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2020-04-02 — 🥚 Cooking, Fire Emblem ⚔️. (🕑 5 min) I cook some more, started playing Fire Emblem.
2020-03-31 — 🔧 Online tool lists 📄. (🕑 2 min) I saw a huge, comprehensive list of online tools, here are a few others.
2020-03-31 — 🎤 Boy bands, pop culture, guys talking into a camera 👦. (🕑 4 min) Boy bands, pop culture, guys who went to Brown, a diary entry from when I was 12.
2020-03-29 — 🐫 Today's updates ⌨️. (🕑 4 min) SARS-CoV-2 videos, my setup, OCaml bullshit.
2020-03-27 — ☀️ Today's updates 👨‍💼. (🕑 3 min) Yes, I'm worried. A cute 1m clip. A good metaphor.
2020-03-27 — 📬 Newsletters, mailing lists 🧾. (🕑 5 min) Newsletters, the coolest thing I don't have!
2020-03-24 — 💻 Da email 📨. (🕑 3 min) Consider a local client for email! Or Migadu, if hosting your own sucks.
2020-03-24 — 🤓 Documentation 📕. (🕑 3 min) Thinkin' about docs.
2020-03-23 — ⛪️ Tabletop character: Vincent Ortega 😈. (🕑 8 min) Description of my Cold City character, Vincent Ortega
2020-03-22 — 💌 Ballad, Amado, Simplicity 🗣. (🕑 2 min) A latin ballad, my extremely profitable product, words.
2020-03-21 — 💸 Money, Sunglasses, Cooking 🕶. (🕑 5 min) Rant about bailouts again, a few of music videos, things I cooked.
2020-03-20 — ⚔️ Adventures, Animal Crossing 🏡. (🕑 4 min) Read an article on "Adventure games," reflect on why they never stuck with me.
2020-03-19 — 🕹 Game Hacks, Browsers, Games, Goats 🐐. (🕑 4 min) Today's rambles are on hacking in old games, free software, Slack fun, and board games.
2020-03-18 — 🍳 Family, cooking, organizing ✊. (🕑 3 min) Today's things I read + reacted to: organizing vs. mobilizing, how long we'll be doing this, and bailouts.
2020-03-16 — 📉 Markets, npm, Grumpy, Bankruptcy 👴. (🕑 6 min) 3-16 thoughts: bad markets, GitHub + npm, grumpy about products, bankruptcy
2020-03-16 — 😷 Confinement! 🚪. (🕑 6 min) Some topics in mind while I'm confined: remote work, exercise, side project.
2020-03-13 — 🏚 2020 Dem Primary 🇺🇸. (🕑 8 min) Dem Primary was a good exercise in how to bleed Pablo slowly for way too long.
2020-03-12 — 🎩 Layton, tools, air pollution 🛠. (🕑 4 min) Things that interested me, mostly yesterday. Layton games, programming tools, air pollution.
2020-02-17 — 🐫 New Fleaswallow, SourceHut 🤖. (🕑 4 min) Tweaked Fleaswallow some more, new code hosting
2020-02-12 — Introducing Ramp 💳. (🕑 4 min) That thing I've been working on: we're launching!
2020-01-03 — 2019 in review 📅. (🕑 10 min) Things I did (and didn't) do in 2019.
2019-12-16 — 🎭 Barry 📜. (🕑 5 min) I really enjoyed Barry, some context as to why.
2019-11-26 — 🗣 Recent Sound Adventures 🔊. (🕑 5 min) I made sounds!! For installations, mostly. It was fun doing this again.
2019-11-19 — 🎭 A little on Communities 🕹. (🕑 5 min) Answered a few pointed questions about communities and my relationship to them.
2019-11-16 — 🗺 Mom's Spaghetti: A D&D One-Shot Adventure 🙃. (🕑 25 min) I ran a one-shot adventure for friends, read about it and/or adapt it.
2019-11-13 — 🏰 Rejected adventure ideas 🧪. (🕑 10 min) A few ideas for my D&D one-shot that I didn't go with.
2019-10-25 — 🐉 6 Cities In Search Of An Adventurering Party 👸. (🕑 14 min) Wrote a few cities in a fictional world for a one-shot tabletop adventure.
2019-10-10 — Mark Mode tutorial. (🕑 4 min) A tutorial on how to Mark Mode your site.
