taylor.town
"I'm the type of person who..."
100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon
The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again)
Good Vibes: A Claude-Code Case-Study
A stern letter to the drawbridge operator
God created men; Sam Altman made them equal.
Limerick
Do Metaprojects
The Finger and the Moon
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
My Website Is Ugly Because I Made It
Friends with GPS Benefits
Proposal for Emoji: Sad Money-Mouth Face
Textbook Humor
Be the node you want to see in the network
Data demand some damn respect.
The Five-Week Solo Startup
A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical Psychologists
Napkin Math Tool
You'll never be ready for anything that matters
An Invitation To Shit On My Ideas
Begrudgingly choosing CBOR over MessagePack
Meetup.com in your calendar
Life GPA
Alternatives to "sorry"
dreaming of smel shell
I am not offering mentoring
"Thanks. How do you want to help?"
SI Base Units & Constants
Materials Cheat Sheet
Cramming scrapscript into msgpack
Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself
Your Next Two Zeroes
I hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers
The Timeless Way of Software
Colt's Revolutions
Year Day is December 11
Town Hall #27: Skies
Stinky Gifts From Your Idea Kitty
How to Flatpack Programs
Insurance Insurance
Host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page
/junk
Rob the Whole World; Give It Back
How to build god and get away with it
Town Hall #26: Rounding
A History of Microwave Ovens
A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide
Legalize Life (and Living)
Kimba Syndrome
the soundless interstitium
Irresponsible Servers: From Slop Talk to Shop Talk
Seizing the Means of Re-Production
Town Hall #25: Simularium
Reactive Relational Algebra
growing the graveyard of "better spreadsheets"
a one man war of attrition
Profitable Plant Propagation Prevents Poaching
Proplifting, Plant Piracy, and Dumpster Chocolates
Offensive Horticulture
So Many Silver Landmines
bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!}
Town Hall #24: FWD
scrapsheets (demo)
The Silicon Valley Tarpits
FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma
Town Hall #23: Clown World
Against the Advice of My Superintelligence
"work hard, play hard"
Publishable Network Contracts in Scrapscript
VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024)
POSETTE 2024: How/Why to Sweep Async Tasks...
Metabootstrapped Messaging Protocols
Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix
Elm Town #75: The Great Wall of Code
The Acme of Software
Kyle Explains "Legacy Software" to the Aliens
To Chelsea & Mom, Happy Mothers' Day
Town Hall #22: News
the best bad baby names
Town Hall #21: Basement
Dear advertisers, please respect my thirst for novelty.
the best words
Foods for Straight Teeth & Easy Breathing
long time; forgot to human
Concat Arrays with SQL Aggregate Functions
People & Blogs: Taylor Troesh
Why I Write Extremely
Tidy Dice
Hyper-Realistic 2037 Concept Car Interior
Half-Star Emoji (for Half the Price)
Town Hall #20: Pinball
Clean your codebase with basic information theory
Podcast RSS XML (in Ugly SQL)
A Simple SRS Algo (in Ugly SQL)
An Antidote to Subscription Fatigue
flashcasts.com
Frugly vs. Freemium
eventbrite.ics
Nontrepeneur: Derek Sivers
Nontrepeneur: Clifford Stoll
Nontrepeneur: Steve Wozniak
On Nontrepeneurship
That Vonnegut/Heller Story
licensure
Everything Worse Than Previously Thought
a jar of dirt, or how we failed to exhume my great-great-uncle
Town Hall #19: Whimsy
"Please click on all images of the heaviest animal species"
Hacker Stations: Taylor Troesh
why I didn't play this harpsichord sooner
Emoji by Category
Emoji by Year
Re: (Extremely, unnecessarily long) Thanks for the pardoning
Does Betteridge's Law apply to this headline?
Tear Duct Enhancement Surgery
Two Toucans Canoe
Town Hall #18: Sunflower
The "Cheap" Web
WishWell.io
Paying Netflix $0.53/h, etc.
The most frustrating thing in your life
Scientists find exciting new way to talk about nothing in press releases
Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children
"All foods are either protein or candy."
Santa Claus is not a god... yet
How to Observe Buydays
Make a /wish page!
/wish
You Buy; They Fly
Town Hall #17: Scrimmage
cram those ideas into a clown car
"MVP" is dead! Long live "FPC".
graphic design is my passion
HNTV: play hn yt links locally
Measure twice, vise thrice.
husband, father, obligation
Town Hall #16: Bloat
wigwam.directory
I hereby pardon all junior engineers
"y'all'n't"
Knuth Airgaps & Knuth Buffers
Pseudoprose
Town Hall #15: Artifacts
what are authors even trying to do?
Russian Woman Achieves 9x "Mythical" Man Month
Compressing Codebase Collocates
Digital Desire Paths
How to opt-out of ChatGPT training without clearing conversation history
if it talks like a therapist...
How I Do Things: Chronic Fatigue Edition
Taming Your Infinite Queues
Living with Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS)
Town Hall #14: Frends
Apple should acquire Wolfram Research
Profitable Parenting
much worse than kids stomping that pig's bladder
"Somebody Tranq That Child!"
