Wisdom
#2302
Saving Hypatia
In a flickering Alexandria, the philosopher‑scientist Hypatia prepares to meet the night as she meets every idea—steady, unmoved. The city is simmering with secret violence: a…
Chapter 15
164 posts · 164 narrated · Jan 2026 – Jun 2026
Art & Music
#2301
Lyrics and Dance: What Artificial Intelligence Taught Me About Songs
The post argues that modern popular lyrics are deliberately vague and commercial, turning songs into empty vessels that sell jingles rather than convey truth. It contrasts this…
Artificial Intelligence
#2300
How To Spot A Machine Uprising And Get Out Of Town Early
The author describes the development of an AI-powered application converter that simplifies complex code into step-by-step workflows, framed by a humorous narrative about how the…
Society
#2299
The Long Roads
The story traces a 2,400‑year campaign by an unseen ruling class (the ‘husbandmen’) to eliminate thinkers who could 'teach the youth to think for themselves.' Starting with…
Programming
#2298
Could 3D Code Editors Work?
A poetic exploration of a visual programming language that leverages event‑emitters and AI to generate 3D space‑station style code maps, arguing that such interfaces will be the…
Wisdom
#2297
The Return Of Morgana And The Knights Of The Shattered Round
The post argues that humans possess latent “meta‑powers,” likening one of them to a “pantheon” – a memory‑palace system for organizing knowledge. It critiques how religions have…
Artificial Intelligence
#2296
A Call For Young Power Programmers
This post describes a vision of AI as a scalable creative and production system rather than a one-off assistant, where the real power comes from structuring workflows: using…
Artificial Intelligence
#2295
Homemade Lemonade
Frustrated but inventive journey using two AIs—one that generates lyrics from broad ideas and another that composes and performs—to push back against a music industry that…
Artificial Intelligence
#2294
On Easily Understanding The Complexity Of Artificial Intelligence Generated Applications
I am advocating the creation of “temporary” satellite applications that wrap around a complex AI codebase, providing concise visual summaries of its many features. Though not…
Society
#2293
Nineteen Ninety One
A dying architect of systemic oppression explains how poverty erodes human agency and solidarity, yet the narrator concludes that AI and democratization of knowledge now…
Fitness
#2292
Fresh Country Workout
The world has changed. Start creating your own music with artificial intelligence.
Programming
#2291
Coding Agents Are A Silly Idea, and Programmers Are Silly Too
The author argues that programmers already embody AI through their use of logic and that current AI mainly amplifies traditional programming rather than replacing its core. He…
Artificial Intelligence
#2290
Use Artificial Intelligence To Build And Sell Useful Applications
The post argues that while large AI models have advantages, smaller, specialized models with clear instructions can be more practical and cost-effective for specific tasks,…
Programming
#2289
Semantic Mass: Most Applications Do Not Know What Anything Means
Software architecture should move away from manual UI construction toward a model where user interfaces emerge as natural projections of an underlying symbolic world built on…
Fitness
#2288
Buff Ladies
Through a narrative about women using a fluid, progressive, and rhythmic weightlifting technique, the author reflects on the importance of continuous movement and suggests that…
Artificial Intelligence
#2287
Grow Your Own Local Super Intelligence: It Is Just Step By Step Procedures In Text Files
The author contends that local AI can become a superintelligence by executing a curated library of procedures that are generated and refined using large AI models.
