A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.

Something I’ve been doing for years to great effect.

A now classic talk that links propositions, types and categories together.

I have many guy friends. Why don’t we hang out more?

Beautiful essay. Makes me very scared for my own future.

Yoel is joined by a mysterious pseudonymous duo called Slime Mold Time Mold, who are proposing a new paradigm for psychology based on principles from cybernetics. This means thinking of the behavior as the result of “governors” (think drives) that are trying to reduce the distance between a set point and the state of the world by motivating you to do stuff. So when you are thirsty, you are highly motivated to drink, and when you need to pee, you are highly motivated to find a toilet. Those are simple examples, but can we use the same principles to explain more complex phenomena like emotion, motivation, personality, mental illness, and more? That is what my guests on this episode are proposing.

“Progressive” binaries still fail us. Why? What’s the solution?

Focuses on how non-cis people should refer to themselves and their experiences, but I also feel I have much to learn from it. Especially as someone who has the goal of creating better words to describe my aroallo identity.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByhKF77qp1I

This is a description of the Scmutils system, an integrated library of procedures, embedded in the programming language Scheme, and intended to support teaching and research in mathematical physics and electrical engineering. Scmutils and Scheme are particularly effective in work where the almost-functional nature of Scheme is advantageous, such as classical mechanics, where many of the procedures are most easily formulated as quite abstract manipulations of functions.

I’m breaking down how real tape echo works, why it’s still relevant, and showing you the three units I actually use in my studio: the Multivox MX201, the Rol…

Looking for ways to expose SSH behind NAT? Search no further!

This video singlehandedly helped me understand coverings and Lie algebras way better than any Wikipedia article I’ve ever read. :P

No, seriously, don’t. You’re probably reading this because you’ve asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Good reminder in our trying times.

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Mark Weiser gets it. He understands exactly why the current gen AI/LLM moment is so frustrating to me. We should be building better software, not creating more software to control our existing mid software for us.

For example: being alerted of a potential collision

• agent: “collision, collision, go right and down”
• ubicomp: background presentation of airspace information for continuous spatial awareness, as in everyday life. You’ll no more run into another airplane than you would try to walk through a wall.

Damn; he’s even anti-racist:

It obsessively fascinates

• the human-like machine to which we give life
• the perfect, all-powerful, slave
• be careful when appealing to ancient prejudice

via: http://geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds.html

Funny how Litt takes away a totally different message from this slide deck than I do.

Housing in Japan is… unconventional by Western standards, to say the least.

because: Tough Love at the Office

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is an adage and Internet meme about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner, published in the July 5, 1993 issue of the American magazine The New Yorker.

Succint summary of the ideas of a popular productivity book by the author themself.

Took me a minute to realize this was parody.

When I write about the greatness of text adventures, I pretend they are easy to make. They are, compared to many other types of games, but it’s still a bit of a lie. They’re hard to make. I made one and submitted it to ParserComp 2025, and here’s what I learned.