2019-10-09 — Introducing Mark Mode ✅. (🕑 2 min) Getting ahead of the new trends!
2019-09-30 — 🙏 Blasphemous 👻. (🕑 6 min) I played Blasphemous, its… a lot!
2019-09-21 — ⛰ Celeste 7b Golden 🍓. (🕑 1 min) I got the 200th strawberry.
2019-09-14 — 🌴🧺 Some DLC reviews 🐡💣. (🕑 6 min) Two of the games I've played/written about have new DLC
2019-09-09 — 🤓 Fun, odd code things 🐉. (🕑 12 min) Pointers to some *\_-eXtReMe c0d3 cr4Ft-_/* that tickles me
2019-09-04 — 🏄‍♀️ How I Surf the World Wide Web 🕷. (🕑 5 min) I'm your friend wearing a tinfoil hat re: web browsing.
2019-08-28 — 🎮 That Consumption Life: August 2019 📖. (🕑 7 min) Paragraph or two for a few things I've consumed recently.
2019-08-24 — 🐸 Fleaswallow 2, and an OCaml setup 🐫. (🕑 19 min) I decided to step up my OCaml game, here are lessons I learned; this post is a monstrosity.
2019-08-01 — 🐄 Beefs with Docker 🐳. (🕑 10 min) I have some beefs with Docker, also talk about what's good about it.
2019-07-29 — ⛰ Celeste 8b Golden 🍓. (🕑 2 min) I recorded myself beat a hard level of Celeste with no deaths. A different one this time!
2019-07-13 — 🐕 What I've learned from Sapo 🐸. (🕑 9 min) Almost 4 years with my dog, it's been a journey.
2019-06-26 — 😈 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 🌕. (🕑 6 min) Longer-form writeup of reactions to Bloodstained: RotN
2019-06-18 — ⛰ Celeste 6b Golden 🍓. (🕑 1 min) I recorded myself beat a hard level of Celeste with no deaths.
2019-06-11 — 🤔 Introspective questions 🤜🤛. (🕑 6 min) I answer some questions about myself from a "kill small-talk" blog post.
2019-06-05 — 🌎 The Light Brigade 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀. (🕑 3 min) I read (and enjoyed) The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley
2019-05-31 — 🐠 Introducing Cichlidia 🐟. (🕑 3 min) Karen and I bought a house, want to build a space for good people 😄
2019-05-27 — 💊 Deconstruct 2018 Talk: A Fresh Look on Failure 🗣. (🕑 1 min) My Deconstruct talk is up! Links to the talk, further reading, the proposal video, and more
2019-05-16 — 💻 Back on my bullshit: Self-hosted Adventures ✉️. (🕑 13 min) Overthinking self-hosted services.
2019-05-10 — 💻 That Consumption life: The Big Nine 9️⃣. (🕑 15 min) I read The Big Nine, liked it fine, but with many qualms.
2019-04-26 — 🤖 Machine Learning: Programming's Asbestos 🧠. (🕑 8 min) Recent Machine Learning advances are cool but IMO pretty overhyped.
2019-04-21 — 🧙🏼‍♂️ Tabletop character: Ralmahant 🦝. (🕑 8 min) Description of a new tabletop character; a magic-using stout feline asshole
2019-04-11 — 🇸🇬🇮🇩 Asia Trip 2019 🇹🇼🇰🇷. (🕑 16 min) I spent two weeks traveling Asia, it was extremely gratifying.
2019-04-09 — 🌓 The City In The Middle Of The Night 🐊. (🕑 5 min) I talk about a book I read (The City In The Middle Of The Night, by Charlie Jane Anders).
2019-01-18 — Recent Metroidvanias 🐛. (🕑 5 min) I played 3 video games this past month. Games are fun!
2019-01-16 — Fast food, fascism, banality 🍔. (🕑 4 min) Fascists are the worst, and they can't even be interesting about what they eat.
2019-01-12 — Mario, made better 🍄. (🕑 4 min) Examples of the Mario universe, remixed and interpreted.
2019-01-03 — 2018 in Review 📅. (🕑 9 min) Greatest hits of 2018, looking forward into 2019.
2018-12-22 — I don't recognize that 🗣 🙉. (🕑 6 min) Suggesting that CSS-In-JS is just another example of "not my problem, therefore invalid."
