# Timeline Site pages by publication date from newest to oldest. ## 2026 ## 2025 - 2025-12-09: [AI’s writing style](/ai-writing-style) - 2025-10-24: [Filesystem hierarchy](/hier) - 2025-10-20: [The Dragon Speech](/dragon-speech) - 2025-09-27: [BoxyBSD](/boxybsd) - 2025-09-09: [Public keys](/pubkeys) - 2025-07-13: [mkcd: The missing shell shortcut](/mkcd) - 2025-07-06: [BSD](/bsd) - 2025-07-05: [Long-running servers](/long-running) - 2025-01-14: [Small utilities](/small-utils) ## 2024 - 2024-11-20: [WavPack's roundtrip advantage over FLAC](/wavpack) - 2024-08-30: [Web template delimiters: a chronology](/delimiters) - 2024-08-14: [Developing gmi2md with Claude](/gmi2md) - 2024-06-15: [How I write Python](/python) - 2024-04-27: [Rust: maybe not for rapid iteration](/rust-startups) - 2024-02-02: [Silence](/silence) - 2024-01-28: [Problems with complex scripting in fish](/fish-scripting) ## 2023 - 2023-11-06: [About this site](/about) - 2023-08-27: [Naming things](/naming-things) - 2023-08-27: [fcron is the best cron](/fcron) - 2023-08-26: [Pandoc](/pandoc) - 2023-08-26: [Clean mount lists in Linux](/clean-mount-lists) - 2023-04-22: [Lord Dunsany and His Work](/lovecraft-on-dunsany) - 2023-04-22: [Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction](/lovecraft-interplanetary) - 2023-04-15: [Library](/library) - 2023-04-15: [Year 2030](/year-2030) - 2023-03-24: [_The Homelab Show_](/homelab-show) - 2023-01-29: [Fixing passwd(1) broken due to PAM](/passwd-pam-fix) ## 2021 - 2021-08-13: [Transformer](/transformer) - 2021-08-09: [Concepts](/concepts) - 2021-07-31: [“Don’t Make Me Think”](/0hpl-dont-make-me-think) - 2021-07-25: [Simbulwinter](/simbulwinter) - 2021-07-16: [OpenWrt](/openwrt) - 2021-07-08: [Social Media Nightmares](/social-media-nightmares) - 2021-06-24: [“Regex” vs. “regexp”](/regex-vs-regexp) - 2021-06-23: [_God-Shaped Hole_](/god-shaped-hole) - 2021-06-20: [Is it “LessWrong” or “Less Wrong”?](/lw-spelling) - 2021-06-20: [Failure](/failure) - 2021-06-14: [JPEG XL would be Turing-complete](/jpeg-xl) - 2021-04-25: [Single-file scripts that download their dependencies](/scripts-with-dependencies) - 2021-03-29: [Browser tabs](/browser-tabs) - 2021-03-07: [“Choice, Consequence and Complicity”](/choice-consequence-complicity) - 2021-02-28: [Jonathan Blow on game design](/jonathan-blow) - 2021-02-28: [“On the Origin of Posers”](/origin-of-posers) - 2021-02-28: [Nonviolent Communication](/nonviolent-communication) - 2021-02-28: [“The art of destroying software”](/art-of-destroying-software) - 2021-02-28: [_Apocalypse Now Redux_](/apocalypse-now) - 2021-02-28: [Emotion and representation in level design](/emotion-in-level-design) - 2021-02-28: [_Homestuck_](/homestuck) - 2021-02-28: [“CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems”](/codasyl) - 2021-02-28: [_Dangerous Corner_](/dangerous-corner) - 2021-02-27: [“Designing _Episode_’s Interactive Fiction in Three Phases”](/episode-interactive-fiction) - 2021-02-27: [_Your Mommy Kills Animals_](/your-mommy-kills-animals) - 2021-02-27: [_The Art of Interactive Design_](/art-of-interactive-design) - 2021-02-27: [_Behind the Curve_](/behind-the-curve) - 2021-02-27: [_Zero to One_](/zero-to-one) - 2021-02-09: [Nick Land on AI alignment](/nick-land-on-ai-alignment) - 