Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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