Notes
Notes I take from blogs I read
Legend:
#bookRec : Book recommendations#shortRead : Related short reads, e.g. blog posts#concept : Concepts i did not know or had forgotten about
2025-02-03 12:42
Reviewed list of blogging platforms with columns:
Platform/ Can you self-host it?/ Is hosted for you?/ Free hosted tier?/ Minimum price
https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
2025-01-28 12:40
Unplatform, a guide to unplatform yourself and transition
to the indie web. https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/
2025-01-21 14:59
https://oraclebone.org/ Oracle bone characters list
2025-01-20 12:25
https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/
2025-01-20 11:55
https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/15628/6033.pdf
2025-01-20 11:52
The signs of language
Emergence of sign languages
2025-01-19 22:53
Markov Chain
2025-01-19 22:38
from https://taylor.town/year-day
Every mammal gets about 1 billion heartbeats; we spend ours at 60hz.
It's your yearly nudge to solicit positive feedback. Find friends/family who want to craft the best possible Future You; prod them for honesty.
- What can I be doing differently?
- How can I get to the "next level"?
- What's holding me back?
- Do you see any patterns that influence my mood?
- What should I spend less time on?
- If you were me, what would you change?
- Where should I focus next?
- What can everybody see that I can't? What's taped to my back?
^ idk why, i had never considered asking for feedback outside of work.
2025-01-19 21:48
Book Review: What If? 10th Anniversary Edition - Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2025-01-18 21:30
Add comments to your blog with mastodon https://blog.thms.uk/2023/02/mastodon-comments
Add comments to your blog with github <https://giscus.app/>
2025-01-18 13:19
from https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/01/why-didnt-the-romans-invent-the-internet/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph ✅
2025-01-16 12:49
from https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-jagannath-by-karin-tidbeck/
Jagannath
2025-01-15 14:24
Rules for Radicals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.
2025-01-14 21:57
2025-01-14 19:30
from https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/book-review-the-ministry-of-time-kaliane-bradley/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199798179-the-ministry-of-time
2025-01-13 17:31
Digital Garden
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
Perhaps the greatest contributor to the philosophy behind my site is taken from the website of notable synth pioneer Wendy Carlos. Her site houses a page describing how her website ‘lives’:
I’m happy to report that this page (like most housework) will never be finished. It is a living document that grows and matures, just like most of real life. It is not a “work in progress”, for this would imply not much intrinsic value until that magic day it is completed.
A novel is a work of art that, once completed may continue to exist forever in that finished state. An encyclopedia must be published at regular intervals to reflect new information gathered since the day it was published. Periodicals are timely only when first printed, then fall behind the times – get the latest issue to keep up. The technology behind web documents allows us to update information as often as is necessary. In this context, publishing dates become an outdated concept.
While it is possible to “finish” a web document, the fixed information becomes stagnant, thus abolishing any desire for a return visit. This is something I call a cob-web page.
Github powered comments solution. Better replacement for commentbox! https://giscus.app/
https://gwern.net/ Absolutely beautiful blog. Reads like a newspaper
https://www.lesswrong.com/ Worth a visit. A bit too overwhelming as a first time visitor tbh.
https://turntrout.com/ good-looking little blog, ai
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ cool design
2025-01-11 11:17
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/; newsletter -> RSS.
Ethical? I'm not so sure. Useful? Probably.
2025-01-10 21:10
[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
#shortRead
2025-01-10 18:53
Bookmarklet is a js script as a bookmark that can be executed on demand in any webpage.
2025-01-09 20:13
Yggdrasil Network
2025-01-08 12:48
Open source & free (!!!) map provider.
https://openfreemap.org/ & https://openfreemap.org/quick_start/
2025-01-08 12:01
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
2025-01-07 13:48
Yılkı Atı #
2025-01-07 10:32
From https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-filter-comes-for-us-all/
Story of your life the book the movie "arrival" was based on. #bookRec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
2025-01-06 23:01
From https://taylor.town/pardon-2024
The High Cost of Free Parking - Donald Shoup