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194 from 1 Jan 2001 to 12 Jul 2026
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2026 5

  1. Let's Taboo the V-Word
  2. Variable fonts aren't universally supported
  3. On AI writing in 2026
  4. Love as growth engine for movements
  5. I went to jail

2025 10

  1. Somebody built a daylight lamp!
  2. When is a dollar not a dollar?
  3. Is It Cringe To Believe AI Will Kill Us All?
  4. How to end factory farming
  5. The anti-fragile culture
  6. Workshop House case study
  7. Product in the age of AI
  8. Frozen meals are actually great
  9. Some milk is better than others
  10. Solstice 2024 Retrospective

2024 5

  1. How to eat vegan on Icon of the Seas
  2. Startup advice targeting low and middle income countries
  3. When it gets complicated is when your impact is spiking
  4. Clarendon Postmortem
  5. Solve My Mini Puzzle Hunt

2023 5

  1. My startup advice
  2. Why altruists can't have nice things
  3. Vegan nutrition notes
  4. Cycling Injuries Analysis in DC
  5. Don't Over-Update On Others' Failures

2022 5

  1. Why I Decided To Buy A House
  2. My Vegan Thanksgiving
  3. Practical Plant-Based Meal Planning for Groups
  4. How to be vegan (if you're me)
  5. Lisa's Black Bean Burgers

2021 8

  1. How To Build Software Quickly
  2. Life in the Kitchen
  3. My Advice Offer
  4. Unlock the door
  5. Bicycle Recommendations
  6. Process Orientation
  7. Enabling Children
  8. Simulacrum levels

2020 9

  1. Thinking From the End State
  2. Toxic Newsfeeds
  3. Idea-Tuning skill
  4. Black Lives Matter
  5. Don't Use Alarm Clocks
  6. Getting started with graphic design
  7. Rationality training
  8. Ergonomics Recommendations
  9. Are You Smarter than a Virus?

2019 4

  1. Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company
  2. Keto Experiments
  3. My Small Form Factor PC build
  4. Value of time as an employee

2018 2

  1. Towards an operational definition of tech debt
  2. New/fixed blog!

2015 1

  1. Jetlag Cures

2014 7

  1. Vegan Reviews
  2. Startup Skills Checklist
  3. Goals? vs. Systems?
  4. Observations from Kenya
  5. Why Soylent promises to be a major quality-of-life upgrade
  6. Interesting Decision Theory question
  7. Problems I Solved Making My 3D Printer

2013 12

  1. GiveDirectly is the #1 charity on Givewell. Wait, what?
  2. My Effective Altruism Origin Story
  3. Automatic reinforcement for positive behaviors
  4. How to increase conscientiousness
  5. What's Your Hourly Rate?
  6. Getting Less Sleep
  7. Useful self-improvement interventions
  8. Effective Altruism
  9. Meditation practice
  10. Spending Tradeoffs
  11. The Nerd's Guide to Tasty Tea
  12. Hunt for Westvleteren

2012 3

  1. Zeo numbers for a week of polyphasic sleep (Everyman 3)
  2. A Collection of Anti-Procrastination Techniques
  3. Reflecting on Rationality & Startups

2011 28

  1. Facebook deleted their python-sdk repository without warning
  2. Givewell's 2011 recommendations
  3. Sixty Gallons
  4. Back to brewing
  5. RBC review exercises
  6. Conscientiousness
  7. Fashion trips
  8. Anticipations and Bayes
  9. Basic rationality training
  10. How to enjoy being wrong
  11. Cultishness followup
  12. Internal Family Systems
  13. Should You Be Worried I'm Joining a Cult?
  14. Munchkining
  15. The Elephant and the Rider
  16. Tortuga Meetup
  17. Rationality bootcamp memory
  18. Another RBC blog
  19. The social environment
  20. Parkour
  21. Creating Dispositions
  22. Rejection Therapy
  23. Meditation and Decision-Theoretic Enlightenment
  24. I'm at Rationality Boot Camp in Berkeley!
  25. First Assignment
  26. Rationality Boot Camp
  27. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! -- Book review
  28. Learning to Cook for Newbies

2010 8

  1. Value Systems, AI and Human Existence (part 2)
  2. Building a Kegerator
  3. Why Someone Like Me Should Go To Grad School Now
  4. Value Systems, AI and Human Existence
  5. Introducing Break Ideas
  6. JIT review paper
  7. Solving the procrastination problem
  8. My blog is working again

2009 5

  1. Git-rebase and Django's dev server
  2. Cavendish's Physics Experiment
  3. Evernote might just change my life
  4. Time Subdividing Physics
  5. 25 Things

2008 6

  1. The Lowest Common Denominator Problem
  2. Cooking breads
  3. Compositionality
  4. A Fitting Analogy
  5. Structuring your app with Units
  6. The List Monad

2007 11

  1. Grad school
  2. Computation in X
  3. My resume
  4. Ubuntu works awesome on my MacBook
  5. X the language
  6. OLPC Talk at Brown
  7. Kinesis Keyboard
  8. Why OLPC inspires me
  9. One Laptop Per Child
  10. Boston Indie Game Jam
  11. Spicy foods

2006 20

  1. Coop and Cooking
  2. Debian Bugs revisited
  3. Encrypted periodic backups
  4. Partitioning your linux system on install
  5. Subpixel rendering in Ubuntu
  6. Coalition Against JavaScript Misuse
  7. Taking Apart My Powerbook
  8. It's Habanero Time!
  9. DVDs and Linux
  10. Debian Bugs That Affect Me
  11. Japantown
  12. Broadcom Wireless
  13. Go Off Meal Plan!
  14. Introduction to California
  15. Game Engines
  16. Polyphasic is no more
  17. Polyphasic sleep
  18. How to build a kotatsu
  19. Brown cs138 hta
  20. DDR - it goes up to eleven!

2005 38

  1. VM and Pagetables, redux.
  2. Brown cs169 02
  3. Sore Thumbs
  4. Threads
  5. FANBOY!
  6. Brown soup
  7. New year
  8. TH Server Switch!
  9. How to take apart an iSight
  10. Project Manager!
  11. Casual games
  12. Brown prefrosh
  13. Scheduling tasks
  14. Tax time!
  15. The role of my blog
  16. Anime Boston?
  17. C awesomeness
  18. Bermuda
  19. Cosmic Blobs
  20. Supercoding with Amb
  21. Asterisk and AGI
  22. Karaoke Revolution
  23. Submitted!
  24. Bubbles
  25. Linux on POWER
  26. VM and Pagetables
  27. DDR with weights?
  28. Coding vmware 1
  29. Writebacks
  30. Stepmania source
  31. CS169 next year...
  32. Java Generics
  33. Making your own DDR song
  34. I've joined Techhouse
  35. Coding 10xhtml
  36. Ubuntu Linux LiveCD
  37. Python in web applications
  38. DTrace is open source!

2001 2

  1. My dating profile
  2. stuff i wrote