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2026 17

  1. CXC Devblog: Meet Us Halfway
  2. The Meaningful-Action-Density Game Framework
  3. Conway's Law and Programming Languages
  4. Conway's Law Under Cognitive Constraint
  5. CXC Devblog: CXC is an immutable, typed, object-oriented language.
  6. Gravity has always been quantum mechanical: it is the wrong thing to quantise
  7. Nobody on the internet knows if you are a human
  8. Most Theoretical Physicists Are Doing Engineering
  9. America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen
  10. You Don’t Align An AI, You Align With It
  11. Dunning-Kruger and the Communication Tax
  12. The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics
  13. Rules, Not Weights
  14. The Case That More Openness Brings More Good to Society
  15. Succession - ALE for an Agentic World
  16. The Armor Gap
  17. How Pokemon and the Iran War Nerdsniped Me Into Quantifying Strategy

2025 16

  1. Appendix A: Price as Productive Capacity Signal
  2. Appendix B: Unpaid Labour in Productive Capacity
  3. People as Foundation (以民为本): The Productive Capacity Theory of Money (Part 2)
  4. People as Foundation (以民为本): The Productive Capacity Theory of Money (Part 1)
  5. People as Foundation (以民为本): The Productive Capacity Theory of Money (Part 3)
  6. The Longevity Trap: We're Building Cyberpunk Economics Without Trying
  7. Function Colors Represent Different Execution Contexts
  8. The Big Oops in Type Systems: This Problem Extends to FP as Well
  9. Cyberpunk is Now Our Reality
  10. Stop Killing Games and the EU: When Activism Meets Legal Reality
  11. Agentic AI is a bubble, but I’m still trying to make it work.
  12. Agent Lineage Evolution: A Novel Framework for Managing LLM Agent Degradation
  13. Encouraging the use of LLMs made interviews easier (for us as interviewers)
  14. Password-Derived Signature Authentication
  15. LLM Agent Lineages with Active Death and Rebirth
  16. (map LLMs excel) saved my passion for game dev

2023 5

  1. The Difference between Data Oriented/Driven Programming and Functional Programming
  2. Clojure and Data Driven Programming
  3. Why Most Image-Gen Startups Will Die Off
  4. A Storm Troopers Guide to Navigating Large Legacy Codebases
  5. Why (not) Big Data?

2020 1

  1. An untitled post