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My Terracotta Heart

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

When I point my finger at the treat...

Over the Garden Wall

Designing Michelangelus

Geological block diagrams

Entropy and Search Theory

If you were coming in the Fall

Only beautiful things

Chat is AI’s command line

There Are No Gardens on the Internet

The Fibonacci Geometry of Eleven Squares

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

Software Design as Architecture

Parallel piles of nested replies

The Dreams of Octopus and Cuttlefish

Is Mathematics Over, or Just Graduating?

Please, enough with the dead butterflies!

Is there an ‘I’ in AI?

The Mythology Of Conscious AI

Cutting sequence

A small slice along the axis of time

Topological rank operator

On Universe, Life, and AI

The Art Of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach

The pallid marriage of purple and orange

Thread of novel features

Cartographic filigree

Faint stars, nebulae and the like

Dynamic annotations

Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand

Definitely nothing bad

Why horizontal tabs?

What is going on with ceiling fans?

Even if it would drive any other person insane

The architecture of high water

Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication

Different parts of the same pattern

Old foggy photos revisited

Aesthetics & Beauty

I wanted night to feel dark

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

The senior engineer death spiral

The Woodshop and the Sun

Why I Do Not Have AC

The Bird on our Binoculars

Editorial + technical systems

Programmable highlighters

Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

A beginning for mathematics

Effective expressiveness

This is cool (and it makes me crazy)

Building without predicting

Isometry Studio

Little sweaters for my windows

Tōshōdai-ji Temple

Do people prefer traditional architecture?

TweetDeck-esque

Newton, the Man

Ingressing Minds: Causal, Non-Physical Patterns In-Form Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments

Annotation fusion

A Few London Strolls

The least wrong colors, version 2

Somewhere in Colorado

The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Semantic noise / debug-view

Daniel Libeskind's architectural drawings

After Work, We’ll Have Each Other

Inhabited optimism

Whistler and His Butterfly Signature

The SS Bessemer

Descending into source

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

LLMs and self-referentiality

Just bury your trash

A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time

A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow

High Agency is High Variance

Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A Mile Long Map At Burning Man 2024

Which way is the arrow spinning?

Atlanta Marriott Marquis

Paint with javascript

The light of midsummer

What an incredible time

Cut & Dried: A Woodworker's Guide to Timber Technology

Turning photos into field notes

Scattered particles

Agent threads zettelkasten

Know what to build, and what to delete

Design bookmarks

British Library Book Images

Impulse purchases to TUI plugins

Prelinger moments space

Always look at the data

AI images before AI

Where are the software cartographers?

Something slowly crept in

Good Will Hunting Replicants

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

A Swarm of Blood Robots

The software proceeds logically

Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island

Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

Lessons from Slime

The problem with dead reckoning

Eternal Recurrence*

The Landscape Architecture of Auroras on Demand

1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual

Perfect weekend project

Every past version of yourselves

The Mathematical Basis of the Arts

Shakespeare's Memory

Quantum Symmetries

What is a concertina-fold almanac?

10k Drum Machines

Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Defeats Most Proofs Of God's Existence

Swinburne, Mackie and Bayes' Theorem

No thought so burdensome

Pasokonga: Painting with Excel

The Science of Beauty

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps

Tokyo Focus Track 02 - Yamanote Line

Post-production of a Palimpsest

The Most Dangerous Writing App

Possibility space

The Library of Babel

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Monsters of the Sea

The Hummingbird Project

Curator's Interlude

Field Companions

It is no less true because he chose it

The Worst Chair Maker in Portland

The Primer Universe

The Design of Design

TK, or the secret to effortless writing