This is my publicly accessible collection of annotated bookmarks. This page gathers up all the links at the end of my week notes and various other places on the site. The bookmarks gathered here from various places on the site via tranclusion.
Please note: links may die. The internet is alive and changing.
⤝ Week Notes 74: The Start of the Semester Roller Coaster
⤝ Week Notes 73: The End of Summer and First Week of Work
Of course there is already a discpline whose concern is with the creation of over-determined textual structures: a highly technical field in which the distillation of meaning and the coalescence of form with content have ever been focal concepts. Its name is poetry.
⤝ Week Notes 72: Back to Writing, Playing Games, and Pumpkins
What I built, thanks to the lack of a single shelf, is a lifestyle, a family habit and culture, where books are as essential and natural as our couch, or bed, a part of a normal life; and that a life or home without any books would feel less like home, less like life. I created a home for books.
⤝ Week Notes 71: Flock of Birds, Milky Way, and Webpage Jam 2026
This is basic punk rock show 101 write your address down on this clipboard and we’ll send you a zine stuff.
Almost two years of learning Russian on-and-off, and all I got was the ability to understand a fake language. That’s a common sort of trade-off you’ll get with language learning, and I’ll still keep at it, because I’m insane.
Remember: It’s better to be proud of a small garden than be frustrated by a big one!
Old writer puts on a sweater
sits down, leers into computer
screen and writes about life.
How holy can we get?
⤝ Week Notes 70: Yay, Toronto!
borg and borgmatic.Despite the variety of creative approaches practiced by different scientists, one tried-and-true — though often overlooked — trick for generating new ideas stands out. It may sound trivial, yet it is as reliable as it is simple: talk to someone
Zoe Loukia’s bear blog is so minimal and beautiful. I’m shocked by the austerity and simplicity of it all.
Perl Poetry has Listen by Sharon Hopkins
Most of the talks that I attended at Bridges 2026.
Some awesome people that I met at Bridges 2026
Japanese stitching
Labyrinths / Mathematical Dance
The Storyteller by Walter Benajamin
Bouncepaw’s Links a deep rabbit hole of amazing links. Very geeky, PKM-y, and web-centric.
Dan Luu on what to learn has a lot of good insight about transferability of advice. ⤝ Week Notes 68: Family Camp at NeeKauNis
Lessons from a high-fertility subculture - Works in Progress Magazine: Details on how having kids in Chabad works.
Ian’s Fast Shoelace Knot: I learned this very efficient knot at Family Camp. Learning a new way to tie your shoes, as an adult, is an odd experience. The muscle memory for “the normal way” is so strong.
Ylvis - Trucker’s Hitch [Official music video HD] - YouTube: How have I never seen this before?! This is ridiculous and I love it.
The Wildlings | RPG | RPGGeek: a lovely minimal story telling game suitable for five year olds.
⤝ Week Notes 67: Writing, Board Games, and a Birthday
[44][22]3.(4x,4x)If you write weeknotes, I feel like we’re already almost friends because of the format, the commitment, and the humility. Weeknoters are loggers, not always bloggers. — What is it about people who write Weeknotes? - Twelvety
⤝ Week Notes 66: Driver’s Ed, Karate Teeth, and Sage
we were looking at
the ceiling and then
we saw the sky
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. — Kurt Vonnegut on Farting Around | Hacker News
If LaTeX was being designed now, it would probably have more code in the preloaded format, but in 1993 when LaTeX2e was designed there was room for around 100 commands (including
\label) in a document after you had loadedamsmathso having the option of not loading such packages was a vital option.
⤝ Week Notes 65: Relatorium Seminar
“The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What is it, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this perfect thing appear in many guises — and everything that is unimportant falls away.”
— Arvo Pärt ⤝ Week Notes 64: Camping and A Wedding
⤝ Week Notes 64: Camping and A Wedding
This is what Paul Atreides sticks on the radio as he traverses Arrakis on the worm.
