Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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