6 min read

    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 (archlinux.org)

    MAKE · ·5 min read

    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 (astanatimes.com)

    STOKED ON · ·3 min read

    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

    GO · ·3 min read

    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

    GO · ·2 min read

    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

    GO · ·1 min read

    Over 2 million cars, for a warning light whose font is too small. An eventful start to 2024 for Tesla.