Links
This is a collection of links I have found interesting, insightful, or fun and felt were worth sharing.
Tiny Tools
A list of small, free, or experimental tools for building websites or games.
The small things Manifesto
A manifesto written by Andrew Roach proposing that we should try to do things on a human scale again, instead of trying to design everything to scale infinitely.
Small Technology Foundation
The work of Laura Kalbag and Aral Balkan, the Small Technology Foundation advocates for building the small web using small technology designed to increase human welfare.
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
A modern interpretation of the Gettysburg Address.
IDW Transformers (2005) Complete Reading Order
A chronological reading order for IDW’s Transformers series (2005).
How Unix programmers at restaurants search menus for their favorite plate
A real-world application of UNIX skills.
Advanced PET
A web simulation of the old Megaman NT Warrior Advanced PET toy from the mid-2000s
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
Cory Doctorow writes about DRM and the bullshit of digital “ownership”
Forget Comcast. Here's the DIY Approach to Internet Access
A Wired article about a Spanish engineer who built up a distributed wifi network to provide Internet to his town because telecom companies wouldn’t.
Designing Windows 95's User Interface
A retrospective from someone who worked on the Windows 95 user interface detailing the design process and iteration that went into creating an interface that was accessible to both first-time computer users and existing power users.