2018-12-08 — Tumblr banning porn 🤦‍♂️. (🕑 6 min) Tumblr is banning porn; I think this is Bad, and part of a few Bad trends.
2018-11-17 — Bye, Facebook. You're terrible.. (🕑 5 min) I'm deactivating Facebook, it's Bad.
2018-11-11 — That Consumption Life: Jane, Inkeeper, Gentleman, ROUS. (🕑 6 min) Some things I've watched/read that I loved
2018-10-18 — Favorite Sketches. (🕑 2 min) Some videos I've been watching for years and years.
2018-09-10 — Burning Man 2018 🔥. (🕑 8 min) I went to Burning Man and here's a lot of text and photos.
2018-08-18 — Huevo con Chorizo 🍳. (🕑 2 min) I wrote about my lunch for the office once.
2018-08-18 — Working hours for engineers 🗓. (🕑 6 min) Engineering is weird work, so talking about hours is weird too
2018-08-18 — Weight, bodies, agency, and a few good months 📉. (🕑 9 min) I lost some weight after making some changes, rather happy with it.
2018-06-28 — Movie roundup 🎬. (🕑 4 min) I've watched a lot of movies this summer.
2018-06-04 — GitHub + Microsoft ramble 😼. (🕑 6 min) Some rambles about the recent acquisition news.
2018-06-01 — Thanks Fred Rogers, albeit briefly 😌. (🕑 3 min) I like Fred Rogers
2018-05-23 — Deconstruct gratitude 🙏🏼. (🕑 1 min) Grateful for Deconstruct, fresh off the presses.
2018-05-18 — "What do you think of JavaScript"? 👾. (🕑 7 min) JavaScript is a lot to think about
2018-05-14 — Stop lionizing Elon Musk 🤡. (🕑 6 min) If you admire Elon Musk I think you're wrong, or at least focus on the wrong things.
2018-05-10 — Alice Goldfuss: Foot Candles in tech 📹. (🕑 1 min) A favorite thing on tech culture I've read.
2018-05-01 — That consumption life: Enneagrams, Jessica Jones, more Celeste. (🕑 3 min) Recent things I've consumed.
2018-04-20 — Deconstruct and Donuts 🍩. (🕑 4 min) I got accepted into Deconstruct, and want to celebrate my wins.
2018-04-19 — Hugh Jass Message 🗣. (🕑 3 min) A small project to troll your friends.
2018-04-17 — Stories, making things, education, hopes 💻. (🕑 4 min) Thoughts and reactions to a great story on One Laptop Per Child.
2018-04-12 — Product, metrics, and who to serve 📊. (🕑 6 min) Feeling like smart things are happening doesn't mean they're happening
2018-04-09 — Tabletop Character: Ángel Salinas 👴🏼🇳🇮. (🕑 6 min) Description of my Fate character, Ángel Salinas.
2018-04-04 — Tabletop Character: Gun person (process) 🔫. (🕑 3 min) I needed a gun character, here are some concepts.
2018-04-03 — Tabletop character: Gorlif 🐭⚔️. (🕑 5 min) Wrote up my Mouse Guard character
2018-04-03 — Tabletop character: Homage/Karreus! 😈. (🕑 6 min) Meet my most recent D&D character.
2018-03-29 — Overthinking a Tomb Raider. (🕑 4 min) I saw Tomb Raider, played Tomb Raider
2018-03-23 — Celeste playthrough. (🕑 1 min) Video when I played through a game I love
2018-03-21 — 🐍 Python, classes, tuples. (🕑 4 min) Resources I used to learn (and kind of enjoy) Python
2018-03-20 — That consumption life: Broken Earth, Celeste, Avatar. (🕑 3 min) Here are three things I loved and recommend immediately.
2018-03-18 — My setup. (🕑 6 min) What my computer usually looks like, workspace tools.
2018-03-13 — Another week. (🕑 4 min) Articles I liked this week.
2018-03-12 — NYer article on communities, social media. (🕑 4 min) Don't say "there are no good solutions," there are.
2018-03-09 — Engineer Showboating. (🕑 9 min) How to fake it (in 2010, anyways)
2018-03-05 — This week. (🕑 2 min) Things I liked this week
2018-03-01 — What developers mean when they say "Legacy Code". (🕑 5 min) I talk a bit about meanings behind the phrase "legacy code."
