henderson reed hummel

Linkdrop: February 2025

I might have to start publishing these linkdrops weekly, if I keep finding this much to share!

• layout.computer: CAD for traditional stick chairs
• llm_flowchart: button-enhanced chatting with LLMs
• “You should use /tmp/ more” and some good comments on lobste.rs
• Toxiclibsjs: computational design tasks in JavaScript
• Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS
• The Housing Theory of Everything
• Cellpond: programming as cellular automata
• A delightfully complicated tool for building concrete star-lamps
• Studio Minale Maeda - a very cool design studio (now closed) that was exploring rapid prototyping applications from a fine arts/design perspective.
• APOSD vs Clean Code: a talk between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin
• Getting my daily news from a dot-matrix printer
• The Pattern Library
• Booksmarklets are criminally underrated
• Kay Lack’s homepage - in particular, how to pair program
• The hardest working font in Manhattan - I’m going to be looking for Gorton everywhere now.
• Don’t use cosine similarity carelessly - this is a nice mid-level technical explanation of some of the ways we can use embeddings badly. Good reading if you’re interested at all in using semantic similarity for future projects.
• Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
• The Staff+ Performance Cliff
• Schemesh: A Unix shell and Lisp REPL, fused together
• Building data-centric apps with a reactive relational database - a good (if slightly long) essay on thinking of apps as queries.
• Technomancy Search: why?
• spencer's spot - another great personal page.
• Shademap - for routeplanning sunny wintertime walks (or avoiding the sun on broiling summer days)
• HYTRADBOI