Monthly Dump
Read & enjoyed:
- Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination: Scott Alexander on Frankfurt School
- Who Took A Sh*t In The Austrian Pavilion?: An inquiry into the curious incident at the Venice Biennale.
- Programmer Science Fiction
- The Collision of Lacan and Deleuze: Desire in Ballard’s Crash
- notes on gooning
- Book Review: Red Plenty
Also see the blog posts I saved in my Junited page.
Bookmarked:
- The Bash Hackers Wiki
- The cave of forgotten films
- Cool visualizations
- Berkeley Mono: - I don’t feel rich enough to spend $75 on a font even though it looks stunning.
- F*CKSignups: A curated collection of open-source tools you can use instantly in your browser. no accounts, no emails, no tracking.
- Cara: A social media and portfolio-sharing platform for artists and art enthusiasts.
- diffshub: View code changes from any public GitHub diff—PRs, comparisons, commits, diffs, and patches—with a super-freaking-fast, beautiful, and virtualized interface.
- Semble: A social knowledge network for creators.
- ascorbic/cirrus: A single-user ATProto PDS that runs on a Cloudflare Worker.
- Discord alternatives: https://mony.lol/, https://fluxer.app/
- Wikipedia’s Signs of AI Writing
- Snake Awakening: A snake game where the rules keep changing and every apple you eat takes you deeper into the existential spiral.
- thi.ng: Open source building blocks for computational design & art.
- Gravity: Very cool set of animations that explains gravity.
- PerformativeUI: This frontend components library was meant to be a joke but it looks so good!
- Sem: Semantic understanding on top of Git (not AI).
- Public Domain Image Archive: Hand-picked collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse.
- Shut Up: Disable comment sections on various browsers.
- Society Explained: Brief explanations of influential theories on how society does and should work.
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Cheese Paper: A text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction.
Added to my to-read list:
- Party Work in the Masses by Vladimir Lenin
- Story of Cybernetics by Maurice Trask
- Friedrich Nietzsche by Julian Young
- Games Primates Play by Dario Maestripieri
- Honolulu by Alan Brennert
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
- Art Since 1900 by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss et al.
Added to my watchlist:
- Hokum (2026), directed by Damian McCarthy
- READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (2026), directed by Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
- Hardcore (1979), directed by Paul Schrader
- SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (1989), directed by Steven Soderbergh
- The Beast (1975), directed by Walerian Borowczyk