Notes

Notes I take from blogs I read

Legend:

#bookRec: Book recommendations
#shortRead: Related short reads, e.g. blog posts

2025-01-16 12:49

from https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-jagannath-by-karin-tidbeck/

2025-01-15 14:24

from https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-rules-for-radicals-a-pragmatic-primer-for-realistic-radicals-by-saul-alinsky/

Rules for Radicals #bookRec

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

https://openbenches.org/

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 #bookRec

2025-01-13 17:31

from https://vale.rocks/posts/the-design-of-this-site.html

Digital Garden

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history #shortRead

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 In this context, publishing dates become an outdated concept.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