Links from 2023 (277 links)

A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.

A digital museum of video game levels

A digital museum of video game levels

American SF from the 1950s to the 1990s contains all the raw ingredients of what has been identified as the Californian ideology (evangelized through the de-facto house magazine, WIRED). It's rooted in uncritical technological boosterism and the desire to get rich quick. Libertarianism and it's even more obnoxious sibling Objectivism provide a fig-leaf of philosophical legitimacy for cutting social programs and advocating the most ruthless variety of dog-eat-dog politics. Longtermism advocates overlooking the homeless person on the sidewalk in front of you in favour of maximizing good outcomes from charitable giving in the far future. And it gels neatly with the Extropian and Transhumanist agendas of colonizing space, achieving immortality, abolishing death, and bringing about the resurrection (without reference to god). These are all far more fun to contemplate than near-term environmental collapse and starving poor people. Finally, there's accelerationism: the right wing's version of Trotskyism, the idea that we need to bring on a cultural crisis as fast as possible in order to tear down the old and build a new post-apocalyptic future.

The best UI, though, is no UI at all, or rather, just one UI, by which I mean “Universal Interface”.

Most public services deteriorated in the decade from 2010 under the pressure of austerity, and then deteriorated again during the pandemic. It is not easy to see how they will recover, since many years of weak economic growth have left the UK somehow achieving the trifecta of high taxes, chronic budget deficits and inadequate public services.

Good times.

Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.

The culprit is technically rising interest rates, but you could argue it began when founders and investors started to see the downside of swinging for the power law. The first venture funds formed as a way for savvy investors to help innovators create fundamental technologies like transistors, which required huge outlays of time and treasure before they could produce value. But in the past few years, causality inverted: Start-ups and entire markets were manufactured from whole cloth to meet the demand of overcapitalized venture funds searching for a home run.

Polite counter to Kent C Dodd's Why I Won't Use Next.js.

Geist embodies our design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Forked from Inter, apparently

When I transitioned from Angular.js to React, I left a lot of Angular.js behind me. All of the time I had invested at getting really good at Angular.js felt like a huge waste. I don’t want that to ever happen to me again. So I prefer to focus on a framework that can not only give me what I want from the user experience perspective, but can also give me skills that I can use wherever I develop for the web.

Via Popular.

Via Popular.

As far as I am aware, I am a mentally healthy, well-adjusted, and sane person with no disorders. But I have a strange, fairly innocuous quirk which seems beyond my control and I'm curious about it...

Er, yeah, it me too.

Founded in 2015, Pleo is a fintech platform that provides businesses with expense solutions and automated financial management tools. Their goal is to centralise every accounting or expense-related work into a unique, simple platform.

... or more accurately: bad mobile-first web design.

Humans like being together. Here’s the truth: Everybody moves to cities, not just because of their jobs but because of their sociability.

As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.

Catch: Broadcatching made easy.

📚 A collection of open and closed source Content Management Systems (CMS) for your perusal.

Performative content is a recipe for slowly failing at content marketing, and more broadly at business, in a non-obvious way and without ever understanding why.

Present Day, heh... Present Time! Hahahahahahaha!

There are many, many reasons I am opposed, but the one we should care about is how it fosters a culture of decision paralysis. It fosters a culture of decision making without having an opinion, without having to put a stake in the ground. It fosters a culture where making a quick buck trumps a great product experience.

Via Popular.

Via monospaced.

A.I.’s wonkiness—all of these networks are still in their nascency—forced Lopatin to reëxamine his most instinctive and well-worn habits. “It reminds me a lot of Paul Schrader’s transcendental-cinema thing,” Lopatin said. “He always talks about how there are films that are formulaic and ones that aren’t. The ones that aren’t do weird things with time. They dwell a little bit too long on the wrong object, like a door after someone has passed through it. You’re usually following the person, but now we’re staying on the door. That’s what A.I. is actually doing really well. What it’s not doing very well is following the person.”

Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

There is an old Dutch saying that intends to remind people that trust takes time to build, but is quickly lost.

What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a…

Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software. The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone, and can run on any computer.

I've been working on a sort-of content toolkit today. A bit like a “how to blog” guide, but medium-agnostic. It will almost always be, or start with, a blog…

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The visual editor for React.

During the iOS 17 beta testing process from June to September, MacRumors wrote a series of in-depth feature guides highlighting every major new addition, plus…

There’s a reason to be optimistic about Britain. The nation is completing a seven-year therapy treatment that worked. True, it’s been an expensive exercise in…

This article will show you how to set up a brand new YubiKey 5 with the following applications: : used for encrypting and signing PGP (aka GPG) messages, as…

Build infinite canvas apps in React with the tldraw SDK. World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 five star SDK.