Geoffrey Litt on browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software. Browser extensions are a special ecosystem worth celebrating. (more)

LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D computer games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. https://love2d.org/

sometimes sketching, sometimes mindless fidgeting

Variation on SmallWeb/IndieWeb by Lu Wilson: https://www.tadiweb.com/ (more)

Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney and businessman. He is the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners,[1] a Chinese investment company, in 2013, and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019.[2] He has worked as a lobbyist and legal representative for lobbying firms, a hedge fund principal, and a venture capital and private equity fund investor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden (more)

James Douglas Bennet (born March 28, 1966) is an American journalist. He is a senior editor for The Economist, and writes the Lexington column for the magazine. He was editor-in-chief of The Atlantic from 2006–2016 and was the editorial page editor at The New York Times from May 2016[1] until his forced resignation in June 2020 (over the Tom Cotton op-ed).[2] He is the younger brother of U.S. Senator Michael Bennet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bennet_(journalist)

Kartik Agaram: Plain text. With lines. I like plain text. I also like doodling while I write. (more)

Jay Rosen: Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. The readers of the New York Times have more power now. They have more power because they have more choices (more)

David R MacIver: First decide what's good enough. You should separate your planning into two distinct goals: (more)

Kartik Agaram: Freewheeling Apps. Freewheeling Apps are a durable substrate for the future of software. Easy to download. Easy to run. Easy to modify. Easy to share. (more)

James Bennet: When the New York Times lost its way. Are we truly so precious?” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, asked me one Wednesday evening in June 2020. I was the editorial-page editor of the Times, and we had just published an op-ed by Tom Cotton. (more)

David R MacIver: Fulfilling work. There's a thing I've noticed on and off which is that people who have never worked, in some generalisable sense, are weird, in a way that I do not intend to be as complimentary. (more)

David R. MacIver: The Manual that solves all your problems. Paul Erdos had a concept of The Book, in which God had written down the shortest most elegant proof of every conceivable mathematical problem (more)

Lu Wilson: Building community. Over the past six months I’ve been asking lots of researchers the same question— mostly computing researchers but some others too. The question: Is your work about “influencing people” or is it about “solving hard problems”? (more)

Kartik Agaram: Using computers more freely and safely. How can we use computers more freely and safely? The punchline... (more)

Lu Wilson: Stop worshipping tech idols. We should all have role models. But wait, a role model isn’t the same as an idol...one is a healthy relationship to have, and one is not. (more)

Dolphin communicator, Sensory Deprivation Tank guru, etc. (more)

aka isolation tank, isolation chamber; known from AlteredStates (more)

Chris Dixon believes the OpenWeb will rise again contra the closed AppStore (Apple) and Walled Garden-s (FaceBook) as the closed services atrophy and entrepreneurs & developers go elsewhere. (more)

Cosmism is a moral philosophy that favours building or growing strong artificial intelligence and ultimately leaving Earth to the Terrans, who oppose this path for humanity... In 2005, Hugo de Garis published a book describing his views on this topic entitled The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines... The first half of the book describes technologies which he believes will make it possible for computers to be billions or trillions of times more intelligent than humans. He predicts that as artificial intelligence improves and becomes progressively more human-like, differing views will begin to emerge regarding how far such research should be allowed to proceed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis#Cosmism