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October 2026

  1. Reviewing my 2017 AI Risk Project
  2. Walking Partway to School
  3. Borrow My Accordion?
  4. Making a Custom Mixer Interface for the 1818VSL
  5. A Term for a Kind of Human Economic Obsolescence?
  6. Organizing a Van to EA Global
  7. Telephoto Camera: Pixel 10 Pro vs 11 Pro
  8. Tech
  9. Porcus Poem

September 2026

  1. Clipboard Normalizer in Mac App Store
  2. State of Pandemic Early Warning
  3. Initial DIY Cleanroom Experimentation
  4. Why I Stay Off Twitter
  5. Teleoperated Humans
  6. Ring
  7. Replace Net Metering With Batteries
  8. Allow Babywearing Carriers on Planes
  9. Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages
  10. Considering Installing a Solar Battery System
  11. Personal Effort to Reduce Biorisk
  12. Whistle Synth Mac App

August 2026

  1. AI Tweets
  2. Short Time Outs
  3. Endorsing Burhan Azeem for State Senate
  4. Thoughts on Taking OpenAI Foundation Funding
  5. Natural Independence Incentives
  6. Revived Lightweight Transit Predictions Page
  7. Canobie Lake Visit
  8. Vertical Tabs in Chrome

July 2026

  1. Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
  2. Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra Liner Notes
  3. Organ Pedals for Drumming
  4. Reading Dudley and Jacqueline's Barn Dance Book
  5. Amazon Music's Artist Conflation
  6. Learning Musical Multitasking
  7. Embracing Amateurs to Get Experts
  8. Easy Whole Set Dances With a Hook
  9. Notes on Tony Parkes' "Contra Dance Calling"
  10. Verizon is About to Break our Watches July 04, 2026

June 2026

  1. More Failed Eggless Choux June 29, 2026
  2. Recipe Rescaler June 28, 2026
  3. Chorus-Reinterpretation Country Songs June 25, 2026
  4. Gelatinizing Starch in an Emergency June 24, 2026
  5. Live Music Without a Sound Person June 21, 2026
  6. Google Can't Math Parsecs June 20, 2026
  7. Unchickenous Apricot Berry Cake June 19, 2026
  8. Solsong Chord Updates June 10, 2026
  9. High Dynamic Range DIY Air Testing June 09, 2026
  10. Contra Dance at LessOnline June 07, 2026
  11. Coming Around To Political Donations June 06, 2026
  12. SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers June 05, 2026
  13. Running An Air Purifier on Batteries June 03, 2026
  14. Testing Best-Effort Solar June 01, 2026

May 2026

  1. A Song About No May 31, 2026
  2. Tween Contra Dance May 30, 2026
  3. Wall-Mounted Far-UVC May 29, 2026
  4. Donating 80% While It Still Counts May 25, 2026
  5. Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG May 24, 2026
  6. Heretical Pasta May 23, 2026
  7. Leaving DCA to the North on Foot May 19, 2026
  8. Dual Bore Janko Venova May 10, 2026
  9. Somerville Porchfest 2026 May 09, 2026
  10. AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures May 08, 2026
  11. Alarming Scheduling May 04, 2026

April 2026

  1. Against In-Duct UV April 30, 2026
  2. Let Kids Keep More Productivity Gains April 29, 2026
  3. Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration April 27, 2026
  4. Contra Events Pairing Callers By Age? April 24, 2026
  5. Your Supplies Probably Won't Be Stolen in a Disaster April 22, 2026
  6. Automated Deanonymization is Here April 21, 2026
  7. MixedHTML Mode for Emacs April 19, 2026
  8. Fifteen Years Aboard April 18, 2026
  9. Contra Dance Piano Teaching Videos April 07, 2026
  10. Destruction of Infrastructure for the Impact on Civilians is Manifestly Illegal April 06, 2026
  11. Unsweetened Whipped Cream April 05, 2026
  12. Chicken-Free Egg Whites April 04, 2026
  13. Reconsider Challenging Sessions at Weekends April 03, 2026
  14. More, and More Extensive, Supply Chain Attacks April 02, 2026

