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notes
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Behind the Curve
- “Choice, Consequence and Complicity”
- Chrontendo episode guide
- “CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems”
- Dangerous Corner
- Deception in depth
- “Designing Episode’s Interactive Fiction in Three Phases”
- “Don’t Make Me Think”
- Dracula was futuristic
- Emotion and representation in level design
- God-Shaped Hole
- Goethe’s Poems translated by Paul Dyrsen
- Homestuck
- Jonathan Blow on game design
- Notes
- “On the Origin of Posers”
- “The art of destroying software”
- The Art of Interactive Design
- The Denial of Death
- The Homelab Show
- Tsutomu Nihei
- Your Mommy Kills Animals
- Zero to One
programming
- A gotcha with fcntl file locking
- Aphorisms
- Dithering
- Failure
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- How to build a Lua binary with MSYS2 that does not depend on MinGW-w64’s DLLs
- In praise of rewriting
- JPEG XL would be Turing-complete
- Line breaks in twtxt
- MapReduce in terms of SQL
- Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)
- OOP illustrations from Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0: Programmer’s Guide
- Procedural generation
- Re: Data munging
- “Regex” vs. “regexp”
- Scheme implementation performance
- Self-hosted PaaS
- Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
- Tcl’s [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1
- “The art of destroying software”
- The Ultimate in Garbage Collection
links
- Chrontendo episode guide
- Consciousness
- Databases
- Dithering
- Failure
- Fiction recommendations
- Goethe’s Poems translated by Paul Dyrsen
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- Homestuck
- How online communities work
- Laws of organizations and projects
- Music recommendations
- Organizing information
- Procedural generation
- Unix command queues
- X is not about Y
list
- Chrontendo episode guide
- Concepts
- Consciousness
- Databases
- Failure
- Fiction recommendations
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- How online communities work
- Laws of organizations and projects
- Music recommendations
- Organizing information
- Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
- Unix command queues
- Video games that use standard GUI widgets
my work
- Aphorisms
- JPEG XL would be Turing-complete
- Line breaks in twtxt
- My fiction
- Pivot
- Simbulwinter
- Six word stories
- Social Media Nightmares
- Tags should take arguments
- Transformer
- Translations
- Why don’t rationalists win more?
old blog
- A gotcha with fcntl file locking
- Command line tools for manipulating structured text data
- How to build a Lua binary with MSYS2 that does not depend on MinGW-w64’s DLLs
- How to export notes from ColorNote on rooted Android
- In praise of rewriting
- MapReduce in terms of SQL
- Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)
- Old blog
- Re: Data munging
- Scheme implementation performance
- Split or Steal?
- Tcl’s [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1
fiction
- “Don’t Make Me Think”
- Dracula was futuristic
- Fiction recommendations
- God-Shaped Hole
- H. P. Lovecraft
- My fiction
- Pivot
- Simbulwinter
- Six word stories
- Social Media Nightmares
- Transformer
literature
- Dracula was futuristic
- Fiction recommendations
- Goethe’s Poems translated by Paul Dyrsen
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Nabokov on his internal monologue
- Quotes
- Six word stories
- The Denial of Death
- Translations
- Zero to One
video games
- “Choice, Consequence and Complicity”
- Chrontendo episode guide
- Classifying game mechanics and types of play
- “Designing Episode’s Interactive Fiction in Three Phases”
- Emotion and representation in level design
- Jonathan Blow on game design
- Procedural generation
- Quotes
- The Art of Interactive Design
- Video games that use standard GUI widgets
how-to
- Caddy server recipes
- Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG
- Fixing passwd(1) broken due to PAM
- How to build a Lua binary with MSYS2 that does not depend on MinGW-w64’s DLLs
- How to export notes from ColorNote on rooted Android
- How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications
- OpenWRT
nonfiction
- Aphorisms
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- The Art of Interactive Design
- The Denial of Death
- The Ultimate in Garbage Collection
- Zero to One
sysadmin
- Caddy server recipes
- Fixing passwd(1) broken due to PAM
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- My setup
- OpenWRT
- Self-hosted PaaS
- The Homelab Show
psychology
- Deception in depth
- Nonviolent Communication
- “On the Origin of Posers”
- Quotes
- Split or Steal?
- The Denial of Death
rationality
- Concepts
- Is it “LessWrong” or “Less Wrong”?
- Nick Land on Friendly AI
- Split or Steal?
- Why don’t rationalists win more?
- X is not about Y
AI
UI/UX
- Browser tabs
- Quotes
- Tags should take arguments
- The Art of Interactive Design
- Video games that use standard GUI widgets
game design
- “Choice, Consequence and Complicity”
- Classifying game mechanics and types of play
- “Designing Episode’s Interactive Fiction in Three Phases”
- Emotion and representation in level design
- Jonathan Blow on game design
person
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Jonathan Blow on game design
- Nabokov on his internal monologue
- Nick Land on Friendly AI
- Tsutomu Nihei
quotes
- Deception in depth
- Dracula was futuristic
- Nabokov on his internal monologue
- Quotes
- What comes to define a medium
software design
- In praise of rewriting
- Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)
- Quotes
- “The art of destroying software”
- The Ultimate in Garbage Collection
*nix
Internet
film
humor
- Deception in depth
- Hacks and true stories of computing
- Split or Steal?
- The Ultimate in Garbage Collection
Linux
- A gotcha with fcntl file locking
- Fixing passwd(1) broken due to PAM
- How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications
SQL
Tcl
- Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)
- Re: Data munging
- Tcl’s [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1
command line
- Command line tools for manipulating structured text data
- Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG
- Unix command queues