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A Roguelite Inside an Idle Game
167 commits, a dungeon crawler, and eldritch lore. What happened after v5.2 of Cookie Empire.
The Update That Killed the Dream
I shipped cloud sync to 100k users. It wiped their progress instead.
Hand-Drawn Lines With Sine Waves
A cheap trick for making procedural graphics look organic: layer sine waves at prime frequencies.
Hack Your Brain With Barbells
Your brain is mounted on a skeleton. That skeleton has opinions.
Google Is Winning a Losing War
Google is taking AI market share. But the war itself might be destroying what made Search valuable.
Fight Your First Idea
Most bad thinking doesn't come from a lack of intelligence. It comes from rushed reasoning.
The Value of Bitcoin
Bitcoin was designed to be a currency. To know its value, we should ask whether it can actually be one.
A Short Story of Rubidium
An atom forged in a supernova billions of years ago ends up ratting out your cancer cells. Isn't that wonderful?
Behaviorism in Videogames
The best games make you want to play. The worst ones make you unable to stop.