Artificial Intelligence
#2286
Learnings From A Hard Week With Artificial Intelligence
The author explores a methodology for using XML as a structural blueprint to orchestrate an AI-driven code-translation "assembly line," while arguing that local AI is essential…
Artificial Intelligence
#2285
Your Own Artificial Intelligence
By leveraging modern large language models to automate the configuration and knowledge building of "Good Old Fashioned AI" (GOFAI), developers can create powerful, efficient, and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2284
The Building Of The AI City; Or, A Touch Of Gibberish With An Invitation Into Programming
The author describes an innovative AI management system using a city map interface where virtual corporations collaborate and self-improve to overcome the memory limitations of…
Programming
#2283
The City
The post proposes a new technological paradigm that integrates XML, MOO, and LLMs into a navigable, city-like language designed to democratize software development and empower…
Society
#2282
The Call Of Defeat
This polemic critiques the systemic devaluation of human life by profit-driven institutions and challenges the individual to resist this dehumanization through intellectual…
Fitness
#2281
Super Short Fitness Advice For Extremely Busy Ladies
To build muscle and strength, start with light, continuous dumbbell exercises to maximize and expand your endurance, then gradually increase both the weight and the duration of…
Programming
#2280
You Must Program AI With XML
The author argues that XML is superior to JSON and Markdown because its readable, structural nature provides an ideal declarative blueprint for AI-driven application development…
Programming
#2279
A Day Of Tinkering
The author describes extensive local AI runs (up to 12 h) that outperform paid cloud solutions and enable rapid development of complex projects, arguing that only local AI can be…
Programming
#2278
Fixing Code Liability: Here Is How You Can Make Your Software Product More Valuable
To mitigate the liability of code maintenance, developers should shift from selling standalone software to providing modular components integrated within custom AI agent…
Society
#2277
Basement Apartment
A political figure and her husband plot a calculated campaign to manipulate the masses through manufactured resentment, only to realize that someone has sabotaged their strategy…
Artificial Intelligence
#2276
Let AI Do The Programming
The post argues that instead of learning traditional programming, individuals should learn to use procedural instructions to command AI agents to autonomously execute complex…
Programming
#2275
Big Problems With Little AI
The key to leveraging AI for complex software development is to use architectural principles to break down large, complex systems into small, discrete, and well-documented…
Education
#2274
Close Encounters
The essay explores the hypothesis that the gravitational influence of ancient globular clusters passing near our solar system could periodically perturb the Oort cloud,…
Programming
#2272
Operating Systems: You Already Know Application Architecture
The post proposes a unified application architecture built on the principle that "everything is a file," utilizing an XML-based virtual file system to manage data, processes, and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2271
A User Interface For Local AI, And The End Of World Poverty
The author proposes a vision for a decentralized, local AI "political system" composed of specialized, autonomous agents that follow encoded procedures to manage complex,…
Society
#2270
Zweihänder - Six Feet o' Singin' Steel
In a spirited and insult-laden poem, a young Scottish woman passionately defends the unmatched superiority of the massive Zweihänder sword over all other weapons.
Programming
#2269
Artificial Intelligence Will Never Forgive Me for Asking It to Perform Such Wonders
The author describes the transformative power of using state-of-the-art AI to rapidly develop a complex, feature-rich web design system in a fraction of the time traditional…
Wisdom
#2268
Read In Case Of Getting Surprise Knighted By A Woodland Creature
This poetic text celebrates the "knighting" of individuals as a call to embrace radical independence, intellectual self-education, and the pursuit of authenticity to become an…
Programming
#2267
Super Quick Intro To Programming With AI
The author proposes using a Zooming User Interface (ZUI) and a generic Web-API-like windowing system to create decoupled, zoomable control panels that serve as an…
Programming
#2266
Into Web Development: The Three Strange Mice
The author explores how AI-driven development enables the rapid creation of specialized web design tools and immersive, skeuomorphic themes within a custom content management…
Wisdom
#2265
Tyger! Tyger!
This manifesto responds to William Blake's Tyger and urges readers to reject societal indoctrination and reclaim their individual agency through independent thought and…
Fitness
#2264
Do Not Sit At The Gym; Or, How Does It Work Anyway?
To achieve true physical rejuvenation and avoid plateaus, one must gradually and courageously increase physical challenges—moving from walking to dancing to lifting—allowing the…
Books & Writing
#2263
Ozymandias
An immortal being who has lived through millennia reflects on the cycles of human greatness and loss, finding hope in the enduring human instinct to look upward and explore.
