4 June 2025
In this article, I’m going to break down the subtle skill of asking great questions by identifying some questioner archetypes. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself in a few of them! We’ll discuss small talk, non-sequiturs, scientific curiosity, spaceholding, and more. By the end, you’ll have many ideas of how to make even the most prosaic conversation a meaningful experience.
3 June 2025
28 nota pendek yang menjentik emosi mengenai seni dalam menulis. Pilihan saya? Nombor 6:
The internet is full of smart people writing beautiful prose about how bad everything is, how it all sucks, how it’s embarrassing to like anything, how anything that appears good is, in fact, secretly bad. I find this confusing and tragic, like watching Olympic high-jumpers catapult themselves into a pit of tarantulas.
Biasanya terjumpa dalam Facebook. Jarang-jarang nak jumpa penulisan yang baik dalam blog, terutamanya di Malaysia.
Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typetting system, designed around the key concept of versatility, by seamlessly compiling a project into a print-ready book or an interactive presentation. All through an incredibly powerful Turing-complete extension of Markdown, ensuring your ideas flow automatically into paper.
Boleh eksport dokumen ke format PDF.
28 May 2025
The Level Design Book gathers level design knowledge for 3D video games in an approachable, up-to-date, and critical way. It is for designers of all experience levels and game engines.
Khas untuk mereka yang berminat dengan reka bentuk permainan komputer.
27 May 2025
Web3 is Going Just Great is a project to track some examples of how things in the blockchains/crypto/web3 technology space aren’t actually going as well as its proponents might like you to believe. The timeline tracks events in cryptocurrency and blockchain-based technologies, dating back to the beginning of 2021.
Generally speaking, “web3” is an umbrella term to refer to the “future of the Internet”, which believers say will be decentralized and based on the blockchain. Proponents tend to tout how data won’t be controlled by “Big Tech”, and how it will be uncensorable and egalitarian. There is, however, no shortage of examples in this timeline of how many “web3” projects are indeed centralized in similar ways to Big Tech, as well as instances where “uncensorable” or “unmodifiable” platforms have removed or modified data.
Projek oleh Molly White.
Hypertext TV is a celebration of small, handmade games and sites. Sites air at a particular day and time each week. Come back at different times to see different sites!
Hypertext TV is an attempt to imagine that shared schedule for the web: limited, unalgorithmic, collective. Explore what’s airing today. Maybe you’ll discover something new.
Projek web yang sangat menarik oleh Eva Decker. Projek ini juga ada halaman GitHub mereka sendiri.
26 May 2025
Open Source Society University — The OSSU curriculum is a complete education in computer science using online materials. It’s not merely for career training or professional development. It’s for those who want a proper, well-rounded grounding in concepts fundamental to all computing disciplines, and for those who have the discipline, will, and (most importantly!) good habits to obtain this education largely on their own, but with support from a worldwide community of fellow learners.
The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — the sheets of films that store multiple documents — are digitized and uploaded to the Archive.
The livestream runs from Monday through Friday from 10:30AM ET to 6:30PM ET. “During the day, you’ll see scanners working on custom machines to digitize all the microfiche in the world,” Tung says. “During the off hours, you can also see everything else that the Archive has to offer, like silent films in the public domain or historical pictures from NASA.”
Sumber: The Verge
25 May 2025
So what I’m introducing to the site is something I’m calling the WinRAR approach. If you’re familiar with WinRAR, the Windows file compression tool, you’ll know where this is going. WinRAR became infamous for offering a “30-day trial” that never actually expired. Instead of cutting off access or locking features, it simply asked users to consider purchasing it if they found it useful. It ran on goodwill, and that model worked.
Satu lagi idea menarik bagi mendapatkan dana untuk meneruskan sesebuah projek laman web.
Reinvent or Reuse
Do not reinvent the wheel.
Maksudnya lebih kurang macam ni, jangan cuba untuk buat atau cipta cara baru untuk selesaikan sesuatu masalah. Cuma masalahnya di sini, tak semua perkara kita boleh aplikasikan pendekatan sebegini.
Either way, both positions lead to a climate where curiosity and exploration gets discouraged. I’m glad that some people didn’t follow that advice; we owe them many of the conveniences of modern life.
Kita perlukan mentaliti yang sentiasa mencari penyelesaian terbaik, walaupun kini kita sudah pun ada kaedah yang terbaik. Bukanlah untuk mencapai kesempurnaan (kesempurnaan bukan milik kita), tetapi supaya kita lebih efisyen.
Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.
Penulisan yang sedap dibaca oleh Matthias Endler.