2018-02-25 — This week. (🕑 3 min) Reading I enjoyed this week
2018-02-24 — Moved to Brooklyn. (🕑 2 min) 200-odd words after being awake for 28 hours, packing and moving.
2018-02-20 — Trying OCaml 🐫. (🕑 5 min) I announce a static site generator I wrote and describe first OCaml impressions. 🐫
2018-02-19 — Millenials, Attention Spans, Discourse, Creepers. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto;">
2018-02-12 — Fun rituals for the Coder at Work 🖥. (🕑 9 min) <small>_🎵 The song for this post is [Motownphilly][12], by Boyz II Men._</small>
2018-02-08 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 2: Behind the symptom. (🕑 6 min) <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
2018-02-01 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 1: Leaders and Org Worms. (🕑 7 min) _🎵 The song for this post is [Survivor][9], by Destiny's Child 🎵._
2018-01-29 — Blogs, and many of my favorites. (🕑 7 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-28 — Pablo seeking a date in 2016. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-23 — Services, monoliths, modularity. (🕑 8 min) A people perspective to why so many startups wanna Microservice, and why I think this isn't the right call.
2018-01-18 — That consumption life: Culture Lectures. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-16 — Paper worlds, the heroes who inhabit them. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-15 — n > 1. (🕑 3 min) <small><em>🎵 The song for this post is [Psycho Killer][10], by The Talking
2018-01-14 — 🐸 Sapo 🐸 surgery update. (🕑 2 min) <small><em>🎵 The song for this post is [Turn Down for What][1], by DJ Snake and Lil Jon 🎵</em></small>
2018-01-13 — 🐸 Sapo 🐸 going into surgery. (🕑 2 min) <small><em>🎵 The song for this post is [The Message][2] by Grandmaster Flash
2018-01-11 — I feel like him. (🕑 1 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-10 — ⛓ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ⛓. (🕑 5 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-07 — Feeling good when you're feeling bad. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-05 — Shoutout to Steve Ballmer. (🕑 2 min) <iframe width="560" height="315"
2018-01-04 — Minimal Pages, brought to you by the letter F. (🕑 2 min) New look! [Two][1] [screenshots][2] of the before (and the previous new look was
2018-01-02 — Towards a More Open Web. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2017-12-30 — 2017 in Review. (🕑 8 min) I've done this twice recently ([2015][1], [2016][2]), let's do it for 2017!
2017-12-29 — Animal Crossing: New Leaf. (🕑 6 min) I used to blog about [fun things I loved][4], so here's one I've been enjoying
2017-12-21 — Blog updates (2017). (🕑 3 min) **I posted yesterday!**
2017-12-20 — Two anecdotes about culture. (🕑 3 min) Here are two little anecdotes about companies and culture, apropos of nothing.
2017-06-17 — Dip your toes into some MUSIC (part 1: Chip, Dub, #Deep, Mashup). (🕑 9 min) One of the most fun parts of dating someone can be learning about the art that
2017-06-05 — An anecdote on runtimes. (🕑 6 min) <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 20px auto; text-align:center">
2017-06-05 — 2016 in review. (🕑 10 min) **I wrote most of this on the last day of 2016. Then I put it down and forgot
2016-12-29 — Advent of Code 2016. (🕑 3 min) A co-worker linked a few of us to [Advent of Code][1], a coding challenge that
2016-10-12 — Observations after another go-round of tech interviewing. (🕑 6 min) Ha! So I'm leaving Reonomy. Not what I thought I'd write after the way [that
2016-08-18 — Six Months of Managing. (🕑 10 min) It's been a pretty momentous few months for me at [Reonomy][1]. Like I mentioned
2016-08-18 — Businesses I don't hate the idea of building. (🕑 6 min) I referred previously to the desire to maybe build my own business one day, and
2016-06-26 — New look, new page. (🕑 1 min) I've decided to take another shot at this page. While the ole' poop-colored
2016-01-06 — Augmenting Dropwizard with Swagger and Rollbar. (🕑 13 min) _The following is a cross-post with the [Reonomy blog][13]. It was made to soar
2016-01-02 — 2015 in review. (🕑 11 min) Let's _blog_ blog this one, and talk about what my life is like for a bit. Like
2015-07-05 — Using Erlang. (🕑 8 min) _The following is [cross-posted with the Ghostlight blog.](http://blog.ghostlight.io/erlang/)_
2015-05-28 — My favorite hypothetical virus. (🕑 1 min) I took and TA-ed my college's [Computer Security course][1], where we did things
2015-05-11 — I like Java fine. (🕑 8 min) **Statement: I am plenty happy to use Java in a large number of contexts.**
2015-05-01 — Salary, compensation, and tech labor.. (🕑 5 min) Today on Twitter is [#talkpay][1], where we do what's common in many countries
2014-12-01 — _Sup for Android_ - Part 3. (🕑 4 min) And the final part!! [Part 1][1] covered architecture, and [Part 2][2] covered
2014-12-01 — _Sup for Android_ Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. (🕑 9 min) Welcome back! [Part 1][1] covered architecture, and [Part 3][3] covers testing and
2014-12-01 — Tech overview for _Sup for Android_ - Part 1. (🕑 5 min) I’m one of a small team of engineers for [Sup][1], now on the [Play Store][2]
2014-02-23 — Why I Play StarCraft. (🕑 4 min) Last year my cousin Diego posted a Facebook status along the lines of "dude...
