Boris Smus

interaction engineering

  1. The Dispossessed by U. K. Le Guin
  2. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared by Genrikh Altshuller
  3. Incorruptible by Eric Ries
  4. Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
  5. Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
  6. The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
  7. Invention Cards 3.0: Stories
  8. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  9. supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
  10. The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
  11. Breath by James Nestor
  12. Definitely Maybe by The Strugatskys
  13. The Way of Man by Martin Buber
  14. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  15. Alloy: a local-first AI workbench
  16. The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
  17. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  18. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  19. Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMs
  20. The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
  21. Livewired by David Eagleman
  22. Monkey by Arthur Waley
  23. The pursuit of frictionless capture
  24. Hard to Be a God by The Strugatskys
  25. Battle of Maldon & Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  26. Piranesi by Susanne Clark
  27. Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
  28. Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
  29. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  30. VALIS by Phillip K. Dick
  31. The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
  32. Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)
  33. A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  34. Horsing around with invention.cards
  35. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
  36. John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
  37. Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  38. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
  39. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  40. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
  41. Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
  42. Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel
  43. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  44. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  45. Invention Cards enhanced by AI
  46. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  47. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0
  48. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  49. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  50. Disappearance of Ritual by Byung-Chul Han
  51. Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
  52. Mystery Teachings by J. M. Greer
  53. Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  54. David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
  55. Every Life is on Fire by Jeremy England
  56. Telejam: Interplanetary Musical Ensembles
  57. End of the World by Peter Zeihan
  58. Project Exupery
  59. Nine Links for Fall 2023
  60. Great Work Of Time by John Crowley
  61. Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Halevi
  62. Tales from the Ant World by E. O. Wilson
  63. The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  64. Tools for Thinking in Systems
  65. This is How You Lose the Time War
  66. Five Links for Summer 2023
  67. Empowered by Cagan & Jones
  68. Russian Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  69. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  70. Five Links for Spring 2023
  71. Boyd by Robert Coram
  72. Seven Links for Winter 2023
  73. Medieval Robots by E. R. Truitt
  74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  75. The Sabbath by Heschel
  76. Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
  77. Links for November 2022
  78. The Timeless Way of Building
  79. The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile
  80. Links for October 2022
  81. Semantic Similarity for Note Taking
  82. The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  83. Links for September 2022
  84. Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
  85. Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
  86. The Goal - A Business Graphic Novel
  87. Links for August 2022
  88. AI note garden: Dreamer, note collider
  89. The Secret Life of Groceries
  90. Links for July 2022
  91. Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  92. Parables by Franz Kafka
  93. Links for June 2022
  94. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  95. Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  96. Links for May 2022
  97. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  98. Genesis by ✨ translated by Robert Alter
  99. Links for April 2022
  100. Ministry for the Future
  101. Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
  102. Links for March 2022
  103. Links for February 2022
  104. Links for January 2022
  105. Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
  106. AI note garden: link suggestions
  107. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  108. Article highlights of 2021
  109. AI note garden: summarizer
  110. Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  111. Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  112. The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  113. History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
  114. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
  115. ABC by Illich and Sanders
  116. File Systems for Thought
  117. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  118. Gardener & Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
  119. Late Middle Ages
  120. Medieval Technology and Social Change
  121. Understanding Complexity by Scott Page
  122. Diffusion of Literacy in 19th Century Canada
  123. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  124. Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
  125. Emotional Life of the Toddler
  126. High Middle Ages
  127. Thirteenth Tribe
  128. Evogami: evolution meets origami
  129. Early Middle Ages
  130. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  131. How to Take Smart Notes
  132. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  133. Sid Meier's Memoir!
