Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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