Solving the board game Quoridor
Algorithmic and optimization playtime
Grant Slatton's Blog
Grant Slatton's Blog
Latest posts
Every Man a Microservice
Contra Conway
Manufacturing as Maintenance
The cleansing fire of rebirth
LLM Memory
Some thoughts on implementations
Claude Code
Everything I know about how to use it, so far
Solution-space Taste
A graphical representation
Sorting Algorithm: The Game
How good are you?
Typo Minimizing Keyboard
Layout optimization problem
The Curve is Bending
Predictions on near-term AI inference spending
Graph Search Algorithm: The Game
A fun puzzle game
Rohit Chess
Fun little board game
AI software I'm surprised doesn't exist yet
Please make it
Technocapital
An essay on post-AI economics
Writing a good design document
A guide
Design Patterns
An honest primer
How to write complex software
A general method
Bureaulogy
The study of bureaucracy
A peasant's plight
On the shackling of the peasantry
Every Man his own API
A sociotechnological trend
Culture is a set of social Schelling points
Solving coordination problems in community-building
Portals are Undertheorized
The importance of arrival
Binary IQ
A model of LLM capability
Designing bug-proof engines
A spectrum of engineering philosophies
Accidental Urbanism
How I got into the scene
How to Bootstrap a Town
A modest plan
Sports vs Games
An aesthetic distinction
Nobody Cares
A rant about caring
Lightweight property-based testing at Row Zero
How we verify correctness
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero
A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
Algorithms we develop software by
Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
Status among whom?
An essay about status relativism
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ)
A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
AI follows auditability
An essay about the order AI will move through the economy
Onsen Unreality
Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo
Road Width Extremism
In favor of narrow roads
Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
Shuttle
A useful concurrency checker library we used to verify our filesystem at AWS
Quasirandom sequences
Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'
Excellent book about the history of precision machining