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70 from 27 May 2014 to 5 Nov 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 5

  1. The future is multiplayer
  2. How we stay productive in the claude code era
  3. Not Enough People Are Talking About AI-Enabled Disruption
  4. Engineering Culture at Hi Finance
  5. AI Doesn’t Change the Job of a Software Engineer

2025 28

  1. this is why i don’t fall in love in the spring time
  2. this is why i don't fall in love in the spring time
  3. Ghosts
  4. Ghosts
  5. what if? chapter 1
  6. what if? chapter 1
  7. on refusing to become a pessimist
  8. definitions chapter 3: getting over something
  9. definitions chapter 3: getting over something
  10. on refusing to become a pessimist
  11. i’ll have to think about that
  12. i'll have to think about that
  13. May 24th, 2023
  14. May 24th, 2023
  15. a name in a book cover
  16. a name in a book cover
  17. a review of the year i didn’t survive by bess stillman
  18. a review of the year i didn't survive by bess stillman
  19. draft 6: definitions chapter 2: kindness
  20. draft 6: definitions chapter 2: kindness
  21. draft 6: definitions chapter 1: love
  22. Stay Caffeinated - draft 6: definitions chapter 1: love
  23. Stay Caffeinated - Poetry
  24. draft 5: How to make weed coffee creamer
  25. Stay Caffeinated - draft 5: How to make weed coffee creamer
  26. draft 4: power 1 - convincing someone to do something
  27. Stay Caffeinated - draft 4: power 1 - convincing someone to do something
  28. Stay Caffeinated - Farewell to Arkansas St

2024 11

  1. rough draft 3: you are going to have to do it alone
  2. Stay Caffeinated - rough draft 3: you are going to have to do it alone
  3. rough draft 2: falling in love by being radically honest
  4. Stay Caffeinated - rough draft 2: falling in love by being radically honest
  5. A quick teardown of the NES Zapper Lightgun
  6. Stay Caffeinated - A quick teardown of the NES Zapper Lightgun
  7. How to add Currently Playing to your homepage
  8. Stay Caffeinated - How to add Currently Playing to your homepage
  9. rough draft 1: is it possible to start anywhere that isn’t the beginning?
  10. Stay Caffeinated - rough draft 1: is it possible to start anywhere that isn’t the beginning?
  11. Farewell to Arkansas St

2023 2

  1. Poetry
  2. See More Posts

2021 5

  1. Stay Caffeinated - I feel stuck in the the engineering for engineers trap
  2. Stay Caffeinated - Unwritten Coding Standards: Function Ordering
  3. Stay Caffeinated - Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups
  4. Stay Caffeinated - How to design a motherboard for your electronics project - Part 2
  5. Stay Caffeinated - How to design a motherboard for your electronics project - Part 1

2020 6

  1. Stay Caffeinated - v2 Updates to my HomeKit Thermostat
  2. Stay Caffeinated - Building my own HomeKit Thermostat
  3. Stay Caffeinated - Unwritten Coding Standards: Vertical Whitespace
  4. Stay Caffeinated - Relationship Bootstrap
  5. Stay Caffeinated - Scalability Dimensions
  6. Stay Caffeinated - Unwritten Coding Standards: Parameter Ordering

2019 4

  1. Complicated - Complicated API Documentation
  2. Complicated - Update your Apple Watch from IFTTT
  3. Stay Caffeinated - Making Mini Dor Sensors
  4. Complicated - How to make custom Apple Watch complications with Complicated

2018 5

  1. Stay Caffeinated - Retro on Colab
  2. Stay Caffeinated - Running Multiple Retro Environments
  3. Stay Caffeinated - Google Colab + Losswise
  4. Stay Caffeinated - OpenAI Retro - Collision Maps
  5. Stay Caffeinated - Walmart.com - Fake

2016 1

  1. Stay Caffeinated - I hate writing web scrapers

2014 3

  1. Stay Caffeinated - Hearsay Android App
  2. Stay Caffeinated - My Life Is Nerdy
  3. Stay Caffeinated - Squares Launcher