#thunderdome blog list and highlighted posts

sequence-a.md

Slate Star Codex

• Meditations On Moloch
• Beware The Man Of One Study
• The Control Group Is Out Of Control
• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
• Considerations On Cost Disease
• The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Thing of Things

• Civility Is Never Neutral
• Deontologist Envy
• Thoughts Concerning Homeschooling
• Deradicalizing the Romanceless
• Why Everyone Is Irrational About Victim-Blaming and Rape
• On Autogynephilia

Hotel Concierge

• The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment
• We need to sing about mental health
• How To Be Attractive
• Shame & Society
• Utilitarianism v. Justice
• The Tower

The Unit of Caring

• Willpower Constraints & Function Constraints
• Load Bearing
• Cycle of Abuse
• On Sex Robots
• Momentum
• On Pronouns

The Last Psychiatrist

• Shouting vs. Spanking
• Funeral
• The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus
• Thank God The 'Heart Attack Grill' Is A Great Name
• I'm Not The One You Should Be Worried About
• The Abusive Boyfriend

sam[]zdat

• Man as a Rationalist Animal
• Euthyphro Dilemmas as Mathematical Objects
• The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life
• Reinventing the Wheel of Fortune
• Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy”
• On Social States

sequence-b.md

Paul Chiusano

• The failed economics of our software commons, and what you can about it right now
• The design failures of view-first
• Design for experts; accomodate beginners
• The future of software, the end of apps, and why UX designers should care about type theory
• A very simple technique for making DSLs extensible
• The problematic culture of "Worse is Better"

Scattered Thoughts

• Humans should learn maths
• Local state is harmful
• We're not even trying
• Pain we forgot
• Imperative thinking and the making of sandwiches
• Monolog

The Codeless Code

• Fear
• Decay
• System
• Babel
• Heartbleed
• Horizontal, Vertical

Affording Play

• Failure margins and feedback loops
• Controls as language
• Learning and (machine) “learning”
• Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need
• Unix is not an acceptable Unix
• How to help beginners learn to program

Bret Victor

• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
• Learnable Programming
• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
• Kill Math
• Explorable Explanations
• The Future of Programming