2013-12-17 — Philly Murals. (🕑 1 min) I've been living in Philadelphia now for about a month, and I'm very impressed
2013-12-04 — Done with Compilers. (🕑 9 min) I'm on a bit of a professional hiatus right now, having left Google in August
2013-12-04 — Joss Whedon, the word Feminist. (🕑 10 min) \[Disclaimer: I benefit from virtually every type of privilege society grants:
2013-11-12 — Adventures in Programming Language Bikeshedding. (🕑 3 min) ["Greg"][2] opens a great little [bikeshedder][5] on rust-dev, proving that you can
2013-11-11 — Blogging Solutions. (🕑 7 min) A friend recently asked for some advice regarding blogging solutions, and I
2013-11-05 — The Smash Brothers. (🕑 1 min) While [I play a ton of StarCraft][1], one of the games closest to my heart is
2013-11-04 — Quick write-up of some books. (🕑 7 min) I've driven a lot these last few months: first from San Francisco to Austin,
2013-10-22 — Two works by Peter Bussigel. (🕑 1 min) In college, as part of [my music degree,][2] I got to see some works by
2013-10-18 — On Depression (mine). (🕑 10 min) <a href="http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12052006"><img src="/img/2013/10/beef_toast_cropped.gif" alt="Roast Beef, trouble with toast" style="float:right; margin: 15px 0 15px 15px" /></a>
2013-09-30 — Breaking Bad. (🕑 6 min) <img src="/img/2013/09/bb-comics-1.jpg" style="float: right; width: 400px; margin-left: 30px;" alt="Breaking Bad comics" />
2013-09-30 — Excellent read on Gone Home. (🕑 2 min) [Ian Bogost][1] just published [my favorite piece written about Gone Home][2]
2013-09-29 — Verbing Software. (🕑 4 min) I've mentioned that often people will often
2013-09-17 — BioShock: Infinite. (🕑 6 min) When I upgraded my video card, a [BioShock: Infinite][1] key came with the
2013-01-04 — Good ole 14/14. (🕑 4 min) My buddy [Warren][1] and I had a Twitter conversation about learning Zerg in the
2012-12-18 — Stream Ads. (🕑 11 min) <em><small>Originally written on December 18, Newtown hit me very hard, then I
2012-12-14 — Shootings. (🕑 6 min) <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
2012-10-22 — loving yourself with EBOOKS. (🕑 7 min) While I'm still ramping up at the [new gig][1], I've found a love of code again
2012-01-18 — Smoke Weed Every Day. (🕑 1 min) In the tradition of educating the masses on memes and Internet trends,
2012-01-17 — Testing, and the lost art of the manual. (🕑 9 min) Note: I edited a bunch of this language to be a bit more, uh, fair. Looking
2011-11-14 — Pretentious Titles and Pedantry, Part Paul. (🕑 5 min) Here's a long overdue post: what the hell is up with the title to your earlier
2011-05-31 — On Failure (Computing). (🕑 3 min) While I'd also like to speak of [personal failures][1] today, I've been thinking
2011-05-31 — On Failure (Personal). (🕑 2 min) To contrast to the [other part][1] of this double-post, let's talk about
2011-04-01 — Homebrew comfort music. (🕑 1 min) Often when coding and confronted by a problem you don't know how to solve, it's
2011-03-24 — Kill Null. (🕑 4 min) The other day, I
2011-03-14 — "First, try to be something, anything, else.". (🕑 3 min) Here's an old, but [good article, ostensibly about writing][1]. The author is
2011-03-07 — No Time Like the Present. (🕑 1 min) After playing [Skies of Arcadia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skies_of_Arcadia)
2011-03-03 — An Anecdote on Observational Indistinguishibility. (🕑 1 min) I once saw Tony Kushner speak (playwright, author of [Angels in America][1] and
2011-01-06 — I'll be blogging again soon.... (🕑 1 min) I just got back to work after a lovely, lovely break, and will get back to
2011-01-06 — Welcome to the new blog!. (🕑 1 min) Welcome to the new morepablo.com! After tons of reading, I decided to move
2010-12-13 — How to tell someone their code sucks. (🕑 1 min) Some days I just wish I were
