Tanuj

So the total amount of land area required to meet the world's protein needs using plants is about half a percent. This year's soybean crop, going on 0.08% of earth’s land area has more than 50% excess protein over all the meat consumed — there's more protein in this year's soybean crop than all the meat consumed global and it's grown on 0.08% of... See more

The better your vocabulary, the more stories you can chunk, the more experiences you can pattern match.

This messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it won’t change unless we want it to change. There will be no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point, but that will be our decision. What is this feeling? Independence? Security? Sovereignty?

However, clarity is one of many possible intentions for a website. There are other legitimate states of mind capable of communication—a surprising, memorable, monumental, soothing, shocking, unpredictable, radically boring, bizarre, mind-blowing, very quiet and subtle, and/or amazing website could work. You also need not limit yourself to only one... See more

This is because the Desktop was originally designed in 1973 to suit a very different need in computation—the need to mirror digital content with its physical equivalent (WYSIWYG, anyone?). But in a post-Internet world (at the cusp of 5G and the AI singularity, I might add), the way we consume and produce content has largely moved away from the... See more

Permacomputing asks the question whether we can rethink computing in the same way as permaculture rethinks agriculture. Is there even place for high technology (such as computing) in a world where human civilizations contribute to the well-being of the biosphere rather than destroy it? Permacomputing wants to imagine such a place and take steps... See more

Another way to see that noticing the right details is hard, is that different people end up noticing different details.

This is a living library of shapeshifting verses, created by the verses community because we wanted to explore mediums for software poetry.