Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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