Jul
05
Romance as a gathering purpose undermines itself because people fake a "more likeable" persona instead of being vulnerable
2 min read
Joe Cecil
Jul
01
Be careful who you listen to, because you might end up feeling like them
1 min read
May
26
Integration plans; or, more notes on Models (2/N)
6 min read
Apr
27
I can't fix wretchedness, I can only be with it, and that sucks
4 min read
Apr
26
Bad moods are unnecessary, I shouldn't have them, and wish I didn't --- and that wish might be why I keep having them
2 min read
Apr
26
My life story hinges on reading one fanfiction when I was fourteen, and this feels strange, but I guess it's okay
2 min read
Apr
24
Coming up with research questions is a lot easier if I have a concrete artifact to get curious about
1 min read
Apr
04
I don't know what desperate means but it sounds bad and I'd rather not be it --- so maybe I need to relax
2 min read
Apr
03
I use Twitter* mostly in pursuit of love
7 min read
Mar
03
Book review: The Alabaster Girl
7 min read
Feb
23
Fear and loathing of living friendlier
2 min read
Feb
23
Book review: Reflections on Silver River
1 min read
Feb
13
Crazy things I do to myself, 1/∞
3 min read
Feb
13
Book review: Tiny Habits
4 min read
Feb
12
Overthinking overthinking my love life
16 min read
Feb
11
The kind of guy I want to be
13 min read
Feb
09
Debugging my love life, 1/∞
6 min read
Feb
04
The surprising parts of Models, two years later: 1/N
5 min read
Feb
02
Schools are bad but I will grudgingly allow they may have some value
5 min read
Jan
30
Distinguishing a lead's turn from a follow's turn
1 min read
Jan
26
How I plan to review my dance competition videos
3 min read
Jan
20
My dancing practice routine
3 min read
Dec
23
My favorite things of 2024
4 min read
Dec
05
Things I believe about love/dating
3 min read
May
30
Things I learned calling shm_open() on a Mac
1 min read
Apr
20
How I got Acme to renew my Ghost blog's SSL cert
1 min read
Apr
19
Lessons learned from battling Godot 3 for twelve hours
3 min read
Apr
19
Beware map indexing in C++
1 min read
Apr
06
Monthly writing reviews are plenty
1 min read
Mar
31
How I interpret online apartment reviews
3 min read
Mar
30
Venerable voracious curiosity
2 min read
Jan
27
All structured out?
2 min read
Jan
26
Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective
7 min read
Jan
20
How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)
6 min read
Jan
12
Things I've learned about Across the Obelisk at 14 hours
5 min read
Dec
27
Competition in board games vs. video games
3 min read
Dec
26
The intersection problem
2 min read
Dec
23
Softening the ground for fitness
2 min read
Dec
22
Difficulty settings for doing weird things
1 min read
Dec
20
Things I found and loved this year
2 min read
Dec
18
Ingurgitate
1 min read
Dec
17
Quantity matters in a dream list
1 min read
Dec
16
Goal failure modes
5 min read
Dec
15
Long posts
1 min read
Dec
14
Knowledge hoarding: "I might need to know that someday"
1 min read
Dec
13
Challenging vs. threatening?
2 min read
Dec
12
An example of a non-obvious lag measure
2 min read
Dec
10
To solve review avoidance, declare review amnesty?
1 min read
Dec
09
Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)
1 min read
Dec
08
Sounds I don't need to know, but want to
1 min read