Hacker News
- Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) https://idlewords.com/2003/09/best_practices_for_time_travelers.htm 43 comments
- Dabblers and Blowhards https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm 15 comments
- Fan is A Tool-Using Animal (2013) https://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm 8 comments
- The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007) https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm 40 comments
- A Walk in Hong Kong https://idlewords.com/2019/08/a_walk_in_hong_kong.htm 371 comments
- Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) https://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm 190 comments
- On the Moral Economy of Tech (2016) http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm 45 comments
- The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 83 comments
- Social Media Needs a Travel Mode http://idlewords.com/2017/02/social_media_needs_a_travel_mode.htm 220 comments
- Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) http://idlewords.com/2003/09/best_practices_for_time_travelers.htm 76 comments
- Sana'a http://idlewords.com/2014/07/sana_a.htm 52 comments
- Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm 36 comments
- How To Not Get Your Blog Hacked http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_blog_hacked.htm 25 comments
Lobsters
- The New Wilderness https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm 5 comments culture , law , privacy
- What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm 22 comments security
- Build a Better Monster http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm 18 comments security
- Social Media Needs A Travel Mode http://idlewords.com/2017/02/social_media_needs_a_travel_mode.htm 2 comments law , privacy
- Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm 3 comments culture , philosophy
- Scott And Scurvy (2010) http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm 3 comments science
- Haunted By Data http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm 2 comments culture
- The case against human missions to Mars https://idlewords.com/ 788 comments space
- The Website Obesity Crisis https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 64 comments programming
- The New Wilderness. For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm 4 comments technology
- What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm 34 comments programming
- AMP? There's are far better solutions... such as those this article outlines. http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 38 comments programming
- Haunted By Data http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm 6 comments programming
- Superintelligence: the Idea that Eats Smart People http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm 4 comments philosophy
- The Website Obesity Crisis http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 4 comments coding
- The Website Obesity Crisis http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 42 comments web_design
- The Website Obesity Crisis http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm 10 comments webdev
- Web Design: The First 100 Years http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm 5 comments programming
- Why Arabic is Terrific: Grammatical quirks of the Arabic language http://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm 21 comments linguistics
- A Rocket to Nowhere: "Future archaeologists trying to understand what the Shuttle was for are going to have a mess on their hands" http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm 11 comments space
- How we lost the cure for scurvy. http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm 3 comments reddit.com
- in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm 8 comments history
- Dabblers and Blowhards: programming and painting are nothing alike http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm?repost=yep 54 comments programming
- How I wound up in a Chinese police van (funny) http://www.idlewords.com/2006/08/i_spy.htm 6 comments reddit.com
- Dabblers and Blowhards (about Paul Graham) http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm? 14 comments reddit.com
- 100 years of flight, the Wright brothers, and how patents slowed the development of airplanes http://www.idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm 2 comments reddit.com
- polish thugs attack tourist. Police swear vengeance. Hilarity ensues. http://www.idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm 5 comments reddit.com
- Idle Words http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm 4 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- Recently - macwright.com https://macwright.com/2020/08/01/recently.html 72 comments
- A Visual History of Delicious Bookmarks -(outer outer space)- http://outer-outer.space/visual-history-of-delicious-bookmarks/ 3 comments
- Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess - BiteofanApple https://brianschrader.com/archive/easy-and-ethical-traffic-monitoring-with-goaccess/ 2 comments
- The Ascetic Programmer https://asceticprogrammer.info/book 1 comment
- Longform Podcast #189: Maciej Ceglowski · Longform http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-189-maciej-ceglowski 0 comments
- Swift Dynamism - BiteofanApple https://brianschrader.com/archive/swift-dynamism/ 0 comments
- Farewell, Dear Reader | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/farewell-dear-reader.html 0 comments
- Prankster Tricks Tech Incubator into Supporting Homeless People - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/06/08/prankster-tricks-y-combinator-into-supporting-the-homeless/ 0 comments
- SASE Panel on The Moral Economy of Technology - kieranhealy.org https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2016/06/28/sase-panel-on-the-moral-economy-of-technology/ 0 comments
- The Habits of Highly Creative People — Rayyan Islam https://rayyanislam.squarespace.com/blog/2014/2/6/the-habits-of-highly-creative-people 0 comments
- A Designers Guide to Empathy — Philipp Sackl http://philippsackl.com/designers-guide-to-empathy/ 0 comments
- The best Pinboard app for iOS – The Sweet Setup http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-pinboard-app-ios/ 0 comments
- My Favorite RSS Feeds - Jim Nielsen’s Blog https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2019/i-love-rss/ 0 comments