An interesting idea: 3D printed, open-source industrial construction equipment that could create a village or small town if necessary, called the Global Village Construction Set.
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Open Source Industrial Construction Equipment
An interesting idea: 3D printed, open-source industrial construction equipment that could create a village or small town if necessary, called the Global Village Construction Set.
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AI recreates Minesweeper
Minesweeper is complex enough in its rule set that it needs a little bit of thought in order to program, whoever, it’s not so complex that it needs extra libraries and all sorts of fancy programming tricks. Researchers gave four different AI code assistant instructions to recreate the game, and each delivered different results.
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A neat JavaScript calendar generator
If you have ever done any web development at all and tried to make a calendar, you’ll know that it is one of the more difficult things to get right. It’s more than just generating boxes and numbers. There’s other sorts of logic that need to be taken into account. Here is a neat JavaScript…
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The Cassandras predicted our current political reality
Back in 2015, 2016, there was a minority group of people who saw what Trump really was, Modern-day Cassandras who had a vision but were not listened to. I still remember how the arguments with family members were that this was not going to go well. While they may not concede that I was right,…
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Rolling back the Constitution
It’s no surprise that, with recent Supreme Court rulings using questionable logic and some dramatic mental gymnastics, the entire goal is to roll the country back to an older era. What this means in practice is that if you are not white, you cannot go certain places without the risk of being kidnapped by federal…
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SNL’s alternate Home Alone ending
Ariana Grande and the SNL cast provide an alternate Home Alone ending.
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Thick vs Thin desires
A new to me concept: thin and thick desires. A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t. The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of…
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45×45, a game
I don’t think this game has a name, but judging by its sparse, direct instructions to make 45 groups of 45 individual items, I’m going to call it 45×45. Part puzzle, trivia, logic, and clicking, you group individual items by a genre or topic. For example, you need to make a group for cheese, flowers,…
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My favorite media of 2025
I watched, listened, and read quite a bit last year. Below are my favorites from each category. Italicized items are a thing that I really liked. Movies TV Music Books
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Tech Force
In an attempt to fix a self-inflicted wound, the US government is launching a program called Tech Force to hire technology workers. But shortly after coming into office, Trump folded the USDS into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before renaming it to the DOGE Service and firing dozens of workers at the agency. The…