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2026 3

  1. How much do register counts matter?
  2. Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity
  3. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of an Agent in a Directory

2025 17

  1. Any Realistic Application of Utility is Intractable
  2. Building apps like it's 1991
  3. Gemini Pro Can't Patch
  4. Playing Doom in 2025, or, Sculpture from Clay
  5. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs
  6. Cleaning Cast Iron
  7. Reflections on Sudoku, Or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought
  8. On Stepping Back
  9. Web Development: The Last Bastion of Online Human Expertise
  10. 2025 03 20 Highways Our Original Sin
  11. I Wish Elon Musk had More Imagination
  12. Stargate SG-1 was the Last Great Sunday Television Show
  13. On Unproductive Work and the US Economy
  14. On Variance as an Explanation for Dominance in Certain Fields
  15. Anki/Jisho Chrome Extension
  16. LLM Generated Flashcards
  17. Noteomatic - Beautiful Understandable Handwritten Notes