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2020-08-07: The C Zoo, part 1: reading integers of a given endianness
2020-08-08: A Note On Endianness: in which I take a position on the greatest issue of our time
2020-08-09: A Note On 0-Indexing: in which I take a position on the 1st greatest issue of our time
2020-08-10: The C Zoo, part 2: some quines
2020-08-11: The C Zoo, part 3: foreach
2020-08-12: The C Zoo, part 4: print
2020-08-13: On the seventh day, I rested.
2020-11-12: Wyattโs Or
2020-11-17: Some Good Esoteric Programming Languages
2020-11-18: Some Bad Esoteric Programming Languages
2020-12-21: ๐ A Monad Is Just A Struct With Opinions: An Explanation of the So-Called โMonadโ of Computer Science, With Connexions to Leibnizโs Monadology
2020-12-25: Print, part 2: the C array folly
2021-02-10: Print, part 3: structs
2021-06-13: The C Zoo, part 5: two bookend macros
2021-10-27: The C Zoo, part 6: the strcat folly
2021-11-23: Escaping Mathese
2023-07-08: ๐ Chemical Atoms Are Not Philosophical Atoms
2023-10-22: ๐ Is It Irrational To Believe In God? Well, I Think So
2023-11-13: On The โGreat Vowel Shortageโ In Computer Programming
2023-12-07: Some notes on Hoon and Urbit from 2023
2024-01-01: How To Have Hair
2024-01-07: 0-Indexing 1: a digression on buildings and storeys
2024-01-08: ๐ ๐ It Literally Canโt Happen Here: in which I review a review of a review of the Third Reich
2024-01-16: Am I The First Guy To Use Computers? Signs Point To Yes
2024-01-19: The Most Interesting Thing In The Waffle House Effect
2024-02-12: Moby-Quick
2024-02-13: ๐ My Most Controversial Philosophical View
2024-02-14: ๐ A Brief Review Of Martin Heideggerโs Being And Time
2024-03-08: ๐ They Say The Simplest Theory Is Always The Best, But How Would You Know?
2024-03-09: ๐ Scientific Induction And Sample Size
2024-03-10: ๐ On The Twofold Rout Of The Principle Of Sufficient Reason
2024-03-13: ๐ Musing About The Beginning Of The World
2024-04-08: ๐ Addendum To The Fine-Tuning Argument: Observing Totality
2024-04-14: The Dumbo Principle (in economics) (everything stays price-inelastic for dumb reasons)
2024-04-27: The People Are Afraid Of Listening To Music
2024-05-10: Git Commit Messages Are In The Bare Infinitive
2024-05-11: ๐ A Brief Review Of Martin Heideggerโs Being And Time (Joke Version)
2024-05-12: ๐ Addendum To The Fine-Tuning Argument 2: Unobserving Aurora Borealis
2024-05-17: ๐ Demons Are Not Abstract Objects; They Are Angry Guys Who Donโt Have Bodies (Sometimes)
2024-05-18: ๐ ๐ Deaths Vs Taxes
2024-05-19: Plastic Earth
2024-06-10: Github Inactions
2024-06-11: ๐ Final Disproof Of All Religions (Real)
2024-06-17: Unlocking First Jhana Through A Modern Koan
2024-08-13: ๐ The Pirahaฬ And Humeโs Argument Against Miracles
2024-08-14: Machines Vs Words
2024-08-15: ๐ Effect Size Vs Causality
2024-08-26: My Proclamation Of 2023
2024-09-02: My Proclamation Of 2024
2024-09-07: I Can Feel My Blood
2024-09-10: Quitinโ: Or, How I Learned To Stop
2024-09-11: Writing My Gay Little Programs
2024-09-17: ๐ Aliefs, Beliefs, Cliefs
2024-09-29: Perfectionist PRs As A Dicey Prospect
2024-10-02: Thinking About The Trump Tariffs
2024-10-03: Constant Incredible Improvement
2024-10-04: On The Threefold Encoding Of Unicode Flags
2024-10-05: ๐ ๐ Double Standards Of Speech
2024-10-09: ๐ Aurora Borealis 2
2024-11-02: The Dark Side Of Comparative Advantage
2024-11-03: The Optimal Level Of Evil Is In Fact Zero
2024-11-27: Taking The No Information Pledge
2024-11-28: Life Should Feel Like Meth
2024-11-29: Life Should Feel Like Meth 2: The Opportunity Cost Corollary
2024-11-30: Trivia: Prolepsis Prolapsus
2024-12-01: Trivia: Games Vs Game Products
2024-12-02: Trump Bible Review
2024-12-14: ๐ Guys Who Can Turn Water Into Wine
2024-12-15: Iโm Entering My Jibboo Era
2024-12-16: Levels Of Busyness
2024-12-17: ๐ On The Power Of The Understanding With Regards To Motivation
2024-12-23: In Fact, Most Things Are Not What You Would Call Tradeoffs
2024-12-31: New Year, New Me (2025)
2025-01-01: Hypo/ernyms For Reading
2025-01-02: ร As An Abbreviation For About
2025-01-10: b/y As A Special Symbol For Authorship
2025-01-11: ๐ The Transcendent Beauty Of Life Is Very Inconvenient
2025-01-12: ๐ Arguments Are Or Are Not Reasons, Which Are Or Are Not The Truth
2025-01-16: ๐ The Moral Comportment Of The Propaganda Of A Politician Is A Good Thing To Have
2025-01-25: ๐ The Nature Of Virtue
2025-01-30: Thrownness As A Condition To Overcome
2025-02-01: Trivia: Every Comment From ThePhDโs Big Array Size Survey
2025-02-05: Reflections On The Bowling Green Massacre