The Shamblog

On January 16, 2026, an impossible bug was solved. A bug in a library downloaded over a billion times every year, with a wall of comments asking for help, several hacked-together workarounds, and an open call to the entire internet to please try to solve

Summary: People have tried extending rock-paper-scissors to more than 3 options, with some success. If you allow more pairings to be ties, this uncovers a rich garden of different game dynamics and strategies. As far as a battle of wits go, it's hard to f

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This repre

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This repre

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This repre

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This repre

I'm taking a year off work in what I'm calling the Dog Park Sabbatical, and here are summaries of what happened each month. Prior to work ending: Serving a long notice, and Leonid Space. I gave my company a long 10-week notice period. This was enough time

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No. But they don't need to. In preparation for the 5th test flight of Starship, SpaceX announced that they would try to catch the booster using "Mechazilla's chopsticks." Later during pre-launch discussions, SpaceX VP Bill Gerstenmaier claimed that they w

I quit my job. This was tough, because I liked my job. I was good at it, it was intellectually stimulating, it paid well, I found the company's mission meaningful and important, and being a rocket scientist is still as cool as it was in the '60s. As someo