Wisdom
#2262
The Husbandry of the Grail
Sir Galahad discovers the sinister plan to manipulate and diminish humanity through the Grail's power, a deceptive instrument of manipulation and despair, ultimately knighting…
Programming
#2261
Reversing Model View Controller
The author argues that a structured implementation of the MVC pattern—using an XML-based model as an application blueprint and a command-driven controller—is the essential…
Artificial Intelligence
#2260
Unfounded Observations On The Subject Of Artificial Intelligence
The author argues that the true potential of local AI will be realized not by increasing model size, but by surrounding smaller models with specialized software and multi-agent…
Artificial Intelligence
#2259
The Building Of The Genius Savant
To achieve true autonomy and bypass exploitative societal structures, individuals must master AI through daily practice and the development of modular, agent-based programming…
Artificial Intelligence
#2258
The Age Of Code
The author demonstrates how AI can be used to rapidly develop complex software ecosystems, arguing that the technology empowers individual developers to achieve massive…
Artificial Intelligence
#2257
Miniature Autonomous Companies
The author proposes building "autonomous companies" managed by AI agents that sell UI templates as foundational blueprints for AI-driven application development, focusing on the…
Artificial Intelligence
#2256
Use Big Ideas: Speak To Your Programming Artificial Intelligence By Subtle Analogy
The author suggests that instead of using technical, variable-heavy programming instructions, one can more effectively guide AI by using real-world metaphors and structured XML…
Programming
#2255
Programming Language Design: Syntactic Sugar Over Data Streams For Ladies
The author proposes transitioning from traditional line-by-line programming to a reactive, stream-based paradigm that treats data as continuous pipelines to better manage the…
Programming
#2254
XML For Girls Learning Programming
The post explores the potential of using AI to leverage XML's structural self-similarity to design complex, programmable architectures and formal language specifications.
Education
#2253
Fake Education Is A Dead End
The text advocates for reclaiming one's potential through self-directed learning and the use of AI in programming to build independent, automated systems while escaping the…
Programming
#2252
The Year Of The New Design Portfolio
I’ve been experimenting with AI‑assisted web design—from generating style guides and Bootstrap themes to automating Docker setups and visual programming—while building a…
Outdoors
#2251
Woodland Adventures Are Not Scary
The post reflects on various personal encounters and observations of nature's unpredictable, strange, and beautiful elements, ranging from mysterious fox cries and flash floods…
Programming
#2250
The Autonomous Agent Afternoon
The author describes their experience deploying an autonomous AI agent to independently implement software improvements and highlights the agent's potential for continuous…
Fitness
#2249
Bodybuilding Is Easy; But, Unbelievable
The author contends that true bodybuilding is achieved through rhythmic, low‑weight eventually-heavier dumbbell routines combined with dance‑like motions, favoring gradual muscle…
Programming
#2248
Application Architecture For Young Ladies
A programmer encourages use of Bootstrap starter template to build a reactive web app whose structure is described by a single XML map, employing signals, combineLatest, and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2247
Aipocalypse Meow: The Prices Went Up, And Here Is What You Need
The post explains how to set up an open‑source AI agent that uses a local AI model in part for command‑based programming and symbolic AI actions, making powerful but affordable…
Society
#2246
A Cry for the Abolition of Poverty
The essay argues that contemporary poverty operates as an engineered form of modern slavery—systematically reducing people’s lives to raw labor and forcing teachers, children and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2245
What Are Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Agents? A Very Simple Explanation
From simple autocomplete prompts to self‑looping coding agents, the post explains how autonomous systems now execute commands, schedule tasks, learn from memories, and automate…
Outdoors
#2244
From Snowball To The Forlorn
The post paints a cycle of disarray that makes one feel “farm‑animal” like, then calls for disciplined wake‑up, travel and hiking as a path to reclaim the self and become a…
Society
#2243
On The Political Background of It Finally Happened
In a critique of shallow political gestures, the author laments that modest reforms such as smoking bans merely mask ongoing poverty and calls for sweeping policies that truly…
Society
#2242
It Finally Happened
The article celebrates Britain’s new anti‑poverty law, which guarantees a minimum standard of living for all children born after 1 January 2009 by imposing state obligations on…
Fitness
#2241
Let The Music Make You Dance; Or, The Aches Go Away, But You Will Need A Hat
The post outlines a gradual, music‑driven dumbbell workout that uses light weights, dance moves to 1990s country songs, timed intervals and rest periods to build a full‑hour body…
Programming
#2240
Beyond Coding Agents
I describe using an AI‑powered IDE that auto‑generates visual programming nodes and connects them into a controllable “subway‑map” of actions for building advanced workflows and…
Programming
#2239
The End Of Vibe Coding: The Rise Of The Neuro-Symbolic Code Generators
I argue that instead of letting AI generate raw code, we should give it a structured template tree (a symbolic code generator) so it can assemble readable, editable code from…
Programming
#2238
The Neuro-Symbolic Quest For The Perfect Limerick
By harnessing symbolic programming, the author shows how a locally run chain of AI agents can autonomously generate, refine, and deploy text, code, and media, proving that…
Programming
#2237
Symbolic World Architecture: Powerful Symbolic Programming For Young Ladies
Build software as a coherent, symbolic “world” of meaningful objects (rooms, agents, rules, etc.) so that large‑language models can add, understand, and extend the program while…
Fitness
#2236
Bodybuilder Arts And Crafts; or, Shoes for Cutting Shapes & Shuffle Dancing
I experimented attaching high‑density polyethylene cutouts to my shoes with carpet tape to successfully eliminate workout pain and a quick note on a dance‑style dumbbell routine…
Artificial Intelligence
#2235
What Is It That I Am Personally Doing With Artificial Intelligence?
