Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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