Hello
I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.
For information about myself & my philosophy, see the About, Design, and Values pages.
Miniposts are bookmarks, snippets of thought, and syndicated content from elsewhere.
Longform articles are below, sorted by date.
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Projects
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Mixtape MakerPrepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
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Film Development CalculatorCalculate the time between film baths automagically.
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Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & …A memento mori for how much time you're wasting on Reddit.
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French Republican Calendar ToolsTrack time the old, old fashioned way.
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Truth Functional Logic for Hackers - Part One
Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset.
When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR...
Read more ⟶Greg & the Eternal Brunch
The year was 2036. OpenAI had finally done it. After decades of press releases, quarterly existential criese, and machine learning papers so esoteric they made Finnegans Wake read like PopSci, they’d finished gpt-6z (revision 3) - a perfect, autonomous general intelligence.
It’s...
Read more ⟶Prairie Telephone
Prairie Telephone (1952-1995) was a regional telecommunications company that operated in Alberta, Canada, primarily serving the Drumheller Valley region and surrounding rural communities. The company was notable for its rapid expansion during the 1970s and its innovative approach to rural...
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