https://me.micahrl.com/links/ Frequent links with as little commentary as I can muster. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:20:55 +0000 https://tylersticka.com/journal/game-boy-advance/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:51:13 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260326-3cn0x/ <p>A GBA in Metroid Fusion colors. Looks great. What a cool project.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260326-3cn0x/" >Permalink</a> https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/last-rights Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:52:48 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-55ohc/ <p>A proposal to fix Congress by drastically increasing the number of Representatives, by ratifying an early proposed constitutional amendment.</p> <p>Seems less unlikely in light of the amazing story about the success of a UT student in organizing support to ratify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="external">27th Amendment</a> (which the article refers to as the &ldquo;failed eleventh amendment&rdquo;). I assume teachers didn&rsquo;t share this story with me in school in order to protect their limited power; if I had known that merely amending the US Constitution could get me two full higher letter grades on a paper, my life might have taken a very different course.</p> <p>In any case, I am torn on this idea: the case it makes does sound interesting, but I also think that more populism in national government is unlikely to produce good outcomes. Still, one understands the impetus to poke our representative body with a pointy stick.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-55ohc/" >Permalink</a> https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZaf3JC8vJdbZL/how-to-make-superbabies Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:25:32 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-lxft/ <p>A look at what&rsquo;s technically possible today and how public morality isn&rsquo;t sure what to think about it.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-lxft/" >Permalink</a> https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:11:44 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-i3lv/ <p>I haven&rsquo;t been so tempted to search eBay for retrocomputing hardware in a long time.</p> <p>I used to collect whatever old enterprise Unix gear I could get for very cheap, including several Suns, an HP-UX box, and a couple of SGI machines. I coveted a Sun Ultra 45 / Power Mac G5 combo, because they were the most powerful non-PC workstations and also because I thought they would look so cool side to side. I&rsquo;m also jealous of that SunPCi card. I did have a couple of little SBC PCs on PCI cards, but they were all industrial things that were smaller, slower, and with worse hardware support.</p> <p>I think I need to go spend some time in a datacenter now.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-i3lv/" >Permalink</a> https://lanparty.house/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:05:06 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-gomm/ <p>This would have been the house of my dreams in high school. I used to draw out how I&rsquo;d have a dedicated room with tables against the walls and 8 of those original iMacs each with a (separately licensed because the idea of having more than one license to a given game felt like wealth to me) copy of StarCraft, ready to play at all times.</p> <p>That said, when I read this, my interested was most piqued by the infrastructure description. Racks, cables, netbooting, automatic updates&hellip; almost makes me want to build something like this myself just to design that part (I&rsquo;d never have time to actually play games on it of course).</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260311-gomm/" >Permalink</a> https://justinkuiper.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-clickbait Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:22:47 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260302-p3df/ <p>A defense of clickbait from a practitioner. He frames YouTube, where he posts, as &ldquo;consensual clickbait&rdquo; &mdash; viewers want the videos to grab their attention, and they are satisfied with the payoff. All clickbait isn&rsquo;t like this (he uses Upworthy as the antagonist, and I can&rsquo;t say they don&rsquo;t deserve it), but, in his view, the best clickbait is.</p> <p>Related: <a href="https://aella.substack.com/p/how-to-paywall" rel="external">How To Paywall &mdash; Edging your audience until they beg for it</a>, by Aella. (If you think an article on that subject with a title that good isn&rsquo;t itself paywalled, lol.)</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260302-p3df/" >Permalink</a> https://mysteriousrook.medium.com/software-in-a-time-of-fear-4e5a08ac7c63 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:40:58 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260301-3zmx8/ <p>Six lessons about navigating your career during AI upheaval. I keep &ldquo;Do not look down&rdquo; and &ldquo;Put the summit out of your mind&rdquo; at the top of my long-term projects plan at work.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260301-3zmx8/" >Permalink</a> https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thoughts-on-farcaster/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:42:22 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260224-2qpgb/ <p>The tragedy of cryptocurrencies. Users still need transaction privacy, and vendors outside the sunny realm of expurgated pop culture still need a cash equivalent that can&rsquo;t be clawed back. But if you build that, the people who show up are mostly gamblers. The good news is that facilitating gambling can make orders of magnitude more money than a private payment processor that can&rsquo;t get your money back if someone scams you. The bad news is that it may not be possible to build the business you wanted to build at all, because if all the revenue comes from gambling, that&rsquo;s where you have to spend all your attention too.</p> <blockquote> <p>The irony of crypto&rsquo;s 2025 collapse is that the technology worked. The Ethereum network processes transactions reliably. Layer 2 solutions have made fees manageable. Smart contracts execute as written. The decentralized exchange infrastructure handles billions in volume. The pipes do what pipes are supposed to do. What failed was the civilization we were supposed to build on top of them. What failed was&hellip;well, us.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260224-2qpgb/" >Permalink</a> https://blog.jfedor.org/2026/02/byowave-proteus-controller.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:39:06 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260223-t9uc/ <p>A review of a really interesting game controller. It&rsquo;s completely modular and customizable, designed to let users change the way its held and button layout.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260223-t9uc/" >Permalink</a> https://superhighway.info/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:02:28 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260212-upaa/ <p>Wikipedia articles: offline, infinite scroll, free. iOS/macOS app.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260212-upaa/" >Permalink</a> https://kbd.news/GlassToKey-Apple-Magic-TouchStreamLP-2799.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:50:27 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260209-5juyl/ <p>I did not know that the Magic Trackpad was technology from a company that was originally founded to make a <em>keyboard</em> developed for people with RSI.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260209-5juyl/" >Permalink</a> https://llmstxt.org/ed.