Boris Smus

interaction engineering

  1. ☆
    The Way of Man by Martin Buber
  2. ☆
    Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  3. Alloy: a local-first AI workbench
  4. ☆
    The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
  5. ☆
    In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  6. ☆
    Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  7. Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMs
  8. ☆
    The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
  9. ☆
    Livewired by David Eagleman
  10. ☆
    Monkey by Arthur Waley
  11. The pursuit of frictionless capture
  12. ☆
    Hard to Be a God by The Strugatskys
  13. Battle of Maldon & Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  14. ☆
    Piranesi by Susanne Clark
  15. ☆
    Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
  16. ☆
    Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
  17. ☆
    Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  18. ☆
    VALIS by Phillip K. Dick
  19. ☆
    The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
  20. Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)
  21. ☆
    A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  22. Horsing around with invention.cards
  23. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
  24. ☆
    John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
  25. ☆
    Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  26. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
  27. ☆
    When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  28. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
  29. ☆
    Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
  30. Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel
  31. ☆
    Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  32. ☆
    Blindsight by Peter Watts
  33. Invention Cards enhanced by AI
  34. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  35. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0
  36. ☆
    Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  37. ☆
    A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  38. Disappearance of Ritual by Byung-Chul Han
  39. ☆
    Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
  40. ☆
    Mystery Teachings by J. M. Greer
  41. Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  42. ☆
    David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
  43. ☆
    Every Life is on Fire by Jeremy England
  44. Telejam: Interplanetary Musical Ensembles
  45. ☆
    End of the World by Peter Zeihan
  46. Project Exupery
  47. Nine Links for Fall 2023
  48. Great Work Of Time by John Crowley
  49. ☆
    Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Halevi
  50. ☆
    Tales from the Ant World by E. O. Wilson
  51. ☆
    The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  52. Tools for Thinking in Systems
  53. ☆
    This is How You Lose the Time War
  54. Five Links for Summer 2023
  55. Empowered by Cagan & Jones
  56. ☆
    Russian Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  57. ☆
    The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  58. Five Links for Spring 2023
  59. ☆
    Boyd by Robert Coram
  60. Seven Links for Winter 2023
  61. ☆
    Medieval Robots by E. R. Truitt
  62. ☆
    Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  63. ☆
    The Sabbath by Heschel
  64. ☆
    Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
  65. Links for November 2022
  66. ☆
    The Timeless Way of Building
  67. ☆
    The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile
  68. Links for October 2022
  69. Semantic Similarity for Note Taking
  70. ☆
    The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  71. Links for September 2022
  72. ☆
    Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
  73. ☆
    Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
  74. ☆
    The Goal - A Business Graphic Novel
  75. Links for August 2022
  76. AI note garden: Dreamer, note collider
  77. The Secret Life of Groceries
  78. Links for July 2022
  79. ☆
    Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  80. ☆
    Parables by Franz Kafka
  81. Links for June 2022
  82. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  83. ☆
    Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  84. Links for May 2022
  85. ☆
    The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  86. ☆
    Genesis by ✨ translated by Robert Alter
  87. Links for April 2022
  88. Ministry for the Future
  89. ☆
    Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
  90. Links for March 2022
  91. Links for February 2022
  92. Links for January 2022
  93. Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
  94. AI note garden: link suggestions
  95. ☆
    A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  96. Article highlights of 2021
  97. AI note garden: summarizer
  98. ☆
    Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  99. ☆
    Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  100. ☆
    The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  101. History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
  102. ☆
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
  103. ABC by Illich and Sanders
  104. File Systems for Thought
  105. ☆
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  106. ☆
    Gardener & Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
  107. ☆
    Late Middle Ages
  108. ☆
    Medieval Technology and Social Change
  109. ☆
    Understanding Complexity by Scott Page
  110. Diffusion of Literacy in 19th Century Canada
  111. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  112. Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
  113. ☆
    Emotional Life of the Toddler
  114. ☆
    High Middle Ages
  115. Thirteenth Tribe
  116. Evogami: evolution meets origami
  117. ☆
    Early Middle Ages
  118. ☆
    Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  119. ☆
    How to Take Smart Notes
  120. ☆
    Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  121. ☆
    Sid Meier's Memoir!
