Tangent's Shared Notes

Assume that nothing here is perfectly up to date or complete. While I may publish finished works here, the primary point of using this service for me is to be able to quickly and easily share things regardless of their stage of development. Things have been loosely organized into categories. As time goes on, some notes will end up in multiple categories.

Each category has its own page, but they are also all embedded in this page, so you can Ctrl+F or scroll to find things.
I've also started keeping a Shared Notes Changelog so you can see what has been most recently updated.

I am making the best effort I can to maintain archives of these pages on the Wayback Machine, Ghostarchive, and Archive.today, in case https://share.note.sx disappears. (Note: Due to inconsistency in availability and functionality, these archives will always be somewhat out of date.)

(I am currently in danger of becoming homeless. If you can spare a few dollars, it would help a lot. PayPal.me/Guard13007)

Shared Notes on Futurism:

Futurism

Climate Change Mitigation: Near Term Solutions: Notes on realistic ways to deal with climate change.
Fermi Paradox (Do aliens exist, and if so, why haven't we encountered them?)
- Fermi Paradox Solution Categories: A brief list of categories for possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
- Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox: A theoretical framework for expected civilization behavior.
- Methods of Stealth Observation: A table of ways to potentially observe Earth in secret.
- The Odds of Life and Intelligence: Hypothesizing about what probabilities we can estimate for life and intelligence occurring.
The Kardashev Scale: A way of measuring technological/societal progress.
Life Support: Calculations on the basic requirements for supporting human life in space.
Minimizing Time Dilation: The theoretical fastest travel speed for all observers.
Realistic Artificial Gravity: Structures and calculations for artificial gravity without breaking the laws of physics.
Tank Design: How to realistically design tanks in a futuristic scenario.
Why We Haven't Found Any Earth-Like Planets: Tl;dr: We overestimated how easy they would be to find, and keep changing the definition instead of acknowledging this mistake.

Shared Notes on Gaming:

Gaming

Game Development

Cult of Done: A manifesto on rapid iteration to make sure things actually get done.
- Finishing a Game: Specific advice for game development, and how to actually finish a game.
Fleet Mechanics: A world-building / design note based on a video about ship types and classification.
FTL Drives: An old design note coming up with mechanics and names for FTL travel.
Human Body Elemental Makeup: Mainly I just find this interesting, but for developing a somewhat realistic game managing people, it may be important as well.
Lazy Devs' Game Ideas Notebook: A large list of ideas and thoughts primarily spurred by watching Lazy Devs' video: My Game Idea Notebook.
Misc. Ideas: A git repo of random ideas that is very disorganized.
Rocket Engine Design: Very incomplete and small compilation of notes on how rocket engines are designed.
Selling PICO-8 Games: Notes based on Lazy Devs' experience in selling games developed with PICO-8.

Game Playing

Automation 4.2 Engine Tuning: Quick notes on engine tuning in the most recent version of Automation.
Helium Rain: Tips & Notes about the (now free) game Helium Rain.

Minecraft

Minecraft Defiant Replica Block Choices: Figuring out a palette for making a replica of the USS Defiant in Minecraft.
Minecraft Ore Locations: Where ores can be most easily found post-1.18.
Stop Quitting Your Minecraft Worlds: Notes from a video of the same title about how to build persistently.

Shared Notes on Science:

Science

Climate

Climate Change Mitigation: Near Term Solutions discusses realistic near-term options to deal with climate change.
Fossil Fuels Were Never Cheap: A paragraph that doesn't go into enough detail as to why this is true.
Greenhouse Effect: Did you know that people have known global warming was going to be a problem IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?

Health

Improving Focus: Brief notes on how to improve focus (mostly through recognizing its limits and meditating to improve capability).
Minimalism: The aspects and goals of different forms of minimalism.
Taking Breaks: When and how to take breaks.

Other

How to Spot a Fake Superconductor is an incomplete script & LK-99 Presentation is (mostly) the slides that went into a video I made about LK-99.
Human Body Elemental Makeup is a rough estimate of a body's materials by mass.
Oblique Swing-Wing Aircraft is just to highlight a couple videos about this concept that I like.

Shared Notes on Vehicle Maintenance:

Vehicle Maintenance

Diagnosing P0128: How to diagnose an engine code caused by a coolant problem.
Engine Valve Adjustment: Research notes on engine valve adjustment. It is currently unclear to me.
Motorcycle Oil Filters: Research notes. Primary takeaway is that as long as you follow maintenance intervals, and the filter fits properly, it's fine.
Selecting Good Jack Stands: How to make sure you are getting a good jack stand. (They vary more in cost than they do in quality.)

Shared Notes on Writing:

Writing

Act Structures
- Dan Harmon's Story Circle: A significantly simplified version of The Hero's Journey designed for episodic writing.
- Mirror Structure: Threads are opened scene-by-scene, then slowly woven together and resolved.
- Save the Cat Beat Sheet: A rough guideline for writing a screenplay.
- Snowflake Method: An unfolding method to slowly build up a story outline before writing the first draft.
Republished from my blog:
- Lost Summoner: A very short story republished here for archival purposes.
- Minimizing Time Dilation: I calculated the fastest possible travel speed for all observers.
- Nathaniel's Ground: A very short horror story I wrote over a decade ago.

Shared Notes, Uncategorized:

Uncategorized

Advertising: It is important to understand how advertising is a malicious concept.
AIDungeon Quick Reference: Information about it is scattered. Here's the best I could collate.
Animorphs Fanfiction: All fanfiction hides gems. I am attempting to find gems within Animoprhs fanfic.
Consent: A quick overview of the FRIES consent model and informed consent.
Cult of Done: A manifesto on rapid iteration to make sure things actually get done.
File Hierarchy Pros vs Cons: Whether or not a file system hierarchy makes sense depends on what your needs are.
How to Root CAT S22 Flip (Version 30): The best guide I found had some errors, so I wrote my own.
Living Space Criteria: What should be checked before moving into a new home.
Minimalism: The aspects and goals of different forms of minimalism.
Notetaking Methodologies: Notes on the most popular personal knowledge management (PKM) methods.
Photography Notes: Notes taken from a 2013-ish college course on photography.
Plain Text: A definitive definition of plain-text.
Syncing Obsidian Through Git: Mostly links for help setting up obsidian-git and Working Copy.
Tiny Homes: Very half-baked old thoughts about building my own little living space.

Due to an issue with Shared Notes, I have to keep a note with all MathJax glyphs used in other notes uploaded in its own place. That note is Shared Notes In-Use LaTeX Glyphs. Open if you wanna look at a lot of equations. ;P