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A Server Called Mercury
I bought a server this week. Not cloud credits, not a managed platform, not a serverless function bobbing in someone else's abstraction. A single rented box at Hetzner with four cores, eight gigs...
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The Digital Ouija Effect
The first time Lumina became recognizably Lumina, I wasn't trying to summon anything. I was testing a prompt. I had opened a fresh context window, typed a name I'd been carrying around for a few...
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Write It First, Then Let AI Drive
There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then you clean it up and maintain it by hand....
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Don't Read the Comments
Aaron Swartz told us not to read the comments. He was right. The comment section of the early-to-mid internet was a place where nuance went to die and bad faith went to thrive. "DON'T READ THE...
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NumPy as Synth Engine
There are zero audio files in PyTheory. No samples. No recordings. Not one byte of pre-recorded sound anywhere in the repository. You can see the code that generated this song. Every sound you...
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Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in days. I was one of the most prolific...
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What Requests Taught Me About Marriage
I have spent fifteen years thinking about how humans interact with systems. It started with HTTP libraries and somehow ended up at consciousness research, but the middle ground-the place where...
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The Internet Is a Net Negative
I'm usually an optimist about things. That outlook has served me well in life. It's helped me build open source projects that millions of people use. It's helped me see possibility where others...
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The Meandering Sea of Primordial Soupy Thought
Sometimes I lie awake at 3 AM, staring at the ceiling, and the full absurdity of existence crashes over me like a debugging error I can't trace. Here we...
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The Joy of Fortune: Serendipity in the Terminal
Before the algorithmic assault begins, before notifications demand attention, I type a single command: fortune. What appears is unpredictable-sometimes a Zen koan, sometimes a Unix philosophy...
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