Reading Log

I like to read on the web, and bookmark most of it on my Raindrop account. Fellow Internet person, this list is as close as you can get to my personal stream of thoughts.

A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-support
- yesterday
- technology
- space
- science
Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning
Read this article from The Atlantic on Smry
https://smry.ai/s/pO6ApyNK
- unread – yesterday
What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem?ref=DenseDiscovery-382
- unread – yesterday
- attention
- technology
- design
Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/
- unread – 5 days ago
- technology
- hardware
- sustainable
- economics
Warranty Void If Regenerated
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic.
https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
- unread – 6 days ago
- software
Maintenance and Care: Fixing a Broken World
A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations.
https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/
- unread – last week
- care
- urbanism
- cities
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
- last week
- technology
- attention
- health
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
- last week
- web
- technology
- attention
- psychology
- darkpatterns
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
- 2 weeks ago
- creativity
- culture
- hardware
- computer
Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html
- 3 weeks ago
- ai
- code
- work
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.
https://www.userinterface.wiki/sounds-on-the-web
- 2 months ago
- design
- web
- interface
- audio
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.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260102-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeks
- 2 months ago
- psychology
- health
- personality
- therapy
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.
https://giantbomb.com/articles/rami-ismails-top-games-of-2025
- 2 months ago
- gaming
- culture
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/
- 3 months ago
- design
- web
Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/stop-doing-ux-cheerleading
- 3 months ago
- design
- bullshit
- tech
- product
Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
An essay by Austin L. Ray
https://airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com/
- 3 months ago
- travel
- life
- culture
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...
https://vgbees.com/im-great-at-baby-steps-because-i-walk-like-that-in-real-life/
- 4 months ago
- relationships
- health
- game
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED
archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC
https://archive.is/7cX1c
- 4 months ago
- health
- exercise
- medicine
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.
https://stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in-the-age-of-tilt
- 4 months ago
- gamedesign
- psychology
- randomness
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
- 4 months ago
- work

Reading Log

A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support

Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays

Hold on to Your Hardware

Warranty Void If Regenerated

Maintenance and Care: Fixing a Broken World

The Last Quiet Thing

The 49MB Web Page

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is

Sounds on The Web

How I changed my personality in six weeks

Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb

The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan

Stop doing UX cheerleading

Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better

I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees

The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED

Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt

Things That Aren't Doing the Thing