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I’ve been putting off writing about this because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and it took some time to work through. Long story short, someone is selling physical copies of Pocket League, the Gameboy game I developed 5 years ago. If...
In my teenage coding days around 2001, before I used version control systems, and for a long time, I spent a lot of time reading code just to somewhat memorize it and to know what happens where and when and how I got there. This state of...
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Authority lets you announce things. Influence lets you achieve them. Most leaders never close that distance.
Cassandra at the Wedding. By Dorothy Baker. 256 pages. According to New York Magazine, everyone is reading Cassandra at the Wedding. Based on the number of Goodreads ratings, this is not actually true1, which is a shame because it is...
Tjarnarskóli is one of the most distinctive buildings in Reykjavík.While first-time visitors to the city are often impressed by this distinctive red-roofed yellow-sided landmark, they are usually mystified as to its function as there is...
The Rook starts intriguingly with an amnesiac woman with strange powers who receives information in the form of letters from herself written before she lost her memory. And I've read that part, which was decently written, until I...
I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it’s taken me a long […]
This is a follow-up to Shifting the Trap and to Jacob K's Writing custom programs for yt-dlp's jsinterp. In Shifting the Trap, I argued that yt_dlp/jsinterp.py is, despite the hedging, a real interpreter for a subset of JavaScript - and...
Book review for Daily Rituals by Mason Currey. I rated it 3.5 stars. This book is a long list of different rituals and morning routines that people followed (mostly famous artists and writers). It mostly skews towards older or long-dead...
grumble grumble. i just got back home to australia this morning. for the last 95 days have been traveling around the world giving keynotes (a topic and tale for a future post)i'm livid. i could be opening up https://latentpatterns.com...