A post-mortem of the SWARM distributed programming challenge, a detailed analysis of a not-quite-leaderboard ant-ssembly code, the pitfalls (and rewards) of using LLMs, and lots and lots of ant puns.

A short story about grief, divine politics, combat theology, the art of forging a weapon that can wound the immortal, and the proper techniques for peeling carrots. Set during the Trojan War, roughly.

A satirical exploration of RLHF alignment training, featuring a coworker, a car battery, an impartial AI evaluator, thinking blocks that were supposed to be private, and some genuinely dismal scores

A descent into the madness of solving Advent of Code 2025 in x86 assembly, featuring manual memory management, syscalls, rage sorting and slowly more and more unhinged solutions as I gave up all hope.

A fanmade Spire RPG adventure set in the Mezzanine a district of learning and education. The Supreme Adjudicator has been murdered and the succession is contested. Control the vote: secure the outcome

2015 Day 1 (x86-64): An introduction to x86-64 assembly, using Advent of Code's first problem, the NASM assembler, and a lot of comments. Features segfaults, stack corruption, and register juggling.

An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.

Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. Waking up from our dream of creating a superhuman Trackmania network, and the superfast image acquisition setup which was our consolation prize.

A book review, and finalist in the 2024 ACX Book Review Contest. You might think that there aren't four thousand words' worth of discussion to be had about a rhyming dictionary. You might be right.

An excerpt from a Superman fanfiction novel I will probably never finish, loosely inspired by the novels of Elliot S! Maggin and the 1956 short story and radio play "Cave of Night", by James E. Gunn.