2010-12-10 — Something nice about every language I've used. (🕑 3 min) Inspired by [this post][1] (and more great answers on the [reddit comment
2010-12-07 — STOP IT WITH YOUR STATE. (🕑 5 min) Alright forks, time for some smugness. I know, on this blog?!? But bear with me.
2010-11-21 — Another lazy video post. (🕑 1 min) The weekends are when I get lazy. I got promoted to Diamond League in Starcraft.
2010-11-18 — Every morning of my undergrad. (🕑 1 min) I had a Serious post all lined up, made of words and things, but found an old video
2010-11-13 — I have a music degree, too. (🕑 1 min) Little known fact, but true. While I took traditional music theory and piano,
2010-11-13 — The Road to Lisp Survey. (🕑 3 min) I, Paul Meier, do solemnly offer these responses to
2010-11-07 — THE LAND OF LISP. (🕑 1 min) It's been a while since I've been able to run through a code book, with life
2010-10-27 — CS Pranks: Push it!. (🕑 2 min) While working as a [Sunlab consultant][1] at Brown, my buddy and I would
2010-10-24 — Fear and Loathing. (🕑 3 min) [Glenn Greenwald][1] has [another winner][2], this time over [the firing of
2010-10-24 — Back from Istanbul!. (🕑 2 min) I'm a week back from my marvelous trip, photos over at [Madly Brilliant's
2010-10-08 — Off to Istanbul!. (🕑 1 min) I'm off next week to visit Madly Brilliant in her current home of Istanbul, Turkey.
2010-10-04 — moar remixes. (🕑 1 min) I'm a tired, grumpy Geodude, but I have to post these remixes, because they're
2010-09-30 — Some Professor Layton Prolog!. (🕑 4 min) Time to combine two of my favorite things: [Professor Layton][1] and obscure
2010-09-26 — Repost: Professor Layton and the Hell Yes. (🕑 3 min) My last blog before this got digitally bulldozed: I was hosting on a
2010-09-23 — Vimcakes, Backin' Up Song. (🕑 1 min) I found [an awesome little post on Vim][1], which itself links to other excellent
2010-09-21 — Because I backtraced it!. (🕑 3 min) Here's another story of Internet lore, documented pretty well here at
2010-09-16 — Living Openly. (🕑 3 min) I just wrote a long blog post talking about why it sucks playing Zerg in
2010-09-14 — Updates to previous posts. (🕑 3 min) On my [Eat, Pray, Love][1] post, Lindy West over at The Stranger
2010-09-12 — It's not that hard. (🕑 1 min) Concerning Teh Gays:
2010-09-08 — Life Update/Book Burning. (🕑 3 min) Time for a small life update, as the posts have slowed down for a while and
2010-08-25 — Strong words, Bed Intruder. (🕑 1 min) A few things. One, **cursing, and strong words!**
2010-08-14 — In light of the Essays that were the last two posts.... (🕑 1 min) ... enjoy some lulz. Some Nirvana meets Jackson 5:
2010-08-14 — Making a living being an artist. (🕑 5 min) This blog seems to have veered from [code][1] and [cute whimsy][2] to
2010-08-12 — Life isn't fair and Eat, Pray, Love. (🕑 5 min) One of the smartest people I know recently wrote a blog post on
2010-07-26 — Fooled. (🕑 2 min) Taken from [this post][1], this passage hit a bit close to home:
2010-07-23 — GADDAG and Capitalism. (🕑 2 min) I decided to revisit [ScrabbleCheat][1] (took a break for administrivia), and wrote
2010-07-23 — One of the more convincing arguments for atheism.... (🕑 1 min) ... for me, anyways, was the size and scope of everything that has nothing to
2010-07-22 — \"Everything is Amazing Right Now and Nobody Is Happy.\". (🕑 1 min) This video (at least the middle segment on banks, flying) got a lot of coverage
2010-07-21 — Ben Stein is an idiot.. (🕑 3 min) It's my blog, so I'm free to feel smug and righteous as I like. Today, I'll target Ben
2010-07-18 — MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?. (🕑 2 min) Let this be a myriad post with some of the trends that currently come up in this blog:
2010-07-08 — On Freedom of Speech. (🕑 4 min) Back in DC, my family is hosting an international student for a few days as
2010-07-06 — Languages to describe Languages. (🕑 3 min) We're in a beautiful, exciting, and unsustainable time in programming languages.
