Links Dump - March 3rd 2024

I want to start publishing links to articles, music, videos, games, etc. that I find of interest during the week. It could be a weekly blog post, or maybe not. We’ll see.

Let’s get started with some fresh new music.

Music 🎵

• Marcus King - Mood Swings
• Nora Jones - Staring at the Wall
• Khruangbin - May Ninth
• Squarepusher - Wendorlan
• The Black Keys - I Forgot To Be Your Lover

Visual 🖼️

• Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis’s Enchanting Geometric Sculptures

Long Reads 📰

• How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold // If we’re gonna be able to speak to whales, what are we gonna talk about?
• Box110: We Just Haven’t Been Capitalisming Hard Enough – The Bounding Box // We spent so much time thinking if we could that we didn’t think if we should.

Self-growth 🌱

• from creativity to activity // Another inspiring journal page from Winnie Lim’s blog

Gaming 🕹️

• Alter Ego - What if you could live your life over again?

Tech ⚙️

• EMO: Emote Portrait Alive - Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions // Imagine the movie “Her”, but with visuals on top of audio. Yep, that’s 2024. And we’re doomed.
• Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress // Looks cool, but what could be a cool usecase for it apart from larping Minority Report?
• Hacker News Blogroll // Endless resource of cool tech blogs! And now with a random button!

Tools 🛠️

• 2024 Habit Calendar // Pretty cool that you can print it out.
• RsS iS dEaD LOL // Find RSS feeds from your Fediverse followed people.
• ShuraUS-ASCII // Slick looking Thinkpad inspired mechanical keyboards from Japan.

Web Development 🌐

• How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file // Gotta block em all.

Software 💻

• o0th/tmux-nova: tmux theme // My new favourite tmux theme.
• iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim: markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim // Pretty much an essential plugin to write long form markdown documents.
• otavioschwanck/arrow.nvim: Bookmark your files, separated by project, and quickly navigate through them. // My new favourite Neovim plugin! Much better than harpoon to navigate multiple files.
• Jan | Open-source ChatGPT Alternative // One of the many alternatives at this point, but still interesting to keep an eye on.
• CantuCodes (YouTube Channel) // This guy (neo)vims! Nice short videos covering Neovim plugins.