Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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