2010-07-05 — I WANT AN IPHONE 4!!!!. (🕑 1 min) This was done by a Best Buy employee, who almost certainly got fired afterwards. I lolled.
2010-07-01 — Link Aggregation - Paul Edition. (🕑 2 min) I don't get much feedback on the blog, but the little I get is usually
2010-06-28 — Coding socially. (🕑 2 min) I decided to finally get a [GitHub][2] account, since I've downloaded countless
2010-06-27 — Video Games, and the failure of the word "Art" Redux. (🕑 1 min) **UPDATE (7/20/10):** A little old, but [Ebert closes the book][1] by saying that,
2010-06-25 — Terrible, Wonderful Music Videos. (🕑 2 min) Here's a bunch. The first is probably the most cringe-worthy. This is why the terrorists hate us.
2010-06-23 — Type Systems, From 1000 feet high. (🕑 4 min) I posted a link to one of my favorite articles ever on Facebook that is now gone.
2010-06-23 — Playing Video Games Again. (🕑 3 min) A brief summary of my video gaming:
2010-06-13 — Quickie on Atheism. (🕑 1 min) I love [Andrew Sullivan's blog][1]. It offers excellent analysis containing
2010-06-09 — Assorted interestings. (🕑 1 min) I've always loved the Google "Did you mean?" (favorite is [recursion][1]),
2010-06-08 — Keep Up that Racket!. (🕑 2 min) PLT Scheme, formerly my favorite Scheme implementation and [mentioned][1]
2010-06-01 — Really, Apple?. (🕑 2 min) Apple just showed themselves to be a bit lame about security, at least on Mac
2010-05-20 — Everyone Draw Mohammed. (🕑 1 min) Today is Everyone Draw Mohammed Day ([news story][1], [wikipedia][2]). A small
2010-05-19 — My last study break. (🕑 2 min) My final Final Exam is tomorrow; after that, my graduation is at the mercy of my graders.
2010-05-18 — Today's study break. (🕑 3 min) Still studying like a madman for Neuroscience, but took a few minutes to catch up on
2010-05-17 — I'm still neck-deep in exam studies.... (🕑 1 min) ... but there's a really, really great post on [the various meanings of the word
2010-05-15 — Another game on Android Market!. (🕑 1 min) [My games group][1] is happy and proud to release Momenta (development title
2010-05-13 — My first game is on the Android Market. (🕑 1 min) Pick it up! I don't know of a way to link to the market itself (unless you're
2010-05-10 — Funny images. (🕑 2 min) I've posted a [bunch of][1] [remixes][2] and [3]notable videos][4] earlier,
2010-05-09 — PAUL IS BOTHERED. (🕑 2 min) You can talk all you want about 'practicality,' but one way in which I see
2010-05-06 — Social Golfer problem. (🕑 2 min) One summer I spent working with a professor, the father of a friend heard my
2010-05-02 — The Gods must be crazy!. (🕑 2 min) Over 60% of the video online containing Paul was only uploaded in the last month.
