Toki Pona: a review
A review of Toki Pona, the minimal constructed language.
Jonas Wagner
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ma pona lon poka pi telo anpa
ma pona ni li lon ala lipu ma. jan pi mute lili li sona e ona.
Bayesian Reasoning on Maps
An intuitive explanation of Bayesian Reasoning, with an application to the Rootclaim debate on the origins of COVID-19.
Gedanken über Sankt Martin
Gehe hin und rette Leben!
Personal key rotation 4: shiny new passwords
An easy and secure guide to perform your own personal key rotation and get well-protected accounts.
Personal key rotation 3: tools for key management
Two key tools for keys: a password safe, and psst secret sharing.
Personal key rotation 2: security and availability
Let's analyze our asset graph and find the right security/availability trade-off for our assets.
FUSS: Fuzzing on a Shoestring
FUSS speeds up fuzz testing using the elastic instrumentation technique. The source code is now freely available.
Personal key rotation 1: visualize your assets
How to visualize your assets and gain an overview of your online identity.
Monsuta li moli e jan 500M, li pini
The history of smallpox elimination, translated into Toki Pona.
A name for every place
Request for comments: How to ensure that every place on earth gets an authoritative, well-known name?
How to work in Germany for a foreign organization
How to be an employee in Germany if your organization is based elsewhere. With checklists for social security, taxes, etc.
Was Kopf, Hand und Herz bewegt
Drei Highlights fürs Jahr 2020: HPMOR, vegane Ernährung und Giving What We Can.
Deciding, fast and slow
Reflecting on the amount of thought that goes into a decision.
Remembering the Windfish Tune
Reflections on Ready, Player One. The value of one's memories.
Searching for Numbers and Finding God
A guest post for allthingsnew.tech. Surprising links between Theology and Turing machines.
Resolved, to Live. (Thoughts on Rogue One)
Resolved, after seeing Rogue One, to live more intentionally. To devote more attention to the purpose of what I'm doing. To do more of the things I like.
Freshly Roasted Chestnuts from the Biolite Campstove
The Biolite campstove: a review. Using the stove to roast chestnuts and boil water, I find out how well it works.
A day in the life of Jonas
A few impressions of my life and work in Berkely. With six pictures and an explanation of the Cyber Grand Challenge.
Monte Carlo Tetris Playing
A writeup of my team's entry to 2015's International Contest in Functional Programming.
Blackie, or the Last Hamburger
This is the story of a bull called Blackie, and of how a man's life was changed by a hamburger.
California Extreme
A visit to the California Extreme arcade and pinball show.
Snow Creek Hike
Es isch Morge am 7ni. D'Sunne isch ufgange nachere wunderbare Nacht, u het mi usem Schlafsack gchutzelet. I bi im Yosemite National Park, ir Nechi vom Canyon Creek.
Chilnualna Falls Hike
Me cha Gottes Güeti ir Natur gseh. D'Sunne isch grad ufgange. I hocke ufemne Granitblock am Ufer vom Crescent Lake u gniesse die erschte Sunnestrahle...
Flying over a full world
On a flight from Switzerland to San Francisco, I ponder how the land below and the world around me are changing.
Counting CPU Cycles
How to measure the time (≈ CPU cycles) needed to execute a small piece of code, using the RDTSC instruction. A little experiment.
Exporting notes from Evernote and OneNote
Evernote and OneNote are useful. But, can you get your data out of them if you have to? This post shows how.
Web Technologies for Your CV
I really like web technologies. But... would they be appropriate for writing a CV?
A traveller's diary, part four
Part four of my trip to the Rocky Mountains: the journey concludes.
A traveller's diary, part three
Part three of my trip to the Rocky Mountains: to the park.
A traveller's diary, part two
The journey continues. My goal is the mountains. I have three days left, 120 dollars in my pocket, and a backpack. This is what freedom must feel like.
A traveller's diary, part one
Part one of my journey to the Rocky Mountains: how everything started.