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2026

The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Featuresoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do?original ↗
28 Jul 2026
Book Review: Babel by R.F. Kuangoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
Apple is Holding my Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Serviceoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
President Graph – FRED Data Broken Down by Party and Presidentoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
I’m Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks’ Cultureoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2026
Word Map – A Game About Hill Climbing and Stepping Stonesoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
How Programmers Spend Their Timeoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
How LLMs Keep on Getting Betteroriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026

2025

How to Adjust Your Kids Sleep Schedule for Daylight Savings in 15 Minute Incrementsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
Avalanche Studios NYC Retrospective – An Ambitious Company Ruined by Bad Development Practicesoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
Installing a Mini-Split AC in a Brooklyn Apartmentoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2025
Revisiting Knuth’s “Premature Optimization” Paperoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
I’m Open-Sourcing my Custom Benchmark GUIoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2025
Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?original ↗
9 Feb 2025

2024

Initial CUDA Performance Surprisesoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2024
How I use LLMs to programoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2024

2023

Transform Matrices are Great and You Should Understand Themoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2023
Two Kids Put Me on a Two Sleep Scheduleoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2023
Beautiful Branchless Binary Searchoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023

2022

Fine-grained Locking with Two-Bit Mutexesoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2022
Finding the “Second Bug” in glibc’s Condition Variableoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2022
Sudoku Variants as Playful Proof Practiceoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell The Cries Apart, and What to Dooriginal ↗
19 Feb 2022
Automated Game AI Testingoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2022

2021

C++ Coroutines Do Not Spark Joyoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2021
A Logarithm is Just the Number of Digitsoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2021
Happy Easter! I hid an Easter Egg in Just Cause 4 for Youoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2021
Understanding why the CDC Gives the Guidelines that it Doesoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2021

2020

Looking for Voter Fraud (in old elections) with Data Visualizationoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2020
Using TLA+ in the Real World to Understand a Glibc Bugoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2020
On Modern Hardware the Min-Max Heap beats a Binary Heaporiginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
Partial Scaling – How to do Half a Multiplicationoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2020
Concepts for the Current US Messoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
The Covid-Shutdowns are Actually a Great Civics Lessonoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
A New York History of Covid-19, Written at the Half-Way Pointoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2020
A New Strategy Genre Grows Up: Survival Chaos, my New Favorite Gameoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2020
Why Video Game AI does not Use Machine Learningoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2020

2019

Measuring Mutexes, Spinlocks and how Bad the Linux Scheduler Really isoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genreoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2019
A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomnessoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2019