September 2024 Reading List

Another month is over, and here is a fresh portion of articles that caught my attention recently.

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The Intelligence Age

An essay by Sam Altman where he predicts unimaginable prosperity in the age of AI but also warns that we should act now to make it available for everyone. Well, let’s see what he himself would do. The rumors of OpenAI converting to a for-profit company may mean that this prosperity is reserved for them.

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

A collection of examples of interactivity in the software as well as in real life.

The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

Distilled rules of great interface design.

Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

What’s inside small disposable NFC chips used in public transportation?

Float Exposed

Not really an article, but an interactive webpage to learn how floating point numbers are represented in memory.

App of the Month

I’d highlight Apple Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, which I cannot imagine myself living without. I’m using each of them many times daily, to schedule meetings, take private notes, and compile a todo list.

GitHub Highlight of the Month

yoxjames/Kastro

A Kotlin Multiplatform library for calculating information about the sun and moon.

Once upon a time on Wikipedia

Illegal number

An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction. Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well.

This is post 19 of #100DaysToOffload

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