May 28, 2026

On Baldur’s Gate 3

what’s occupied much of my past three weeks

May 17, 2026

Armor-piercing questions

that i’ve been asked recently

April 26, 2026

Analogical reasoning

more not-actually-writing

April 5, 2026

at arm’s length

on emotional distance

March 22, 2026

Video game March

find matt’s cats, diceomancer, rhythm doctor, cobalt core

March 18, 2026

In and of itself

a curious idiom

March 8, 2026

Minimum force

chunithm-posting!

February 27, 2026

Professional vision

domain-specific perspectives

February 15, 2026

Notes on senses

they’re more similar than you’d think

February 1, 2026

On the MIT Mystery Hunt 2026

i ran out of titles

January 11, 2026

the cruelty of air

breathing and bleeding

January 3, 2026

Some stories from developing puzlink.js

i spent two weeks coding and all i got was—

December 22, 2025

Things I enjoyed reading in 2025

imagine reading for pleasure

December 10, 2025

Actual lines from tech recruiter emails

you’re probably happy at your current job, but—

November 24, 2025

components of anger

more emotionposting

November 4, 2025

Don’t burn out on me

on resignation and surrender

October 19, 2025

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Git

with apologies to wallace stevens

October 18, 2025

No one warned me about RimWorld

and i have now sunk 87 hours

October 5, 2025

The days are short but the decades are long

to be a kid forever

September 20, 2025

Not my best self

i know what i think you think of me

September 14, 2025

Conjunction is adjoint to implication

posets, limits, adjoints

September 9, 2025

some stray september sentiments

too busy playing silksong to write much else

August 28, 2025

more subjective restaurant reviews

vibes-based valuations

August 12, 2025

When did you get the concept for your job?

i want to hear your stories

July 12, 2025

Calls I wish had well-defined parts

another square dancing post

June 27, 2025

above the noise

on quality and popularity

June 15, 2025

taste and vibecoding

now let me tell you, i’m the biggest hater

June 4, 2025

i like me better depressed

i don’t want to be in love

May 30, 2025

Video game May

until then, monster train 2, aotenjo, ftl

May 8, 2025

Python built-ins in Google Sheets

for when you want to filter with a lambda

May 4, 2025

Redefining Recycle

with apologies to lee kopman

April 15, 2025

Some recent interests

filler blog post

April 2, 2025

it’s been nine years and i still want out

(but i won’t do anything about it so it’s fine)

March 18, 2025

a boring person goes to new york

on a relationship to place

February 17, 2025

The phenomenology of puzzlehunting

on the MIT Mystery Hunt 2025

January 30, 2025

elsewhere on the internet

linkposting

January 12, 2025

it’s easy to do the hard things

and it’s hard to do the easy things

December 23, 2024

Things I enjoyed reading in 2024

i’ve been a good reader this year

December 15, 2024

The (real) systematic name of titin

it’s longer than everyone else thinks

November 22, 2024

On writing square dance material

am i a caller now?

November 2, 2024

If I ever come back

on being away from mit

October 20, 2024

minimum posting cadence

all signs point to identity

September 28, 2024

you don’t find time, you create it

on being busy due to a lack of priorities

September 12, 2024

Give yourself a speed limit

go too fast and you’ll burn out

August 27, 2024

etymologies

new jobs and old ambitions

August 3, 2024

actual conversations i definitely had at sparc

entirely verbatim, trust me

July 15, 2024

IAGSDC 2024

my first square dance convention

June 19, 2024

othering the self

and treating myself with kindness

June 15, 2024

Referential distinctions

some dichotomies in the philosophy of language

May 24, 2024

already home

basta’t makasama ka / ako’y nakauwi na

May 6, 2024

thoughts on sparc

summarizing an unsummarizable summer camp

May 3, 2024

Emails I’ve received

i reply to people

April 27, 2024

change can’t save you

notes to self

April 11, 2024

Clouds over Rochester

total (lack of a) solar eclipse

March 27, 2024

Indirect pursuits

a list of vaguely related things

March 16, 2024

Personal holidays

why i celebrate them

March 7, 2024

i can’t be cool if

i want to be cool

February 26, 2024

Puzzlehunts and institutions

on the MIT Mystery Hunt 2024

February 10, 2024

cromulence: a small word frequency library

fitting a dictionary in the browser

February 4, 2024

Blending life together

and watching what’s coming out

January 19, 2024

contemplating envy

and the complexities of being appreciated

December 26, 2023

a covid christmas

in case you’re wondering why i’m posting so much

December 25, 2023

Things I enjoyed reading in 2023

year 5 of pretending i read

December 24, 2023

A type-checking square dance puzzle

parsers! types! combinatorics!

December 16, 2023

Non-compositionality of square dance calls

of course there’s math in square dancing

December 3, 2023

Crying in the subway

why are you crying?

November 16, 2023

the day-to-day

on (lack of) job satisfaction

October 22, 2023

chasing dragons

are things getting better?

October 9, 2023

Declarative programming as mindset

hint: it’s not about map/filter/reduce

September 28, 2023

day jobs

the long answer to “how’s work?”

September 21, 2023

overly subjective restaurant reviews

imagine reviewing restaurants based on food lol

September 18, 2023

motivated to write

questions to answer about writing