  134. Article highlights of 2020
  135. Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
  136. Dune by Frank Herbert
  137. Night by Elie Wiesel
  138. Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  139. Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
  140. Story of Us by Tim Urban
  141. Rewiring America
  142. Братья Карамазовы, читает Ульянов
  143. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  144. ESUP Builders
  145. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  146. Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  147. Shadow of the Torturer
  148. DIY Community Library
  149. Selected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
  150. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  151. Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
  152. Debt: The First 5000 Years
  153. Revenge of Analog
  154. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery
  155. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  156. Fatherhood in Pieces by Chabon
  157. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  158. Books highlights of 2019
  159. Article highlights of 2019
  160. The Right It (audio)
  161. WebUSB, Arduino, and Nunchucks!
  162. The Name of the Wind (audio)
  163. The Fiddler is a Good Woman
  164. Range by David Epstein (audio)
  165. Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud (audio)
  166. Toddler’s First Music Box
  167. Yes Brain by Siegel and Bryson
  168. Link's Awakening LEGO Mosaic
  169. Diamond Age by Stephenson (audio)
  170. Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio)
  171. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  172. Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
  173. Palaces for the People (audio)
  174. The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (audio)
  175. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  176. Avoiding local maximums
  177. Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl
  178. Seeing Like a State by James Scott
  179. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  180. The Story of Medieval England (audio)
  181. Real Estate and Cash Flow
  182. The New Father
  183. Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  184. 12 Rules for Life
  185. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
  186. Reading in 2018
  187. Infinite Planets
  188. Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  189. The Shape of Tomorrow by George Soule
  190. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  191. The Fall and Rise of China (audio)
  192. War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
  193. Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (audio)
  194. Comparing classical music interpretations
  195. Book of Why by Judea Pearl
  196. Living the French Revolution (audio)
  197. Against retweets
  198. Make twitter great again?
  199. Lynched on Twitter
  200. Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
  201. The difficult middle
  202. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  203. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (audio)
  204. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
  205. You Belong to the Universe (audio)
  206. Balancing technological pessimism
  207. Unsong by Scott Alexander
  208. Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert Simon
  209. The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
  210. How rationalists can win
  211. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History
  212. Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  213. Skin in the Game by Taleb (audio)
  214. The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
  215. Scale by Geoffrey West
  216. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  217. Impro by Keith Johnstone
  218. Web-based voice command recognition
  219. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
  220. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
  221. Audio features for web-based ML
  222. My Russian Grandmother... by Meir Shalev
  223. UIST 2017 highlights
  224. The neurochemistry of music
  225. Memento Mori
  226. On the Shortness of Life
  227. Stories of Your Life and Others
  228. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
  229. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  230. A respectful truce?
  231. Filter playground
  232. The end of endings
  233. Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
  234. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
  235. Convincing the inconvincible
  236. The Psychology of Curiosity
  237. Climate metaquiz results
  238. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  239. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  240. Viewpoint tolerance through curiosity
  241. Remembering my personal wiki
  242. Short posts using split Markdown
  243. Analogies from the industrial revolution
  244. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  245. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  246. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History (audio)
  247. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  248. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  249. Deep Work by Cal Newport
  250. Debaters: friendly disagreement
  251. Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
  252. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  253. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  254. Tools for making better decisions
  255. The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem
  256. On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi by William Tenn
  257. Superforecasters by Phil Tetlock
  258. Why Teach Thinking by Jonathan Baron
  259. Front page blues
  260. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  261. VR View 2.0: JavaScript API
  262. Election 2016
  263. Future Babble
  264. I Am A Strange Loop
  265. Ray Input: WebVR interaction patterns
  266. The Hedgehog and the Fox
  267. Sapiens (audio)
  268. How to Actually Change Your Mind by Big Yud
  269. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  270. Copresence in WebVR
  271. The Persuaders (audio)
  272. The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
  273. Must Mankind Repeat History's Great Mistakes
  274. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  275. Mother of All Demos
  276. The One Minute Manager
  277. Gantenbein by Max Frisch
  278. Physics Beyond the Edge (audio)
  279. Inspirata: for what inspires you
  280. Browsing Wikipedia in VR
  281. Great Ideas of Philosophy (audio)
  282. Three approaches to VR lens distortion
  283. How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams
  284. Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
  285. Embedding VR content on the web
  286. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  287. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  288. Simulating wealth inequality
  289. In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
  290. Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  291. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
