Motivation I have had this game idea bouncing around in my head for a long time. Expressive movement, open-world, low-res to permit a lot of speed, and a variety of celestial objects to zip in and…

Reservoir computing says don’t train the dynamics, just train the readout. I used the SID’s analog filter as the dynamics and one ridge regression as the readout. It’s not state of…

A practical framework for moving from simple SaaS to an AI-native platform

An architectural decision record: why Strata is moving from inline values to block-based storage.

In a chat interface, text is the natural medium. The user is driving, and free-form text is the right tool for “here’s where I want to go next.” But sometimes the AI is the one that…

A chance set of events.

What if the web was keyboard-compatible

3D art Ribbet is a 3D platformer made by a team straight out of Uni. I was the Art Lead for the majority of Ribbet’s production and one of three 3D artists on Ribbet. These environmental assets I…

Hacker News, sans AI I like Hacker News, but I do not love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. So, I've created my own version. HNSansAI pulls from the official…

How you go about managing your time can be greatly enhanced by using the right tools. From pomodoro techniques, to day planners, and even time tracking software.

Assorted LinksI finished book eight of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Loved it. I have recommended the series to a lot of different people now with a pretty good hit rate. If you haven't read it yet, you…

About 15 years ago, I stumbled upon a songwriter named Sam Baker who had released an album called "Cotton." I liked almost every song, not because he was a great singer or a great musician but…

by Brad Johnson December 19, 2018 (This is not my work but fear it may someday not be found at the link below) Originally published here:…

I had a fantastic time touring the wind farms at Palm Springs in California today. It was fascinating to see the evolution of this technology from the 80s when they…

I’ve been writing a lot about Starlink’s financials since the SpaceX S-1 came out almost two weeks ago and now I’ve just released my new 65 page report forecasting the opportunity…

D2C stores, platform access, UGC, AI agents, and creator channels only matter when they strengthen the player relationship. The post Game Studios Have More Channels, But Not More Control appeared…

How to contribute a Library to DaxLib

A year and half of blogging, in numbers

Your AI says the job is done. Your container says it is running. Your firewall says it is up. All three are lying, and the green light is the most dangerous output in your stack.

UCLA Cardiology Grand Rounds 2020-10-23 | Video (better video below) Vanderbilt University Department of Biostatistics 2020-11-18 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum 2021-11-04 | Video Consilium…

After publishing Can Swift Match Rust on a Lambda Micro-Benchmark? I got a wave of questions about one specific result: the CRC32 decision. People couldn’t believe it. Fair enough. I…

In this route through Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, we let tea serve as the narrative thread, grounding a beautifully paced day of mid-century architecture, intentional art spaces, and…

Buy the book Finally — finally! — after 7 years, there’s a new book of mine out in the world: Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again is now available wherever you buy books. Don’t Call…

I’ve been looking at several PostgreSQL clients as I migrate my local development databases away from Docker containers and back to a native PostgreSQL installation.

Why textualism, original public meaning, and AI governance all turn on the same uncomfortable fact: intent does not travel unless it becomes part of the record. There is an old fight in legal…

It's absolutely insane to me that there are so many "minimal" launchers that promise to reduce your phone usage and don't have the main blocker for actually doing it: hiding all the apps. Close to…

The writing on the Claude blog is consistently great, and often becomes the defacto standard for the subject at hand. This post is nominally a marketing piece for dynamic workflows but the article…

KIKX 102 was the new name for the short-lived Monaghan pirate FM 100, that broadcast for a few months from 26th July 1989. Using the former studios and transmitter of previous pirate KITS in Monaghan…

Announcing stumpalo, an extremely fast bump allocator for rust, with chunk reuse and safe scoped stack support.

by James Wallace Harris, 6/2/26 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is the gold standard for old movie lovers. Unfortunately, in the era of cord-cutting, fewer people have access to this wonderful resource.…

In Olomouc, Czech Republic, I recently stumbled upon Lomená Galerie (Broken Gallery), an art gallery located in a passage inside an old building. The entrance is currently decorted with two origami…

You know the feeling. You open a pull request on Monday morning. You ping the reviewer(s). You go to lunch. You come back. Nothing. You context-switch to something else. On Wednesday, the reviewer…

If not first, pg_stat_statements is one of the most used extensions in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. It ships in contrib and costs almost nothing to use. Most of us turn to it to answer the question:…

I was told one could use virtualisation software, spawn virtual machines with PCIe passthrough, and achieve near identical gaming performance.

I run a tiny compiler startup: two people, pre-revenue. Like most companies at this stage, we are always short on staff, money, and time. When Claude Code and Codex became good enough to use every…

Hero camper recently announced their new Nested Drawer — it’s a small drawer that gets mounted above the cooler and holds the gas hob parts safely. Which is pretty genius; the pan support is…

Use voice input to talk to Google Translate (or any other translation app). Seriously. Let's say I'm learning Japanese. 1: Set the translator app to English ⇢ Japanese . 2: Press the microphone icon…

I watched the webcast of the NAS State of Science address by outgoing NAS president Dr. Marcia McNutt . (I did not watch the panel discussion afterward, so sorry if I missed critical pieces.) A few…

Week of adjustment It was a week of adjustment at work as I took on some new responsibilities after the departure of our team leader. I had more meetings than usual as I needed to communicate with…

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: A vast and jagged temple Stands in the desert. Near it, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered placard lies, whose angles, And jagged prose and words in…

3 SubCom cable ships worked Google's Bosun cable simultaneously in Australian waters. Their owner's founder runs the Pentagon. Coincidence?

Sourced in Isn't she lovely? After N’Joi , Saffron fronted - front being the operative word - this Republica tune that I file with a lineage of excitable go-for-it ladette pop ( Icona Pop , "I Love…

Yesterday, I started messaging some old friends I hadn’t spoken with in literal ages. One of them, it’s been about a decade since we last connected. One I haven’t seen in person in over two decades.…

The last Moduleurs are on the bench now.

Introduction At the beginning of the 1990s Nikon released two special portrait lenses featuring a “Defocus Control” mechanism, which allows you to make the bokeh smoother or harsher. This…

Release Date: April 2026 RRP: 12,100 yen Bandai Tamashii Nations have been doing a fantastic job bringing nearly as many kaiju to the Ultraman S.H. Figuarts range as they have Ultras, as well as…

There are many luddites trying to fight AI and Data Centers, but I don't think the peasants can fight it. I don't think Bernie or Trump can fight it. I think they might not be competent, smart and…

This is a personal, highly opinionated project in heavy development. I’m building it because I want to, the way you’d restore an old motorcycle in a garage. It’s slow on purpose. If…

More thinking, more writing, more polishing, less publishing