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2025 6

  1. Intelligence Showboating 🧠
  2. Thunderbolts*
  3. Adaptation, fanfic, and creative appetites 🎨
  4. Gamer Games for Lite Gamers
  5. Games of 2024 🎮
  6. 2024 in Review 📅

2024 10

  1. Celeste ⛰️🍓
  2. Artistic Handoffs 🤝
  3. The Vegetarian 🌳
  4. The Substance 🧪
  5. Disco Elysium 🪩🕺👮🔫🚬
  6. 2023 in Review 📆
  7. The Sympathizer 🇻🇳
  8. Kinds of sequels, and BioShock 2 🫧
  9. BioShock 🦑
  10. The God of Small Things 🍋

2023 12

  1. So you're feeling blue: thoughts on therapy and wellness
  2. Birthday Party 2023 (Pablo Bloom) 🥀
  3. Burning Man 2023
  4. Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos
  5. software used to be treated as an industry of creatives,
  6. on belief and talking to yourself,
  7. Some rants about how we talk about programming languages,
  8. 🧪 Technical Storytelling: Making of Elixir at Ramp 🗣
  9. 🤖 Fighting over frameworks ⚔️
  10. On beauty, cursed knowledge that was very expensive to obtain, and some poetry that IMO didn't age well.
  11. 2022 in Review
  12. Tunic

2022 15

  1. 💻 Programming culture in the late aughts 🤓
  2. 📗 That Consumption Life: Teixcalaan, This Is Us, Never Have I Ever, Breath Becomes Air 🧬
  3. 🎂 2022 Birthday party 🥳
  4. On love and loving
  5. some strategies for using offbeat languages.
  6. 🎙 Vocalization gimmick songs 🗣
  7. defining separation from what ails you, making cool art, playing accordion.
  8. why I fell in love with theatre in High School.
  9. and how we make them for ourselves, rationalize obstacles
  10. 📕 Squardle bot 🤓
  11. ⌨️ Pi Projects 🥧
  12. Against boring
  13. why I picked accordion
  14. 💆‍♂️ Looking Ahead to 2022 🪗
  15. 2021 in Review

2021 1

  1. 2020 in review

2020 55

  1. 🧩 Karen's birthday puzzle game 🎂
  2. Snibliss
  3. 🕹 Summer/Fall video games 👨‍🍳
  4. 🎂 Birthday, Cooking 🍳
  5. 💄 Skin/aesthetics, Online-ness, anniversary 👁
  6. 🌞 California Update 2 🌯
  7. 🐸 California update 🌴
  8. 🎭 Discrimination, Python pattern matching 🐍
  9. 💥 Rises and Falls, Indieweb 🕸
  10. 📏 Getting what you measure ⏱
  11. 🐷 The police cannot be saved 🧱
  12. 😡 Nemesis, Sudoku, Muscles 💪
  13. 🤼‍♀️ Tabletop character: Sioqur 🐉
  14. 🎵 K-Pop, Fred Willard, Dual Monitors 🖥
  15. 👁 Graphics, Intutiveness, Languages, Risotto 🍚
  16. 🕺 Dance videos, paths not taken 💃
  17. ❓ 20 Questions 💡
  18. 👻 Tales of Ecto Anomalies 📚
  19. 🧠 Knowing things, 1984 music 🎵
  20. 🐷 Animal Crossing, large companies, baking 📊
  21. 🤓 Baited into PL talk again 🗣
  22. 📊 Squads, pods, and the Spotify model 🗣
  23. 🔥 Doom, Music, Jazz 👩‍🚀
  24. 🥁 Standing desk, beatboxing, beating Fire Emblem ✍️
  25. 👂 Single-note solos, siblings, muffins 🧁
  26. 📷 A photo, a video 🎥
  27. 🗣 Facebook ads, video 🤖
  28. 💻 Command line, AOC 🇺🇸
  29. 🎮 Social, streams, moar Fire Emblem 📱
  30. 🍴 Elm, forks, Tiger King 🐅
  31. 🎭 Tabletop Character: Fin 🐙
  32. 🥃 Booze, blogs, video 🤚
  33. 🖥 Desktop software, tangles 🧵
  34. ✍️ Media death ☠️
  35. 🥚 Cooking, Fire Emblem ⚔️
  36. 🎤 Boy bands, pop culture, guys talking into a camera 👦
  37. 🔧 Online tool lists 📄
  38. 🐫 Today's updates ⌨️
  39. 📬 Newsletters, mailing lists 🧾
  40. ☀️ Today's updates 👨‍💼
  41. 🤓 Documentation 📕
  42. 💻 Da email 📨
  43. ⛪️ Tabletop character: Vincent Ortega 😈
  44. 💌 Ballad, Amado, Simplicity 🗣
  45. 💸 Money, Sunglasses, Cooking 🕶
  46. ⚔️ Adventures, Animal Crossing 🏡
  47. 🕹 Game Hacks, Browsers, Games, Goats 🐐
  48. 🍳 Family, cooking, organizing ✊
  49. 😷 Confinement! 🚪
  50. 📉 Markets, npm, Grumpy, Bankruptcy 👴
  51. 🏚 2020 Dem Primary 🇺🇸
  52. 🎩 Layton, tools, air pollution 🛠
  53. 🐫 New Fleaswallow, SourceHut 🤖
  54. Introducing Ramp 💳
  55. 2019 in review

