Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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