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• 2025-11-13 | the sword of damocles

  Postmortem for a RAID migration on my Dell Poweredge R320 lovingly referred to as ‘The Sword of Damocles’.

• 2025-10-04 | polestar

  Video game project in the same near-future Europa setting from my role playing game.

• 2025-10-04 | polestar:omum

  This is a roleplaying game I homebrewed over a couple of weeks. The appeal to this system are the following: simple progression, fast combat, and naval combat rules. I think the naval combat rules are intriguing because movement is abstracted, freeing players from counting hex squares.

• 2025-03-30 | kodo

  I had the privilege of seeing KODŌ at the Boston Symphony Hall on March 9th. I had a wonderful time watching the drum performance and was moved by some of the last pieces. Towards the end of the show, one performer walked out onto stage and began playing the giant drum that sat towards the back of the stage. He was alone and wearing just a cloth. After a couple minutes of his solo, the drum began responding to his beats. A reward for his efforts.

• 2024-08-30 | optical character recognition

  An excerpt from a project I completed for my machine learning class

• 2024-07-24 | letting projects die

  Mentally I need to be able to ditch projects and free the space in my mind to think about other things. I’m coming around to this idea, but previously I would never abandon a project and they would languish in my head forever. I didn’t accept that my values or interests could change, so whatever is started must be finished. Most of these were personal projects for fun, they shouldn’t make me miserable.

• 2024-03-17 | chatgpt asvab

  I fed some asvab questions into chatGPT 3.5 and it got all of the questions correct, which isn’t surprising. I was unable to test GPT against the “Assembling Objects” since it no longer accepts image uploads from free users, but it would be cool to find out how it would answer a question like this:

• 2024-02-14 | clock puzzle

  I showed my website to my parents some time back. They seemed superficially interested, but there wasn’t anything here to grab their curiosity. The projects tab is nice for technical people that know what github is, but I think they would have liked to see something tangible from the code I’ve written (or a description, because some of the names are apocryphal).

• 2024-01-31 | crab language

  I completed my first project in Rust!

• 2024-01-22 | anemone

  I wrote this about a sculpture I saw in Boston’s Museum of Fine Art

• 2024-01-13 | plaintext

  I watched No Boilerplate’s video on plaintext and thought I should seriously apply those principles to my projects.

• 2024-01-06 | porcelain cups

  “What use is a cup that doesn’t hold water?”

• 2023-12-27 | 5 levels of minecraft server

  I’ve played minecraft for 10 years and always needed to host minecraft servers for my friends. At first, the servers were kind of primitive. Now, they are more sophisticated.

• 2023-12-26 | pilot

  It lives!