Thomas Hughes

The Case for Watching Soccer

According to a basketball fan

Brontosaurus: A Voice-Driven Generative AI Canvas

With additional thoughts on human-AI collaboration

Where is the Best Place to Build a Bridge in Chicago?

A collaboration with the Chicago Central Area Committee

Keyboard Pong

Experimenting with inputs

Converting CSVs to HTML Tables in the Browser

Simplifying local data exploration

Bubble Letters

Is this anything?

Steel Arteries: Visualizing Freight Flows in New York City

aka Big Rigs in the Big Apple, aka Empire Freight of Mind

o4-mini-high inexplicably inserted Russian into my code

Why I blog

Modifying Websites with LLM-Generated Javascript Bookmarks

An exploration of malleable software

Most problems that can be solved with technology can be solved by combining things that already exist

How to Do Personal Projects

Learning a language through immersion and shamelessness

Set Quests, Not Goals

The activation energy threshold of activities

Pi Day 2025

Is there a number of digits of π for which it is easier to memorize the fractional approximation than the decimal itself?

Parallel Playbooks of Preeminent Powers

Infrastructure is a tool of foreign policy, and the Belt and Road Initiative comes from the same slot in the toolkit as the Marshall Plan once did.