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2026

Floating point to hex converter is now framework free! Here’s what I learnedoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2026
Name My Color is now framework free!original ↗
21 Aug 2026
Some people are really upset about LLM watermarking and I don’t get itoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game (sort of) revieworiginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
New project: Baseball Triple Crown leaderboard!original ↗
5 Aug 2026
Prediction markets and insider trading – don’t be a sucker!original ↗
31 Jul 2026
The Last Murder at the End of the World review – I couldn’t put it down!original ↗
25 Jul 2026
Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love review (it’s good!)original ↗
19 Jul 2026
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World revieworiginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
some Pride month remembrancesoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream – depressing, then hopefuloriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s review – pretty infuriating!original ↗
5 Jun 2026
Going to an Astros game healed my soul (a little bit)original ↗
31 May 2026
Was there an unusual turnout decline in the Cornyn-Paxton runoff? (no)original ↗
28 May 2026
Switching from Evernote to Obsidian out of spiteoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies revieworiginal ↗
12 May 2026
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection revieworiginal ↗
1 May 2026
Baseball Division Races up and running for 2026, and a link from MLB’s Savant!original ↗
28 Apr 2026
a few more weird softball thingsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
Weird things that happened at my daughter’s fourth softball game of the dayoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2026
That new movie with Nate Bargatze makes me angryoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
A ranking of kids movies I’ve seen in the past year based on books/video gamesoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald revieworiginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
I have seen the future, and it is revolving sushioriginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
My thoughts on the ethics of LLMsoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science revieworiginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
The Appeal review – solve a mystery by reading lots of emails!original ↗
19 Jan 2026
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why – possibly life-saving info!original ↗
17 Jan 2026
Life advice from a 43 year old, in a 14-point list!original ↗
15 Jan 2026
Danger and Other Unknown Risks review – very enjoyable graphic novel!original ↗
11 Jan 2026
Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality revieworiginal ↗
8 Jan 2026
my 2025 in revieworiginal ↗
4 Jan 2026

2025

The Silo Saga Omnibus review – good, but loooongoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2025
Ported my other app from .NET MAUI to React Native/Expo!original ↗
7 Nov 2025
New project: a simple cryptogram solver! (with some fun Rust optimizations!)original ↗
24 Oct 2025
Texans: early voting starts Monday! Here’s what to know.original ↗
18 Oct 2025
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession revieworiginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
comforting words from the Bibleoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
Ported an app from .NET MAUI to React Native/Expo!original ↗
25 Sept 2025
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon revieworiginal ↗
9 Sept 2025
I don’t use LLMs to help me writeoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
State Election Map updates for 2024original ↗
29 Aug 2025
Considering rewriting my .NET MAUI apps in React Native – advice welcome!original ↗
17 Aug 2025
An LLM is a bag of words, not a personoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2025
My thoughts on the Coldplay kiss-cam thingoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2025
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts revieworiginal ↗
19 Jul 2025
Oversharing in Javascript, or: Beware prototype-based inheritance!original ↗
3 Jul 2025
Blue Prince – a very fun puzzle game that’s hard to describe in a headline! (with optional spoilers)original ↗
17 Jun 2025
Wa-tor simulation – watch the sharks eat the fish!original ↗
15 Jun 2025
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space review – fascinating and hauntingoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2025
Here’s where you can watch the Colorado Rockies chase baseball history!original ↗
31 May 2025
Understanding Web Components better (and improving an old project!)original ↗
18 May 2025
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate review – let’s do it!original ↗
12 May 2025
Careless People review – Facebook shows that limitless growth is bad, and so is having a billion dollarsoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
A new baseball season means it’s time to fight with .NET MAUI once again!original ↗
29 Mar 2025
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know review – did not vibe with meoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2025
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource revieworiginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
social media detox worked for me!original ↗
12 Feb 2025
feeling pretty depressed about Trump and Musk’s illegal government takeover!original ↗
5 Feb 2025
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves revieworiginal ↗
2 Feb 2025
Protected: Vanessa is eight!original ↗
29 Jan 2025
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America review – very interesting and somewhat depressing book!original ↗
15 Jan 2025
linked list saturday: carbon removal, the hundred page idea, unoptimized charityoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2025
Floating point to hex converter – now supports 16-bit floats, plus I rewrote it in Rust and WebAssembly!original ↗
8 Jan 2025
AI Snake Oil review – a clear-eyed look at what AI can and can’t dooriginal ↗
4 Jan 2025

2024

my 2024 in revieworiginal ↗
15 Dec 2024
Just Mercy review – a very moving book!original ↗
3 Dec 2024
movie review: Moana 2 (it’s pretty ehh)original ↗
1 Dec 2024
iPhone 16 Pro first impressionsoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2024
things I’ve been doing to help myself feel better this weekoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2024
A quick list of states to watch for on Election Nightoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2024
goodbye (again) Twitter, hello Bluesky!original ↗
26 Oct 2024
A quick rant about kids sportsoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2024
Some election yard sign anecdataoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2024
New project: WordPress single page tag generatororiginal ↗
23 Sept 2024
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq revieworiginal ↗
21 Sept 2024
linked list saturday: coal miners’ safety, Disney corporate intrigue, air quality visualizationoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow revieworiginal ↗
27 Aug 2024
Old Man’s War revieworiginal ↗
24 Aug 2024
linked list wednesday part 2: bone-marrow transplants, iodized salt, Venezuela electionsoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2024
linked list wednesday part 1: corrupt parking tickets, what can generative AI do, digital forgeriesoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2024
MozWeek Dublin was fun!original ↗
19 Aug 2024
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea revieworiginal ↗
12 Aug 2024
The White Sox are quite badoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2024
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports revieworiginal ↗
2 Aug 2024
Protected: Nick is six!original ↗
31 Jul 2024
New project: Division Race Probabilitiesoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2024
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro revieworiginal ↗
16 Jul 2024
Moonbound revieworiginal ↗
8 Jul 2024
The Astros are stuck in neutral – a story told in three graphsoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2024
José Abreu and how careers endoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2024
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever revieworiginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
Microsoft Recall: an about face, maybe it’s better now?original ↗
8 Jun 2024
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen revieworiginal ↗
7 Jun 2024
Microsoft Recall is a cool feature that I’m sad to rejectoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2024
psychic damage from kiddo being sickoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2024
Happy Pride!original ↗
1 Jun 2024
AI search “answers” seem like a messoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World revieworiginal ↗
10 May 2024
Protected: Nick is almost six!original ↗
8 May 2024
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