Curated by: Chang
Total Items: 32 curated treasures
Access: Public
Treasury URL: https://copus.network/treasury/ap9seic
Below are the items Chang has curated in this treasury, each with their curation notes explaining why it's valuable:
Curation Note: When juniors skip debugging and skip the formative mistakes, they don’t build the tacit expertise. And when my generation of engineers retires, that knowledge doesn’t transfer to the AI. It just disappears.
Original Source: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: A blog tracks the brands you may know, who bought them and made them worse on purpose.
Original Source: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: LLMs also favor linear modes of reasoning such as “chain-of-thought reasoning,” which requires models to show step-by-step reasoning. This emphasis reduces the use of intuitive or abstract reasoning styles
Original Source: https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/ai-may-be-making-us-think-and-write-more-alike/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Build architecture for cats
Original Source: https://gwern.net/catitecture
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: I don't always recommend AI related things, but this is really interesting. Build a real personal wikipedia for whole life.
Original Source: https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: An excellent original Chinese Cthulhu novel with Shandong characteristics.
Original Source: https://trow.cc/board/showtopic=28347
Treasured: 2 times
Curation Note: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.
Original Source: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Simplicity is a great virtue, but complexity sells better.
Original Source: https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: We Raised a Generation That Doesn’t Know How Anything Works
Original Source: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Treasured: 4 times
Curation Note: Now the way of talking is more similar to writing prompts.
Original Source: https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Prompting-People
Treasured: 2 times
Curation Note: A beautiful website - interactive art.
Original Source: https://fuji.halfof8.com/
Treasured: 2 times
Curation Note: The web we want: IndieWeb, a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
Original Source: https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
Treasured: 4 times
Curation Note: Who smeared Feynman in recently released FBI files? The author submitted a theory: it was his second wife.
Original Source: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Growing rice tends to foster cultures that are more cooperative and interconnected, because farming rice paddies requires collaboration with your neighbors.
Original Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/08/310477497/rice-theory-why-eastern-cultures-are-more-cooperative
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Psychology behind the UX design of RSS reader - and other softwares.
Original Source: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
Treasured: 3 times
Curation Note: Engineers' bible of working in big companies.
Original Source: https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
Treasured: 2 times
Curation Note: How to boot a FreeDOS system on IBM PC from a vinyl record.
Original Source: https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: In England our heroes tend to be characters who have no control over their lives. However you cannot make jokes about failure in the United States. It’s like cancer, it just isn’t funny at any level.
Original Source: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Around 2,000 strange tunnels have been found around central Europe. Nobody knows what they are built for.
Original Source: https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret-medieval-tunnels-that
Treasured: 1 times
Curation Note: Meta’s attorneys have forgotten that the law’s legitimacy derives from the integrity of those who practice it. Attorney-client privilege was originally meant to protect candor in service of truth, but in Meta’s hands it has become a means of hiding the truth。
Original Source: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook
Treasured: 1 times
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