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2026

2026-08-09 Michael Mania

2025

2025-12-26 Notes on agentic programming
2025-06-07 Monty Hall Illustrated
2025-05-17 Vibe coding is metaprogramming
2025-05-14 Everybody can learn to walk
2025-04-23 Excerpts from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960)
2025-02-28 The Rise and Fall of Idols
2025-01-08 AGI is the new AI

2024

2024-12-30 Stuff I did in 2024
2024-10-29 The case for 100% code coverage
2024-10-03 Turn the Ship Around! (L. David Marquet, 2013)
2024-08-30 Solving Redactle with Decision Trees
2024-08-13 View yourself as a sitcom character

2023

2023-11-17 The Principle of Total Evidence
2023-11-04 The uniqueness of sentences
2023-10-17 I mishandle my smartphone in my nightmares
2023-09-08 Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001)
2023-08-04 A chess paradox, and a social psychology bias
2023-07-10 Croppenheimer
2023-05-13 "It's okay, I'm learning."
2023-04-19 ChatGPT Scratchpad
2023-03-27 The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007)
2023-03-07 ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning
2023-01-07 ChatGPT Epic Fail: The rules of Chess

2022

2022-12-26 The 2 definitions of being good at something
2022-12-11 ChatGPT Decision Making: Greenlighting or vetoing technology
2022-12-07 ChatGPT Collaborative Writing: The Guardians of the Dark Forest
2022-11-13 Nucléaire, Stop ou Encore ? (Antoine de Ravignan, 2022)
2022-09-30 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Albert Einstein, 1916)
2022-07-10 The best don't even try hard
2022-06-25 Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)
2022-05-09 Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
2022-01-29 AI is automation of mental tasks
2022-01-04 Quotes: To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)

2021

2021-09-04 The complexity of contentment
2021-08-15 On the tracks of Mission Impossible: Fallout
2021-06-10 TL;DR: Deep Thinking (Gary Kasparov, 2017)
2021-04-21 The first thousand
2021-04-08 Covid and young vs old
2021-03-30 A more sophisticated model for introversion and extraversion

2020

2020-12-30 The Inanity of Work
2020-10-12 How Covid Spreads
2020-09-17 What if the future is all that is more practical
2020-09-12 When do the digits of the Epoch time change?
2020-07-25 The sane hardship it is to understand that 0.999... = 1
2020-04-04 We're in for 2 months

2019

2019-12-23 Thoughts on agnosticism
2019-12-14 Notes on nuclear energy
2019-10-24 Simple streaming of videos over the LAN
2019-09-09 Proof that 1 + 1 = 2
2019-08-04 Recreating the Midnight in Paris opening sequence
2019-08-03 Reading notes: July 2019

2018

2018-10-13 The One Is Two Society
2018-09-29 The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
2018-08-11 Let's not forget about SNI
2018-08-05 Timing a simple Python command-line tool
2018-04-09 How to encrypt messages on Linux
2018-03-25 Do not use query string parameters for cache busting
2018-03-14 Nessun Dorma in Rogue Nation
2018-02-25 2018 Oscars Predictions
2018-02-11 Git branches and slashes
2018-01-28 The Social Network and "We need to expand"

2016

2016-10-28 Image orientation in the web
2016-07-03 Displaying colors in the terminal
2016-03-28 equitext
2016-02-27 Big Bang
2016-01-18 The music I listen to

2015

2015-12-05 The np problem, Reddit edition
2015-11-26 Datetime in Python
2015-07-01 Why Firefox was losing track of my history