March 2026

  1. Label By Usable Volume March 25, 2026
  2. A Spanish-Speaking Robot in my Pocket March 24, 2026
  3. Contra Dances Should Avoid Saturdays March 23, 2026
  4. How Many Parking Permits? March 11, 2026
  5. Conflicted on Ramsey March 10, 2026
  6. Chore Standards March 08, 2026
  7. Introducing and Deprecating WoFBench March 01, 2026

February 2026

  1. Here's to the Polypropylene Makers February 27, 2026
  2. Storing Food February 22, 2026
  3. You May Already Be Canadian February 19, 2026
  4. Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2025 February 15, 2026
  5. Gemini's Hypothetical Present February 12, 2026
  6. Ending Parking Space Saving February 09, 2026
  7. Playing with an Infrared Camera February 06, 2026
  8. Differentially Scary Movies February 01, 2026

January 2026

  1. Rolling Commercial Jetliners January 29, 2026
  2. Forfeiting Ill-Gotten Gains January 16, 2026
  3. The Default Contra Dance Weekend Deal January 15, 2026
  4. Contra Dance as a Model For Post-AI Culture January 12, 2026
  5. Stretch Hatchback January 11, 2026
  6. Rents Are High, But Not Skyrocketing January 08, 2026
  7. Festival Stats 2025 January 06, 2026

December 2025

  1. Don't Sell Stock to Donate December 30, 2025
  2. Boston Solstice 2025 Retrospective December 28, 2025
  3. Shared Houses Illegal? December 27, 2025
  4. Clipboard Normalization December 25, 2025
  5. Kids and Space December 24, 2025
  6. Open Source is a Normal Term December 23, 2025
  7. Fanning Radiators December 14, 2025
  8. You Can Just Buy Far-UVC December 13, 2025
  9. Permanently Padding a Suitcase December 12, 2025
  10. The Fantastic Piece of Tinfoil in my Wallet December 11, 2025
  11. Ordering Pizza Ahead While Driving December 06, 2025
  12. Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors? December 03, 2025

November 2025

  1. Busking Practice November 23, 2025
  2. Everyday Clean Air November 14, 2025
  3. Introducing faruvc.org November 12, 2025

October 2025

  1. Brightline is Actually Pretty Dangerous October 26, 2025
  2. Assessing Far UVC Positioning October 25, 2025
  3. Software Engineering at SecureBio October 23, 2025
  4. Attending Your First Contra Dance in a Fragrance-Compliant Manner October 20, 2025
  5. Fragrance Free Confusion October 15, 2025
  6. Survey Results: Far UVC and Glycol Vapors October 13, 2025
  7. You Should Get a Reusable Mask October 08, 2025

September 2025

  1. Significant Effect of Mask Requirements? September 09, 2025
  2. Glycol, Far UVC, and CFM Measurement at BIDA September 08, 2025

August 2025

  1. Calibrating an Ultrasonic Humidifier for Glycol Vapors August 26, 2025
  2. Kids and Cleaning August 23, 2025
  3. Pasta Cooking Time August 22, 2025
  4. Writing Out My Tunes August 17, 2025
  5. BIDA Masking and Attendance August 15, 2025
  6. Trialing Far UVC and Glycol Vapors at BIDA August 14, 2025
  7. Reference Contra Dance Sound System 2025 August 12, 2025
  8. Sturdier and Lighter Pedalboard August 10, 2025
  9. Pro AI Bots Scraping List Archives August 04, 2025
  10. Contra

July 2025

  1. Two Kinds of Do Overs July 31, 2025
  2. Very Light Hardshell Suitcases July 29, 2025
  3. Polyethylene Glycol is not Propylene Glycol July 21, 2025
  4. Substack for Best Posts July 20, 2025
  5. Shallow Water is Dangerous Too July 19, 2025
  6. Subway Particle Levels Aren't That High July 08, 2025
  7. Masking on the Subway July 05, 2025

June 2025

  1. Inflight Auctions June 29, 2025
  2. Misconceptions on Affordable Housing June 26, 2025
  3. How Much Data From a Sequencing Run? June 25, 2025
  4. Multispecies Metagenomic Calibration June 24, 2025
  5. Local Speech Recognition with Whisper June 23, 2025
  6. Grounding to Avoid Airplane Delays June 21, 2025
  7. Conflicted on AI Politics June 10, 2025
  8. Ghiblification for Privacy June 09, 2025
  9. Busking with Kids June 08, 2025

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