⤝ Week Notes 62: The Last Walk to Kindergarten
I find a lot of these via my RSS feed which is my new algorithm these days. I love the randomness. Not completely random though… folk I follow generally have similar deeper values so although interests are varied, their values will underpin the sharing of found gems, so I appreciate that. — @to… | zkbro
⤝ Week Notes 61: Summer Days, Pool, Final Walks to School
⤝ Week Notes 61: Summer Days, Pool, Final Walks to School
16th-century beesuit I sewed for the opening of a new apiary at Oxford University : r/bees
Tabernis music: medieval beekeeping and dark music
Lashing: Scout Adeventure Guide: how to tie sticks together with ropes
Techniques to Build Rubik’s Cube Algorithms: A very math-y guide to building Rubik’s Cube algorithms. Lots of linked animations.
RedKB: Cube Theory 101: A series of videos on commutators and conjugates.
Engage your students: a starter’s guide for math teaching assistants by James Oxley
Tablet Weaving
Mathematicians are really powerful, in part because of their amazing ability to invent language all the time. Sometimes it even leads to rare natural language grammar, like “subspace preserved under addition”. All four words are math inventions with a precise meaning. Take a page out of the math book and dare to get freaky with the language for whatever you’re doing. — fi-le.net
⤝ Week Notes 60: TDSB lay offs, Pagefind, and Fencing
Sewing Resources
The Eyeball Game: How well can you eyeball a few common constructions in geometry such as bisecting angles?
Ascetic Computing: Dave write about the sense in which his computer usage is a form of asceticism. This got me thinking a lot about asceticism.
On Becoming a Magician: mastering something incredible (in this case body painting).
maybe maybe maybe : r/maybemaybemaybe: A minute-and-a-half of pure driving insanity.
Knots
toki pona
It’s fun and I am trying to make it the thing I reach for instead of my phone for baths, quilting, workouts, making my eggs.
My set hacky up is a bookmarklet that copies a command to my clipboard that I can quickly paste into a command prompt. This calls a bash script that calls a python script.
⤝ Week Notes 59: Beets, Cubes, Dossier, and CMESG
I regard the computing community as a collective victim of the computer salesmen. Take, for example, the word processor.
⤝ Week Notes 52: One Year! Woo!
It’s a perfect game full stop, but especially for those seeking to rekindle their creativity, or simply to sit down and create with friends.
scroll-behaviour: smooth to my website’s style after reading thistoki kulupu pi wile pona: A message about recent happenings in the toki pona community. Sonja was my room mate when I moved to Toronto. It is hard to watch her go through this difficult time.
Juggling things:
In [24] Hilden proves that $K_{2n}$ is finitely generated, and in [7] Birman finds the presentation with the smallest number of generators and in terms of elements of $B_{2n}$. \[ \{\sigma_1; \ \sigma_2 \sigma_1^2 \sigma_2; \ \sigma_{2i} \sigma_{2i-1} \sigma_{2i+1} \sigma_{2i}, \ 1\leq i \leq n-1\} \]
The problem is that I completely underestimated how much space and equipment you need to keep a hundred tiny plants alive indoors.
Having worked for years as a lounge lizard, I was smitten with the insight that the cocktail pianist is signaled out to conduct his ritual of group urban chanting on the themes of love and existence—a kind of medicine man at the ever-present altaric piano, surrounded by his boozy tribe sipping sacraments in the circle of our common misery. — Piano bar - Wikipedia
E. read through his recent [journal] entries and commented that nearly all of them are about how he wished he wrote more. I laughed and said that if he read personal blogs, he’d find that most bloggers also write about how they wished they wrote more. Whether it’s online or offline, it’s the same, eh?
Trying to understand LLMs by using the rules of human psychology is like trying to understand a game of Scrabble by using the rules of Pictionary.
Along those lines at some urging from John Tukey and others, I finally adopted what I called “Great Thoughts Time.” When I went to lunch Friday noon, I would only discuss great thoughts after that. By great thoughts I mean ones like: “What will be the role of computers in all of AT&T?”, “How will computers change science?”
