Links

Things I find interesting…

Software

Hacker NewsThe Orange Site.
You are never taught how to build quality software 2023-12-07
YesterwebInteresting manifesto, though the community is dead.
Computers Are Bad
HTML Journal
Software Crisis 2.0 2021-08-21
Critical Engineering ManifestoEvoking a sort of meta-engineering awareness.
Handmade ManifestoTime to learn Assembly.
Simple sabotage for software 2023-12-13Why commercial software frequently sucks.
Where are the builders? 2024-05-09A treatise on motivation.
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers 2024
The diminishing half-life of knowledge 2023-11-12The Faustian bargain for knowledge.
Designing Low Upkeep Software 2021-09-25
Why Can't We Make Simple Software? 2024

Aesthetics

Berkeley GraphicsExcellent typefaces.
Anonymous Design Studio
Frank ChimeroCheck out "The Shape of Design."
Max KohlerTeutonic visual autism on display.
Joshua DavisInnovator in procedural art.
Arnaud MercierR.I.P.
Substack
The Monospace Web 2024-08-26
MythoAmericaThe past in America is a foreign country.
Artless
Psychic NewbornDithermaxxing, net art that dances around the truth.
OmniEsoteric glitch art and essays.

Metallurgy

Guide to Bronze Patinas
Anodized Titanium 2002
Titanium Crystallization 2022-12-18One of my favorite exotic materials.
Damasteel and Damacore 2018-10-15

Mathematics

Jeremy KunGain IQ points by reading his work.
MicrogradIncredibly concise.
Does one have to be a genius to do maths? 2007-05-14
Xah LeeMath nerd and an original Internet troll.
OimoAbsolutely cracked graphics programming.

((Wo)men of) Culture

GwernInternet genius.
Steve Hsu
100 RabbitsThey do perma-computing.
XXIIVV

Sofie Channel
Basement Community
Library GenesisThe most based library.
incessantpainAesthetics and autism.
ImyaAuto-didact, wise beyond her years, bookworm.
East AthenaeumSci-fi, maths, hyperspace and philosophical topics.
siqu 四取Elusive bugman, quixotic and confounding.
Let's Learn Together
In Torpor
Cole Roberts

Politics

Palladium MagazineHighbrow.
Zero Hedge
PharmahereticCurrent events from a highly sober perspective.
Ran PrieurDeep ecology and collapsitarianism.
Andrei MartyanovWar and conflict analysis.
Forward Observer
Forward Base B
Lee Kuan Yew on Race
Neomedievalism and transnational nobility 2024-12-29

Philosophy

The Internet is made of demons 2022-04-21
Technological Slavery 2008
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy 2023
CCRU 1997–2003Nick Land from the past.
Mental LabourThe trillest wageslave.
Suboptimalism
Idiot 2024-09-11
The actual plan for the matrix 2003

Buttons

Here's my 88x31 buttons, if you're into that sort of thing.