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• Some Data Should Be Code

  Jan 31, 2026

  On Make, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions.

• Letting Claude Play Text Adventures

  Jan 12, 2026

  Experiments in cognitive architecture.

• There Is No New Aesthetics

  Jan 05, 2026

  On the exhaustion of man.

• 1Password Dependency Breaks Syntax Highlighting

  Dec 27, 2025

  Why does a password manager need a syntax highlighter?

• Using the Brother DS-640 Scanner on NixOS

  Dec 27, 2025

  I suffer so you don't have to.

• Books I Enjoyed in 2025

  Dec 22, 2025

  A short list.

• Coarse is Better

  Dec 21, 2025

  Make AI weird again.

• I Wish People Were More Public

  Dec 10, 2025

  On sharing more of yourself.

• Ad-Hoc Emacs Packages with Nix

  Nov 16, 2025

  Creating ad-hoc Emacs packages in a few lines of code.

• Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

  Nov 15, 2025

  A short review and troubleshooting guide.

• Agda on NixOS

  Nov 14, 2025

  Troubleshooting notes.

• Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System

  Oct 05, 2025

  Announcing my latest open-source project.

• Adding Planets to Celestia on macOS

  Jul 29, 2025

  A beginner's guide to modding Celestia.

• Notes on Managing ADHD

  Jun 12, 2025

  Strategies and tactics for staying productive.

• Inboxes are Underrated

  May 24, 2025

  On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.

• You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy

  May 20, 2025

  Stop falsifying your motivations.

• Two Years of Rust

  Apr 15, 2025

  Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.

• My Backup Infrastructure, 2025 Edition

  Apr 13, 2025

  How I back up my personal data.

• We Live In a Golden Age of Interoperability

  Apr 08, 2025

  On the growth of open standards.

• Domain-Agnostic and Domain-Specific Tools

  Apr 03, 2025

  Software that can do everything does any one thing poorly.