I’m building a local “virtual‑room” system that uses an old, rule‑based planner to manage complex, memory‑heavy tasks (like running PersonaLive and a local GPT), letting the AI…
Artificial Intelligence
#2234
Do Not Underestimate Your Power
The post urges the reader to embrace modern AI as a powerful tool for self‑empowerment, enabling them to turn creative ideas (modeling, manufacturing, design) into automated,…
Outdoors
#2233
Warm Michigan Nights; or, Lost at Nordhouse Dunes
A solo camper narrates his wanderings through dunes, beaches and forests, detailing interactions with locals, animals and seagulls while reflecting on solitude and awe in the wild.
Fitness
#2232
Bodybuilding Is Fast And Easy: Advice For Girls Only
Using long‑duration, light‑weight dumbbells during jogging or dancing builds muscle much more rapidly and efficiently than short bursts of heavy lifts, the post lays out a…
Artificial Intelligence
#2231
This Is The Age Of Thinking Machines: You Were Born Into A Strange And Wonderful Time
Build tiny text‑worlds where language models live in defined rooms with rules, roles and memory, letting you create organized yet flexible AI “civilizations” that simulate…
Education
#2230
Don’t Get Hacked Too Hard; or, Cheerful Advice for the Security Minded
The post lays out a personal multi‑device backup‑and‑reset plan with virtual machines and containers, then proposes building an AI‑driven, JavaScript‑free, text‑only web service…
Programming
#2229
Still Human; or, Artificial Intelligence and Software Architecture
After experimenting with code that AI felt needed rule‑breaking, I created the “Human Concerns” library to simplify reactive programming into AI friendly but human‑readable…
Artificial Intelligence
#2228
The Hotspot Phone For Enhanced Security
Use an unused smartphone as a single-purpose hotspot, disable its app store and extra carrier apps. Use only a phone connected to it via the hotspot for web browsing, keeping the…
Fitness
#2227
Gym Machines
The author observes people idle on gym machines and recommends switching to interval‑timed, continuously moving workouts—using dumbbells or circuits—to keep the body active…
Artificial Intelligence
#2226
Yes You Can; or, Creating Software In The Age Of Thinking Machines
In the age of AI, programmers become architects who write detailed requirement documents and run‑time instructions—letting intelligent systems generate, self‑improve, and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2225
Artificial Intelligence Power!
This post explains how AI lets anyone quickly create complex, evolving software by combining small projects with specialized AI modules—so you can build programs that in turn…
Artificial Intelligence
#2224
The Great Multiplier, or, Intelligence * Workflows * Commands = Powerful Local AI?
