Things I Like

↩ ~contrapunctus

Technology

  1. Common Lisp
  2. https://malleable.systems/
  3. Maximalist computing
  4. Alan Kay
    1. Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? (talk)
    2. "Normal" Considered Harmful (talk)
  5. Bret Victor
    1. The Future of Programming (talk)
    2. Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface (HTML and PDF)
  6. Gilad Bracha
  7. GNU Emacs
    1. modal editing - Evil, god-mode, Boon
    2. structural editing - Paredit, Smartparens, Lispy
  8. XMPP
  9. Contributing to OpenStreetMap (on the ground, using Vespucci)
  10. Steve Yegge
  11. documentation

    1. Diataxis Framework - My favorite write-up about documentation.

      […] what we call documentation is fundamentally not one thing, but four. Understanding the implications of this, and how those four different things work, can help improve most documentation.

    2. Teach, Don't Tell - Steve Losh - For those who claim that source code, tests, or literate programming are sufficient documentation.
    3. Keep a Changelog
    4. Literate Programming in the Large - Tim Daly - I'm no longer a fan of literate programming, but this talk remains humorous, insightful, and inspirational for documentation in general.
  12. mechanical keyboards, especially split keyboards
  13. Freenet

Art

  1. Musical theatre
    • Stephen Sondheim - Sweeney Todd, Company, Into The Woods
  2. Opera
    • Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado, Trial by Jury
  3. Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest
  4. Tom Lehrer
  5. Film
    1. Les Miserables (2012)
    2. Studo Ghibli - Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso
    3. Waltz With Bashir
    4. Christopher Nolan - Interstellar, Inception
    5. Synecdoche, New York

Others

  1. bicycles
    1. vehicular cycling
    2. https://www.cycleblaze.com/ - a website of bicycle touring journals from all kinds of authors, touring across all kinds of distances and places
  2. permaculture
  3. non-violent communication, AKA compassionate communication
  4. anarchism