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:53:47 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260131-3d0vb/ <blockquote> <p>In order to understand how llms.txt can be used with editors and IDEs, let’s look at how ed, the standard text editor, could work (assuming it’s updated to use this proposal).</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260131-3d0vb/" >Permalink</a> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:04:53 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-58ruh/ <p>An account by an accomplished surgeon who hired a coach to join him in the operating room to help him improve over time.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-58ruh/" >Permalink</a> https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:57:15 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-56wl1/ <p>I can be really locked up in my head sometimes. Reading things like this feels like a dynamic mixture of peaceful and exciting &mdash; there&rsquo;s all this possibility where the failure mode is okay.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-56wl1/" >Permalink</a> https://www.chido-fajny.com/2017/10/polish-lektor-one-weirdest-things-poland.html Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:17:50 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-3j4lz/ <p>The norm in Poland is for a single voice actor to cover every character in a non-Polish-language movie, speaking with a totally flat, emotionless affect. Apparently these voice actors are famous and well loved, and the population prefers foreign language movies this way. There&rsquo;s an embedded clip from the masterpiece film <em>Bad Boys 2</em> with the Polish lektor covering all characters. Via <a href="https://unsung.aresluna.org/we-can-go-deeper-by-patterning-inside-of-our-pattern/" rel="external">Unsung</a>.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260130-3j4lz/" >Permalink</a> https://tinyapps.org/blog/eink-macbook.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:51:01 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260128-w9xq/ <p>E-paper is getting amazing, and it would be so cool to have a laptop with a display like this.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260128-w9xq/" >Permalink</a> https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/in-the-houses-of-disordered-stars Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:37:11 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260126-4mmvu/ <p>A short story from CtrlCreep. Aside from this substack, also a great follow on <a href="https://x.com/ctrlcreep" rel="external">Twitter</a>.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260126-4mmvu/" >Permalink</a> https://www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-endangered-species/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:36:40 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260126-4metb/ <p>&ldquo;Fiction&rdquo; from Uel. I&rsquo;m <em>so excited</em> that he&rsquo;s back. Several more where this comes from already over at <a href="https://www.greaterrealityarea.net/" rel="external">https://www.greaterrealityarea.net/</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/mrled/fortunate/" rel="external">fortunate</a>, a mini-project of mine for interesting fortune databases, includes Uel&rsquo;s INVISIBLE STATES OF AMERICA: A TOURISM GUIDE.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260126-4metb/" >Permalink</a> https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/modal-editing-is-a-weird-historical-contingency/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:44:59 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260122-36azg/ <blockquote> <p>Vim is now very popular and has spawned numerous successors. But its key feature, <strong>modes</strong>, is not obviously-beneficial, to the point that if Bill Joy didn&rsquo;t make vi (vim&rsquo;s direct predecessor) fifty years ago I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d have any modal editors today.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260122-36azg/" >Permalink</a> https://kau.sh/blog/wifi-sharing-android/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:33:58 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260122-33ouk/ <p>Cool feature I didn&rsquo;t know that Android had &mdash; it can re-share not just cellular Internet connectiosn but other wifi hotspots via wifi, like a dedicated travel router.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260122-33ouk/" >Permalink</a> https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:31:52 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-3xuw8/ <p>Some musings from a practitioner. (Not a screed, despite the title.)</p> <blockquote> <p>In His Dark Materials, every human has a dæmon, a companion that is an externally visible manifestation of their soul. It lives alongside as an animal, but it talks, thinks and acts independently. I’m starting to relate our relationship with agents that have memory to those little creatures. We become dependent on them, and separation from them is painful and takes away from our new-found identity.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-3xuw8/" >Permalink</a> https://graphpaperdiaries.com/2026/01/18/age-is-the-ultimate-example-of-a-receding-hrair-line/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:22:37 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-3vabv/ <p>A great name for a useful handle in the conceptual space.</p> <blockquote> <p>We came up with the concept of the Hrair Line, defined by our hivemind as &ldquo;a somewhat arbitrary line past which all numbers seem equally large&rdquo;</p></blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Coming up with this term also led to one of my favorite puns, the “receding hrair line” which is when you act like a number is unfathomably large when it benefits you, but quite reasonable when it doesn’t.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-3vabv/" >Permalink</a> https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/01/17/2130?utm_content=atom Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:07:05 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-1miy/ <p>Writeup of a project to assemble RSS feeds into a very personal magazine-like experience. I love reports from building personal projects like these.</p> <blockquote> <p>But the reason it’s been working out for me is not just having a single source of truth, or the apps themselves–it’s the way that I approached having multiple hundreds of new items (sometimes thousands) every morning and whittling everything down to a few meaningful things to read every day.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260118-1miy/" >Permalink</a> https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/cartesian_tutor_turndown Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:04:53 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260117-2wuxa/ <p>Documenting his decision to return to a corporate job after working on his own idea for 6 months. Clear introspection and decision making.</p> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260117-2wuxa/" >Permalink</a> https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-debug-your-life/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:07:33 +0000 https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260115-2xamj/ <p>A take on deliberate reflective practice, which brings me peace.</p> <blockquote> <p>Most of us treat these failures with a superstitious dread. We view our depression, our procrastination, our sudden outbursts of anger as weather events, storms that pass through us. Or we view them as moral failings: evidence of a corrupted soul. Instead: We should view the mind as a legacy codebase&hellip;</p></blockquote> <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/links/20260115-2xamj/" >Permalink</a>