  122. Article highlights of 2020
  123. ☆
    Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
  124. ☆
    Dune by Frank Herbert
  125. ☆
    Night by Elie Wiesel
  126. ☆
    Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  127. ☆
    Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
  128. ☆
    Story of Us by Tim Urban
  129. ☆
    Rewiring America
  130. ☆
    Братья Карамазовы, читает Ульянов
  131. ☆
    Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  132. ESUP Builders
  133. ☆
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  134. ☆
    Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  135. Shadow of the Torturer
  136. DIY Community Library
  137. ☆
    Selected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
  138. ☆
    Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  139. ☆
    Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
  140. ☆
    Debt: The First 5000 Years
  141. Revenge of Analog
  142. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery
  143. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  144. Fatherhood in Pieces by Chabon
  145. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  146. Books highlights of 2019
  147. Article highlights of 2019
  148. The Right It (audio)
  149. WebUSB, Arduino, and Nunchucks!
  150. The Name of the Wind (audio)
  151. ☆
    The Fiddler is a Good Woman
  152. ☆
    Range by David Epstein (audio)
  153. ☆
    Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud (audio)
  154. Toddler’s First Music Box
  155. Yes Brain by Siegel and Bryson
  156. Link's Awakening LEGO Mosaic
  157. ☆
    Diamond Age by Stephenson (audio)
  158. ☆
    Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio)
  159. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  160. ☆
    Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
  161. Palaces for the People (audio)
  162. ☆
    The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (audio)
  163. ☆
    The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  164. Avoiding local maximums
  165. Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl
  166. ☆
    Seeing Like a State by James Scott
  167. ☆
    Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  168. ☆
    The Story of Medieval England (audio)
  169. Real Estate and Cash Flow
  170. ☆
    The New Father
  171. ☆
    Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  172. 12 Rules for Life
  173. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
  174. Reading in 2018
  175. ☆
    Infinite Planets
  176. ☆
    Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  177. The Shape of Tomorrow by George Soule
  178. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  179. ☆
    The Fall and Rise of China (audio)
  180. ☆
    War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
  181. ☆
    Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (audio)
  182. Comparing classical music interpretations
  183. ☆
    Book of Why by Judea Pearl
  184. ☆
    Living the French Revolution (audio)
  185. Against retweets
  186. Make twitter great again?
  187. Lynched on Twitter
  188. ☆
    Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
  189. The difficult middle
  190. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  191. ☆
    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (audio)
  192. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
  193. You Belong to the Universe (audio)
  194. Balancing technological pessimism
  195. Unsong by Scott Alexander
  196. ☆
    Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert Simon
  197. ☆
    The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
  198. How rationalists can win
  199. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History
  200. ☆
    Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  201. Skin in the Game by Taleb (audio)
  202. ☆
    The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
  203. ☆
    Scale by Geoffrey West
  204. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  205. ☆
    Impro by Keith Johnstone
  206. Web-based voice command recognition
  207. ☆
    The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
  208. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
  209. Audio features for web-based ML
  210. ☆
    My Russian Grandmother... by Meir Shalev
  211. UIST 2017 highlights
  212. ☆
    The neurochemistry of music
  213. Memento Mori
  214. ☆
    On the Shortness of Life
  215. ☆
    Stories of Your Life and Others
  216. ☆
    Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
  217. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  218. A respectful truce?
  219. Filter playground
  220. The end of endings
  221. ☆
    Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
  222. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
  223. Convincing the inconvincible
  224. Climate metaquiz results
  225. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  226. ☆
    Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  227. Viewpoint tolerance through curiosity
  228. ☆
    The Psychology of Curiosity
  229. Remembering my personal wiki
  230. Short posts using split Markdown
  231. Analogies from the industrial revolution
  232. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  233. ☆
    Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  234. ☆
    Understanding Japan: A Cultural History (audio)
  235. ☆
    The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  236. Debaters: friendly disagreement
  237. ☆
    The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  238. ☆
    Deep Work by Cal Newport
  239. Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
  240. ☆
    Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  241. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  242. Tools for making better decisions
  243. ☆
    The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem
  244. ☆
    On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi by William Tenn
  245. ☆
    Superforecasters by Phil Tetlock
  246. Front page blues
  247. ☆
    Why Teach Thinking by Jonathan Baron
  248. VR View 2.0: JavaScript API
  249. Election 2016
  250. ☆
    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  251. Ray Input: WebVR interaction patterns
  252. ☆
    Future Babble
  253. I Am A Strange Loop
  254. ☆
    The Hedgehog and the Fox
  255. ☆
    Sapiens (audio)
  256. Copresence in WebVR
  257. ☆
    How to Actually Change Your Mind by Big Yud
  258. ☆
    Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  259. The Persuaders (audio)
  260. ☆
    The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
  261. Must Mankind Repeat History's Great Mistakes
  262. ☆
    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  263. ☆
    Mother of All Demos
  264. ☆
    The One Minute Manager
  265. ☆
    Gantenbein by Max Frisch
  266. ☆
    Physics Beyond the Edge (audio)
  267. Inspirata: for what inspires you
  268. Browsing Wikipedia in VR
  269. ☆
    Great Ideas of Philosophy (audio)
  270. Three approaches to VR lens distortion
  271. How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams
  272. Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
  273. Embedding VR content on the web
  274. ☆
    The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  275. ☆
    A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  276. Simulating wealth inequality
  277. ☆
    In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
  278. ☆
    Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  279. Sensor fusion and motion prediction