  292. Sensor fusion and motion prediction
  293. The United States and the Middle East (audio)
  294. Hot bread: delicious or deadly?
  295. UbiComp and ISWC 2015
  296. Science and Human Values
  297. Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann & Tversky
  298. Magnetic Input for Mobile VR
  299. Skeptic's Guide to American History (audio)
  300. Digital Signal Processing Coursera
  301. Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception (audio)
  302. Site redesign, version five
  303. John Napier - Hands
  304. Vernor Vinge - Rainbow's End
  305. Spatial audio and web VR
  306. Blue Mind
  307. Responsive WebVR, headset optional
  308. Web Sensor API: raw and uncut
  309. UIST 2014 highlights
  310. Spectrogram and oscillator
  311. Addressable apps
  312. The ebb of the web
  313. Remote controls for web media
  314. UIST 2013 highlights
  315. Responsive image workflow
  316. Ultrasonic networking on the web
  317. Easier link blogging
  318. Installable webapps: extend the sandbox
  319. Gestural music direction
  320. Web Audio book
  321. Really simple social syndication
  322. Interactive touch laptop experiments
  323. From VPS to static hosting
  324. Internet mashup of things
  325. Reusable JavaScript for MVC frameworks
  326. How the web should work
  327. Generalized input on the cross-device web
  328. Platform fertility: open for innovation?
  329. Let's get physical (units)
  330. New design
  331. Backbone and ember
  332. PDF conversion and client-side scraping
  333. A mobile web application tech stack
  334. Hybrid operating systems
  335. Stack Exchange question notifier
  336. UIST 2011 greatest hits
  337. Screen video capture for Chrome OS
  338. Loading large assets in modern HTML5 games
  339. Developing multiplayer HTML5 games with node.js
  340. Global chrome media keys with Key Socket
  341. Extending chrome developer tools
  342. OAuth 2.0 from chrome extensions
  343. Brazil trip
  344. Dynamic chrome extension icons
  345. Crunching numbers for the NHL finals
  346. Chrome developer tools cheatsheet
  347. Multi-touch for your desktop browser
  348. jQuery conference 2011
  349. From Wordpress to Hyde
  350. Chrome media keyboard shortcuts
  351. Chronos: Chrome browsing metrics
  352. SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS hackathon
  353. Soundsourcing: the sound of the crowd
  354. CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex tasks
  355. KML tours in Google Earth
  356. Tweetbacks in JavaScript
  357. WebIntent, an Android PhoneGap plugin
  358. jQuery mobile hacker news
  359. PhoneGap games in the Android Market
  360. Chrome extension for thesixtyone
  361. The best question answering sites
  362. An onslaught of mobile HTML games
  363. Instant search in 60 lines
  364. Stairs or elevator? Use bluetooth!
  365. Skip to skip: a running gesture
  366. Minimal business card design
  367. Android-powered mindstorms
  368. Prototyping with Wii remotes in python
  369. Nike+ hacking with python
  370. Jam Hunt: friendly jam sessions
  371. CHI 2010 poster
  372. Lightweight Wordpress on Slicehost
  373. Visualizing MTurk requesters
  374. Crowdsourcing code
  375. Crowdsourcing articles with mechanical turk
  376. Ubiquitous drums
  377. Arduino-nerf mashup
  378. New design
  379. Offline web apps on the iPhone
  380. Never delete your gmail account
  381. Plotting something radial
  382. Extending Google Wave terminology
  383. Generating guitar chord diagrams
  384. Carnegie Mellon University!?
  385. Guitar Unleashed
  386. Prettifying embedded YouTube
  387. Clean drag and drop upload in Safari
  388. iPhone car kit: roll your own
  389. Performance of canvas versus SVG
  390. iWork.com feedback
  391. I see dead CSS
  392. Musical mashups in pure JavaScript
  393. Moving day
  394. Robotic piano playback
  395. The sorry state of HTML mail
  396. Top 5 sessions of Web 2.0 Expo NY