I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
Gonna send you back to the stone age.
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I prefer "Yankee" over "Usonian" over "American"
I like "Usonia", but it ain't US.
-pede
GIGAPEDE
Typefaces
Lorem ipsum sit dolor amet.
Dear Jon,
Litte Jon (not Lil Jon) is great, but he's not you.
How US Opportunity Zones Really Work
Investors can dodge taxes by parking their capital gains in ~6,400 designated low-income census tracts.
Hire Me (Taylor) via API
Yes, I am building a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape.
Town Hall #29: Revolution
if nobody is coming to save you
Fear in Four Dimensions
To study a fear is to steal its power.
A Review of Grand Theft Auto XXIIV
You will eventually hunt down a shopping cart thief and make him beg for mercy.
You cannot grow a pumpkin.
You can play piano (unless you can't play piano).
1099 contractors can earn ~7% more by reporting their expenses.
More than you even wanted to know about Form 1099.
USD by the numbers
What the h*ck is a money supply?
Plan Recurring Vacations With Friends
Your list should contain all your favorite events, people, places, and hobbies.
Freezing Your Cake
It's easier to hide my mediocrity in the freezer.
I built a crappy video podcast player
2005 birthed the iPod Video and YouTube.
waves & particles
••• •• ••• •• •••
Slap: Fun Cat Lang... with a Borrow Checker?
Slap's true power is what it cannot do.
Dear Aliens
a writing contest for humans
How To Not Pay Your Taxes
Your government wants you to create taxable wealth.
Mercury Personal Banking: First Impressions
It's a bank. It's good. I recommend it.
Explore Chaotic Autonomous Systems In My Game Prototype
Last Mile is fun for almost five whole minutes.
Lil' Fun Langs' Guts
What's inside them? Do I need my pancreas?
My Phone Will Spam You If I Fail To Exercise By 3PM
I must do pushups to save my friends from my spam robot.
Math Milestones
via Khan Academy Knowledge Map
Lil' Fun Langs
a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
Mysterious NSFW "Grok" Notification from Google App
Somebody is in big trouble.
Every Conversation is a Backrub and/or a Helicopter in a Puddle
Accept the backrub, you fool.
AdBoost
Don't miss out on the latest ads!
Neither Fan Nor Frond
They're the tree equivalent of a skin disease.
Happy Belated New Year
I hope coconuts still baffle you too.
REWARD
You're gonna carry that weight.
Golfing Is Not Rowing
Some work rewards steady effort. Other work rewards big swings (and mulligans).
Affordances are Inconceivable
"Affordance" and "signifier" sow confusion. Say "enabler" and "clue" instead.
A Brief History of Roombas with Fart Spray
A true tale of robot vacuum innovation
How To Win Titular Metagames
This is how this essay's title evolved
Emoji Book Synopses
🐒🦴➡️🛸🖥️🔴🚀🌌👁️⭐👶✨ 2001: A Space Odyssey :: Arthur C. Clarke 👨🏻🌾🌾💰📈📉👩🏻❤️💪😤💔💀🌾 The Good Earth :: Pearl S. Buck 👽🛸💥🏚️☢️🔦🎒💰💀😱🙏🟡 Roadside Picnic :: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ☯️💧🌊🔄💭❓💪=💧🔄❌✅♾️ Tao Te Ching :: Lao Tzu 🌶️👨🏻🎺📜✍️😤🍩👩🏻🦳😩🎭🤡🌀 A Confederacy of Dunces :: John Kennedy Toole 👦🏻🧒🎮⚔️🧠💪📈👽😱😭💀 Ender's Game :: Orson Scott Card…
210 IQ is not enough
You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.
AI Minus Vagina
Did R2-D2's dong bring balance to the force?
Placebo Emporium: 2025 Annual Shareholder Letter
the world's finest placebos at affordable wholesale prices
Be More Impolite
Always do exactly what you want, and do it kindly.
Town Hall #28: Noodle
I've given myself permission to noodle again.
Do Not Shred Your Fingers In An Actual Blender
I recently gave some bad advice.
ERP Therapy Sucks
I was diagnosed with OCD. I said "woah" and then I said "duh".
"I'm the type of person who..."
Nobody accidentally runs triathalons.
100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon
Humans have no damn clue how to measure intelligence.
The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again)
I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.
Good Vibes: A Claude-Code Case-Study
Tweezers are cool, but Claude Code feels like a machete.
A stern letter to the drawbridge operator
Thursday came. The drawbridge operator pulled the lever. Alfonso fell.
God created men; Sam Altman made them equal.
AI might be a trillion billion balloons filled with confetti.