Blog: #links

• Robin Sloan on stock and flow — a little old but still good, on creativity
• Niklaus Wirth on lean software (PDF) — even older but also a bounty of wisdom
• Salman Ansari on his digital garden — good points, particularly (for me) the bit about being interested in lots of different things
• Anne Laure Le-Cunff’s digital garden — also good, and I’m reminded I still need to build my own public notes system
• Tiffany Matthé on being okay with not being extraordinary — hear, hear (and what a relief it is)

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• The Weeklypedia — an interesting way to get one’s news
• FamilySearch’s cousin chart — nice, clear explanation
• VTM text-based environment — I’m intrigued by the large virtual space with lines to each window (see the video)
• Adam Frank on how to tell if there were pre-human civilizations on Earth — which is useful for seeing if there are civilizations on other planets
• Robin Rendle on the beauty of the web — agreed

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• Agnes Callard on why difficult old books make for independent minds — an interesting point I hadn’t thought much about before
• C. S. Lewis on reading old books — I reread this in connection with Agnes’s post and it’s still good
• Austin Kleon on books with unusual but brilliant structures — this kind of thing fascinates me
• Oz Nova on the cost of forsaking C — while I hardly ever program in C anymore and it’s still a footgun, I actually like it a lot
• Swyx on moving the default Git branch from master to main — something I’m planning to do with my personal repos

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• Kottke on duplicating keys from the sound they make in locks — freaky but also a fascinating area of research
• Chris Ferdinandi’s tutorial on service workers in vanilla JavaScript — I’ve been thinking lately of going more vanilla, less jQuery (yes, I know, I am old and outdated, but I am still a minimalist)
• Nabeel Qureshi on how video games are the future of education — and how to make learning stick; I’m thinking about exploring this space more
• The Twelve-Factor App — I recently reread this, good set of software engineering principles
• Film Crit Hulk on the myth of three-act structure — found this useful (with some strong language, which wasn’t as useful)

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• MakeSpace — I want this to replace Zoom stat, especially the spatial proximity audio feature
• Matt Webb on spatial interfaces — lots of good discussion here (this is where I found the MakeSpace link)
• Matt Webb (again) on About Feeds — which is a good explanation of feeds, and I’m now linking to it on my subscribe page
• The History of the Web — so much nostalgia
• Secret Hitler — card game licensed under Creative Commons (scroll down a bit to the free section), looking forward to trying this out sometime

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• The Lycurgus Cup — ancient glass cup that changes color
• William Hale’s essay on the art of reading Latin — I first read this long ago when I started studying Latin, good advice
• Robin Rendle’s post in defense of fussy websites — some interesting thoughts
• Brian Callahan’s writeup on how argc and argv get passed in — more assembly goodness
• Rachel’s article on tripping over the potholes in too many libraries — and how it can be good to rely less on third-party libraries when programming (which I’m very much in favor of)

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• Alice Bartlett’s weaknotes — really loving these
• Marijn Haverbeke’s Lezer writeup — fascinating writeup on how he built CodeMirror’s parser (for syntax highlighting, autocompletion, etc.)
• Wheelhouse — fascinating newsletter on making physical things
• 3D printing on a diffraction grating sheet — cool technique
• 3D plots out of paper — math made physical

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• A Gentle Intro to Assembly with Rust — really liked this (I’m a sucker for assembly, even though I never actually use it) (though I need to find a way to change that)
• WindowSwap — see the view out people’s windows around the world
• Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing newsletter — how I found WindowSwap
• Generative Artistry tutorials — generative art tutorials on things like circle packing
• ZIL and the Z-Machine — fascinating technical look at Infocom’s engine for Zork

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I’m going to try batching links into groups of five from now on, since solitary links often feel a little too insubstantial for a post. Links often won’t be related.

Links #1:

• Nadia Eghbal’s notes — rough, chronological, posted monthly, I’m intrigued by the format
• Tom Critchlow’s wiki — digital garden, topic-based, also intriguing
• Jared Pereira’s personal website chats — people talking about how they made their sites
• Katherine Ye’s notation repo — interesting thoughts on notation of various kinds
• Mozilla Hubs — small-scale social VR, pretty cool

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