2019 34

  1. 🎭 Barry 📜
  2. 🎭 A little on Communities 🕹
  3. 🗺 Mom's Spaghetti: A D&D One-Shot Adventure 🙃
  4. 🏰 Rejected adventure ideas 🧪
  5. rushed sound work I did actually produced artifacts
  6. 🐉 6 Cities In Search Of An Adventuring Party 👸
  7. Mark Mode tutorial
  8. Introducing Mark Mode ✅
  9. ⛰ Celeste 7b Golden 🍓
  10. 🌴🧺 Some DLC reviews 🐡💣
  11. 🤓 Fun, odd code things 🐉
  12. 🏄‍♀️ How I Surf the World Wide Web 🕷
  13. Blasphemous
  14. 🎮 That Consumption Life: August 2019 📖
  15. 🐸 Fleaswallow 2, and an OCaml setup 🐫
  16. 🐄 Beefs with Docker 🐳
  17. ⛰ Celeste 8b Golden 🍓
  18. 🐕 What I've learned from Sapo 🐸
  19. ⛰ Celeste 6b Golden 🍓
  20. 🤔 Introspective questions 🤜🤛
  21. 🌎 The Light Brigade 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀
  22. Bloodstained
  23. 🐠 Introducing Cichlidia 🐟
  24. 💊 Deconstruct 2018 Talk: A Fresh Look on Failure 🗣
  25. 💻 Back on my bullshit: Self-hosted Adventures ✉️
  26. 💻 That Consumption life: The Big Nine 9️⃣
  27. 🇸🇬🇮🇩 Asia Trip 2019 🇹🇼🇰🇷
  28. 🌓 The City In The Middle Of The Night 🐊
  29. I felt like AI hype
  30. Ralmahant
  31. Recent Metroidvanias 🐛
  32. Fast food, fascism, banality 🍔
  33. Mario, made better 🍄
  34. 2018 in review

2018 56

  1. I don't recognize that 🗣 🙉
  2. Tumblr banning porn 🤦‍♂️
  3. Bye, Facebook. You're terrible.
  4. That Consumption Life: Jane, Inkeeper, Gentleman, ROUS
  5. Favorite Sketches
  6. Burning Man 2018 🔥
  7. Weight, bodies, agency, and a few good months 📉
  8. Working hours for engineers 🗓
  9. Huevo con Chorizo 🍳
  10. Movie roundup 🎬
  11. GitHub + Microsoft ramble 😼
  12. Thanks Fred Rogers, albeit briefly 😌
  13. Deconstruct gratitude 🙏🏼
  14. "What do you think of JavaScript"? 👾
  15. Stop lionizing Elon Musk 🤡
  16. Alice Goldfuss: Foot Candles in tech 📹
  17. That consumption life: Enneagrams, Jessica Jones, more Celeste
  18. Deconstruct and Donuts 🍩
  19. Hugh Jass Message 🗣
  20. Stories, making things, education, hopes 💻
  21. Product, metrics, and who to serve 📊
  22. Tabletop Character: Gun person (process) 🔫
  23. Tabletop character: Homage/Karreus! 😈
  24. Tabletop character: Gorlif 🐭⚔️
  25. Tabletop character angel salinas
  26. Overthinking a Tomb Raider
  27. Celeste playthrough
  28. 🐍 Python, classes, tuples
  29. That consumption life: Broken Earth, Celeste, Avatar
  30. My setup
  31. Another week
  32. NYer article on communities, social media
  33. This week
  34. usually masks a more interesting set of workplace cultural issues
  35. this terrible habit of showboating
  36. This week
  37. Moved to Brooklyn
  38. Trying OCaml 🐫
  39. Millenials, Attention Spans, Discourse, Creepers
  40. 🗣 Meetings, Part 2: Behind the symptom
  41. culture hacks
  42. 🗣 Meetings, Part 1: Leaders and Org Worms
  43. Blogs, and many of my favorites
  44. Pablo seeking a date in 2016
  45. That consumption life: Culture Lectures
  46. Paper worlds, the heroes who inhabit them
  47. n > 1
  48. 🐸 Sapo 🐸 surgery update
  49. 🐸 Sapo 🐸 going into surgery
  50. I feel like him
  51. ⛓ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ⛓
  52. Feeling good when you're feeling bad
  53. Shoutout to Steve Ballmer
  54. Minimal Pages, brought to you by the letter F
  55. Towards a More Open Web
  56. modularity, monoliths, and microservices

2017 7

  1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
  2. Blog updates (2017)
  3. Two anecdotes about culture
  4. 2017 in review
  5. Dip your toes into some MUSIC (part 1: Chip, Dub, #Deep, Mashup)
  6. An anecdote on runtimes
  7. Year in review

2016 7

  1. Advent of Code 2016
  2. Observations after another go-round of tech interviewing
  3. Businesses I don't hate the idea of building
  4. Six Months of Managing
  5. New look, new page
  6. Augmenting Dropwizard with Swagger and Rollbar
  7. Year in review

2015 5

  1. Using Erlang
  2. payaso programming
  3. My favorite hypothetical virus
  4. I like Java fine
  5. Salary, compensation, and tech labor.

