Links

Beware: links are stored here. Some links have lived here for so long, they started to rot. That’s a shame but part of life on the internet.

If you look closely the URL mentions something about a blogroll, but that’s not quite accurate, is it now?

Some links are here because I kept them open in a browser tab for too long, so I might not have read them carefully myself. Neither do I necessarily endorse whatever is listed on these pages, deal with it! I also bookmark stuff under edwinwenink.xyz/microblog/, but those I have read for sure.

I do more or less try to organize links - it’s a futile effort, one may call it Archive Fever - but it doesn’t always work out. The order of links has no significance. That’s OK.

I collect links for finding more links under “Tiny Directories and Blogrolls,” if you want to go through hyperspace.

Intended to be permanently under construction.

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Yet to find a place ¶

• River by Max Bittker: a visual connection engine

Insightful Blogs ¶

• I absolutely adore everything about Matt Might’s blog
  • He accurately describes my ideal approach to blogging
• Nadia Eghbal
  • Absolute gem. Also see the kickscondor Q&A
  • Old url: https://nadiaeghbal.com/
• Derek Sivers
  • For example this post on slow thinking

Vim ¶

• Overview basic commands
• At least one Vim trick you might not know
• Vim Macro Trickz
• Do 90% of what plugins do with just vim
• Statusline guide
• Vim registers 101

Workflow / Writing ¶

• Markdown cheatsheet
• Mutt workflow of Greg Kroah-Hartman
• On Digital Minimalism
• Git Magic
• Pandocomatic: pandoc automation
• Plea for parallel web and book publishing

On Zettelkasten ¶

• Luhmann: Communicating with Slip Boxes
  • His archive is being digitalized, see here

• Quick intro to Zettelkästen
  • Observations after one month of using Zettelkästen

• Great short but comprehensive intro to Zettelkasten
• Living with a Zettelkasten (digital system)
• Johannes F.K. Schmidt on Zettelkasten:
  • Der Zettelkasten Niklas Luhmanns als Überraschungsgenerator (pdf)
  • Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity
• The Zettelkasten Method (physical system)

• Overview of Zettelkasten blog
• The Principle of Atomicity

• Zetteldeft: Zettelkasten in Emacs
• Hack/Make: Your Knowledge Base as a Wiki (Zettelkasten)

Plain text tools and note-taking ¶

• Plaintext Productivity
• Andy Matuschak’s notes
  • Great example of a Zettelkasten style website
  • Contains very useful notes about note-taking (it should be about more effective thinking)
• Why (and How) I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text
• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science
• Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General and ConnectedText in Particular
• How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
  • And an interview with its author
• Integrated Research Environment with Vim (Web Archive version)
• Vim-Based Integrated Research Environment (seems incomplete)
• Very comprehensive Org mode guide in Emacs
• Org mode workflow with Emacs
  • This whole blog is actually filled with nice posts on notetaking, but all centerd on org mode and Emacs.
• Basic intro to GTD with Org mode
• Maintaining your bibtex references using git
• Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes

Digital Garden ¶

• Maggie Appleton - A Brief History of Digital Gardens

  • Digital Gardeners - Github

• Joel Hook - My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

• Tom Critchlow - Building a digital garden

  • Chain
  • On Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens

• Mark Bernstein - Hypertext Garden (1998)

• Mike Caufield - The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

• How blogs broke the web

• Digital Garden Terms of Service

• Devon Zuegel - Epistemic statuses

• gwern.net

  • This site is fascinating and a technical feat in itself. Note to self: look here more often!
  • uses confidence tags to indicate epistemic status

• coolguy.website manifesto

• The Jolly Contrarian (very witty!)

• philosopher.life (a unique personal wiki)

• Strikingloo Digital Garden

• Making a Place on the Web - Garden

‘Academic’ tips, approaches ¶

• How to ask questions the smart way.
• How to disagree
• Richard Hamming - You and Your Research
• Ten Secrets to Giving a Good Scientific Talk

The Web (knowledge, archive, memory) ¶

• The Web of Alexandria
• As We May Think - Vannevar Bush, 1945
• The Cobweb - Can the Internet be archived?
• Internet with a human face
  • “I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory should work.”
  • “THE WEB HAS A CENTER”
• The Web’s Grain
• Books about the Internet
• Internet Invention

Indieweb and Federated Networks ¶

• An introduction to the IndieWeb
• Indiewebify.me
• Indiewebify your Hugo website
• Embracing the Indieweb (Hugo)
• Bridgy and fed.brid.gy
• How to Post on Indieweb.xyz
• TODO Clientside webmentions

