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Long-form writing on engineering, physics, learning, games, and the occasional motorcycle.
2026
- Still Here: A Fitness App That Expects Me to Fall OffMost fitness apps are built for the version of you that never has a bad month. I built one for the version that does: it adapts to sleep, work and stress, protects my brain as well as my body, and treats one thing as failure: letting a bad week become a lost year.
- Every Machine Was Slop OnceWriting, printing, photography, recorded music, drum machines, Photoshop: each was dismissed as a soulless cheat until it became ordinary. AI is getting the same treatment. Substance was never about the tool.
- I Built a Multiplayer Typing Game in a Weekend and Wrote None of the CodeKeyboard Warriors is a PvP typing duel with matchmaking, accounts, a leaderboard, a sprite editor with AI moderation, a marketplace and an anti-cheat that listens to the rhythm of your typing. I built it over one weekend with Claude Fable 5.1. Here is how it went, how the game works, and what broke.
- I Taught My Computer to Play Tetris 99 by Lying to a Nintendo SwitchA capture card, a $10 Arduino in a fake moustache, a Tetris engine called Cold Clear, and three days of being confidently wrong. The bot went from 94th place to 7th. Here is how, and what you can try yourself.
- Reality-First PedagogyA pedagogy of curiosity, agency, productive struggle, and understanding through direct encounter with the world 1. Purpose Reality-First Pedagogy is an approach to learning built …
- eTRIx: RoboteeringThe restored and annotated 2026 edition of the original eTRIx robotics manual: an intuition-first guide to electronics, sensors, logic, motors and autonomous robots, originally written in the late 2000s.
- Navier–Stokes Broke. Good. Now What?A million-dollar maths problem, a small army of AI mathematicians, some very angry vortices… and why I think the singularity might actually be the beginning of the interesting …
- Driving Toward InfinityDrive Toward Infinity What if singularities aren’t failures of physics, but clues about what comes next? So apparently I wasn’t finished. I published a piece about the recent …
- You should be TEN people in ONEYou Should Be Ten People in One I think a fully formed person should be ten people in one. The Citizen. The Logician. The Philosopher. The Adventurer. The Lover. The Protector. The …
- Is a Coin Flip Really Random?We casually use a coin flip as the textbook example of randomness. But physically speaking, is there actually anything random happening?
- I Just Wanted to Check the Battery: Rooting and Resurrecting a Galaxy A71 from LinuxI had a Samsung Galaxy A71 5G lying around. It’s not particularly new. It’s not particularly valuable. And, before I factory-reset it, Samsung had been periodically warning me that …
- Lock in DadLock-in, Dad! I gotta f’in lock-in for real! My boys are teens now and will be looking at me to set a great example for them!