Tech & Digital Life
- Big Data Is Dead
- Discord, Or The Death of Lore
- Vibe Driven Development
- Simple Explanations For Complex Phenomena
- I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet
- There Is No Secure Software Supply-Chain
- We Invested 10% To Pay Back Tech Debt; Here's What Happened
- 20 Things I've Learned In My 20 Years As A Software Engineer
- (Almost) Everything About Storing Data On The Web
- Syntax Highlighting Is A Waste Of An Information Channel
- A Debugging Manifesto
- Sigils Are An Underappreciated Programming Technology
- Sigils Followup: Semantics And Language Design
- I Am Not A Supplier
- Swearing And Automatic Captions
- Every “Chronically Online” Conversation Is The Same
- Out Of Time
- Intentional Computing: How to Use Tech, Without Being Used By It
- On Attention, Addiction and Algorithms
- Who Can It Be Now
- Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
- Tiktok's Enshittification
- The Reaction Economy
- De-Escalating Social Media: Designing Humility And Forgiveness Into Social Media Products
- No News Is Good News
- Basic HTML Competency Is The New Punk Folk Explosion
- The Forgotten Benefits Of “Low Tech” User Interfaces
- Look For The Duct Tape
- Folk Interfaces
- Design Notes On The 2023 Wikipedia Redesign
- The Limits Of ‘Computational Photography’
- Subscription Fatigue And Related Musings
- A Visual Guide To Regular Expression
- Why Some GitHub Labels Are Illegible
Python
Fediverse & Small Social Media
- A Community Isn’t A Garden, It’s A Bar
- Run Your Own Social: How To Run A Small Social Network Site For Your Friends
- Private And Public Mastodon
- Scaling The Mastodon
- Mastodon Data Protection Guidance
AI
- How To Navigate The AI Apocalypse As A Sane Person
- Introducing The AI Mirror Test, Which Very Smart People Keep Failing
- HUMAN_FALLBACK
- You Are Not A Parrot
- Generative Art Is Stupid. That's How It Should Be
- The Expanding Dark Forest And Generative AI
- Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images
- Is AI Art Really Art?
- The AI Unbundling
- Opening The Pandora's Box Of AI Art
- A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
- The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
Mind, Consciousness, Intelligence
- Expanding Consciousness
- Entangled Intelligence
- Another Path To Intelligence
- Intelligence May Not Be Computable
- A Sliver Of Reality: Ten Questions About The Limits Of Human Intelligence
- It's Very Weird To Have A Skull Full Of Poison
- Music, Dissociation, And Alienation
- Are Coincidences Real?
Misc
- Flatland, An Inspiration For True Cosmic Horror
- The Perpetual Broth
- Clicking With Your Kin
- Perfectionism And The Performance Of Organizing
- How It Feels To Chase A Tornado Across Three States
- Why Not Mars
- The Remarkable Emptiness Of Existence
- Trail Marker Trees
- Trovants Are Stones That Seem To Grow, Move And Reproduce
- Mechanical Watch
- Hopepunk And Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond The Apocalypse
- What is Lunarpunk, And Can It Fix Solarpunk’s Problems?
- How The ‘Diamond Of The Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
- When Did The Medieval Period End?
- Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit
- Lost In Thought: Psychological Risks Of Meditation
- Warm Take: A Great Discontinuity
- How To Build A Home That Lasts A Thousand Years
- Scott And Scurvy