1. A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
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: 3 times
Curated Content
Below are the items Chang has curated in this treasury, each with their curation notes explaining why it's valuable:
2. Who smeared Richard Feynman?
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
3. Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative
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
4. Phantom Obligation
Curation Note: Psychology behind the UX design of RSS reader - and other softwares.
Original Source: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
Treasured: 3 times
5. Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
Curation Note: Engineers' bible of working in big companies.
Original Source: https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
Treasured: 1 times
6. Booting from a vinyl record
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
7. Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes” | Blog
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
8. The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand
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
9. Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties
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
10. Have Taken Up Farming
Curation Note: A software engineer gave up modern life and back to farming.
Original Source: https://dylan.gr/1768295794
Treasured: 2 times
11. 664 Tabs Later: A Tab Hoarder's Journey to Sanity
Curation Note: This guy opened 664 tabs and has to build softwares to close them.
Original Source: https://x.com/borisandcrispin/status/2008709479068794989
Treasured: 3 times
12. why the trans flag emoji uses five codepoints
Curation Note: A case help you understand how unicode consortium (poorly) works
Original Source: https://hecate.pink/blog/2026/trans-flag-emoji/
Treasured: 3 times
13. Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts - neverland
Curation Note: U.S. State Department changed fonts twice in two years. Why?
Original Source: https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
Treasured: 3 times
14. I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
Curation Note: The Kenyan English is the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator. ChatGPT is trained with the same expectation. The author didn't mention this, but OpenAI also used workers from Kenya to do the RLHF.
Original Source: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
Treasured: 1 times
15. How a Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg
Curation Note: The Italian explorer plans to spend a year on an iceberg as it melts into the Atlantic with this tsunami-proof escape pods.
Original Source: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-giant-ball-will-help-man-survive-year-iceberg/?scope=anon
Treasured: 1 times
16. Rats Play Doom
Curation Note: A complete VR setup to let rats play DOOM. The system includes a motion-tracked treadmill ball, a panoramic headset, an input trigger, and a reward circuit.
Original Source: https://ratsplaydoom.com/
Treasured: 2 times
17. The Big Vitamin D Mistake
Curation Note: This paper exposes a major statistical error showing vitamin D requirements are 15-20 times higher than current recommendations.
Treasured: 1 times
18. Bringing Sexy Back - Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
Curation Note: In the article, author discussed why she think the internalized "onlineness" changed people's thought of eroticism.
Original Source: https://lux-magazine.com/article/privacy-eroticism/
Treasured: 2 times
19. Looking back at a pandemic simulator – Raph Koster
Curation Note: Some old memories about a pandemic simulator game.
Original Source: https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/16/looking-back-at-a-pandemic-simulator/
Treasured: 1 times
20. The World's First App Store
Curation Note: The world's first app store, invented in Japan in 1986. People bring floppy disk to a vending machine, select the software and copy it to the disk.
Original Source: https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/worlds-first-app-store/
Treasured: 3 times