1. Elevators
Curation Note: How does the algorithm of elevators works?
Original Source: https://john.fun/elevators
Treasured: 1 times
Curated Content
Below are the items Chang has curated in this treasury, each with their curation notes explaining why it's valuable:
2. LARP — Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
Curation Note: LARP is satire. I am not sure until I read the end of the page. Very good job.
Original Source: https://www.larp.website/
Treasured: 1 times
3. The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms
Curation Note: Some very beautiful and sci-fi control rooms from Soviet Union.
Original Source: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/
Treasured: 1 times
4. 古邑县志
Curation Note: 一个惊悚网页解谜游戏
Original Source: https://frederickrrrrr-debug.github.io/guyixianzhi/
Treasured: 2 times
5. The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
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
6. Worse on Purpose | Worse on Purpose
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
7. AI may be making us think and write more alike
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
8. 𝐶𝑎𝑡 itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes
Curation Note: Build architecture for cats
Original Source: https://gwern.net/catitecture
Treasured: 1 times
9. Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki
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
10. [原创]黑太岁 - The Ring of Wonder
Curation Note: An excellent original Chinese Cthulhu novel with Shandong characteristics.
Original Source: https://trow.cc/board/showtopic=28347
Treasured: 2 times
11. The View From RSS
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
12. Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
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
13. The Slow Death of the Power User
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: 5 times
14. Prompting People
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
15. ½8 JOURNAL: Collecting Stamps on Yoshida Trail, Mt. Fuji
Curation Note: A beautiful website - interactive art.
Original Source: https://fuji.halfof8.com/
Treasured: 2 times
16. 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: 5 times
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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: 2 times