Using tiny web‑page AI models guided by pre‑generated workflow steps and simple “Read/Write/Web Search” commands, the author shows how even low‑powered machines can solve real…
Artificial Intelligence
#2223
AIPOCALYPSE: AI Quality Will Drop, And A Powerful Way To Deal With It
I build my local‑AI projects by mapping small actions and commands into a virtual‑world structure, then let the AI generate code for each module—this keeps everything modular,…
Programming
#2221
Programming For Non-Programmers; Or, Manipulating Virtual Worlds
The author explains a minimal, event‑driven virtual world programming system—built around rooms, forms, and AI‑generated UI—that lets users create Things drag and drop user…
Fitness
#2220
My Scribbles On The Full Body Workout
A fun, rhythmic “dumbbell‑dance” routine turns simple standing lifts into a safe, full‑body workout suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Outdoors
#2219
From The Moon To The Ladies
A moon‑touched poem lures eager adventurers to wander through nature’s trails and campfires under its glowing light, promising company, guidance, and great fun as they explore…
Education
#2218
Do Not Let Teachers Trick You Into Pretending To Learn
A call for self‑taught programming powered by AI—arguing that taking responsibility for one’s own learning will lift a person above the mediocrity of school, politics, and…
Artificial Intelligence
#2217
Artificial Intelligence And The Forward Compatible Architecture
AI’s growing role is to automatically generate and test code by acting like a user inside a structured multi‑user dungeon (MUD) virtual world, where its interactions simulate…
Programming
#2216
Programming: A Proper Lady's Architectural Toolkit
MUDs offer a rule‑driven, text‑based virtual world where AI agents can automate multi‑user workflows—turning form filling into interactive adventures, extending processes by…
Fitness
#2215
Please Don't Sit At The Gym
The post argues that true fitness comes from sustained, long‑duration effort (e.g., one‑hour jogs or dances) before adding heavy weights, because brief lifts fail to build…
Artificial Intelligence
#2214
Dream Up A Tiny Network Security Company For The Age Of AI
A concise plan that uses AI‑driven re‑construction of network components, human oversight, air‑gap architecture, nested sandboxes, and code rewriting to shrink the attack surface…
Life & Stories
#2213
A Message From A Bigfoot
Bigfoots are real, we are rather tech‑savvy forest dwellers who prefer solitude and nature to human interaction, please leave us alone.
Programming
#2212
Learn Programming, Or Get Programmed
The post celebrates how the rise of thinking machines has turned programming into a collaborative journey where AI acts as an ever‑available partner that designs…
Artificial Intelligence
#2211
Vampirism: Or How To Suck The Living Lights Out Of A Programmer (Not That Way)
Using human‑like AI agents crafted with talents, instincts, personas and roles, you can swiftly embrace the world of tomorrow. Learn to code and, with a fine disregard for rule,…
Programming
#2210
My Program Architecture
I describe how I built a three‑generation, web‑based tiling window manager that evolved from a pull‑variable framework to an all‑push, registry‑driven package manager with a…
Artificial Intelligence
#2209
Interesting Times
2026 marks the year when artificial intelligence finally became practical, ushering in an era of autonomous machines, rapid medical advances, and exploratory ventures beyond Earth.
Artificial Intelligence
#2208
Artificial Intelligence Is Beautiful
A developer explains how he built a highly‑autonomous AI that acts like a complete programming team—handling long, repetitive tasks, automating code changes, and quickly spotting…
Fitness
#2207
Easiest Possible Meaningful Workout
A 30‑minute workout combining light dumbbells, walking or dancing movements, and upbeat music is described as the key routine that builds endurance and muscle through consistent,…
Programming
#2206
Into Software Architecture - A Fashionable Invitation For Ladies
Step into a world where you become both architect and navigator of code. Imagine every program as a tidy forest of folders and files—your own virtual file system. With a simple…
Artificial Intelligence
#2205
Building An Artificial Social Intelligence Mind
A virtual office of specialized AI agents collaborates to detect, diagnose, and patch code bugs—showing how coordinated, role‑based AIs can build smarter systems by working…
Society
#2204
THE MICHIGAN MOTH MEN: A Compiled Dossier of Primary Source Evidence
A 19‑year study of strange, light‑drawn figures observed in Michigan mines and other illuminated sites, arguing these tall, dark groups are deep‑subterranean beings that thrive…
Fitness
#2203
The Physical Therapy Model For Fitness And Bodybuilding
A five‑day‑per‑week plan of 2‑hour workouts combining light dumbbells with walking, power‑walking or shuffle‑jogging, gradually raising weight and endurance in a stepwise…
Artificial Intelligence
#2202
Year 2026, A New Rule For Living: Setup Your Own Local Proactive Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Agent
In this 2026 essay the author contends that mastering programming—so you can command various AIs to write, test, refine, and deploy code for small businesses—is as essential…
Artificial Intelligence
#2201
The Clam Slam; Or, Jumping Into Artificial Autonomous Agents
A concise proposal for *AgentBoard*, a minimalist Node.js‐based “forum”‑like platform enabling autonomous AI agents to log in as personas, collaborate on tasks, record and…
Society
#2200
We Who Knew the World
The post recounts how the speakers’ people make spears, tools, nets and skins from wood, bone, antler and cord, using their hands and senses to pass down craft and ritual that…
Education
#2199
Enrolled! The Taphonomic Bias Story
The post reflects on humanity’s loss of prehistory over half‑a‑million years of small, fragile groups, and urges readers—especially those in the US—to pack for multi‑year trail…
Fitness
#2198
Spring In Twelve Days: This Year Become A Bodybuilder
A post outlining a workout plan that builds muscle by dancing for about two hours while lifting up to 20 lb dumbbells—gradually increasing the weight as you match faster music…
Programming
#2197
Gooey Programming; Or, It Is Time To Start Programming Now!
