Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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