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Downregulating tmux

I came in 15th at Magic Fest Vegas 2023.

I recently got a foldable bluetooth keyboard to work while I traveled and it was more delightful than I could have imagined.

Miscellaneous thoughts on Wilds of Eldraine.

I made a tool to cross post my tweets to X, bluesky, threads, mastodon and farcaster.

I wrote a short plugin to enable you to talk to GPT in vim.

Miscellaneous thoughts on Tales of Middle Earth.

I am no longer confident small amounts of drinking are healthy. Maybe we actually can compute the freezing point of water from first principles?

Miscellaneous thoughts on March of the Machines.

Chat GPT is sort of cool but I'm having trouble understanding why people fine it so useful.

There is strong evidence drinking a unit of alcohol a day reduces all cause mortality primarily by being good for cardiovascular health and not particularly bad for anything.

Despite popular opinion Android is just better than iOS. I go through a variety of os components and describe how in almost all cases Android has superior design

Von Neumann-Morgenstern's Utility Theorem and Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem are often given as good justifications for additive utility and utilitarianism in general but does it make sense?

A collection of my favorite vim, tmux, and zsh configurations.

A short retrospective where I list some of my errors and misses.

I wrote a children's book about exponential growth.

A strategic discussion of Brother's War. Featuring my commons ranking, an organized list of instants and miscellanous thoughts.

A strategic discussion of Dominaria United. Featuring my commons ranking, an organized list of instants and miscellanous thoughts.

I made a simple SAAS service and now I'm shutting it down.

I love a good essay contest. This is a submission to Open Philanthropy's Cause Exploration Prize which I'm crossposing to my site from the EA forum. I've always hated paperwork and think people tend to underestimate both it's direct costs and how much human activity is prevented by people avoiding paperwork.

I made a Workflowy inspired Vim extension

A cow is bigger than a chicken. Yes this means they contain more meals but surely it also means they contain more of that ineffable joy and zest which make life worth living.

What if your twitter had an rc file? What if you needed to SSO onto vim?

Thoughts on Internet Identity.

Various Anecdotes from Magic Tournaments.

A strategic discussion of New Capenna. Featuring my commons ranking, an organized list of instants and miscellanous thoughts.

You can now comment on my blog posts without making a github pull request.

I had the opportunity to play two games of chess with Peter Thiel when I interned at Palantir.

I've been drinking a glass of wine a day and I take a brief look at the data of it's effect on my sleep.

I don't think it is good value to get a booster for me. I explain why.

I've been wearing a fitbit since August. Here are some of my thoughts.

Comments are back in a way that may surprise you.

I learn how to overhand serve a volleyball and a few things about learning.

Some properties a meme can have and the names for the resulting categories.

In which I do battle with the amorphous unfeeling other. I should listen to Nietzsche and look away from what I don't like.

Assorted Pro Tips for your Android phoning.

A strategic discussion of Strixhaven. Featuring my commons ranking, an organized list of instants and miscellanous thoughts.

Another update on what I've made and learned producing this personal site.

A simple analysis of how well calibrated Predictit is.

I wrote a simple pomodoro timer tmux extension.

I'm constantly surprised by what's happening in the world but I so rarely make a note of it. Here are some things which I would not have predicted.

A short list of things that make me angry.

A review of Kaldheim for limited. The various themes are analyzed.

Just some changes I'm going to try out for the new year and a few big goals.

Some bewildering market opportunities were available on Predictit in November to December

I recreated all of dropbox with just two lines of code! Not really. Come read about my hacky backup setup.

I've been logging access to my website and I thought I'd go over some data.

It sure is difficult to do anything. Here I was wanting to write an interesting blog and now I'm blogging about blogging.

I'm excited to announce that Rhiannon and I are engaged! Come read a little bit about our relationship over the past 3 years.

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I didn't expect to be nostalgic for 2019 in 2020 but here I am. Enjoy a retelling of a great weekend full of interesting games, good food and fun times with friends.

A review of the new Zendikar Rising set for limited. The various themes are analyzed.

An introduction to the bijective method of counting with lots of examples and theorems. It's really beautiful stuff. I think there'll be something for people who know next to nothing about math and for people who know a great deal.

Here's my review of double masters for limited. Going over the key archetypes and the important cards for each of them. Dare I say at the time of publishing it was the most comprehensive and useful resource for Double Masters Limited?

Come learn about my favorite lemma.

Reviews of two TV shows I enjoyed recently.

We had to come home eventually. Here I detail our exciting trip back. I guess this is a travel blog now.

A special guest blog post from a friend of mine. He muses on philosophical questions about the bifurcation of soul and body and being true to yourself.

I've been having a really good time hiking in Washington. Here are some of the things I've noticed.

In the quest for enrichment during the pandemic and in anticipation of the dystopian future where we're all remote software engineers (I really liked Montana as I roadtripped through it) I've begun to teach Rhiannon how to program.

I find people using sophisticated sounding words for simple concepts PROBLEMATIC.

With the pandemic stretching on, Rhiannon and I thought it wise to retreat to the isolated hinterland in the north of Washington State. We'll shelter here until Ohio's liberation. Which looks to be in just a few days. Ah well.

I highly recommend light alarm clocks for the ideal waking experience. In this blog I give a recommendation for one you can buy and directions on how to make your own.

Getting ready for a new limited format by crunching some numbers.

Rhiannon and I got a new game Patchwork which I highly recommend. I rate it 5/5.

A tail of meandering yak shaving and the acquisition of esoteric but trivial information.

Another short conversation with friend of the site Rhiannon. Plop down all alone onto your couch and feel less alone for 36 minutes.

Some investigative journalism into jellyfish graffiti.

A short interview with friend of the site Rhiannon. Pop in your earbuds and enjoy your commute.

Another special guest post from Rhiannon talking about her research into viruses.

A special guest post from my good friend Anthony Pan. Anthony reviews three books he's really enjoyed this year.

Musings on themes of dismemberment, coping with loss and suicide in three different pieces of media I consumed in January.

I put some work in the past week to understand the Theros Beyond Death Limited format. Here I detail my specific approach. The most valuable and interesting thing to a reader will likely be the scripts and spreadsheet which you are free to borrow for your own analysis of this and future limited sets.

Reflections on the eating I did with Rhiannon during the first two weeks of the semester. Enjoy some quality food pics.

In this post I talk about some changes I've made to my website. For instance I've implemented a small summary feature so I can give my readers a blurb about what they're going to get into before they click on my blog and get sucked into some writing they have no investment in. Which is of course a greater and greater risk as I expand my audience to millions.

A collection of a few simple procedural artworks I've made. My favorite are the random walks at the end.