Sounds on The Web
Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.
How I changed my personality in six weeks
Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.
Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
An essay by Austin L. Ray
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED
archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC
Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt
As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.
Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.
Imagine that we are roommates. You ask me to restock the toilet paper. To prove that I’ve done so, I show you the receipt.
The next morning, when you are in need of toilet paper, you find that the drawer is empty. This is because I have invented a new and innovative method that I call Lean Shopping
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
A stress hormone like cortisol, on the other hand, has a half-life of 60–90 minutes and so can take up to 6 hours to fully clear out after the onset of an acute stressor. This means that if we switch what we focus on more often than, say, every 30 minutes, our system will be more or less decohered—different parts will be “attending to” different aspects of reality
Inside the Tent on “The Great British Bake Off” | The New Yorker
archived 29 Aug 2025 22:45:03 UTC
Spacing Over Cards | SMAGIN
Internal ≤ external.
Se faire avaler par la machine
La publication scientifique est encore aujourd’hui la condition sine qua non pour établir une carrière universitaire.
"AI First" and the Bus Factor of 0 - MindFlash - Programming and more
"AI first" leaves humans nowhere. Learn about the Bus Factor and how the launch of ChatGPT has changed the landscape on knowledge sharing.
The End of Handwriting
For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?
Shamelessness as a strategy
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
Why the super rich are inevitable
Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
There is more than one way to dice an onion…
Let's properly analyze an AI article for once
Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like GitHub CEO...
Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it? | N…
archived 15 Jul 2025 21:06:08 UTC
How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor | The Walrus
In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up
Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …
Her path to MAGA was predictable: someone whose entire identity is built on being special, on having secret knowledge that others lack, was always going to fall for conspiracy theories. The wellness-to-fascism pipeline is real, and she’s already at the destination.
His MAGA turn will come when he finally admits what’s been obvious all along: he’s more comfortable with the right than the left. He’ll frame it as a principled stand against progressive extremism, but really it’s just the natural conclusion of a grift that started with “I’m just asking questions.”
The pattern is clear once you know what to look for. MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness.
It offers them a way to feel righteous about their resentments, patriotic about their prejudices, and principled about their selfishness.