Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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