Links from August 2024

Writing

• Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
• Pursuits That Can’t Scale
• Do Quests Not Goals
• Unfolding by Henrik Karlsson
• An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation (1973)

Fiction

• Window Boy by Thomas Ha (short story)
• Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer (short story)

Graphic Design

• UsefulCharts.com: Vancouver store with posters like Timeline of World History.

Board/Card Games

• CHEMISTRY SET: Zach Barth (of Zachtronics) is now making board/card games.
• So Clover!: party game

Embedded

• So you want to build an embedded Linux system? - Jay Carlson
• Adafruit Qt Py: simplest form factor for embedded development
• BBC micro:bit pocket-sized ↑5 computer
• Teensy USB Development Board
• TinyCircuits.com: cool electronic miniature products

Lower-fi software

• pico.sh: Use rsync, scp, or sftp to publish a blog post, website, or code snippet
• Zero Data App: 131 (and counting) apps that let you control your data.
• disco | deploy web projects: Like Heroku but open-source and self-hosted.

Terminal on the web

• The Monospace Web: Character-grid web design
• Terminal.css: semantic styles derived from Terminal theme
• 3D Renderer using ASCII #js #textart

Actual Terminal

• I’m Re-Imagining the Command Line Interpreter (10m video) #cli
• C++ Functional TUI #tui
• Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators #terminal
  • Ghostty: Mitchell Hashimoto terminal devlog (not open-source) #terminal
• Vim Racer - An Online Game for VIM Navigation
• 7 Things I’ve learned building a modern TUI Framework #tui

Music

• Hanon Pro: recommended to get into regular piano practice