Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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