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My Most Common Hallucinations

A very common first question when talking about psychosis is, “What do you hallucinate?” It’s not an incredibly simple question; it’s kind of like asking someone, “What do you see, in general?” Of ...

For the past 10 years, I have been keeping a diary

I have been writing down events of my life for the last 10 years. I want to celebrate this achievement. 🎉☺️ This diary helped me a lot in the past, and I wish to convince anyone who is on the fence...

Monkey Business

From pain rises fear

Use Ripgrep-all from Emacs

Previously, I wrote a little package to integrate Everything search into Emacs using the Consult framework. It’s pretty useful if you are searching for (say) all the files on your Windows computer ...

Audio Post-production for Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022)

REEL Guyana recently released their latest documentary, Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022). Split An Atom was proud to be asked to provide audio post-production ...

Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

There’s a common pattern I’ve seen when learning something new, where you can effectively move towards a larger goal by working on problems just outside of your reach. I did a little thinking about...

Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags

The podcast moguls of Changelog Media have been keen to introduce chapters into their podcast episodes and they reached out to me for a hand. And would you know, now they have chapters and the Elix...

SvelteKit Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with @urql/svelte

Learn why server-side rendering (SSR) using urql as a GraphQL client is not as straightforward as you might think and how to do it anyway.

iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?"

Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of d...

A new chapter for Changelog podcasts

Adam and I have wanted our podcasts to have chapters for a looooong time. Like, multiple years long. They’re such a great way to navigate and explore an episode. You can skip directly to the subjec...

Humans vs. Machines: The End for Competitive Chess

Please be aware that the views expressed in this poste are solely those of the author and do not represent the official stance of any chess federation or organization. The world of competitive ches...

My Types of Dissociation

I’ve realized that when I talk about dissociating, I can really be talking about a number of different experiences. So I decided to categorize and define some of the versions I talk about most ofte...

Superstition - an engineering anti-pattern

Design patterns are reusable approaches to common problems - anti-patterns are the same, but ineffective (and even counterproductive). An example of a design pattern is the singleton - we often wan...

Stubbornness and programming

Every now and then, there will be the type of problem to solve where I know it will require an extra cup of coffee, a long block of dedicated time, and a lot of careful reading, debugging, note tak...

Life’s a Glitch

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

Who Can It Be Now

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

Tracking the I’ll Give You Series vs. My Mental Health at the Time

I wrote a post a while back: “Tracking Contrivance vs. My Mental Health at the Time,” an exercise in tracing changes in my writing versus changes in my mental health. For this post, I’m doing it ag...

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainl...

Colony Collapse

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hills to rule over. But they are also premised on the idea that we too are ants an...

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