Farooq Q. | Bookmarks

Books of the Century is the best way to find a new read.
You can watch how Paul Graham writes.
Everything by visualrambling.space is amazing, including their visualization of neural networks.
Interactive visual essays at visualrambling.space.
You can view the original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines online for free.
The Blue Sky City is one of the best city promotional pages I’ve ever seen.
Build Canada promotes Canadian prosperity and is highly informative on a wide range of issues that affect our country.
For inspiration, you can read Patrick Collison’s examples of ambitious projects executed quickly.
Make Something Wonderful is a collection from the life and vision of Steve Jobs.
I’ll Be Your Best Friend is a story of two Apple engineers in the 1970s.
Listen to Bret Victor’s talk on Inventing on Principle.
Frank Chimero’s The Web’s Grain tells us much of how technology has been innovated upon.
Gwern Branwen has a great catalog of ordinary life improvements.
pudding.cool has the best visual essays on the web, especially Hello Stranger.
Visual essays and data stories by The Pudding.
Benchmark and compare AI design capabilities at Design Arena.
Incredible design inspiration and visual art at waste.space.
Great design inspiration and visuals can be found at visualjournal.it.
radio.garden lets you listen to the radio, anywhere in the world.
The Nielsen Norman Group tells us about Flat Design.
Little Big Details curates fine UI micro-interactions.
This whole list could easily just be Stripe Press, including their books page.
Learn about the birth of Inter.
The entire Whole Earth Catalog is available online for free.
C.S. Lewis’ classic essay The Inner Ring.
The 1964 New York World’s Fair website is online and live.
Letters from Sweden is a fantastic font page.
Lean theorem prover.
Mathematical objects in Lean at mathlib.
Dan Hollick maintains Making Software, which is a goldmine on the web.
The Coziest Place on the Moon on The Marginalian.
Monoskop is a wiki on the web for arts and studies.
Classic net art experiment superbad.com.
It’s interesting to look at GPT progress over time.
Websites for humans and machines at parallel.ai.
Bell Labs was special, for reasons described here.
UC Berkeley talking about The Computational Lens.
Richard Hamming’s legendary talk on You and Your Research is essential reading on doing great work.
Read about Silicon on Arena Mag.
Explore vintage art ephemera and rare items at Gallery 98.
ekdsgn is a fantastic, minimal design portfolio.
Alicia’s page is a fantastic personal corner of the web.
Personal space and design elements by jame.
floguo showcases fantastic visual work and design experiments.
maxpotze is a fantastic portfolio in its own right.
Explore design and advertising history in the Sainsbury Archive catalogue highlights.
Visual notes on Tokyo by floguo.
Great collection of UI details Spotted in Prod.
Emil Kowalski’s thoughts on Skill in software engineering and UI polish.
Creative software and tools by Neato Studio.
Blog and essays by Boz.
Michael Moritz’s book on Don Valentine’s signature at DTV.
Dezeen’s roundup of Nine Jony Ive designs that aren’t Apple products.