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• 2024-08-02 - Empirically measurable problems
• 2024-07-17 - Resurrect an ancient pagan weather god with TensorFlow in 10 easy steps
• 2024-07-04 - The software supply chain is something they've done to themselves
• 2024-07-01 - Two perspectives on personhood
• 2024-06-23 - You're not supposed to sympathize with Pan Han
• 2024-06-18 - If you don't do sustainability, the trees stop coming back
• 2024-06-15 - The phenomenology of the Computer Science Course Union
• 2024-06-02 - How do you pronounce 'Nat'?
• 2024-06-01 - Sympathy for the porn bots
• 2024-05-23 - Displacement Equals Zero
• 2024-05-13 - A list of wholly self-contained descriptors
• 2024-05-10 - Software development is antiscience
• 2024-05-08 - Registered Computer Professionals
• 2024-05-02 - Music addiction
• 2024-04-26 - The end
• 2024-04-13 - Why I left gender studies
• 2024-04-08 - An economy of stolen recycling bins
• 2024-04-07 - Why I don't write callouts
• 2024-04-06 - One njms.ca under God
• 2024-03-30 - Academiology VII: Silvics
• 2024-03-26 - Thoughts on the carbon tax
• 2024-03-25 - Unix-like elders
• 2024-03-21 - Should black cats go to heaven?
• 2024-03-19 - The OSI model of reality
• 2024-03-17 - Today I screwed up
• 2024-03-16 - Quintillions of untold stories
• 2024-03-14 - A "bad" counselor
• 2024-03-13 - What if we gave the flies voting rights?
• 2024-03-11 - Three interesting ways of knowing
• 2024-03-07 - I just want you to tell me everything's going to be okay, Part I: Thinly-veiled nihilism
• 2024-03-06 - Academiology VI: Humility
• 2024-03-05 - Maturity
• 2024-03-04 - Silly computer things
• 2024-03-03 - Telling stories about the future
• 2024-03-02 - Performative friendship
• 2024-03-01 - The analog gap
• 2024-02-29 - Why I make art
• 2024-02-28 - A curious question on a geology final
• 2024-02-27 - Anarchism works
• 2024-02-26 - We're asking the wrong questions about AI
• 2024-02-25 - Our biogeoclimatic monomyth
• 2024-02-24 - Reading is hard
• 2024-02-23 - The black box
• 2024-02-22 - Being seen on the internet
• 2024-02-21 - Coffee
• 2024-02-20 - Academiology V: Place
• 2024-02-19 - Academiology IV: Land
• 2024-02-18 - Academiology III: Investment
• 2024-02-17 - 136 000 volts can kill you
• 2024-02-16 - God hates old growth
• 2024-02-15 - Shoot first, ask questions later
• 2024-02-14 - Composition is an invitation
• 2024-02-13 - Partially-applied self
• 2024-02-12 - A eulogy for smartphones I'll never understand
• 2024-02-11 - Academiology II: Residency
• 2024-02-10 - What happens in gemspace…
• 2024-02-09 - Spectres of What Came Before (re: "Reverberations of What Came Before" by winter)
• 2024-02-08 - Academiology I: Ritual
• 2024-02-07 - Hypermemetic intersectional normalcy
• 2024-02-06 - Academiology 0: On the willingness to know the value of university
• 2024-02-05 - The existential horror of being transgender
• 2024-02-04 - It's not asceticism, it's real life.
• 2024-02-03 - Life unloaded
• 2024-02-02 - Community Air Filtration Action
• 2024-02-01 - Biogeochemical girl
• 2024-01-31 - When the jeans rip beside the seam.
• 2024-01-30 - Performative empathy
• 2024-01-29 - Collective delusions of a past that didn't exist
• 2024-01-28 - The women are absent
• 2024-01-27 - Ecological machines
• 2024-01-26 - CollapseOS is Foundation for climate doomers
• 2024-01-25 - Puritanically good
• 2024-01-24 - The stakes of an idea
• 2024-01-23 - A cargo cult in the imperial core
• 2024-01-22 - Robert
• 2024-01-21 - Nobody cares about independent digital infrastructure
• 2024-01-20 - I share a name with a real person
• 2024-01-19 - Will forests still be beautiful if they're gone?
• 2024-01-18 - Ageless, sexless, omnipresent
• 2024-01-17 - Art that's meant to be understood
• 2024-01-16 - Going to class with a dangerous respiratory illness
• 2024-01-15 - EOL
• 2024-01-14 - What the left has to learn from cults
• 2024-01-13 - Autism in the social model of disability
• 2024-01-12 - Virtual marginalia
• 2024-01-11 - Why I don't write arguments
• 2024-01-10 - Scientific apostasy
• 2024-01-09 - Foreordination
• 2024-01-08 - Sand never asked to think
• 2024-01-07 - Tending your garden on the moral high ground
• 2024-01-06 - Relationships long-distance in time
• 2024-01-05 - "Fuck cars," and foregrounding marginalized voices
• 2024-01-04 - How I escaped longtermism
• 2024-01-03 - I want to be your friend
• 2024-01-02 - EEE is something we do to ourselves
• 2024-01-01 - Identity is a network
• 2023-12-31 - Autoreiphilia
• 2023-12-30 - Holistically broken
• 2023-12-29 - A leap of faith versus the willingness to Know
• 2023-12-26 - My principles are your technical debt
• 2023-12-26 - On Christmas
• 2023-12-13 - Everything is a Stream
• 2023-12-12 - A crisis of faith in the Web
• 2023-09-20 - Growing out of your sigma-grindset
• 2023-09-15 - Studying computer science at the end of the world
• 2023-09-14 - Rocks are as animate as I am
• 2023-08-29 - Manifestation is useful, whether or not it's real
• 2023-08-24 - This software is a gift
• 2023-08-22 - Who do you write for?
• 2023-08-15 - Why make cassettes in 2023
• 2023-08-02 - All your software is a political statement
• 2023-02-19 - Transience-orientated programming, or how to make software for ghosts
• 2023-01-05 - A self reflection on the aestheticization of low-tech and doing it anyway
• 2022-12-21 - Will I ever post here again?
• 2022-04-25 - Monads are scary; or, The Queering of Object Orientated Programming
• 2021-02-21 - Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to.
• 2021-02-14 - The Fediverse only solves half the problem.
• 2018-09-09 - The dark web could be a really great place.
• 2017-12-28 - Closures in programming: What are they and how do they work?
• 2017-12-28 - Modern JS concepts: Arrow functions, the new and improved function literals