an antilibrary is that collection of books you know a bit about, but have not read, and the latent potential of all the wonders they may hold. We can extend the same idea to other media, too — essays, films, websites, and so on — anything you might learn from.
How is the anti-library populated?
Anti-library sort of is just a fancy term for bookmarks in the way I am using it. It falls in the capture phase of my notetaking
process. I use org-capture to manage these notes and there’s some custom css which help color the status of the items in this page.
The supported statuses can be found here
. When making entry for monthly notes
, we shall discard FINISHED and DROPPED items from the anti-library. If I make any notes they’ll be available in the wiki
I’ve exported this page just to have the information public, otherwise this page is managed and used inside emacs, i have org-agenda templates which picks things up from this list to put them in my agenda.
Posts posts #
Un-categorized #
- Going Organic - by A Growing Culture - Offshoot
- minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- Every Type of Plastic Used By LEGO - BrickNerd - All things LEGO and the LEGO fan community
- A large network of fake Google Maps comments/reviews and fake businesses
- How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet | Hacker News
Lifestyle #
- Emergent vs. Transactional Conversations – Jakob Greenfeld – Experiments in Permissionless Entrepreneurship
- I don’t like making the best things.
- DRMacIver’s Notebook: Getting to know the right people
- 8 key rules of living – A manifesto by Alain de Botton
- https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
- 👫 relationships are challenging + a lot of work - @visakanv’s blog
- The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise | Hacker News
- Conversation Skills Essentials – Tynan.com
- Liu Cixin technologies of the future | vincelwt.com
- How to Travel - Chris Arnade walks the world
- I Don’t Understand Why We Throw Away Perfectly Working Things
- STOP WASTING YOUR TIME AND LEARN MORE HACKING! - Invidious
- Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda
- finding the right people - by Nicole - startingfromnix
- Learning The Elite Class - by Aella - Knowingless
- Achieve Your Goals: The Simple Trick That Doubles Your Odds of Success
- The Inevitability of Connecting Everything – Terence Eden’s Blog
- Billionaires, Surplus, And Replaceability
Product product #
Product Management #
- Asking your customers what they want doesn’t work | Hacker News
- Solo founders
- I’ve built my first successful side project, and I hate it | Hacker News
- My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder | Hacker News
- My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server | Hacker News
- Ask HN: What are the “boring” businesses for hackers these days? | Hacker News
- 2023: Focusing on a single product pays off - Max Rozen
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell | Hacker News
- How to get your first ten customers - OnlineOrNot
- Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell…
- Ask HN: Projects that generate good enough income for you? | Hacker News
- My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years
- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? | Hacker News
- Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses | Hacker News
- Ask HN: Those making $200month or less on side projects – Show and tell
- Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories
- Ask HN: One-person startups/SaaS that are profitable? | Hacker News
- Tell HN: From $200/mo to $18k in 5 years as solo founder | Hacker News
- Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business | Hacker News
- My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder | Hacker News
- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | Hacker News
- Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what’s your project? | Hacker News
- Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project? | H…
- Bullshit Software Projects - Earthly Blog
- Launching the Libre Tech Shop! | Not Someobody Else’s Problem - Mine.
- The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
- Cooking As A Service – Welcome to Dancoland
- The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company | Listen Notes
- tricks from a marketers handbook: identifying enterprise buying intent
- The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
- Craft — PaulStamatiou.com
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- The Internet is (not) broken
- Making Uncommon Knowledge Common - kwokchain
- Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
- The Simplest App That Makes Money - Bill Prin’s Tech Blog
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
- The Problem with Hill Charts — Jordan Koschei
- Strategy is NOT X
- Simple Product Management Tricks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce — Wait But Why
- Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement · Gwern.net
Learn about Pricing #
- New Pricing Policy (Pinboard Blog)
- Three Economies an Introduction
- The Ultimate Guide to Pricing Strategies
- 12 Real-World Pricing Strategy Examples
- Design your pricing and tools so you can adapt them later | Hacker News
- Pricing Strategy Guide: 7 Types, Examples, & How to Choose
- The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies : Entrepreneur
- Reddit - Dive into anything
- 4 Pricing Strategies in Marketing You Should Know | Built In
- awesome-billing
Starting Up #
- Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects
- How I failed – O’Reilly
- A short summary of “Anything you want” - Derek Sivers
- Shipping to Learn and Accelerate Growth with GitHub | PPT
- Direct Sales for Bootstrapped SaaS Startups
- Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- Things I learned after getting users | Hacker News
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road (Venture Capital and How to Get It)
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Moats – 25iq
- Lessons from building Plausible Analytics to $1.2M ARR in public | Hacker News
- Five years of indie hacking | Hacker News
- The Ten Principles Of Building Great Products
- MVP How to
- Want to found a start-up? Work at one first! | Lawrence Jones
- Why Toys? | Y Combinator
- The Angel VC: The 3rd DO for SaaS startups – Create an awesome product
- Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?
