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2026 1

  1. The paper computer

2025 1

  1. The McPhee method

2021 1

  1. Should we cool it with the historical present?

2019 2

  1. Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
  2. The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering

2017 2

  1. DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc
  2. Most book clubs are doing it wrong

2015 1

  1. Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

2014 2

  1. How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes
  2. You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

2012 3

  1. More people should write
  2. The best general advice on earth
  3. The shape of a listener

2011 2

  1. Project Euler problem 191, or, how I learned to stop counting and love induction
  2. Six lines

2010 9

  1. Social Annealing
  2. Perfunctory Offers
  3. Exploring the complexity of driving directions
  4. Kavka’s toxin puzzle
  5. “It turns out”
  6. Compuchemical Economies
  7. What it used to be like to look things up
  8. The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
  9. Kenjitsu

2009 9

  1. Why the Law
  2. Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet
  3. Rule 110, or, how a little orange dot becomes a universal computer
  4. By inspection
  5. Offline Wikipedia
  6. Anatomy of a Project Euler problem, and, some remarks on the OEIS
  7. Metacat
  8. Those maps at the beginning of books, or, a few words about teaching
  9. Feynman’s Rigor