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Weblog entries

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: Wyattโ€™s 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 โ€œMonadโ€ of Computer Science, With Connexions to Leibnizโ€™s Monadology

2020-12-25: Print, part 2: the C array folly

2021-02-10: Print, part 3: structs

2021-04-06: Essays On Extremely Specific Questions, part 1: What unix time is it in milliseconds during a leap second, in javascript?

2021-06-07: Essays On Extremely Specific Questions, part 2: Why does the word โ€œpenguinosโ€ have no diaresis in the novel Penguin Island, and is it spanish?

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

2022-01-09: A Note On The GNU/Linux Naming Controversy: in which I take a position on the greatest issue of the late 1990s - early 2000s

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 โ€œGreat 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 Canโ€™t 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 Heideggerโ€™s 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 Heideggerโ€™s 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 Donโ€™t 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 Pirahaฬƒ And Humeโ€™s 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: Iโ€™m 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 ThePhDโ€™s Big Array Size Survey

2025-02-05: Reflections On The Bowling Green Massacre