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iter.ca
I'm interested in programming and technology. This is my website.
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- 79 from 2 Feb 2019 to 8 Oct 2026
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2026 42
- Don't run your own mailserver
- What's your favorite letter?
- Bypassing the GitHub workflow permission with nested Git tags
- Interesting
- Patching protobufs poetically
- Future oracles
- other things
- Agent harness security and Git
- Thoughts on interpreting residual updates
- Compared several PNG compressors
- a few small games
- a tool to see the Unicode segmentation of text
- Malleating Git commit signatures
- averaging hues
- Found a bug
- explainer of the PNG file format
- Inkhaven 2 retrospective
- I went to Stripe Sessions
- Loans are bets on doom
- What is Value Aligned Research Advisors?
- I used to make a lot of bad decisions
- Morphing meetups and me
- LLMs are pretty good at making slideshows now
- Nine cool programs I use
- How I spent my time in 2021
- Quick thoughts on meta-models for interpreting model weights
- How I used plain-text accounting
- I went to the AI-run store in SF
- My personal monorepo
- Random life advice
- Don't default to doing nothing
- Secret fields on Canadian income tax returns
- Scattered thoughts on Inkhaven
- Blog posts I won’t write
- Latent reasoning oracles research notes
- Getting chat-tuned models to act kinda like base models
- Judge prediction markets by depth, not volume
- My personal memex setup
- How the Claude Mythos leak happened
- What I plan on doing with my life
- Tracking all my time, a retrospective
- Polymarket isn't trustless
2025 2
2024 3
2022 8
- Everything the Rust format! macro can do
- Playing with raw census data
- Hidden HTML markup Google Sheets adds to the clipboard
- Undocumented Google Sheets formula functions
- Turning off Rust's borrow checker, completely
- Tracking PDF forms as plain text
- Writing semantic ASCII
- HTML comments work in JavaScript too
2021 10
- Zopfli is *really* good at compressing PNGs
- Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users
- Your Phone app has an email client
- Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric
- How good is Codex?
- Accidentally causing a Switch rumor
- Using Colemak for a year
- SecurityClassificationLevel in email headers
- Interesting things in Nintendo's OSS code
- Writing a Boolean expression parser in Rust