- “But it’s only 5 users, it doesn’t mean a thing”
- Amazon Has a Secret Weapon Known as “Working Backwards”
- Open Decision-Making
- pencil and paper thinking - daniel g. siegel
- Structure and Behavior - Stefan Lesser
PG Essays #
Read all of them
Writing #
- How to Write Technical Posts (so people will read them)
- Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing
- Patterns in confusing explanations
DS&Algo dsalgo #
Distributed Systems #
TOCONSUME Long form Dist Sys posts #
- We are still early with the cloud
- Reliability: It’s not great | Hacker News
- You should not be using AWS. Probably.
- open-guides/og-aws: 📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide
TOCONSUME Web III/Dist Web #
- A Reflection on the Small Web | Hacker News
- How to get rich in crypto without getting lucky.
- What the decentralized web can learn from Wikipedia
- Scott Sunarto | Working in Web3: The Handbook
- Toward a Distributed Web – Ross Zurowski
Database #
TOCONSUME Good to know Databases #
TOCONSUME Data Engineering #
- What I’ve learned about data recently | Seldo.com
- The Evolution of The Data Engineer: A Look at The Past, Present & Future | Ai…
- The Contract-Powered Data Platform | Buz
- Big Data Storage - Bert Hubert’s writings
TOCONSUME About CSVs #
- CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly · Alex Gaynor
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs — Donat Studios
Thinking #
- How to find your blind spots
- How to Do Great Work
- Adactio: Journal—Multi-page web apps
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- Finish your projects · GitHub
- making computers better · Adam Wiggins
- Web of Knowledge (Dave Jarvis)
- How To Think Real Good | Meta-rationality
- Nintil - Scaling tacit knowledge
- https://twitter.com/VividVoid_/status/1462263469948870665
- Creative Thinking by Claude Shannon
- Vision Pro
- Ideas are just a multiplier of execution | Derek Sivers
- A man collecting fading place names | Hacker News
- Beyond the Frame | A Different Internet
- Creation happens in silence | Hacker News
- Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
- Childhoods of exceptional people - LessWrong
- Ask HN: How to get better at higher level thinking? | Hacker News
- The Untapped Potential of Human Programming
- Tool for Thought (2005) | Hacker News
- Steven Johnson - YouTube
- An astonishing regularity in student learning rate | Hacker News
- Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
- How to adopt Christopher Alexander’s ideas in the software industry - Stefan …
- Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots | Hacker News
- Pareto efficency · Erik Bernhardsson
- Screenshots as the Universal API | Hacker News
- The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
- John Carmack on Idea Generation
- How to draw ideas - Ralph Ammer
- The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard
- Every thought about giving and taking advice
- kefala : On Feeling Competent
- How I find interesting content online
- There are no rules
- The sum of all knowledge | Christian Heilmann
- Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes
- Category:Internet culture - Wikipedia
- Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on? | Hacker News
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net 🌟
- nabeelqu - How To Understand Things
- Why books donʼt work | Andy Matuschak
- Beginner’s Guide to Arguing Constructively
- How to think clearly | Psyche Guides
- A first lesson in meta-rationality
- How to think about correlation?
- Be sceptical of your own work | What’s new
- Proof of X « julian.digital
- Training your brain for recall | Bill Gates
- The Systems Thinker – Introduction to Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
PLT plt #
Random Blogposts about programming languages #
- A minimalist guide to program synthesis
- Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – Joel on Software
Security security #
Interesting Security posts #
- Telling the Truth About Security
- The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
- SalusaSecondus/CryptoGotchas
- Online Identity is Complicated | Eldridge’s Blog
- Why Zero Trust is a Misnomer
- mjg59 | End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal
Study Password Managers #
- Bitwarden Security Whitepaper
- Password Managers.
