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2022 - To Read
Numbers and Constructibility
Last summer, I got to discover Morellet’s artwork on inclined grids. Amazingly, this artwork is a display of the irrationality of $\sqrt{2}$! It’s also a strong argument for the existen…
Julie Zhuo on Twitter
If you surround yourself with great people, you're going to get better faster. But the price you pay is the constant feeling of inadequacy. 1/5— Julie Zhuo (@joulee) September 1, 2021
Notes are conversations across time
I think this is more than just a poetic analogy. It is a shift in perspective that can be grounded in cybernetics theory, particularly Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory, and it yields a number of surprising design insights.
blader.eth (Siqi Chen) on Twitter
Ladies and gentlemen, the Weekend.Excited to work through this fun little tome. pic.twitter.com/ydJ1rF6ZUN— blader.eth (Siqi Chen) (@blader) September 4, 2021
🟩 jade 🟩 on Twitter
Excited to read this book! pic.twitter.com/GnC1zJzi2p— 🟩 jade 🟩 (@JadeMasterMath) September 4, 2021
vision — Open Systems Lab
Twelvefold Way | TIL | Niko Kovacevic
Incunabula on Twitter
European civilization is built on ham and cheese, which allowed protein to be stored throughout the icy winters. Without this, urban societies in most of central Europe would simply not have been possible.This is also why we have hardback books. Here's why. 1/ pic.twitter.com/cU9Y9ZyrNC— Incunabula (@incunabula) September 6, 2021
10,000 BC - paragraph 49c
Lyle Enright on Twitter
When I say "I'm writing a magic system inspired by Deleuze and Guattari", this is *exactly* what I have in mind. https://t.co/eiqoqUj9Xm— Lyle Enright (@YnysDyn) September 9, 2021
Andy Matuschak on Twitter
What’s the motivation to do work at all? Wonder at discovery; feeling of power at having shaped something out of nothing; a sense of having traced the seams of the universe; memory of satisfaction for past achievements; excitement for what’s possible.— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) September 7, 2021
It’s hard to hear yourself think
Dan Charnas on Twitter
It’s almost time. Out February 2022. pic.twitter.com/aC0CeE23s4— Dan Charnas (@dancharnas) September 10, 2021
andrew🦆blinn on Twitter
does pl theory not have enough of a meme/macro culture? looking for dumb shit to put on my slides for undergrad pl discussion, but going through my trash folder ive found like 6 pl memes. prove me wrong pl twitter pic.twitter.com/7F39QuGbpI— andrew🦆blinn (@disconcision) September 10, 2021
algoritmic on Twitter
Rail is a two-dimensional language - a train moves along rails, junctions, and commands in a two-dimensional ASCII field https://t.co/Q0PzWeoUdX #esolang pic.twitter.com/qgJU1X1vRS— algoritmic (@algoritmic) September 14, 2021
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Mechanic
An open source framework that makes it easy to create custom, web-based design tools that export design assets right in your browser.
Steve Jobs learned this brilliant lesson about success as a teen, building a fence with his dad
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roon on Twitter
a program is a graph in my head which is linearized in code which is turned into flow graphs by the compilerwhich is linearized into machine code which is turned into superscalar graph ,,— roon (@tszzl) September 17, 2021
Gordon Brander on Twitter
looks cozy pic.twitter.com/UMQgGmFcst— Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) September 18, 2021
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everest on Twitter
keep seeing this article pop up and imo both it and the responses conflate "new spatial metaphors for organizing computation" vs black-box systems that don't allow access to the interior structures of computation whatsoever, generally for corporate gainhttps://t.co/bjQCQSfXgv— everest (@everestpipkin) September 23, 2021
Andy Matuschak on Twitter
Why are there no "standard texts" on designing software interfaces? (or tell me I'm wrong?)If you want to learn to *build* software, there are excellent and complete texts on the subject. It's not just a tech-vs-art thing: there are standard texts on type, drawing, color, etc.— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) September 23, 2021
Anna Riedl on Twitter
The newest version of my historical map of (the) cognitive science(s) is online. Included: the links to the older versions as well and the reasoning for the latest changes.I also made the title more humble, because it is about having a conversation.https://t.co/9pBcfCGQa3 pic.twitter.com/QB09hlJ5Ei— Anna Riedl (@AnnaLeptikon) June 12, 2019
Exquisite artistic touches, a value
Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
Alan Kay, or the “father of personal computers," is best known for his work on object-oriented programming languages, windowing graphical user interface design, and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.
Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
Andy Matuschak on Twitter
Often feels like a contradiction, but I think both a) digital reading is mostly much worse than physical reading; and b) literally translating physical affordances is probably not the right way to make digital reading much better. pic.twitter.com/Z56mJjAObx— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) September 29, 2021
Michael DeForge on Twitter
librarian simulator page 1 pic.twitter.com/pmkFNSHVBh— Michael DeForge (@michael_deforge) September 18, 2021