Easy Email Tokens in Pure Postgres
How/Why to Sweep Async Tasks Under a Postgres Table
rvnx's "P**is Table Test" for LLM Censorship
my battlestation
King of the Bunny Hill
P**fectionism Isn't Your Problem
The Lazy Garbage Nursery Guide
How I Eat
56% of McNugget Carbon is Corn
I'm a Coin Boy, Too
How would you like ChatGPT to respond?
gpt'day mate
Chloe is a listener
Share Demos Every Friday
Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
go big or go small or go home but don't go medium
Town Hall #13: Pests
How to Coast with Corporate Camouflage
Rucking with Children
Demonstrate Evergreen Proof
Do Unforgettable Work
Don't Fight Customers
Find Your Value
How To Pick Your Price
Select Your Service
Sell Your Service
Productize Yourself
Things That Outlive Fancy Rats
Spoil Your Secret Sauce
chexs.io
Town Hall #12: WONTFIX
blogs.hn
Changelog #546: "Don't Make Things Worse!"
When to Build Millennia Sewers
I wasn't ready to start a tech conference.
Hogwarts had a Cafetorium?
Town Hall #11: Downhill
they trap you in meetings because you do stupid shit
i pretended that i didn't know any better
No More Bargain-Bin Kisses
IKEA-Oriented Development
11 Ways to Shave a Yak
Put Your Reputation on the Deadline
Town Hall #10: Seeds
Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (And Other Dark Patterns)
Why I Use Elm in 2023
Candid Culture
Weeds & Bozo Explosions
Tiny Table-of-Contents JS Snippet
Lifestyle Design (from First Principles)
Case Study: Taylor's Lifestyle Design
Tools & Techniques for AR/VR Media
Taylor's Delights
I never want to be 93 years old
Good Art is Commonplace
Taylor's Media Criticism System
Slay Dragon Before Reorganizing Closet
Say "quadyssey", not "quadrilogy".
Town Hall #8: Scaling
How to be a -10x Engineer
Fire 50% Of Managers (At Random)
Winning the Goblin's Game
A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere
Town Hall #9: Listen
Town Hall #7: Scary Stuff
Don't Play Near Black Holes
Charts & Checklists for Serious Dreamers
Apple Will Win The AR/VR Wars
AR Interoperability Opportunities
Monomode & Multimode in Augmented Reality
AR Demands Peripherals
Claim a Domain in the Wet Web
Bananas Will Become Smartphones
Are You Serious?
Death in Diapers
Ghost Story
Town Hall #6: Spark Joy and Conversation
How to Learn a Foreign Language in 500 Hours
How to Cultivate Joy
Deflect External Acceptance
How To Stop Being Fake
Some thoughts on prime numbers
Town Hall #5: Outdoing Myself
Leave Your Phone at Home
Decline Invitations
Find a Phone-Home
The Joy of Monotasking
Five Hundred Hours
Busy Brain, Busy Body
take everything to your grave
Pick Practical Principles
Refrigerate Reusable Water Bottles
How to Scrounge for Between Time
How to Thwart Waiting Mode
Nothing Fulfills
Toki Pona Sign-Language Flash-Cards
zeroes
The Toki Pona Baby Sign-Language Guide
The Toki Pona Baby Sign-Language Manifesto
Your Brilliant App Idea
A Tiny HTML Snippet to "Discuss on HN"
Taylor's Timeline
Eschew the New
Liberate Breakfast
about
December 2022
8 Weekends Without A Drink
Rules for Good Work
Make Important Things Inevitable
Please Sell My Personal Information
Tips for Remote Work
How to Become Exponential
November 2022
Weekend Whenever
Extinguish All Notifications
Accept Your Fate
10 Minutes is 1% of Your Day
The Only Way to Make Money
Beware The Grind
My Yearly Themes
My Book Reviews
A Magic Question for Emotional Conversations
Blogs and Newsletters
Thank You vs. Sorry
October 2022
My Deep Daily Questions
September 2022
Never Wait for Anything
The Scourge of "Someday"
How do I get the ability to see the gnomes?
1,000 Weekends Without A Drink
How to Become the Worst Version of Yourself
never wait for the check at restaurants
Parental-Self-Controls
Student-Oriented Teaching
Do It for the Music
Un-Bucket List
Hire Me
It Tastes Like a Penny
awesome-awesome-awesome
Long-Live Plain Text!
My Podcast Subscriptions
The World's Ugliest Ring
No Fights
Fame: Persistence vs. Skill
Why Is Every Song Out-of-Tune?
Using {Blocks} in Rust & Go for Fun & Profit
Why JavaScript's Secret Comma Operator is So Darn Useful
LIT Home
Maybe I Don't Know More than the Experts
āIām lonely šā
nowify
Choose Values over Discipline
LiveCount Demo
Finding an Infintesimal Worm in Your Apple
An Algorithm for Generating Ideas
Daily Routine
Optimum Me
The Universe is God (According to Christians)
Don't Feel Your Feelings
Suspended Disbelief
What isn't David
Structure-State-Value Architecture for OOP
Synthetic Intelligence
How Do Taoists Quit Smoking?
The Speedy Media Manifesto
Plunge
Nothing
My Music Reviews
A One-Size-Fits-Most Software Architecture
On Improving Education
Set Phasers to Blind
The Problem with Podcasts
Self-Control is an Anti-Virtue
Time
Nobody Actually Sneezes
Always Waiting
Be Unreasonable
Plausible Deniability
Becoming
JSON Considered Harmful
Party Ideas
Blood & Brain ; Heart & Helix
Self-Host Blog Images in Two Lines of Bash
Bucket List
/now