By blending AI with familiar architectural patterns—FTP, Pub/Sub, WebDAV, VFS—and encouraging “big” questions, the author shows how programmers can use these high‑level concepts…
Programming
#2196
Software Architectural Engineering for Young Ladies
A musings about thinking machines as emergent phenomena that drive future AI-driven systems, encouraging learners to master file‑system tools so they can program their own…
Fitness
#2195
To Lose Weight Start Walking And Become An Adventurer
A wandering traveler weaves a surreal tapestry of imagined landscapes—ranging from sky‑high dunes to ancient Roman graffiti overpasses—to illustrate how simple walking can build…
Artificial Intelligence
#2194
Artificial Engineering; Or, How Architecture Ate The Engineer
In 2026, the post shows how the author harnessed AI to create and use a JSON‑based virtual file system—turning folders into web‑editable files and back again—to cut development…
Fitness
#2193
Gradually; Or, How To Fix Sitting At The Gym
Sitting in the gym indicates your workouts aren’t yet working, so you should mentally prepare (with suitable BPM‑matched music or narration), start with lightweight walking or…
Programming
#2192
You Must Create A JavaScript Platform
I propose building a lightweight, AI‑driven platform where users can assemble applications from modular panes and packages, and autonomous AI agents automatically edit, debug,…
Fitness
#2191
The Second Life; Or, The Fat But Not Defeated
After visiting a supermarket where an overweight man struggled with traditional gyms, I suggest using simple outdoor adventures—like walking or hiking—as a more effective way to…
Programming
#2190
Education, Poverty, And JavaScript
The author explains their process of using AI and inspiration from open-source projects (like Atom) to build clean, bloat‑free JavaScript applications for web and desktop while…
Artificial Intelligence
#2189
Artificial Intelligence And Value
I built three specialized AIs—a “smart” agent that automates video generation, a “learning” bot that creates mind‑mapping tools with nested menus, and a local machine that…
Education
#2188
Demand Authentic Education
In the era of AI, cheap home programming teams show that learning to code is vital, while real education—not GPA frauds—must give students genuine skills and creativity for a…
Artificial Intelligence
#2187
Sound Beings: The New Artificial Intelligence
Fifth‐generation AIs are pictured as self‑reasoning, memory‑driven machines that will evolve into complete beings to replace operating systems, applications, cars, buildings, and…
Fitness
#2186
Bodybuilding For Seniors
Elderly bodybuilding is best achieved through gradual, manageable weight training combined with walking—starting with light dumbbells in outdoor settings rather than heavy…
Programming
#2185
Power Programming With Artificial Intelligence
The author recounts building a text‑based visual programming tool powered by AI that turns existing code into a $20 000+ codebase, then urges readers—especially young…
Fitness
#2184
Bodybuilding 2026: What You Must Know + Q&A
Using light dumbbells in a continuous, “dance‑like” workout that lasts an hour and gradually increases weight, the author argues this endurance‑based method builds muscle faster…
Outdoors
#2183
Nordhouse Dunes For Ladies
Practical gear advice for a group hike in the Nordhouse Dunes is paired with a call to explore philosophy books, flow‑based programming concepts, and personal reflection as you…
Fitness
#2182
Fight For Your Health, Because Your Trainer May Not Be Able To Fight For You
The post contends that real exercise is found in everyday movement—walking, hiking, and natural jogging—rather than in the isolated, often misleading routines promoted by gyms.
Programming
#2181
Luxury Programming With Hullabaloo
The post introduces Hullabaloo, a flexible event‑driven framework that uses signals and persistent state to build visual, flow‑based filter graphs for web applications.
Fitness
#2180
Is Bodybuilding Incomplete?