2014 4

  1. Tech overview for _Sup for Android_ - Part 1
  2. _Sup for Android_ Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
  3. _Sup for Android_ - Part 3
  4. Why I Play StarCraft

2013 17

  1. The Magic and Tension of The Room
  2. Philly Murals
  3. Joss Whedon, the word Feminist
  4. Done with Compilers
  5. Adventures in Programming Language Bikeshedding
  6. Blogging Solutions
  7. The Smash Brothers
  8. Quick write-up of some books
  9. opinions, criticisms, art consumption
  10. Two works by Peter Bussigel
  11. On Depression (mine)
  12. Excellent read on Gone Home
  13. Breaking Bad
  14. Verbing Software
  15. Death to Simple Narratives
  16. BioShock: Infinite
  17. Good ole 14/14

2012 5

  1. Stream Ads
  2. Shootings
  3. loving yourself with EBOOKS
  4. Smoke Weed Every Day
  5. Testing, and the lost art of the manual

2011 10

  1. Pretentious Titles and Pedantry, Part Paul
  2. On Failure (Personal)
  3. On Failure (Computing)
  4. Homebrew comfort music
  5. Kill Null
  6. "First, try to be something, anything, else."
  7. No Time Like the Present
  8. An Anecdote on Observational Indistinguishibility
  9. I'll be blogging again soon...
  10. Welcome to the new blog!

2010 83

  1. How to tell someone their code sucks
  2. Something nice about every language I've used
  3. STOP IT WITH YOUR STATE
  4. Another lazy video post
  5. Every morning of my undergrad
  6. The Road to Lisp Survey
  7. I have a music degree, too
  8. THE LAND OF LISP
  9. CS Pranks: Push it!
  10. Back from Istanbul!
  11. Fear and Loathing
  12. Off to Istanbul!
  13. moar remixes
  14. Some Professor Layton Prolog!
  15. Repost: Professor Layton and the Hell Yes
  16. Vimcakes, Backin' Up Song
  17. Because I backtraced it!
  18. Living Openly
  19. Updates to previous posts
  20. It's not that hard
  21. Life Update/Book Burning
  22. Strong words, Bed Intruder
  23. Making a living being an artist
  24. In light of the Essays that were the last two posts...
  25. Life isn't fair and Eat, Pray, Love
  26. Fooled
  27. One of the more convincing arguments for atheism...
  28. GADDAG and Capitalism
  29. \"Everything is Amazing Right Now and Nobody Is Happy.\"
  30. Ben Stein is an idiot.
  31. MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?
  32. On Freedom of Speech
  33. Languages to describe Languages
  34. I WANT AN IPHONE 4!!!!
  35. Link Aggregation - Paul Edition
  36. Coding socially
  37. Video Games, and the failure of the word "Art" Redux
  38. Terrible, Wonderful Music Videos
  39. Playing Video Games Again
  40. Type Systems, From 1000 feet high
  41. Quickie on Atheism
  42. Assorted interestings
  43. Keep Up that Racket!
  44. Really, Apple?
  45. My last study break
  46. Today's study break
  47. I'm still neck-deep in exam studies...
  48. Another game on Android Market!
  49. My first game is on the Android Market
  50. Funny images
  51. PAUL IS BOTHERED
  52. Social Golfer problem
  53. The Gods must be crazy!
  54. I read the news
  55. Videos with me!
  56. Patriotas!
  57. Video Games, and the failure of the word "Art"
  58. Metaphors I use to describe software development.
  59. Mooooovies!
  60. Another Remix
  61. On Programming Interviews
  62. Baal Bless the Internet
  63. Software and Evolution
  64. Being lucky, being strange. Being lucky to be strange.
  65. Common Lisp
  66. Paul the lil' misogynist
  67. Code-related lulz
  68. Books, Books, the Musical Fruit
  69. Games
  70. On Jazz, popularity
  71. On how knowledge turns to Snobbery
  72. A fun twist on Queues from Stacks
  73. Good Music
  74. Comix, miscellanous
  75. TeX, Culture.
  76. My brother and I
  77. YEEEAAAAAAH
  78. GC, Continuations, Ruby Internals
  79. m4d H4X
  80. Fruits
  81. A short history of my belief
  82. This made me laugh today.
  83. Hiatus - And a voyage of vim

2009 4

  1. On-Demand Prime Generation
  2. Prologgin'
  3. Reading List
  4. New Blog