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Essays, short notes, and records from the middle of making things all end up here. If I thought something was worth not losing, it probably qualifies.
What age verification needs to proveA token can contain no personal information and still connect a person to an account. The age-verification design needs to explain what prevents that link.Why stated intentions are not enoughTurkey’s record of internet restrictions gives me reasons to ask how new powers will be limited, independently examined, and challenged in time to matter.How to render a black holeA practical guide to the rays, equations, WGSL shaders and deliberately coarse pixels behind Journey to a Black Hole.Journey to a Black HoleI made a real-time black-hole demo, then filmed my monitor through my phone's telephoto camera. There are several layers of optics involved now.I Need People, Not an AudienceTen thousand people vaguely aware I exist may be less useful than five people who actually know what I am trying to do.I Have Never Really Had a CareerI cannot manufacture the conventional history I did not have. I can start making another kind of history visible.Day 0: Moving InI almost started by designing a social platform. Instead, I am trying something smaller: make one place on the internet that I actually use.Saying "I Made This" Is Weirdly DifficultI can explain something I built for an hour if you ask me. Volunteering the first sentence is somehow harder.I Don't Think I Have a Motivation ProblemThe engine works. Getting power to the wheels is another matter.A Good Idea Is Not a CommitmentApparently an idea can be good without immediately becoming a project, a company, an architecture, and a domain purchase.I Think I Mistake Architecture for ProgressArchitecture is real work. It is also exactly the kind of work my brain will happily keep doing after it stops being the bottleneck.I Think I Need a PR BuddyI can happily build something in private. Apparently the impossible sentence is: I made this, you should look at it.I Don't Want to Become Good at LinkedInI probably do need to get better at being visible. I am less convinced that means becoming good at performing visibility.Why This Site ExistsI have written and built an absurd amount of material that technically exists and still somehow feels lost.