It’s like breadcrums. Or bookmarks. But raw-er. These are a quick capture of my journey through the web. I often think of things from weeks ago that I want to refer to. And I’ve found that I haven’t kept the tab open. So it’s impossible.
The practice:
The points are to capture it, but include some minimal friction so that I actually stop and notice what I am doing here. Describe it in my own words so that I might remember it better later. And then I’m free to close the tabs, with hopefully somewhat less risk. I hope.
Another thing to note, I may filter out the things that I am already familiar with. For example, if it’s something that I think I would be able to find on vague memories alone, I may fool myself into thinking that I don’t need to do this stuff. I am probably mistaken, but nonetheless I persist.
Later I plan to add daily posts of yesterday’s crumbs and an RSS feed. In the mean time cmd/ctrl-f is the way. Below is the last 100 published days.
description: Tiny intro to opsec.
via: hn
description: Live coding music software, in browser
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description: A whole bunch of clock displays.
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via: Webcurios
description: diy microphone group
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via: a field recording post somewhere
description: Art marketplace
via: Kottke.
description: the community recommends ambient music
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description: Wave forecast of the SF Coast
via: The California coastal commission king tides project.
description: It’s a wealth of tiling examples.
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A good reference for tiling patterns.
I recorded this because I’ll want to refer to it for plotter art.
via: pattern collider repo which is also excellent.
description: It’s a LLM searcher tool for HN.
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via: a hn comment
description: A big book of Islamic Geometry
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via: The public library shelf.
description: Probabilistic words.
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Good for showing that different people mean different things by the same words.
I recorded this because I’ll want to refer to it later.
via: Quantum of Sollazzo
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via: Ian McQue bsky
description: It’s about the differences in thinking between pre- and post-literate societies.
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via: An email? I don’t remember.
description: Lecture Notes by Jared Kaplan
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Learn the rudiments of ML.
It’s a few years old now, but post transformers.
via: Riccardo, and this.
description: Small Web posts on hacker news.
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It’s good for finding new personal site bloggers and sites.
I recorded this because these places are more genuine.
via: hacker news comment
description: some interesting takes
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good for some other cities
I recorded this because there are some interesting insights.
description: some advice about heart disease prevention, but maybe a little overblown.
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someone’s take on what to do.
a counterpoint.
via: hacker news
description: Sometimes it makse sense to emphasize a Thing with idiosyncratic capitalizations.
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description: Prediction Market for US Politics
description:
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good for some unique eyewear.
I recorded this because I thought I might find some colorful frames.
via: oldster newsletter
description: Goal; Return Format; Warnings; Context; Goal
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good for what showing the amount of specificity required to get what you want from the machines.
it probably works for people too.
description: Geologic wonder in our backyard.
description: It’s a short lecture about how to communicate technical things effectively.
description: Great tour of Elkhorn Slough wildlife: otters and birds to the max!
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good for seeing the wildlife.
The electric boat is so quiet and calm!
description: bummer
description: Some bridges.
description: All the bridges?
description: List of things it’s doing repeatedly for you
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It’s good for checking that you aren’t wasting resources.
I recorded this because it’s hard to find.
via: Ethan Mollick
description: Internet radio but it’s real radio.
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good for listening to irl radio via the internet, and from different locations too.
I recorded this because I want to check it out sometime.
via: Kottke.
description: A chart of currently active meteor showers.
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via: Interconnected and lots of others there too.
description: Ordinary Japan stuff, in pictures
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because…
description: Brackets for making stuff with pipes and conduit.
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because…
via: Ben
description: Organic seeds for gardening.
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because…
via: Ben
description: Organic seeds for gardening.
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because…
via: Ben
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good for what, and how? It’s got some good insights in there, clearly written.
I recorded this because I wanted to extract that quote.
description: Share field recordings of a park for a higher purpose.
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because I may want to do this.
via: Naturerecordists
“long photograph”
“press play and walk away”
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good for what, and how? It’s a slow video of a place.
I recorded this because it’s a good name, it’s what I am doing with my documents.
description: It’s about a very low cost Italian restaurant chain in Japan.
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good for what, and how?
I recorded this because I’ve shared it twice now in the last six months and I didn’t want lose it.
description: Photographer
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good for very satisfying photography of forms, with content.
I recorded this because I want to find this photographer again someday.
