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On being human
- 2025-08-27: Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back
- 2025-07-02: You are made of stars
- 2024-12-20: A very important cycle of creativity
- 2024-12-04: Think of other options
- 2024-11-25: Do something incompatible instead
- 2024-11-21: Restrictions breed creativity
- 2024-11-20: Give the same talk more than once
- 2024-11-18: My personal creed
- 2024-11-12: Offer three options
- 2024-11-08: There's more than you can possibly imagine
- 2024-11-06: Specific combinations of values
- 2024-10-31: Unlearning is more important than learning
- 2024-10-25: Make as many pots as possible
- 2024-10-22: Write more like you talk
- 2024-10-21: Flip a coin if it doesn't matter
- 2024-10-16: Knowing a concept's name is really useful
- 2024-10-15: Get back onto the horse
- 2024-09-30: The world is more complicated than you think
- 2024-09-26: The animal is also you
- 2024-09-25: Be generous with appreciation
- 2024-09-23: Learning how to behave in a new environment
On programming
- 2025-02-19: Useful ISO standards for programmers
- 2023-12-04: Constrained programming, part 2
- 2023-12-01: Constrained programming
On histories of words
- 2026-06-05: DJ
- 2026-05-21: blog
- 2026-05-07: tycoon
- 2026-04-23: schmancy
- 2026-04-13: katsu
- 2026-04-07: animal
- 2026-04-02: neapolitan
- 2026-03-25: piano
- 2026-03-18: yolo
- 2026-03-15: jetlag
- 2026-03-11: battery
- 2026-03-06: viral
- 2026-03-02: sphinx
- 2026-02-25: shanghai
- 2026-02-18: vitamin
- 2026-02-06: barbecue
- 2026-01-30: normal
- 2026-01-16: syllabus
- 2026-01-10: pajamas
- 2025-12-29: cliffhanger
- 2025-12-20: vibe
- 2025-12-13: serendipity
- 2025-12-05: goth
- 2025-11-25: supper
- 2025-11-11: fractal
- 2025-10-11: Wednesday
- 2025-10-02: myriad
- 2025-09-25: piña colada
- 2025-09-22: dumpster
- 2025-09-19: cinema
- 2025-09-14: plumber
- 2025-09-05: boolean
- 2025-09-01: villain
- 2025-08-28: isekai
- 2025-08-23: bogart
- 2025-08-22: geocache
- 2025-08-18: exoskeleton
- 2025-08-13: pants
- 2025-08-10: photoshop
- 2025-08-04: juggernaut
- 2025-07-25: laser
- 2025-07-22: maize
- 2025-07-11: karaoke
- 2025-07-08: wizard
- 2025-07-07: really
- 2025-06-20: neon
- 2025-06-06: paywall
- 2025-05-30: checkmate
- 2025-04-25: weekend
- 2025-04-22: van
- 2025-04-21: umami
- 2025-04-14: ketchup
- 2025-04-13: dime
- 2025-04-08: mutt
- 2025-03-31: pizza
- 2025-03-28: glamping
- 2025-03-23: haywire
- 2025-03-19: vinyl
- 2025-03-13: shampoo
- 2025-03-10: ox
- 2025-03-06: ronnagram
- 2025-03-02: nope
- 2025-02-23: sherlock
- 2025-02-20: uranium
- 2025-02-17: botnet
- 2025-02-14: fruit
- 2025-02-12: blank
- 2025-02-11: delve
- 2025-02-04: debt
- 2025-02-02: quark
- 2025-01-23: stan
- 2025-01-15: minute
- 2024-12-25: draught
- 2024-12-21: jeep
- 2024-11-24: cardinal
- 2024-10-17: burrito
- 2024-09-24: cologne
- 2024-09-12: numeral
- 2024-09-10: selfie
- 2024-09-07: washing machine
- 2024-09-06: ampersand
- 2024-08-12: dollar
- 2024-07-31: New Mexico
- 2024-07-24: adrenaline
- 2024-07-17: pog
- 2024-07-08: Blinky
- 2024-06-13: jeans
- 2024-06-04: mothball
- 2024-06-02: pineapple
- 2024-05-28: roshambo
- 2024-05-14: blimp
- 2024-05-13: punt
- 2024-05-07: parkour
- 2024-05-06: q-tip
- 2024-04-22: boutique
- 2024-03-25: wrought
- 2024-02-28: snowclone
- 2024-01-29: yeet
- 2024-01-25: Jurassic
- 2024-01-10: yoink
- 2024-01-09: helicopter
- 2023-12-27: royal
- 2023-12-19: wiki
- 2023-12-15: kraken
- 2023-10-18: rizz
- 2023-10-18: spam
- 2023-09-27: winter
- 2023-09-25: bye
- 2023-09-20: captcha
- 2023-09-19: borked
- 2023-09-13: orange
- 2023-09-08: weeb
- 2023-09-05: hello
- 2023-09-01: werewolf
- 2023-08-30: nerdsnipe
- 2023-08-29: okay
- 2023-08-25: podcast
- 2023-08-22: guy
- 2023-08-11: escalate
- 2023-08-08: hydrogen
- 2023-05-19: blurb
- 2023-05-17: ixnay
On video games
- 2026-05-31: Infinite Lives, 1997: Star Fox 64
- 2026-05-12: Infinite Lives, 1980: Rogue
Written while aspiring to become a dramatically better writer
- 2026-05-04: Thirty posts per month (ppm)
- 2026-04-30: Like eyeglasses for the mind
- 2026-04-29: A brief history of time units: Tenths
- 2026-04-28: Infinite Lives, 1990: Super Mario World
- 2026-04-27: Mickey Mouse stole our cultural legacy
- 2026-04-26: Experiments in self-medication
- 2026-04-25: Infinite Lives, 2024: Caves of Qud
- 2026-04-24: 2048
- 2026-04-22: Clean Air and Clean Water
- 2026-04-21: Engineering words for everyone
- 2026-04-20: The wordification pipeline
- 2026-04-19: Misaligned, uncontained slop
- 2026-04-18: Effective pre-journaling
- 2026-04-17: Infinite Lives, 2000: Diablo II
- 2026-04-16: Solar Revolution
- 2026-04-15: A brief history of time units: Seconds
- 2026-04-14: Clubs, really? That's what you call those?
- 2026-04-12: Left behind
- 2026-04-11: Infinite Lives, 2010: Super Meat Boy
- 2026-04-10: A 100-year-old website
- 2026-04-09: Why are we so bad at reasoning about randomness?
- 2026-04-08: How was the game world made?
- 2026-04-06: A brief history of time units: Minutes
- 2026-04-05: That's right, it goes in the religion hole
- 2026-04-04: I think I will cause discord on purpose
- 2026-04-03: Why histories of words?
- 2026-04-01: On truth
- 2026-03-29: A brief history of time units: Hours
- 2026-03-24: Planned disruption of service
Et cetera
- 2026-06-13: What is a human? A miserable little pile of clades!
- 2026-05-16: AV Club Classic – Tom Breihan’s The Popcorn Champs
- 2026-02-20: A Frankensteined history
- 2026-02-16: Why salt?
- 2026-01-08: Best of 2025
- 2025-03-04: Smaller QR codes for URLs
- 2025-01-03: Best of 2024
- 2024-10-23: A tragedy of the English language
- 2024-01-09: Best of 2023