  280. ☆
    Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
  281. The United States and the Middle East (audio)
  282. Hot bread: delicious or deadly?
  283. UbiComp and ISWC 2015
  284. Magnetic Input for Mobile VR
  285. Science and Human Values
  286. ☆
    Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann & Tversky
  287. ☆
    Skeptic's Guide to American History (audio)
  288. Digital Signal Processing Coursera
  289. Site redesign, version five
  290. ☆
    Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception (audio)
  291. ☆
    John Napier - Hands
  292. Vernor Vinge - Rainbow's End
  293. Spatial audio and web VR
  294. Blue Mind
  295. Responsive WebVR, headset optional
  296. Web Sensor API: raw and uncut
  297. UIST 2014 highlights
  298. Spectrogram and oscillator
  299. Addressable apps
  300. The ebb of the web
  301. Remote controls for web media
  302. UIST 2013 highlights
  303. Responsive image workflow
  304. Ultrasonic networking on the web
  305. Easier link blogging
  306. Installable webapps: extend the sandbox
  307. Gestural music direction
  308. Web Audio book
  309. Really simple social syndication
  310. Interactive touch laptop experiments
  311. From VPS to static hosting
  312. Internet mashup of things
  313. Reusable JavaScript for MVC frameworks
  314. How the web should work
  315. Generalized input on the cross-device web
  316. Platform fertility: open for innovation?
  317. Let's get physical (units)
  318. New design
  319. Backbone and ember
  320. PDF conversion and client-side scraping
  321. A mobile web application tech stack
  322. Hybrid operating systems
  323. Stack Exchange question notifier
  324. UIST 2011 greatest hits
  325. Screen video capture for Chrome OS
  326. Loading large assets in modern HTML5 games
  327. Developing multiplayer HTML5 games with node.js
  328. Global chrome media keys with Key Socket
  329. Extending chrome developer tools
  330. OAuth 2.0 from chrome extensions
  331. Brazil trip
  332. Dynamic chrome extension icons
  333. Crunching numbers for the NHL finals
  334. Chrome developer tools cheatsheet
  335. Multi-touch for your desktop browser
  336. jQuery conference 2011
  337. From Wordpress to Hyde
  338. Chrome media keyboard shortcuts
  339. Chronos: Chrome browsing metrics
  340. SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS hackathon
  341. Soundsourcing: the sound of the crowd
  342. CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex tasks
  343. KML tours in Google Earth
  344. Tweetbacks in JavaScript
  345. WebIntent, an Android PhoneGap plugin
  346. jQuery mobile hacker news
  347. PhoneGap games in the Android Market
  348. Chrome extension for thesixtyone
  349. The best question answering sites
  350. An onslaught of mobile HTML games
  351. Instant search in 60 lines
  352. Stairs or elevator? Use bluetooth!
  353. Skip to skip: a running gesture
  354. Minimal business card design
  355. Android-powered mindstorms
  356. Prototyping with Wii remotes in python
  357. Nike+ hacking with python
  358. Jam Hunt: friendly jam sessions
  359. CHI 2010 poster
  360. Lightweight Wordpress on Slicehost
  361. Visualizing MTurk requesters
  362. Crowdsourcing code
  363. Crowdsourcing articles with mechanical turk
  364. Ubiquitous drums
  365. Arduino-nerf mashup
  366. New design
  367. Offline web apps on the iPhone
  368. Never delete your gmail account
  369. Plotting something radial
  370. Extending Google Wave terminology
  371. Generating guitar chord diagrams
  372. Carnegie Mellon University!?
  373. Guitar Unleashed
  374. Prettifying embedded YouTube
  375. Clean drag and drop upload in Safari
  376. iPhone car kit: roll your own
  377. Performance of canvas versus SVG
  378. iWork.com feedback
  379. I see dead CSS
  380. Musical mashups in pure JavaScript
  381. Moving day
  382. Robotic piano playback
  383. The sorry state of HTML mail
  384. Top 5 sessions of Web 2.0 Expo NY