Gosh that was hard to retrace my steps and find where tf I found this from
description: p5 and plotter art line fonts
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description: How many people steps is it to get to the past?
description: Radar and weather spots
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description: YT Channel of drawing resources
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In depth and pedagogical learning resources.
I’m excited because the incentives are different from algorithm chasing content creators.
description: Art shopping
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description: lots of different objects
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via: brokendraw’s Milanote
description: what it says
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via: brokendraw’s Milanote
description: People faces at different angles
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via: brokendraw’s Milanote
description: Eyeglasses and Readingglasses and Sunglasses.
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description: French Artbook and Illustration online store.
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Many illustrator and studio artbooks.
Lots of Moebius (in French).
via: Editions Caurette
description: Japanese Bookstore in the USA
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Illustration and art reference books from Japan.
They also have locations in Seattle and Portland.
via: PIE Books
description: Illustration artbook store
description: French photographer based in Hong Kong. Lots of the ultra-urban.
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description: It’s unobtainable.
description: Video Game based art books
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description: Pictures of our current level technologies.
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This is good for inspiration and surprises.
I recorded this because I wanted to see more of these kinds of things.
via: Construction Physics.
description: The Invisible Generation(tm) even to themselves.
description: Print on demand clothes and stuff
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Some cool designs
Samin Nosrat uses this for her stuff
description: Generative Artist
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description: On chain NFT (ugh) art.
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description: Sales on the web; men’s mediums.
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description: Men’s medium Web Deals
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description: NF sale stuff; men’s mediums.
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description: BD regular clothes; men’s mediums.
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High quality equipment, might have some sales from time to time.
I want theck on this now and again.
description: It’s a bandcamp association engine, see what others that bought this are also buyting
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description: It’s a gelato recipe
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description: Standard one volume desk reference
description: They’re like cellular automata, kinda
via: hn
description: Fact checking tools
via: Recomendo
description: What it says on the tin.
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via: Manuel Moreale
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description: It’s a common-place book
via: Naive Weekly
description: open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
via: HN. Many alternatives in these comments.
description: A monospace font
description: A website that provides 808 drum patterns.
via: HN.
description: AP News’ keeps up with Trump
via: The Conversation.
description: Outside the US news source about the US
via: MeFi.
description: Excerpts from how it was done.
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description: White dudes in Japan, mostly.
description: Plotter and generative art references.
description: Free things on the internet, maybe free means dodgy.
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via: MeFi
description: An article about researching YTs deep content.
description: USGS Topographic maps
description: Get the goods on corporate political donations; vote with your dollars.
description: Lots of stationary, pencils, fountain pens.
description: Audio of the forest
via: moss and fog but I’ve seen it a long time ago too.
description: 10 year heart attack risk calculator
description: DIXON = Dick’s son = Richard’s son
via: hn
description: Clay and paintings, very formal forward.
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via: Colossal
description: Another chat bot.
description: Commodities and futures and such.
description: Little rectangles, and waves, and patterns.
via: Colossal
description: From Critique of Judgement.
“‘Make a rule to never think twice about investments in yourself. Books, quality food, fitness, and personal development all fit into this bucket.’ I wanted to stop at ‘books’, but the rest are important too.”
"’…build a journaling habit, try my 1-1-1 Method: Every single evening, write down one win from the day, one point of tension, anxiety, or stress, and one point of gratitude.’”
via: recomendo
description: Claude API access
description: api access to ChatGPT
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description: More public domain art and paintings
description: Public domain art and paintings
description: Pretty detailed mythologsy reference
description: Novel by country
via: Marginal Revolution
description: Lots and lots of ramens are rated.
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Not much in the way of Momofuku instant noodles.
I am unconvinced as to the healthiness of this man’s professional choice.
description: It’s a list of some books. And some links out to other lists.
description: Old school web site for Lynch stuff.
via: Mark Larson
description: Music scripting language.
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via: Recommendo
description: Very good, very expensive.
description: Tip for getting original full article with miniflux rules
description: Online supplier of restaurant things.
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via: Garbage day discord
description: 9 rules for debugging
via: hn
description: How to use FFmpeg in various ways
via: hn
https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/100-quotes-that-helped-me-write
description: Kenji’s Caeser Salad
description: Maps and links to wildfires in California
description: One of the original great generative artists
description: Photography magazine
description: Art book online store
description: About the future of architecture, landscape, and urbanism, it says.
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via: Claude
description: creepy mundane scifi art
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description: Nature and Texture and Travel photographer
via: TOP
description: A good smmary
description: Answers the questions: when are the next clock changes?