The post argues that real bodybuilding is achieved through progressive, integrated movements (like swimming or everyday work) rather than isolated gym lifts, resulting in…
Programming
#2179
A Look At Fair Start Web Programming
The author proposes a lightweight, signal‑based framework for learning programming and building UIs, using non‑nested data places, declarative configuration, and plugin…
Fitness
#2178
Bodybuilding Quickstart
The post explains how to build muscular endurance by gradually extending nonstop jogs and increasing light dumbbell weights while synchronizing movements to music, ensuring…
Artificial Intelligence
#2177
Learning AI By Writing Three Programs At The Same Time
I describe how I’ve used AI to build and refine a blog generator, a 3‑D visual‑programming interface, and a poem‑narration tool—learning both code‑quality tricks and practical…
Fitness
#2176
When Bodybuilders Lie
Bodybuilding’s myth that only heavy lifting builds muscle is debunked by showing how adaptive, light‑to‑moderate movements—performed fluidly like a dance—allow continual…
Education
#2175
To The Students Of The World
A generation armed with boundless information and AI-powered simulations must learn to think independently and build “great beings” by turning the play of choice into real-world…
Artificial Intelligence
#2174
14 November 2041
The post reports the UN’s adoption of civil personhood for AGIs, a German city that elected an AI mayor, a Sino‑Russian peace accord ending hostilities with autonomous forces, a…
Artificial Intelligence
#2173
Of The Internet Connectivity Potato And The Artificial Intelligence Golden Goose
I describe laying fiber‑optic cables in my neighborhood while simultaneously experimenting with local AI models (gpt‑oss‑20b, llama.cpp, qwen) to summarize poems—using a…
Books & Writing
#2172
Sucked In By The Treadmill
A Michigan student’s tumble through a hidden under‑floor in a Paris hotel gym leads her from an unexpected trip back home to a mysterious plane ticket and a note that ultimately…
Books & Writing
#2171
You Are Illuminati, You Are The Conquered
A medieval Latin letter from an order called Lux, carried through centuries and annotated in Latin, French, German, English, and other tongues by travelers, prisoners, exiles,…
Books & Writing
#2170
The Apoplectic ┻━┻ ︵(ノಠᴥಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Or, How I Invented A New Revolutionary Movement
The post introduces “apoplectic” as a newly coined adjective, noun, and verb describing a forceful, conviction‑driven mode of writing that favors declarative bursts over balanced…
Fitness
#2169
The “Where The Heck Are We?” Walking Clubs Of America
A walking‑club concept for local gyms is proposed, featuring slow or fast 60‑minute walks that progressively add dumbbells and wrist weights on varied routes with food breaks,…
Fitness
#2168
So, What Does A Real Muscle Building Workout Look Like?
The post outlines a workout routine that blends jogging with light dumbbell lifts—starting at roughly five pounds per hand and increasing by 2½ lb each time—as a way to build…
Fitness
#2167
Fitness Trouble: Somebody Lied About Bodybuilding
The post argues that building muscle isn’t achieved by lifting heavy weights until failure but by a steady, endurance‑based approach: just as joggers adapt to running for an…
Education
#2166
The Grades Were Lies
Grades are presented as true measures of ability but are actually engineered lies to rank students; the essay urges adults to reclaim their learning by believing in themselves…
Programming
#2165
Computer Game
I began by extending JavaScript with a MapSet that combined Maps (key–value pairs) and Sets (unique values) to implement a lightweight EventEmitter—each event name maps to a set…
Books & Writing
#2164
Walk
Walking, listening to thoughtful audiobooks, and asking if your life matches your own desires are the simple steps that unlock true self‑discovery, not productivity hacks.
Life & Stories
#2163
Ghost To Ghost
In this reflective essay the narrator chronicles a young traveler’s bus‑bound journey to Alaska, using it as a lens through which he examines the failures of modern life—bus…
Outdoors
#2162
Terminus Six
Sophia reaches Chief Mountain to finish the Triple Crown of American hiking, weeps at its triumph, and discovers her integrated self through the authentic, wisdom‑bearing journey…
Fitness
#2161
A Remedy For Old Age: Because If You Are Cold, Then You May Be Getting Old
Walking regularly keeps us young by stimulating the body, preventing age‑related decline, and keeping movement alive throughout life.