- Password Manager Architecture : softwarearchitecture
- Are password managers really safe? How do they work?
- How can hackers try thousands of passwords when trying to hack something
- Everyone says to get a password manager to protect your passwords
- I made a Password Manager for the Terminal
Economics #
TOCONSUME Economics Explainers #
- Happiness and Life Satisfaction - Our World in Data
- How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers? | Hacker News
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- #sarkari | Harsh Nisar | Substack (Read all posts)
- The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets - The Hustle
TOCONSUME Industries #
- ebooks surveillance
- The Other Internet
- RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users
- The Story behind ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers)
Tech know how #
- Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market | Hacker News
- How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
- Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio | Hacker News
- Tips for building Bubble Tea programs
- Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany | Hacker News
- Exploring EXIF – Harley Turan
- Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on its IPFS Gateway
- Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly | Hacker News
- Simple Things That Are Actually Hard: User Authentication - Bozho’s tech blog
- An Update on Tornado Cash | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Everything I wish I knew when learning C | Hacker News
- Random Number Generation Basics | PCG, A Better Random Number Generator
- Weird web pages — Open Indie
- GitHub - tramlinehq/store-quirks: FAQs and gotchas around releasing apps to the App Store and Play Store
- MRSK vs Fly.io · Fly
- This Affordable Device Will Let Anyone Connect Their Brain to a Computer
- There is no AI risk - by Curtis Yarvin - Gray Mirror
- HowVideo.works
- MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead
- research!rsc: QArt Codes
- The importance of licenses
- The economics of a Postgres free tier
- Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do With Mastodon
Programming in general #
- Open Source Grindset Explained
- It doesn’t work | Frank DENIS random thoughts.
- Top 20 Must-Read Software Trends Reports for 2023 ~ Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam)
- Ask HN: What is the best postmortem you've seen? | Hacker News
- Building a website like it’s 1999
- Ask HN: Tools/tips/tricks to digitize/clean up/upscale/enhance old photos?
- How TDD helps design and build better software? - Infraspec
Movies movies #
Un-categorized #
TOCONSUME Into the Wild #
TOCONSUME Frances Ha #
TOCONSUME Sound of Metal #
Videos videos #
Un-categorized #
- Guided Meditation: The Varieties of Attention - YouTube
- Olivia Fox-Cabane
- NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION - YouTube
- Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland - YouTube
- Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work - YouTube
- ICFP 2018 Keynote Address: Conveying the Power of Abstraction - YouTube
- Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | TED Talk
- Cyclotron - YouTube
Tech #
- Strangeloop
- “Simple Made Easy” - Rich Hickey (2011) - YouTube
- A Whole New World
- “How to Hack a Painting” by Tyler Hobbs - YouTube
- “How to Fix AI: Solutions to ML Bias (And Why They Don’t Matter)” by Joyce Xu - YouTube
- “Misuser” by David Schmudde - YouTube
- “Mapping Imaginary Cities” by Mouse Reeve - YouTube
- “The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles” by John Romero (Strange Loop 2022) - YouTube
- “How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!” - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010) - YouTube
- “Add ALL the things: abstract algebra meets analytics” by Avi Bryant (2013) - YouTube
Productivity #
- Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive
- John Cleese on Creativity In Management - YouTube
Writing #
- How To Write Stuff No One Else Can – The Write to Roam
- How To Capture Your Life In Writing
- How to Speak - YouTube
- Tools for Thought Rocks: April 2022 - Maggie Appleton, Hunter Clarke - YouTube
- How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire
Security security #
Product #
- Jen-Hsun Huang: Stanford student and Entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA - YouTube
- Tips for content Creators with Pat Flynn | content marketing - YouTube
Systems #
- What The Prisoner’s Dilemma Reveals About Life
- How Rust helps Ather receive 60TB vehicle data each day - YouTube
- Keynote: The Value of Values
Books book #
Information #
Software #
- Learn you some Erlang
- A Philosophy of Software Design: My Take (and a Book Review) - The Pragmatic …