Collection of links collected in January.
Written by insane people
One of Wikipedia’s power users, Justin Knapp, had been submitting an average of 385 edits per day since signing up in 2005. Assuming he doesn’t sleep or eat or do anything else, that’s still one edit every four minutes. He hasn’t slowed down either; he hit his one millionth edit after seven years of editing and is nearing his two millionth now at 13 years. This man has been editing a Wikipedia article every four minutes for 13 years.
1% rule
I'm guilty of being a lurker.
According to the 1% rule, about 1% of Internet users create content, while 99% are just consumers of that content. For example, for every person who posts on a forum, generally about 99 other people view that forum but do not post.
Gwern interview
Insightful interview with Gwern Branwen. I recently discovered Gwern.net an extensive personal website covering an abundance of topics from AI, psychology, & statistics. I enjoy the long form content, particularly this one on Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?.
Interview with the anonymous Gwern Branwen, Gwern.net
Your App should have been a website
In today’s web-first world, most native apps feel redundant, cluttering our phones unnecessarily. With how far modern web technologies have come, it’s time to rethink if we really need them.
One great example of a very successful web game, is Narrow web game by Pelican Party