Links #165

Bryan Macomber’s teardown illustrations/animations of how things like mechanical pencils and retractable pens work. Very cool, love the style. Reminds of the explainers Bartosz Ciechanowski used to do. HellMood’s 16-byte Sierpinski triangle demo. Sixteen bytes! Derek Sivers on being a netizen. I’ve been online since 1991 and that same early ethos was instilled in me, too. I believe it makes for a better internet. Harry Roberts on the new No-Vary-Search browser cache control header. Ally Piechowski with some helpful git log commands for getting familiar with a new codebase. Bookmarking these. Nishant on Earth’s radio wave bubble, which is only 240 light years across. One of the most compelling answers to the Fermi paradox I’ve seen so far. Tracy Durnell on human-oriented online posts. Some interesting ideas here. The analog parts made me think of Robin Sloan’s printing projects: “In the years since, the Kindle has matured and curdled … the web has become an even more brutal arena … and…