Fifteen Years in Fifty Minutes
On January 16, 2026, an impossible bug was solved. A bug in a library downloaded over a billion times every year, with a wall of comments asking for help, several…
The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Summary: People have tried extending rock-paper-scissors to more than 3 options, with some success. If you allow more pairings to be ties, this uncovers a rich garden of different game…
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me…
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me…
Virtual Trackballs: An Interactive Taxonomy
Rotating 3D objects on a 2D screen is a fundamental building block of human-computer interaction. Being able to reach through a pane of glass and touch virtual objects is absolutely…
Turn your CAD models into Stereograms
It's easy to get intuition of the shape of a CAD model when rotating the model around in your CAD software or a 3D viewer. Unfortunately, most of the web…
Introducing the ‘mpl_stereo’ Library to Make Stereograms and Anaglyphs
When I was a kid growing up in the 90's, I was fascinated with the "Magic Eye" books. These were picture books filled with images like the one below, which…
Flying around 3d plots with an IMU and quaternions
Cool Video First! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT4kRJhyBY Project Idea I generate a good number of 3D plots for work and other projects, and for a while I've wanted to make a physical device…