Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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