Tiny directories, webrings and blogrolls ¶

• href.cool: web directory by kicks
• kick condor
• Gossip’s Web the directory of handmade webpages
• Ye Old Blogroll
• https://neocities.org/browse
• Trivium by Leah Neukirchen (mostly tech)
  • See her template engine in Ruby
• http://blog.fogus.me/linkage/
• http://tilde.club/~jonbell/
• “tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer”.
• collection of tilde communities
• https://fingers.today/
• Wiby: search engine for classic websites
• You can use GitHub for tiny directories - awesome!
• Cat-v.org
• Panarchy
• Tiny web directory forum
• XXIIVV webring
  • XXIIVV wiki
  • Very interesting design of the webring
• daywreckers
• Collection of canonical short texts, mostly on (cyber)culture.
• tiny internets
• list of lists
• Bernadette Mayer’s List of Journal Ideas

Web nostalgia ¶

• Syllabus for Taking an Internet Walk
• thewebthatwas
• web paleontology.

Minimalist / retro website design ¶

• brutalistwebsites
• mariouher
• personal site of emile sadria
• Make a website with only pandoc and make
• Tilde website with only pandoc and make
• No idea what this is but the design is crazy
• greaterthanorequalto.net
• motherfuckingwebsite
• txti

Machine learning and data science ¶

• Deep Learning - The Straight Dope
• explained.ai: deep explanations of machine learning by Terence Parr
• Visual overview of nets in The Neural Network Zoo by Fjodor van Veen.
• Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition - Stanford Course
  • Related course website
• Andrej Karpathy:
  • Recipe for training Neural Network
  • Hacker’s guide to Neural Networks
• Online book: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Online book: Deep Learning
• Arxiv Sanity: repo of sane machine learning papers
• A ‘Brief’ History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning by Andrey Kurenkov
• Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology by Christopher Olah.
• Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
• Guide to Prolog Programming

AI & Society ¶

• Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI - Course Notes.
• Posts on algorithmic regulation

Philosophy ¶

• De Klos: blog of my friend Boris on the challenges of the Antrophocene (old version)
• NewAPPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
• Digressions&Impressions
• What can I do with a philosophy major
  • Same domain contains several educational resources on philosophy
• Stoicism-fu: internet guide to what’s worth keeping in Stoicism
• Fivebooks.com philosophy section: recommended readings by known philosophers for many areas of philosophy.
• Conscious Entities: casual blog for some late-night philosophy, with a nice clean look.
• Ontology.co

Text graphics: ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII, etc. ¶

• http://text-mode.org/
• Uno Moralez GIF art
• https://16colo.rs/
• neauismea
• www.peterburr.org

Music ¶

• Sputnik Music
• last.fm
• Rate Your Music

Labels ¶

• Blackesteverblack
• Drag City

Art ¶

• TSP art
• Removed.social
  • “This phantom limb is used as a way of signaling busyness and unapproachability to strangers while existing as an addictive force that promotes the splitting of attention between those who are physically with you and those who are not.”
• See this page for art that my mother makes
• NULLCTRL glitch art
• Dem Bones: daily generated skeletons

Literature ¶

• Bert Wenink (that’s my dad) wrote amongst other things a historical novel that describes the Atjeh war in Indonesia, The Netherland’s longest and bloodiest colonial war.

Unix stuff ¶

• w3m manual
• Unix as literature
• Adapted Unix for Poets
• Useless Use of Cat Award
• GUIs considered harmful

Creative Coding ¶

• Attractors book
• Clifford attractors
• Drawing with purrrr
• Make your own algorithmic art
• Nature of code

CS ¶

• okmij.org
• Gödels Lost Letter and P=NP
• Power serious: power series in ten one-liners (Haskell)

Information retrieval ¶

• Djoerd Hiemstra homepage
• Maarten de Rijke homepage

Technology (and society) ¶

• Public-Interest Technology Resources
• How technology is transforming media

Miscellaneous ¶

Links I do not know yet how to categorize. Perhaps that’s the beauty of it.

• Teaching in Minecraft
• Ribbonfarm: constructions in magical thinking
• Paul Graham’s site: idem, still to categorize

Random ¶

Not to be confused with miscellaneous. These are really quite random.

• Q: What is the connection between goats and Justin Bieber?
  A: My friend Joran apparently promised to make a website about them.
• Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
• Cult of the party parrot
• GPL license
• How my website looked when I began out