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title: links
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Various things that I want to read sometime later.
Who needs browser bookmarks anyway?

* The Coming of Age of Calm Technology <https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding/courses/284/papers/calm.pdf>
* Anti-Mac Interface <http://web.archive.org/web/20011119014253/http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm>
* wsinatra's interview <https://castbox.fm/vb/315954290>
* ‘Pataphysical Software: (Ridiculous) Technological Solutions for Imaginary Problems
  <https://github.com/wacko-contender-7/writings/blob/master/Ridiculousness_vDIS_v3.pdf>
* TempleOS <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg>
* Learn Perl in 2h30 <https://qntm.org/perl_en>
* In the Beginning Was the Command Line
  <http://web.archive.org/web/20051220164526/http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip>
* The Prevention of Literature <https://orwell.ru/library/essays/prevention/english/e_plit>
* Why software has convinced me to believe in the reality of cats and apples
  <https://www.edge.org/conversation/why-gordian-software-has-convinced-me-to-believe-in-the-reality-of-cats-and-apples>
* Steal Those Buttons <http://web.archive.org/web/20100131032431/http://gtmcknight.com/buttons/>
* <https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-ebooks>
* <https://numinous.productions/ttft/>
* <https://commoncog.com/blog/in-an-age-of-knowledge-work-emotion-regulation-is-a-superpower/>
* <https://commoncog.com/blog/dont-beat-yourself-up-over-self-directed-work/>
* <http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/>
* <https://commoncog.com/blog/a-user-review-of-the-procrastination-equation/>
* In Praise of Idleness <http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html>
* What We Know We Don't Know <https://hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/>
* The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-05.html>

## technical writing

* Write The Docs <https://www.writethedocs.org/books/>
* GNOME Style Guide <https://developer.gnome.org/gdp-style-guide/2.32/gdp-style-guide.html>
* The Elements of Style <https://www.bartleby.com/141/>
* Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc <http://manpages.bsd.lv/index.html>