James Risberg

Some collected media of import or intrigue for posterity

papers and books

• As We May Think - Douglas Engelbart
• The Computer as a Communication Device - J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor
• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto
• Computer Lib / Dream Machines - Ted Nelson
• Neural Annealing - Michael Edward Johnson

poems

• All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace - Richard Brautigan
• Mapping the Source - The Teafaerie

stories

• We Will Call It Pala - David Alder

essays

• A City is Not a Tree - Christopher Alexander
• The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
• Blockchains Never Forget - Venkatesh Rao

objects

• Hasami Porcelain - my favorite mug

my mac menu bar

• rocket - an emoji and symbol picker that works all over just by typing ":"
• caffeine - puts a lil coffee cup in your menu bar that keeps your mac awake. that's it :)
• superwhisper - really easy, accurate voice to text just by pressing opt+space, auto-pastes into whatever text field has focus
• maccy - straightforward clipboard manager
• tyke - just a lil scratch paper that lives in the menu bar
• brightintosh - a super simple utility for maxxing the brightness on your mac by fooling the HDR settings