Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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