Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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