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Site pages by publication date from newest to oldest.

2026-06-26: Unslop
2026-05-10: Improvised log export from Claude Code on the web
2026-05-06: Porting Starlark to pure Python with Claude
2026-01-12: My poetry
2026-01-12: From Whitman to Instagram with Claude
2026-01-12: O College
2026-01-12: Photophobia

2025-12-09: AI writing
2025-10-24: Filesystem hierarchy
2025-10-20: The Dragon Speech
2025-09-27: BoxyBSD
2025-09-09: Public keys
2025-07-13: mkcd: The missing shell shortcut
2025-07-06: BSD
2025-07-05: Long-running servers
2025-01-14: Small utilities

2024-11-20: WavPack’s roundtrip advantage over FLAC
2024-08-30: Web template delimiters: a chronology
2024-08-14: Developing gmi2md with Claude
2024-06-15: How I write Python
2024-04-27: Rust: maybe not for rapid iteration
2024-02-02: Silence
2024-01-28: Problems with complex scripting in fish shell

2023-11-06: About this site
2023-08-27: Naming things
2023-08-27: fcron is the best cron
2023-08-26: Pandoc
2023-08-26: Clean mount lists in Linux
2023-04-22: Lord Dunsany and His Work
2023-04-22: Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction
2023-04-15: Library
2023-04-15: Year 2030
2023-03-24: The Homelab Show
2023-01-29: Fixing passwd(1) broken by PAM

2021-08-13: Transformer
2021-08-09: Concepts
2021-07-31: “Don’t Make Me Think”
2021-07-25: Simbulwinter
2021-07-16: OpenWrt
2021-07-08: Social Media Nightmares
2021-06-24: “Regex” vs. “regexp”
2021-06-23: God-Shaped Hole
2021-06-20: Is it “LessWrong” or “Less Wrong”?
2021-06-20: Failure
2021-06-14: JPEG XL would be Turing-complete
2021-04-25: Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
2021-03-29: Browser tabs
2021-03-07: “Choice, Consequence and Complicity”
2021-02-28: Jonathan Blow on game design
2021-02-28: “On the Origin of Posers”
2021-02-28: Nonviolent Communication
2021-02-28: “The art of destroying software”
2021-02-28: Apocalypse Now Redux
2021-02-28: Emotion and representation in level design
2021-02-28: Homestuck
2021-02-28: “CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems”
2021-02-28: Dangerous Corner
2021-02-27: “Designing Episode’s Interactive Fiction in Three Phases”
2021-02-27: Your Mommy Kills Animals
2021-02-27: The Art of Interactive Design
2021-02-27: Behind the Curve
2021-02-27: Zero to One
2021-02-09: Nick Land on AI alignment
2021-01-27: Unix command queues
2021-01-07: Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG
2021-01-04: Dithering

2020-12-25: Translations
2020-12-25: Why don’t rationalists win more?
2020-12-21: How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications
2020-12-16: Caddy server recipes
2020-12-12: X is not about Y
2020-12-09: Deception in depth
2020-12-07: My fiction
2020-12-07: Pivot
2020-11-28: OOP illustrations from Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0: Programmer’s Guide
2020-11-24: Quotes
2020-11-19: Epigrams
2020-11-03: My setup
2020-10-17: Laws of organizations and projects
2020-10-16: Tags should take arguments
2020-10-08: H. P. Lovecraft
2020-10-06: Line breaks in twtxt
2020-10-02: What comes to define a medium
2020-10-02: Six-word stories
2020-09-29: Dracula was futuristic
2020-09-29: The Ultimate in Garbage Collection
2020-09-29: Hacks and true stories of computing
2020-09-28: Goethe’s Poems translated by Paul Dyrsen
2020-09-24: Chrontendo episode guide
2020-08-22: Music recommendations
2020-08-14: Nabokov on his internal monologue
2020-07-25: Reading notes and reviews
2020-07-25: The Denial of Death
2020-06-11: Classifying game mechanics and types of play
2020-06-10: Self-hosted PaaS
2020-05-17: Consciousness
2020-05-03: Better data compressors
2020-04-19: Procedural generation
2020-04-17: Databases
2020-04-17: Organizing information
2020-04-14: Tsutomu Nihei
2020-04-14: Dynamics of online communities
2020-04-08: Games that use standard GUI widgets
2020-04-07: Fiction recommendations
2020-04-05: Old blog

2016-08-30: How to build a Lua binary with MSYS2 that does not depend on MinGW-w64’s DLLs

2015-09-26: A gotcha with fcntl file locking
2015-06-01: In praise of rewriting
2015-05-05: Mistakes I made in the design of Tclssg (and how they can be fixed)
2015-05-02: Split or Steal?
2015-04-18: Command line tools for manipulating structured text data
2015-03-20: Tcl’s [binary scan] and the Go Challenge 1
2015-02-20: MapReduce in terms of SQL
2015-01-06: Re: Data munging

2014-10-13: Scheme implementation performance
2014-08-26: How to export notes from ColorNote on rooted Android

2013-11-10: Contact me
2013-11-03: Hey there!

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