⤝ The Standard 3-Strand Braid and Its Track Plan
The other day, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a neighbor I hadn’t seen in a long time said hello as she walked past the house. “I hope your family is doing well,” she said, and then looked concerned. “As well as you can do in times like these. You must be even more worried, with kids.”
“Uh, well,” I said, “The kids live in the present, and we try to enjoy the present.”
Sylvia has a bit on styling BearBlog to handle short form content. Lots of nice CSS shenanigans worth stealing. Do I want a micro-posts section?
Nanuq is a Bearblog export mung-er.
Le Robert en Ligne: an online Fr-Fr dictionary.
The Twentieth Century Renaissance of the Recorder in Germany: it turns out that recorder playing went out of style for a few centuries.
Steve’s post about Homemade Notebooks looks like a wonderful rabbit hole.
Personal Canon: a template for creating a “personal canon” of influences with some rational for why to do so
More stuff about solo RPGs. I’m not sure why I’m collecting all these. I don’t play them but I like them as an idea.
The Zen of Quakerism a nice short read about a Quaker, turned Zen Buddhist, returning to Quakerism. I found it via this /r/Quakers/ thread about the relationship between Buddhist meditation and Quaker worship. So juicy! ⤝ Week Notes 23
rechelon / zine_library : a huge archive of anarchist zines.
Adactio: Jeremy Keith’s beautiful personal website.
rss.style: a lovely way to style RSS feeds. Feeds are a bit of an obsession of mine.
Outliners.com: an archive of the history of outliners, the original use case of OPML files.
Reddit: Took My 3-Year-Old Camping Solo—Here’s What I Learned : r/camping
Alfred Valley designs a bunch of cool storytelling games. I went looking for how to spell “ossuary” and now I’ve got a dozen tabs open. I love going down internet rabbit holes like this.
Online game resources that I used at one time or another:
Hilma ad Klint Swedish mystic and artist. Pioneer of abstract art.
My Website is Ugly Because I Made It by Taylor Troesh: talks about websites as reflections of personal aesthetics. Also, a bit of CSS / number theory voodoo.
Olly Costello makes amazing botanical themed art about liberation. Found their work via pixel dirt.
The Mathematics of Juggling recent talk by Allen Knutson, who really went deep with this stuff.
Podcast: A Quaker Take on Parenting
Book: Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians looks awesome.
If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness. My job is essentially to come up with 365 ideas a year. If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood. I’ve found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories. To do that, I’ve had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness. We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves.
A forever world in Minecraft is the concept of starting a world in Minecraft single-player, and playing that for the rest of your life. — 0x30.dev
rsyncs and a restic call” backup infrastructureIn a world where everything seems to spiral towards negativity, writing becomes more and more important. Writing yourself, mind you: writing that helps to better form and steer thoughts in your mind, cluster them, extract ideas, and persist pleasant personal experiences. Writing as a cure for negativity.
[…] I am here to suggest that you try to stop thinking of documentation as a chore you do for others, and instead think of it as a way to explore your problem space and the space in your head around your intuitions about the problem, so you can shine light into the murkier corners of both. Writing documentation can function as valuable knowledge capture about your problem domain even when you are the only expert about what you are trying to do.
⤝ Week Notes 7: Almost at the end of term!
⤝ Week Notes 8: Last Week of Term
You may use/lend/sell/destroy a patented wrench. But you may not clone that wrench (or sell its clones), even if that wrench clones itself. The same legal framework applies to plants.
The three health risk behaviors are unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, and tobacco use. The four chronic conditions are cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and diabetes. These four conditions cause more than 50 percent of all deaths in that vast majority of communities.
I think most of the resistance boils down perceiving the cost as higher than it really is, and the rewards as smaller than they really are. … In other words, the best deal in the world looks like a bad deal from the outside — i.e. when you’re not taking the deal. For now I’ll say this much: the number one thing is to never do an exercise you truly hate.
Published: May 17, 2021 @ 22:30.
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