2021-01-27: [Unix command queues](/command-queues) - 2021-01-07: [Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG](/converting-wmf) - 2021-01-04: [Dithering](/dithering) ## 2020 - 2020-12-25: [Translations](/translations) - 2020-12-25: [Why don’t rationalists win more?](/rationalists-winning) - 2020-12-21: [How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications](/gtk-dialog-thumbnails) - 2020-12-16: [Caddy server recipes](/caddy) - 2020-12-12: [X is not about Y](/x-is-not-about-y) - 2020-12-09: [Deception in depth](/deception-in-depth) - 2020-12-07: [My fiction](/fiction) - 2020-12-07: [Pivot](/pivot) - 2020-11-28: [OOP illustrations from _Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0: Programmer’s Guide_](/foxpro) - 2020-11-24: [Quotes](/quotes) - 2020-11-19: [Epigrams](/epigrams) - 2020-11-03: [My setup](/setup) - 2020-10-17: [Laws of organizations and projects](/laws) - 2020-10-16: [Tags should take arguments](/tags-with-arguments) - 2020-10-08: [H. P. Lovecraft](/lovecraft) - 2020-10-06: [Line breaks in twtxt](/twtxt-line-breaks) - 2020-10-02: [What comes to define a medium](/media-signatures) - 2020-10-02: [Six-word stories](/six-word-stories) - 2020-09-29: [_Dracula_ was futuristic](/dracula) - 2020-09-29: [The Ultimate in Garbage Collection](/ultimate-gc) - 2020-09-29: [Hacks and true stories of computing](/hack-stories) - 2020-09-28: [_Goethe’s Poems_ translated by Paul Dyrsen](/goethe) - 2020-09-24: [_Chrontendo_ episode guide](/chrontendo) - 2020-08-22: [Music recommendations](/music-recs) - 2020-08-14: [Nabokov on his internal monologue](/nabokov) - 2020-07-25: [Notes and reviews](/notes) - 2020-07-25: [_The Denial of Death_](/denial-of-death) - 2020-06-11: [Classifying game mechanics and types of play](/game-mechanics) - 2020-06-10: [Self-hosted PaaS](/self-hosted-paas) - 2020-05-17: [Consciousness](/consciousness) - 2020-05-03: [Better data compressors](/compressors) - 2020-04-19: [Procedural generation](/procgen) - 2020-04-17: [Databases](/databases) - 2020-04-17: [Organizing information](/organizing-information) - 2020-04-14: [Tsutomu Nihei](/nihei) - 2020-04-14: [Dynamics of online communities](/online-communities) - 2020-04-08: [Games that use standard GUI widgets](/gui-games) - 2020-04-07: [Fiction recommendations](/fiction-recs) - 2020-04-05: [Old blog](/old-blog) ## 2016 - 2016-08-30: [How to build a Lua binary with MSYS2 that does not depend on MinGW-w64’s DLLs](/lua-msys2) ## 2015 - 2015-09-26: [A gotcha with fcntl file locking](/fcntl) - 2015-06-01: [In praise of rewriting](/rewriting-software) - 2015-05-05: [Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)](/tclssg-mistakes) - 2015-05-02: [Split or Steal?](/split-or-steal) - 2015-04-18: [Command line tools for manipulating structured text data](/structured-text-tools) - 2015-03-20: [Tcl’s [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1](/tcl-binary-scan) - 2015-02-20: [MapReduce in terms of SQL](/mapreduce) - 2015-01-06: [Re: Data munging](/data-munging) ## 2014 - 2014-10-13: [Scheme implementation performance](/scheme-perf) - 2014-08-26: [How to export notes from ColorNote on rooted Android](/colornote) ## 2013 - 2013-11-10: [Contact me](/contact) - 2013-11-03: [Hey there!](/index) ## See also - [Feeds](/#feeds)