Links 2025-05-10

src/content/links.jsonc

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 			"tags": ["webrings", "history"],
 			"description": "A brief history of Webrings",
 			"url": "https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm",
+			"read": "2025-01-05",
 			"author": "Ray Thomas",
 		},
 		{
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@
 			"title": "The Small Website Discoverability Crisis",
 			"url": "https://www.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis/",
 			"tags": ["article", "small web", "discoverability", "bookmarks", "links"],
-			"description": "Victor argues a solution to the small web discoverability problem lies in sharing bookmarks.",
+			"description": "Viktor argues a solution to the small web discoverability problem lies in sharing bookmarks.",
 			"read": "2025-01-24",
 			"author": "Viktor Lofgren",
 		},
@@ -344,6 +345,69 @@
 			"read": "2025-02-15",
 			"author": "Jos Visser",
 		},
+		{
+			"title": "GitHub Actions Feels Bad",
+			"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qljpi5jiMQ",
+			"tags": ["video", "github actions", "ci"],
+			"description": "Critique of GitHub Actions involving a brief history of how it emerged, the shortcomings of it particularly with how it refuses to accept that it's a package manager, and examples of bad design and code in it.",
+			"read": "2025-02-17",
+			"author": "fasterthanlime",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Reality has a surprising amount of detail",
+			"url": "http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail",
+			"tags": ["article", "detailed oriented thinking", "reality"],
+			"description": "An observation of the surprising amounts of detail embedded in the structure of reality. These aren't immediately obvious or easy to perceive, they are easy to miss.",
+			"read": "2025-02-21",
+			"author": "John Salvatier",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable",
+			"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE",
+			"tags": ["talk", "ux"],
+			"description": "Demonstration of interfaces that interactively show what system are doing, and how this is vital to understanding those systems.",
+			"read": "2025-02-23",
+			"author": "Bret Victor",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet - OOPSLA 97 Keynote",
+			"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0",
+			"tags": ["talk", "programming", "system design"],
+			"description": "Talk about how system design is still something humans are trying to figure out and as a result the systems we have today aren't the revolution that computers promised to be. Especially how the current systems like C++ have optimized themselves into a corner rather than innovate something better.",
+			"read": "2025-03-10",
+			"author": "Alan Kay",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "State of Text Rendering 2024",
+			"url": "https://behdad.org/text2024/",
+			"tags": ["article", "text rendering", "font"],
+			"description": "Overview of the various open source text rendering libraries, tools and capabilities in 2024.",
+			"read": "2025-03-21",
+			"author": "Behdad Esfahbod",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited: Opportunities and Challenges beyond “Delta-Hinting”",
+			"url": "http://rastertragedy.com/",
+			"tags": ["resource", "text rendering", "font"],
+			"description": "A comprehensive resource on the challenges with rendering fonts to pixels.",
+			"author": "Beat Stamm",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Reflections: The ecosystem is moving",
+			"url": "https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/",
+			"tags": ["article", "interoperability", "decentralised systems", "federation", "software ecosystems"],
+			"description": "Reflections on how federated systems get stuck and unable to meaningfully update their protocols, as distributing updates to the installed systems become virtually impossible on internet scale systems. Key examples being the incredibly slow adoption of IPv6 and encryption for email.",
+			"read": "2025-05-10",
+			"author": "moxie0",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI",
+			"url": "https://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/",
+			"tags": ["article", "ai", "ethics"],
+			"description": "The real problem with AI is not the hypothetical doomsday prophesies or the singularity, but rather the real ethical problems with the sort of detrimental societal behaviours it enables and the industries it displaces.",
+			"read": "2025-05-10",
+			"author": "Soatok",
+		},
 		{
 			"title": "",
 			"url": "",
@@ -355,6 +419,7 @@
 	],
 	"to_read": [
 		"https://bitbashing.io/gc-for-systems-programmers.html",
+		"https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/hinting/text-rendering-general.html",
 	],
 	"authors": {
 		"Ray Thomas": {
@@ -429,6 +494,27 @@
 		"Jos Visser": {
 			"urls": ["https://substack.com/@josvisser"],
 		},
+		"fasterthanlime": {
+			"urls": ["https://fasterthanli.me/", "https://www.youtube.com/@fasterthanlime"],
+		},
+		"John Salvatier": {
+			"urls": ["http://johnsalvatier.org/"],
+		},
+		"Bret Victor": {
+			"urls": ["https://worrydream.com/"],
+		},
+		"Behdad Esfahbod": {
+			"urls": ["https://behdad.org/"],
+		},
+		"Beat Stamm": {
+			"urls": ["http://rastertragedy.com/RTRBSt.htm#About"],
+		},
+		"moxie0": {
+			"urls": ["https://github.com/moxie0"],
+		},
+		"Soatok": {
+			"urls": ["https://soatok.blog/"],
+		},
 		"": {
 			"urls": [""],
 		},