May links

  1. The serendipity machine: Nabeel’s notes on using Twitter.
  2. Local first software: Ink and Switch’s white paper on learnings from building local-first software (think Obsidian).
  3. When Dress Absorbs Technology: An interview with Susan Elizabeth Ryan. “My thesis is that the fate of technology is to disappear, to become invisible, aiming to become even more powerful: tech withdrawing into the realm of the ghost. Wearables defy this tendency, resist it and make us sensible, again, to the technical a priori of the world that surround us.”
  4. The End of Cultural Arbritrage: The internet make most information instantly available. What if that’s why mass culture is so boring?
  5. Why Her will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report: A great essay about the director and production designers thought about the aesthetics and technology of the movie Her.
  6. A Former Self-Loather’s Guide to Actually Building Habits
  7. Peter Wildeford’s quarterly review template.
  8. How to increase agency: a flowchart

Technology

  1. Building a BFT JSON CRDT: Jacky’s notes on implementing CRDTs.
  2. Lee Boonstra’s talk on Using WebRTC to build Voice AI applications
  3. Been playing around with Pathway’s ETL framework for stream processing, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
  4. LookOnceToHear introduces an intelligent hearable system where users choose to hear a target speaker by just looking at them for a few seconds.
  5. General Purpose Interfaces: An essay about how emergence of AI agents lets us reimagine the ways we interact with our devices.
  6. This short sci-fi story called LightSpeed by Ken Liu.
  7. A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning
  8. This must read article on learnings from building applications with LLMs.