πŸ€” πŸ”— Monthly Links of Interest

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Links of Interest for February, 2023

Interesting & Educational

  • The Machines of Mastery
  • The Last Question
  • It’s time to rethink our entire approach to pre-K

Technology & Code

  • What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
  • Self hosting in 2023
  • AI commit messages
#98
March 2, 2023
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - January 2023

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Patterns, culture and theft
  • We live in the era of mids
  • The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Video: Bret Victor The Future of Programming
  • Just use a monorepo
  • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
#97
February 4, 2023
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - December 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The Mechanical Professor
  • Reversals in psychology
  • How to Cook for Odysseus

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Draw SVG rope using JavaScript
  • Color Formats in CSS - hex, rgb, hsl, lab
  • Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
#96
January 1, 2023
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - November 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Underrated reasons to be thankful
  • How mud boosts your immune system
  • Emperor Charles V’s secret code cracked after five centuries

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Sam Bankman-Fried’s worldview facilitated the creation & destruction of a crypto empire
  • Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so…
  • The Unholy Perfection of the 1993 Murder She Wrote VR Episode
#95
December 5, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - October 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • How Far Can a Cat Fall and Survive? The Limit May Not Exist.
  • A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles
  • My Top 10 Tips for Doing Time In β€˜the Hole’

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Programming Portals
  • I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months
  • Prompt engineering is hard
#94
November 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - September 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All
  • The Eye of Providence: The symbol with a secret meaning?
  • Power Causes Brain Damage

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Get in Zoomer, We’re SavingΒ React
  • Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI
  • useSyncExternalStore - The underrated React API
#93
October 3, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - August 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Old jokes
  • Put down devices, let your mind wander
  • 50 Minutes of 80s Daytime TV Commercials

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Optimized for Change
  • Stable Diffusion is a really big deal
  • A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript
#92
September 1, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - July 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Pizza Sceptisicm in the 1950s (Twitter thread)
  • The most notable people from every city
  • New Tolkien book: The Fall of NΓΊmenor to be published

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • What’s the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
  • Music for programming
  • The new wave of React state management
#91
August 1, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - June 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • β€˜Blade Runner’ at 40: Why It’s Still the Greatest Sci-Fi of All-Time
  • America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
  • Books Around America: Uncover the Books Set Nearest to You

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • DALL-E 2 has a secret language
  • Web3 is going just great
  • Code Review: How to make enemies
#90
July 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - May 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
  • How Frank Peretti’s Christian horror novels shaped today’s moral panics
  • Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less Anxious

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
  • My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
  • Coinbase admits users may lose crypto if exchange goes bankrupt
#89
June 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - April 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
  • Why I Walk
  • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Programmable Notes
  • Elon Musk Got Twitter Because He Gets Twitter
  • Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
#88
May 1, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - March 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Why Is Every Movie Poster Orange and Blue?
  • Tolkien’s Paintings
  • Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • My guiding principles after 20 years of programming
  • Inspecting Web Views in macOS
  • Video: The Story of Next.js
#87
April 1, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - February 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Magic circles
  • The Ultra-Introverts Who Live Nocturnally
  • Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Making the web better. With blocks!
  • The false religion of scalability
  • Game Engines as an Art Form
#86
March 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - January 2022

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The Royal Game of Ur
  • The forgotten medieval habit of β€˜two sleeps’
  • The Scientist and the Psychopath

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • All you need is links
  • Creating a Schema-Based Form System
  • Xenobots: World’s first living robots can now reproduce
#85
February 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - December 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Omicron Is the Beginning of the End
  • People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
  • Is internet addiction eradicating the habit of reading?

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Tao of React
  • Magic Beans: The best mental model for NFTs
  • Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else
#84
January 2, 2022
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - November 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • β€œDune” (the movie), annotated
  • Spiders are much smarter than you think
  • Those Bullet Effects In Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • How Not To Sort By Average Rating
  • Web3 β€” A vision for a decentralized web
  • Remix - Build Better Websites
#83
December 1, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - October 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • An Art History of The Bad Concept Video
#82
November 2, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - September 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching β€˜The Sopranos’?
#81
October 1, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - August 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?
#80
September 2, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - July 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • First You Make the Maps
#79
August 3, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - June 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
#78
July 1, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - May 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#77
June 1, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - April 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants
#76
May 2, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - March 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Nothing Breaks Like A.I. Heart
#75
April 1, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - February 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years
#74
March 2, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - January 2021

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Maps, the territory, and meta-rationality
#73
February 2, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - December 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • The economics of Christmas trees
#72
January 3, 2021
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - November 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • On Learning Chess as an Adult
#71
December 1, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - October 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • A Celebration of the Syllabus
#70
November 3, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - September 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to RenΓ© Girard
#69
October 1, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - August 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • This Is not a game
#68
September 1, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - July 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
#67
August 1, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - June 2020

πŸŽ“ Interesting / Educational

  • From mental map to mental atlas
#66
July 3, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - May 2020

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Second-guessing the modern web
#65
June 2, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - April 2020

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Augmenting Human Intellect
#64
May 2, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - March 2020

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Why JavaScript is Eating HTML
#63
April 2, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - February 2020 "Jet-lagged" edition

πŸ“I’m in England with the family for all of March, so Links of Interest may be a bit different and/or delayed.

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

#62
March 4, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - January 2020

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
#61
February 3, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - December 2019

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • To Understand The Future of AI, Study Its Past
#60
January 3, 2020
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - November 2019

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • The Thought Process Behind a Flexbox Layout
#59
December 3, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - October 2019

βš›οΈ Development & Technology

  • Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?
#58
November 2, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - September 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
#57
October 2, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - August 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
#56
September 2, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - July 2019

βš›οΈ Development / Technology

  • Arrival of the Babel Fish
#55
August 2, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - June 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • β€œYeah, but I could have done that too”
#54
July 1, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - May 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Evolution of Webdesign
#53
June 3, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - April 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Design Doesn’t Care What You Think Information Looks Like
#52
May 1, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - March 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Design Patterns for Mental Health
#51
April 1, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - February 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Casper’s clever little nightlight
#50
March 3, 2019
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πŸ€”πŸ”— Links of Interest - January 2019

πŸ“ Design

  • Should UX writers code?
#49
February 1, 2019
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