Blog: #links

• Jonathan Borichevskiy on digital tools he wishes existed — I like the idea of a page like this
• Beepb00p’s ideas page — and also a page like this for listing ideas
• Jonathan Borichevskiy’s ideas page — ditto (I now have a to-do item to do something like this on my site)
• Guzey’s rebuttal of the first chapter of Why We Sleep — good to know
• William H. Douglas on the unreliability of George Watt’s edits in the Journal of Discourses — also good to know, and hopefully they’ll publish the original transcriptions at some point

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• Tiantian Xu’s 100 days of 3D design — great work, and her other 100-day projects are great, too
• Chris Granger demoing a natural language programming environment — intriguing; color me a bit skeptical (mainly because of the ambiguities of human language), but I hope it works out
• Frode Hegland’s free book The Future of Text — essays from loads of thinkers about text and reading, including Alan Kay
• NVIDIA’s Maxine — using deepfakes for good (saving bandwidth during video conferencing)
• James Somers on why speed matters — food for thought

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• Bret Victor’s Dynamicland — they had me at “a non-profit long-term research group in the spirit of Doug Engelbart and Xerox PARC”
• James Somers on how more people should write — amen and amen
• Joel Hooks on blogs and digital gardens — this makes me want to finish my revamp of Slash so I can more easily add an actual digital garden to this site (and at some point I’ll write about that revamp since I don’t think I’ve gone into any detail on it)
• Amy Hoy on how blogs broke the web — it’s not quite as bad as the headline sounds, but still some good food for thought (you could say this is another way of looking at stock vs. flow)
• Deekay’s Animator Creating Animation — charming, loved this

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• Matt Webb on integrating more social features into operating systems — great ideas; I’m sure some are less feasible than others, but this kind of thinking is important (and exciting)
• James Somers on better tools for thinking about biology — love this
• Gravity’s latest jetpack tests — we’re living in the future
• Google’s Ocean of Books — mixed feelings on this (it’s the kind of thing I want to love, but the actual results weren’t as useful to me as I’d hoped)
• How ship anchors work — fascinating

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• David Moldawer on getting your setup right — agreed, getting rid of friction is usually worth it (just make sure to avoid the trap of spending all your time working on your setup and not ever getting to the actual thing you wanted to make) (been there)
• Tania Rascia’s history of what she’s learned as a software developer — stellar example of both learning in public and blogging (and her React tutorial is well done, too)
• Jim Nielsen on Sass color functions in CSS — more verbose, sure, but I think worth it
• Tanya Basu on digital gardens — I think it’s a given at this point that I’ll link to anything that talks about digital gardens
• Matt Webb on Machine English — some fascinating history here, and it’s an interesting idea

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• Jason Kottke on what ten million stars look like — this is breathtaking and mind-boggling and beautiful
• Animation of a medieval bridge being built — mmm, more of this, please
• Jeremy Keith on dev perception of boring technologies — seems wise
• Owen Williams on SPAs — in a similar vein
• Kyle Gene Brown on Smalltalk and design patterns — I found this interesting (such astute commentary, I know)

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• Jim Nielsen on cheating entropy with native web tech — the simplicity here speaks to me
• Chris Coyier on simple and boring web work — same kind of thing, and the minimalist in me eats this stuff up (though I think certain types of apps do warrant using the more complicated frameworks)
• Anne-Laure Le Cunff on Umberto Eco’s antilibrary idea — yes, yes, this ten times over
• Robert Hodgin’s Meander project — lovely work
• Brian Eno on forward momentum in creativity — this seems wise to me and rings true to my own experience

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• ProgrammingFonts.org — I’ve been using Go Mono for years now but lately I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s time to change things up a bit
• Starship — a cross-shell prompt written in Rust, though I haven’t yet dived deep enough into the configuration docs to see if I can bend it to my will
• Mark Boulton on history and digital type specimens — ephemerality for some things doesn’t matter, but the lack of excellent solutions for others (family photos, etc.) bothers me
• Joseph Gentle on CRDTs — going along with the local-first idea I posted about in the last batch
• 100+ Blender modeling tips — I’ve been working through this, quite helpful

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• Kailash Nadh on the making of an open source Kannada dictionary — loved this
• TypeLit.io — typing practice with classic lit
• Ink & Switch on local-first software — lots of food for thought here
• AIDungeon — I didn’t realize a BYU grad had done this, but it’s impressive and I can’t wait to see where this kind of tech leads in another five to ten years
• YouTube keyboard shortcuts — I wish I’d known about these years ago (j has been handy lately when watching tutorial videos)

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• Jim Butcher on scenes and sequels — good writing advice
• Justin E. H. Smith on whether birds are dinosaurs — which is apparently a somewhat heated debate? (I had no idea)
• A raycasting engine made in Factorio — one of the wonders of the Internet
• Tyler Hobbs on flow fields in generative art — hoping to use this technique someday
• FAQs on protecting yourself from Covid aerosol transmission — recommended

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