2010-04-30 — I read the news. (🕑 3 min) If you aren't head-explodingly outraged with the Catholic church, you aren't
2010-04-29 — Videos with me!. (🕑 1 min) ME ME ME! `<`STOP`>`
2010-04-25 — Patriotas!. (🕑 1 min) I can write about Spring Weekend a bit later (this was the first and last time
2010-04-23 — Video Games, and the failure of the word "Art". (🕑 5 min) Roger Ebert decided to revisit a topic that got him a lot of attention a few years
2010-04-20 — Metaphors I use to describe software development.. (🕑 3 min) <h4 id="programming-is-magic">Programming is Magic</h4>
2010-04-19 — Another Remix. (🕑 1 min) I went over [some favorite remixes][1] a few days ago, but here's another I
2010-04-19 — Mooooovies!. (🕑 2 min) I posted these on the last blog, months before I was digitally evicted.
2010-04-17 — Baal Bless the Internet. (🕑 2 min) I love remixes, and hope sometime (probably after I graduate) I can get my
2010-04-17 — On Programming Interviews. (🕑 3 min) Lots of great things have been written on the subject of programming interviews,
2010-04-08 — Software and Evolution. (🕑 4 min) I think the software is growing, and will continue to grow, the way lifeforms have grown
2010-04-07 — Being lucky, being strange. Being lucky to be strange.. (🕑 1 min) The Olympics brought more opportunities for people to be hatin' on Johnny Weir
2010-04-06 — Common Lisp. (🕑 2 min) I've been playing around with Common Lisp recently, using [Practical Common Lisp][1]
2010-03-31 — Code-related lulz. (🕑 1 min) The first is the [only conceivable improvement][1] I could think of for [my baby, vim][2].
2010-03-31 — Paul the lil' misogynist. (🕑 4 min) The longer I'm away from home, the more I forget about where I come from. I'm
2010-03-23 — Books, Books, the Musical Fruit. (🕑 6 min) A lot of big-time, [real][1] [bloggers][2] [are][3] [writing][4] [about][5]
2010-03-22 — Games. (🕑 1 min) Made two demo videos, for my [Independent Study making games.][1] The first was our
2010-03-21 — On Jazz, popularity. (🕑 7 min) Another not-very-hackery article on Hacker News caught my attention.
2010-03-17 — On how knowledge turns to Snobbery. (🕑 4 min) I used to read [A List Apart][1] religiously, back when I was a lamer-than-lame
2010-03-16 — A fun twist on Queues from Stacks. (🕑 2 min) There's too, too much to write about, but I'm going to make a little diversion
2010-03-11 — Good Music. (🕑 2 min) I've been hitting some hard times this last year, namely aftershocks of
2010-03-08 — Comix, miscellanous. (🕑 1 min) This weekend I treated myself and bought the first Deluxe Set of [Y: The Last Man][1]
2010-03-07 — TeX, Culture.. (🕑 3 min) On the old (lost) blog I had a long post as to why I used LaTeX instead of Word,
2010-03-02 — My brother and I. (🕑 1 min) I just finished two major works of code and a midterm, but why not share some
2010-03-01 — YEEEAAAAAAH. (🕑 1 min) I love memes, but haven't produced any of my own. In light of this awful, awful
2010-02-24 — GC, Continuations, Ruby Internals. (🕑 3 min) When I was about 6, I told my mom I wanted to be a garbageman when I grew up.
2010-02-22 — m4d H4X. (🕑 3 min) For two years I was a UTA for our department's [Introduction to Security][1]
2010-02-19 — Fruits. (🕑 1 min) I made a video game! Czech it out ^\_^
2010-02-18 — A short history of my belief. (🕑 3 min) One of the (few) things I used to blog about was my atheism. Since I'm starting
2010-02-17 — This made me laugh today.. (🕑 1 min) Yes he was a traitor, but I don't mind taking orders from Lando Calrissian when
2010-02-15 — Hiatus - And a voyage of vim. (🕑 5 min) Sorry for the lack of updates. I hate when blogs say that, but publishing less
2009-12-28 — On-Demand Prime Generation. (🕑 5 min) Many [Project Euler][1] problems are made easier if you have a good facility
2009-12-14 — Prologgin'. (🕑 9 min) Exam season is a royal pain, but I find ways to entertain myself. My most
2009-11-14 — Reading List. (🕑 2 min) Almost as contentious (maybe more) than asking a programmer what their favorite
2009-11-11 — New Blog. (🕑 2 min) Hi all,