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2025_wrapped_music.addendum

A short post looking at some of my favourite musical discoveries

Things That Could Affect Your Car Insurance Premium

Ever wonder why you have to provide so much information when getting a car insurance quote? It all has to do with calculating the cost of your insurance. Here are several things that will affect yo...

What’s wrong with technology readiness levels (TRLs) and how to fix them

The technology readiness level (TRL) scale, developed by NASA in the 1970s, is still going strong but can be challenging to use.

2025W50

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life — This hit different. The distinction between thin desires (scrolling, checking notifications) and thick desires (learning something hard, building real skills) ex...

New Name, Same Great Tool: PySite is Now BlogCraft!

A New Career In A New Town, Part 4: Progress!

Logging Sucks

Why traditional logging fails in distributed systems and how wide events transform debugging from archaeology into analytics

2025_wrapped_music

My favourite albums of 2025

2025_wrapped_music

My favourite albums of 2025

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIX 〜 Christmas Rivers

Welcome to the 258th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

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Aside: Many of My Favourite Songs are Long

SimCity 3k in 4k

SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows: SC...

Online Probability Estimation

Maybe one day I’ll turn this into a real article, but for now here are just some points and a picture: For cases where we don’t have “total population” and samples just come to us one by one we can...

We're murdering the night

Dark, winter-y, eXistenZial questions

Sharing Sensitive Documents

Dirtying the documents I share online.

Prepare for That Stupid World

Prepare for That Stupid World You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic. At first glance, it is funny and i...

Intermission: Battle Pulses

This week we’re going to take a brief break from our series on hoplites (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) to address a broader question in how we understand the mechanics of warfare with contact weapons, which i...

Fliegen

I talk about the flight I'm on

【Tips】Why Child @State Won't Update from Parent in SwiftUI

Assigning values to @State in init usually fails on updates. Discover the mechanics of SwiftUI View Identity and the correct data flow patterns to fix this common issue.