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I used Blueprint serum on half my face for 6 months. Can you tell which side?

tldr; it was the right side- but you can’t tell. There is no noticeable difference. Methodology There was no noticeable difference in skin quality between the two sides of my face. I applied the serum once in the morning when I woke up and once at night before bed. I started on Nov 15, 2025 and ended on April 18th, 2026. I was diligent and probably missed fewer than 10 applications over that…

An Ultrafast MSP430 SBW programmer for $4

tldr; if you don’t know what an MSP430 is, then skip this article. If you do know what an MSP430 is then read on- this article may change your life… The TI supplied tools for programming their MSP430 microcontrollers are too slow and inflexible, so I made a new programmer that… Additionally, there are lots […]

How the Mayor can quickly and unilaterally close the looming budget gap while making NYC a better city – without raising taxes

No new wealth tax, no massive property tax hike, no dependency on Albany or the Feds or even City Council. We can do it- and in the process we can make NYC more livable and efficient. All with a single the stroke of the new Mayor’s pen. It requires no new infrastructure, no federal grants, […]

Your last chance to save your cherished photograph collection from AI

Very soon, the day will come where it will be possible to generate any image with AI and it will be impossible to tell if an image is real of fake. All images will therefore be presumed to be AI generated unless it can be proven that are not. This article gives you a simple […]

Idea Dump 2025

Some more ideas I will likely never have time to finish, but you should. LMK if you are serious about any of them and I will do my best to help. BedBox rental/installation service I sleep in a box and it has transformed my life. My guess is that there are millions of people in […]

A billion digits of Pi – experiments in ultra-microprinting with gold on sapphire

You can print extremely tiny text using the same techniques that are used to make semiconductor chips. Like so tiny that you can fit one billion digits of Pi on a 5″ square plate… You can’t see the digits because they so tiny, but they are all there (I’ve checked). 40,000 digits per row * […]

How to tie ourselves to the mast: The Persistent Charter

Here I propose a new type of US Federal enactment: The Persistent Charter. It lives above statues and below constitutional amendments in both the superiority of force and how long it takes to enact/repeal. It would give the federal government a new way to tie itself to the mast, reducing uncertainty and smoothing out bumps […]

The Hard Problem (of bitcoin)

All of the complexity around bitcoin makes it easy to lose sight of the singular question on which everything else about bitcoin depends: Where does bitcoin’s value come from? Means and ends There are things we actually want, and there are things we want only because we expect to be able to convert them into […]

A utility to create a static HTML website from your Twitter posts

tldr; download your data archive file from x.com and then use this webpage to convert it to a static HTML website that you can host anywhere. Make sure you also move or copy the data/tweets_media folder from the archive to the same folder your you save new tweets.html file. Check out my exported tweets page […]

How to remember everything you have ever said or heard. Forever. Starting tomorrow. For $60.

The technology to start capturing all the audio around you is ready. Someday soon, you will be able to train an AI with these captures and it will know everything that you have heard. The sooner you start capturing, the farther back your new enhanced audio memories will stretch. Here is how to start capturing… […]