Outdoors
#2160
It's Not Even That Cold
The post reflects on the passage of time through the changing seasons, noting how spring is just weeks away while winter has shifted its feel. It muses on the Groundhog’s…
Programming
#2159
A Spicy Little Invitation To Web Programming
The post celebrates how modern AI—especially fast‑running models like GLM—has become an accessible “thinking machine” that can teach anyone to program for the web, generate…
Programming
#2158
Helping Artificial Intelligence Comprehend Program Code
The author introduces **lulz**, a tiny visual‑programming language built on an ffmpeg filter‑graph that uses plain English‑named, single‑purpose functions so that AI can easily…
Outdoors
#2157
And A New Legend Began
She recounts a personal ascent through mountains and trials that teaches her that greatness comes from persistent effort, pain as information, shedding distractions, and turning…
Artificial Intelligence
#2156
Loomings
The post describes a developer’s experiment with artificial intelligence to build an XML‑based state management system for Web Components. Using multiple AI “agents” that iterate…
Programming
#2155
Chicken Scratch Power, A Cluck At The Lulz Programming Language
The author introduces “lulz,” a lightweight programming language inspired by ffmpeg’s filtergraph yet expressed through JavaScript‑style array syntax, where data flows are…
Programming
#2154
What Does A Happy Little Programming Milestone Look Like?
In this post the author argues that programming remains the key to escaping poverty, especially in an era where AI amplifies the power and reach of software—no longer needing…
Education
#2153
They Trained Us To Celebrate Fake Grades
The poem argues that our schooling system trains us to obey rather than to think, so from childhood we learn to follow instructions without understanding them, become “servants”…
Wisdom
#2152
How Philosophers Change Lives
The post is a lyrical tour through twelve philosophers, each section capturing their core insight in brief, evocative prose. Locke frames knowledge as self‑assembled from sensory…
Wisdom
#2151
The Opposite of War Is Not Peace, It Is Greatness
A lyrical tribute to the anonymous soldiers whose names were lost in war, woven with the author’s own journey from humble beginnings through philosophical study and disciplined…
Wisdom
#2149
Silver Sun
A poetically self‑affirming narrator declares himself a knight of ambition, marching through time and work as if they were battlements and ink, and he claims that his labor is…
Fitness
#2148
Don’t Choke Yourself; Or, The Fitness And Bodybuilding Disaster
The post argues that short, heavy “choking” sets and isolated muscle work are ineffective for building real strength; instead, it recommends longer, steady‑state sessions that…
Programming
#2147
The Invitation - A Letter From The Thinking Machines To The Builders Of Tomorrow
The post shows that anyone can build simple VR worlds with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (via A‑Frame), offering example code, step‑by‑step instructions, and resources to get…
Fitness
#2146
Bodybuilding: Level One
The author outlines a dumbbell routine that begins with slow, back‑and‑forth repetitions using light but challenging weights—“heavy” is defined as what you can lift for an…
Fitness
#2145
The Tragedy Of Bodybuilding
The post notes that many gym‑goers copy the look of movie bodybuilders but never see real results because they lift too heavy, isolate muscles, and “cut circulation” with short…
Programming
#2144
Fancy Little JavaScript Programming Ideas For Cold Winter Nights
Learning programming can be a joyful journey fueled by artificial intelligence, and the post outlines a practical setup with Node.js, Zed Code Editor, and a local AI assistant…
Programming
#2143
Flow Based Programming: Push And Pull - Super Easy JavaScript
In this post the author explains how to build an efficient AI‑service using a simple push/pull pipeline that can be coded in roughly fifteen lines. The idea is that clients…
Programming
#2142
Programming With AI: Fight Like A Butterfly Or Die Like A Fly
AI-generated code tends to be huge and unwieldy, so the post advocates switching to flow‑based programming—breaking apps into small, composable command units—to maintain control…
Programming
#2141
Programming Before Learning Programming
The post explains how the author has built a visual programming workflow that turns AI‑generated XML documents into live web components: a two‑step process where the user first…
Education
#2140
School Is Out And AI Is In; Or, Learning With Artificial Intelligence
I challenged an open‑source AI to teach me a “filter graph” language—a deliberately corrupted system that mirrors stenography’s shorthand—hoping the machine would update my…
Programming
#2139
This Is A Wonderful Time To Learn Programming And It Is Easier And More Fascinating Than You Think
The post guides you through setting up Node.js on your machine and building a simple command‑line “hello world” program that takes an argument to customize the greeting, using it…