# handmer — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover handmer. Page: Feed: --- ## [In Defense of the Marginal Baby](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/in-defense-of-the-marginal-baby/) _2026-06-22 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ This Father s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment their child number, ideally recursively. If you have two, go for three! Five? Six is barely 16% more. I currently have four children, and I think I m just getting the hang of it. This post indexes on my own experience and is thus most likely to be… ## [The enormous size of the oil and gas market drives adoption of synthetic fuel production](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/the-enormous-size-of-the-oil-and-gas-market-drives-adoption-of-synthetic-fuel-production/) _2026-06-18 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ Originally posted at the Terraform blog June 16 2026. One of the underrated joys of hardware tech development is having the opportunity to tell and retell the story until it gradually becomes less mysterious. To me, what Terraform is doing was as obvious as breathing five years ago. To others, even long standing employees and investors, some of the finer points are not yet as obvious as they… ## [How to build a crazy awesome Australian immigration system](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/how-to-build-a-crazy-awesome-australian-immigration-system/) _2026-06-10 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ The Australian immigration system must exclude dickheads, bullshitters, and bludgers. This post has been inspired by Joe Walker s recent set of three exemplary interviews (Martin Parkinson (former Treasury, author of 2023 migration review), Mark Cully (historian), Mike Pezzullo (senior border official 2013-2023)) on the subject of immigration policy. This comes against a backdrop of growing… ## [Antimatter, where art thou?](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/antimatter-where-art-thou) _2026-05-15 · Finn · Writings_ How we found it. What we could do with it. What must be overcome. ## [How to build a lunar mass driver](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/how-to-build-a-lunar-mass-driver/) _2026-05-08 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching some components from Moon factories with a mass driver. This is an old idea, enabled by ## [Enveda’s Radical Vision for the Future of Medicine | Viswa Colluru and Pablo Lubroth](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/envedas-radical-vision-for-the-future) _2026-05-06 · Finn · Writings_ Recorded February 27th, 2026 in Boulder, CO ## [Forecast 2050 Episode 10 - Viswa Colluru & Pablo Lubroth - Transcript](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/forecast-2050-episode-10-viswa-colluru) _2026-05-06 · Finn · Writings_ Recorded February 27th, 2026 in Boulder, CO. ## [Building the Next Great American City: Devon Zuegel’s 2050 Forecast](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/building-the-next-great-american) _2026-04-29 · Finn · Writings_ Recorded December 11th, 2025 in San Francisco, CA ## [Forecast 2050 - Episode 7 - Devon Zuegel on Cities in 2050 - Transcript](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/forecast-2050-episode-7-devon-zuegel) _2026-04-29 · Finn · Writings_ Recorded December 11th, 2025 in San Francisco, CA ## ['3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible'](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/36-roentgen-not-great-not-terrible) _2026-04-27 · Finn · Writings_ Radiation and the Space Frontier ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/v5AGTJjQXA9f) _2026-04-27 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [Rule, Britannia? How the UK Wins the AI Age – Matt Clifford & Ian Hogarth’s 2050 Forecast](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/rule-britannia-how-the-uk-wins-the) _2026-04-22 · Finn · Writings_ The race to catch up is on, will the UK and Europe get back in the game? ## [Forecast 2050 - Episode 8 - Matt Clifford & Ian Hogarth on the UK & Europe - Transcript](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/forecast-2050-episode-8-matt-clifford) _2026-04-22 · Finn · Writings_ Recorded January 20th, 2026 in London. ## [Australian Dynamism](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/australian-dynamism/) _2026-04-21 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ This post has benefited from generous contributions from Austin Vernon, Malcolm Davis, Sam D Amico, and others who do not necessarily endorse the conclusions of this piece. I will follow Australian spelling conventions in this piece. \[Edit: This piece was quoted ## [Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/australia-will-run-an-overt-command-economy-by-2040/) _2026-04-16 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ Australia s Fiscal Point of No Return Last September I wrote about Australian economic stagnation — how taxation past the Laffer curve s point of peak growth, zero public sector productivity improvement since 2001, and the systematic eradication of manufacturing and ICT from the economy have combined to produce economic stagnation and flatlining living standards. The NDIS and similar social… ## [A Brief History of Particle Accelerators](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-particle-accelerators) _2026-04-16 · Writings_ Published on X last week but the first of a new series of research posts. ## [Dimming the Sun to Save the World](https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/dimming-the-sun-to-save-the-world) _2026-04-15 · Finn · Writings_ Stardust CEO Yanai Yedvab on Using Nature To Prevent a Climate Catastrophe ## [Garmin watch faces](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/garmin-watch-faces/) _2026-03-13 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ I have recently been using Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do a variety of software projects. One was the completion of an ill-fated attempt to create a custom watch face for my Garmin Epix Pro 47 mm. MidJourney produced this conceptual image for me, which is what I was trying to capture. I wanted azurite/malachite/copper colors, and hands for astronomical details. This would be almost impossible with a… ## [Notes on the Fermi Paradox](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/notes-on-the-fermi-paradox/) _2026-03-03 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ I recently realized I hadn t written much in this blog about the Fermi Paradox, though I do write about it elsewhere. So here is a quick note. The Fermi Paradox, sometimes paraphrased as where are they? is a question about the apparent lack of intelligent alien life in the universe. The universe is extreme old relative to the speed of light at galactic scales. Light has been able to cross our… ## [Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories now](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/i-guess-were-doing-moon-factories-now/) _2026-02-10 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ A quick note collating a list of blogs I ve written on the topic. I ll update it with good third party write ups as I become aware of them. Context: SpaceX announced a refocus on lunar development. My best explanation for this is that SpaceX wants to accelerate human occupation of space which, requiring enormous resources to sustain, means accelerating capitalism in space. Five years ago, building… ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tF04MNrv6bpJ) _2026-02-10 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Direct Current Data Centers](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/direct-current-data-centers/) _2026-01-30 · cjhandmer · Casey Handmer's blog_ Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert Originally posted at the Terraform Blog. This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specifically, how pure solar+batteries