Things I Like
Technology
Bret Victor
- The Future of Programming (talk)
- Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface (HTML and PDF)
GNU Emacs
- gnu.org/software/emacs
- modal editing - Evil, god-mode, Boon
- structural editing - Paredit, Smartparens, Lispy
Contributing to OpenStreetMap
- Mapping on the ground, using Vespucci
- Mapping public transport
Documentation
Diataxis Framework - my favorite write-up about documentation.
[…] what we call documentation is fundamentally not one thing, but four. Understanding the implications of this, and how those four different things work, can help improve most documentation.
- Teach, Don't Tell - Steve Losh - for those who believe that source code, tests, or literate programming are sufficient documentation.
- Keep a Changelog
- Literate Programming in the Large - Tim Daly - I'm no longer a fan of literate programming, but this talk remains humorous, insightful, and inspirational for documentation in general.
Art
Musical theatre
- Stephen Sondheim
- Sweeney Todd
- Company (1970) (especially the 2006 Broadway revival)
- Into The Woods
Opera
- Gilbert & Sullivan
- The Mikado
- Trial by Jury
Film
- Les Miserables (2012)
- Studo Ghibli
- Waltz With Bashir (2008)
- Christopher Nolan
- Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2002)
Others
- The Tao Te Ching
bicycles
- velomobiles
- vehicular cycling
- cycleblaze.com - a website of bicycle touring journals from all kinds of authors, touring across all kinds of distances and places