Articles
This section of the site holds long-form content about whatever topic happens to be on my mind at any given time.
Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden boids.
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s hundreds of thousands of birds! What are all these birds doing with my patio umbrella? And why do they all collectively believe that “scrappiness” is a good example of a corporate value? More »
The “No, But” Engineer
When you’re improvising a comedy scene, the golden rule is to respond with “yes, and” to everything your partners say and do. This unwavering acceptance can produce riotous bouts of laughter. In an engineering team, it just creates unholy messes. More »
The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach
The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that Choose Your Own Adventure style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found within. Against your better judgment, you follow the link. More »
An Unwilling Participant in Your Smart Fantasy
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, where none of the light switches do a damn thing. And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?” And you may ask yourself, “Am I right, am I wrong?” Same as it ever was. More »
The Mannheim Steamroller Version of “Deck the Halls” Is Insufferable and I Will Fight Anyone Who Disagrees
Join me on a brief foray into one of mankind’s most disreputable pastimes: Attempting to analyze and critique Christmas music. Today’s subject is “Deck the Halls” as performed by Mannheim Steamroller. You know, the 80s synthesizer version with that bad note in it. More »
Large Chainsaw Model
The powered chainsaw was developed nearly a century ago. Its rise in prevalence has fundamentally changed the shape of human work in forestry and logging industries. But when was the last time you personally needed to use a chainsaw in your daily life? More »
The Fake Fixation
Twenty years ago, it was not difficult to find songs that used the word “fake” somewhere in the lyrics. This is not nearly as prevalent in music today, nor was it all that common before that era. This article explores the phenomenon to try to see if there’s really something to it. More »
This is [my dead grandmother]’s special day!
Everybody has their own unique way of processing and dealing with grief. There’s not really any right or wrong way to do it. Except for Google Calendar—they are absolutely doing it wrong. More »
Tangentially, we can fix your raycaster.
A detailed look at a few different sources of visual distortion that commonly occur when developing a raycaster. Covers fish eye distortion, projection plane angle distortion, and outlines a technique to disentangle the rendered wall height from the screen’s aspect ratio. More »
The Lesser 2024 Olympics Rankings
Depending on how you interpret the numbers, you can make any country come out on top. More »