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2026 7

  1. Enumerating JSON string literals
  2. Enumerating JSON literals for some reason
  3. Enumerating JSON numeric literals
  4. Loops in HATETRIS
  5. Some consumer info
  6. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm– Conversation Tree Press
  7. qntm's leap second simulator

2025 9

  1. How many valid JSON byte sequences are there?
  2. There Is No Antimemetics Division FAQ
  3. How many valid UTF-8 (or UTF-16, or UTF-32) byte sequences are there?
  4. How many valid JSON strings are there?
  5. ChatSCP
  6. HATETRIS world record history
  7. There Is No Antimemetics Division
  8. That string concatenation frisson
  9. Developer philosophy

2024 6

  1. The Pale Blue Dot, But Time
  2. A small adventure in WebAssembly with a mildly surprising ending
  3. I have a publishing deal!
  4. All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
  5. Human civilisation looks back, puzzled,
  6. The Assist

2023 1

  1. SCP-6X57: Demographic Anomaly

2022 7

  1. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
  2. HATETRIS
  3. Mirror's Edge vs. Catalyst
  4. Solving Tetris in C
  5. Control
  6. "Lena" isn't about uploading
  7. Absurdle

2021 4

  1. Selecting content for a short story collection
  2. Ratchets in software development
  3. There are hardcover editions too!
  4. Yes, there are paperback editions

2020 3

  1. Save the code or save the tests?
  2. It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
  3. Refactoring The Rise Of Skywalker

2018 1

  1. Based On A Twitter Thread About Worldbuilding

2017 1

  1. Stomp On The Mystery Box

2016 3

  1. Write Like A Programmer
  2. Taxonomy of teleportation models
  3. Now for a subjective diatribe about Docker's poor use of analogies

2015 4

  1. We had a unit test once which only failed on Sundays
  2. To destroy the Earth
  3. Ranking the Bond film titles
  4. If Deckard's a replicant

2014 1

  1. Asteroid mining business plan:

2013 11

  1. Personas: imaginary friends for software developers
  2. Adapting "The Difference"
  3. The Hunt For Red October as hard science fiction
  4. Citation found
  5. How many infinities are there?
  6. Hey look, I'm on Drabblecast
  7. Deus Ex Ultimate Run walkthrough
  8. Redeeming Quantum of Solace
  9. A technical question about the qntm.org URL schema
  10. Review: Oblivion
  11. Password security in Deus Ex

2012 2

  1. Teaching Perl
  2. Post-mortem: Mirror's Edge

2011 5

  1. Chess: THE MOVIE
  2. Thing I Have Learned About Software Testing
  3. When is a URL shortener not a URL shortener?
  4. On short URLs
  5. Human-powered spaceflight

2010 11

  1. Troll pi explained
  2. Skynet: Behind the Music
  3. A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person
  4. P versus NP for dummies
  5. Stay classy, Newgrounds
  6. "Let's make it an option!"
  7. SCARY ROBOTS
  8. The Thing About Facebook
  9. So I guess the OoT WR just got halved?
  10. And now: a homeopathy joke
  11. Fixed: The Odd/Even Star Trek Movie Law

2009 5

  1. Zomg
  2. QntmTronic EtherStorage 2000
  3. Review: Star Trek
  4. On leaving Facebook
  5. Suicide Linux

2008 4

  1. Planes on treadmills
  2. Sticky Thirteens
  3. The Official 2012 Prophecy
  4. Half-Life timeline v0.5

2007 7

  1. Review: Bender's Big Score
  2. Failures of the Turing Test
  3. The World's Largest Numbers, Part Two
  4. For no reason, here's the text version of "Over Nine Thousand"
  5. The World's Largest Numbers, Part One
  6. Ban Time Travel Now!
  7. Proof that the clarkkkkson is bigger than the xkcd number

2006 7

  1. In defence of the Apple Powerbook thing in "Independence Day"
  2. Proposed Solution To Global Warming
  3. Joe The Circle returneth
  4. The formula for the numbers on Lost
  5. Advice for Monopoly Pub Crawlers
  6. "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" principle
  7. 24 drinking game

2005 11

  1. I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals, to make the most evil creature of them all!
  2. Han Solo vs. Mal Reynolds
  3. Point nine recurring equals one
  4. Band names that are really hard to search for
  5. Every Musical Genre Ever
  6. Incomplete two-word sentences with which to end your life
  7. Palermo asteroid calculator
  8. Why ice cubes rock
  9. The Official Lent Countdown
  10. AstroLander FAQ
  11. Titanic drinking game

2004 3

  1. Golden rules of time travel
  2. StickManStickMan is ending
  3. Review: Metroid Prime

2003 1

  1. Culture ship names

Undated 4

  1. Destroying the Earth
  2. Src
  3. Time
  4. Special