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My writing here tends to be shorter, higher frequency, and less filtered than the stuff I publish elsewhere. Probably weirder, too. I usually write about nature, epistemology, spirituality, and how they pertain to computer things.
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2024-08-02 - Empirically measurable problems
2024-07-17 - Resurrect an ancient pagan weather god with TensorFlow in 10 easy steps
2024-07-04 - The software supply chain is something they've done to themselves
2024-07-01 - Two perspectives on personhood
2024-06-23 - You're not supposed to sympathize with Pan Han
2024-06-18 - If you don't do sustainability, the trees stop coming back
2024-06-15 - The phenomenology of the Computer Science Course Union
2024-06-02 - How do you pronounce 'Nat'?
2024-06-01 - Sympathy for the porn bots
2024-05-23 - Displacement Equals Zero
2024-05-13 - A list of wholly self-contained descriptors
2024-05-10 - Software development is antiscience
2024-05-08 - Registered Computer Professionals
2024-04-13 - Why I left gender studies
2024-04-08 - An economy of stolen recycling bins
2024-04-07 - Why I don't write callouts
2024-04-06 - One njms.ca under God
2024-03-30 - Academiology VII: Silvics
2024-03-26 - Thoughts on the carbon tax
2024-03-21 - Should black cats go to heaven?
2024-03-19 - The OSI model of reality
2024-03-17 - Today I screwed up
2024-03-16 - Quintillions of untold stories
2024-03-14 - A "bad" counselor
2024-03-13 - What if we gave the flies voting rights?
2024-03-11 - Three interesting ways of knowing
2024-03-06 - Academiology VI: Humility
2024-03-04 - Silly computer things
2024-03-03 - Telling stories about the future
2024-03-02 - Performative friendship
2024-02-28 - A curious question on a geology final
2024-02-26 - We're asking the wrong questions about AI
2024-02-25 - Our biogeoclimatic monomyth
2024-02-22 - Being seen on the internet
2024-02-20 - Academiology V: Place
2024-02-19 - Academiology IV: Land
2024-02-18 - Academiology III: Investment
2024-02-17 - 136 000 volts can kill you
2024-02-16 - God hates old growth
2024-02-15 - Shoot first, ask questions later
2024-02-14 - Composition is an invitation
2024-02-13 - Partially-applied self
2024-02-12 - A eulogy for smartphones I'll never understand
2024-02-11 - Academiology II: Residency
2024-02-10 - What happens in gemspace…
2024-02-09 - Spectres of What Came Before (re: "Reverberations of What Came Before" by winter)
2024-02-08 - Academiology I: Ritual
2024-02-07 - Hypermemetic intersectional normalcy
2024-02-06 - Academiology 0: On the willingness to know the value of university
2024-02-05 - The existential horror of being transgender
2024-02-04 - It's not asceticism, it's real life.
2024-02-02 - Community Air Filtration Action
2024-02-01 - Biogeochemical girl
2024-01-31 - When the jeans rip beside the seam.
2024-01-30 - Performative empathy
2024-01-29 - Collective delusions of a past that didn't exist
2024-01-28 - The women are absent
2024-01-27 - Ecological machines
2024-01-26 - CollapseOS is Foundation for climate doomers
2024-01-25 - Puritanically good
2024-01-24 - The stakes of an idea
2024-01-23 - A cargo cult in the imperial core
2024-01-21 - Nobody cares about independent digital infrastructure
2024-01-20 - I share a name with a real person
2024-01-19 - Will forests still be beautiful if they're gone?
2024-01-18 - Ageless, sexless, omnipresent
2024-01-17 - Art that's meant to be understood
2024-01-16 - Going to class with a dangerous respiratory illness
2024-01-14 - What the left has to learn from cults
2024-01-13 - Autism in the social model of disability
2024-01-12 - Virtual marginalia
2024-01-11 - Why I don't write arguments
2024-01-10 - Scientific apostasy
2024-01-08 - Sand never asked to think
2024-01-07 - Tending your garden on the moral high ground
2024-01-06 - Relationships long-distance in time
2024-01-05 - "Fuck cars," and foregrounding marginalized voices
2024-01-04 - How I escaped longtermism
2024-01-03 - I want to be your friend
2024-01-02 - EEE is something we do to ourselves
2024-01-01 - Identity is a network
2023-12-30 - Holistically broken
2023-12-29 - A leap of faith versus the willingness to Know
2023-12-26 - My principles are your technical debt
2023-12-13 - Everything is a Stream
2023-12-12 - A crisis of faith in the Web
2023-09-20 - Growing out of your sigma-grindset
2023-09-15 - Studying computer science at the end of the world
2023-09-14 - Rocks are as animate as I am
2023-08-29 - Manifestation is useful, whether or not it's real
2023-08-24 - This software is a gift
2023-08-22 - Who do you write for?
2023-08-15 - Why make cassettes in 2023
2023-08-02 - All your software is a political statement
2023-02-19 - Transience-orientated programming, or how to make software for ghosts
2023-01-05 - A self reflection on the aestheticization of low-tech and doing it anyway
2022-12-21 - Will I ever post here again?
2022-04-25 - Monads are scary; or, The Queering of Object Orientated Programming
2021-02-21 - Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to.
2021-02-14 - The Fediverse only solves half the problem.
2018-09-09 - The dark web could be a really great place.
2017-12-28 - Closures in programming: What are they and how do they work?
2017-12-28 - Modern JS concepts: Arrow functions, the new and improved function literals