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• No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass

  Jun 25, 2026

  Capital won't save you from disempowerment.

• On Vulgar Materialism

  Jun 21, 2026

  Or, sufficiently advanced cynicism is indistinguishable from naïveté.

• Human Routers of Machine Words

  Jun 13, 2026

  On people who use AI to think.

• How To Read More

  Jun 04, 2026

  How text can outcompete the screen.

• Human Bottlenecks

  May 18, 2026

  Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.

• The Applicability of Spaced Repetition

  May 17, 2026

  On factual vs. conceptual knowledge.

• Notes on the Hantavirus Outbreak

  May 08, 2026

  Cruise ships are bad for the world.

• 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.