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description: In Prnt Shop
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description: Artist Coop, politically left leaning
via: Bsky
description: fonts for plotting
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via: @golan.bsky.social
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description: It takes a truncated rss feed and makes a translated feed with full contents. I don’t know how it works.
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via: Chris Coyier
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description: Wikipedia articles on location
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via: webcurios
description: Fun stuff and recipes!
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via: dang, I forget.
description: Interactive demo of the moon and it’s motions
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via: hn
description: Lots of sources, lots of suggestions.
description: A flow diagram in leaves on black water.
description: It’s a list of alt-alt search engines. Not Google, not even Kagi.
quote: “A downside to reading out loud to oneself is that it does require more exertion than just reading silently. After hours of reading aloud to myself, I do start to feel physically exhausted in a way that I don’t if I am just reading in my head.”
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I had not previously considered the physical costs of reading outloud to oneself.
Then again, reading out loud to others is, well, not that strenuous. Hmm.
Ok, I have not read out loud in any context for multiple hours.
via: Lars-Christian
description: It’s browser snow but it’s emoji
via: robb knight
description: Every search is an rss feed.
comment: I’ve been using this for a while (a year?). It works as advertised.
description: what it says
via: hn
description: Short video of parks, moment of zen or just take a break.
via: messy ness, and a while back on Naive Weekly, but that was before I started webcrumbs.
description: personal human blog aggregator
via: Crash the Arcade via Robb Knight.
description: Serious Eats cookbooks list
description: A field recording.
via: Some field recording forum
description: A field recording.
comment: to listen to
description: The fat cookies that I want to make at home.
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Looks like this blug is defunct now. No updates in a couple of years.
wayback machine, first save
description: Examines the usefulness of the polycrisis framing of current problem.
via: Weekly Filet
description: Things about ‘document’ as a noun and verb.
via: Meg Miller, who works at are.na.
description: Don’t composite and summaries; break apart unto indivisibility.
description: Info about this poet, and the Poetry Foundation.
via: metafilter
description: It’s funny because it’s true review of all the varieties.
comment: Coffee grounds in a leather glove. You guess which apple that is.
description: Boutique outdoor clothes
comment: Some, ahem, design choices.
description: Salutations, but in a pretty terrible format.
description: Online course
via: hacker news
description: Do not willfuly ignore the unpleasant parts.
description: Buddhism teacher
comment: I didn’t realize he also taught at Columbia and Cornell.
description: It’s a gift guide.
comment: Doing my part to support and perpetuate the gift guide industrial complex.
description: Food themed t-shirts
via: Kottke gift guide
description: A tool to do that thing.
via: It’s me, I’m the via. No, I didn’t make this cool tool.
description: Running route generator.
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I tested and then lost the link and it took a half hour to find it again. aaarrghh this is exactly what webcrumbs is meant to do battle against.
It was several days later when I realized that I wanted to use it for places that I don’t often go running, such as the office.
via: Webcurios
description: Summarizer tool the (attempts to) remove the fluff.
via: hacker news
description: What it says.
description: Good laws of dumbness.
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Zvi: The Sixth Law of Human Stupidity: If someone says ‘no one would be so stupid as to’ then you know that a lot of people would absolutely be so stupid as to at the first opportunity. No exceptions.
What’s the thermodynamics quote, or quantum? All un-forbidden outcomes are mandatory.
Everything not forbidden is mandatory - The Totalitarian Principle, quantum.
description: Mallarded cabbage is the best cabbage.
comment: 10 minutes at 500 F per side.
quote: “”
via: Terra Galleria
description: Photo printer paper for larger or professional prints.
via: Terra Galleria
description: Colorado chocolatier.
via: My friend Beth.
description: SF boutique chocolatier.
description: DL recommended chocolatier.
description: DL recommended chocolatier.
description: DL recommended chocolatier.
quote: “It’s clear that most major studios now are producing movies for primarily for cell phones.”
description: Tutorials to be prepared.
via: Kottke
quote: “American culture places money at the center of everything.”
comment: That and America is a very resource rich country.
quote: “the insurance example reveals a deeper truth about modern businesses: sometimes you’re the subsidy; sometimes you’re subsidized – but unlike what the tweeter thinks, these dynamics leave you MUCH better off.”
comment: Counter point: sometimes the products are sh!tty.
quote: “Tone -70 and Color +73.”
comment: Turn the tone dial down a lot.