Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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