To the child, involuntary day care is abandonment. Children may not be able to articulate it, but as the years go on and the day care turns into school, occasionally, sometimes often, there is palp...
We are all time machines, not leaky cauldrons. We shift spacetime to our liking, not through droning universes. We eat mustard worlds, not okayu. We end as protos civilization, not eek, ebb and ...
Playing with AI has been a lot of fun. This particular project was pretty self-indulgent. I don't think it's slop, because it took me longer to do than it will take you to read it—but I think it ma...
““My friend said yesterday about some app he made with AI, ‘It’s my first disposable app,’ and it didn’t hit me until just now. Computers are finally free of treating software like hardware. Apps s...
I recently wrote a year-end reflection for MOAB, my little company. That post is more personal—about the name, my mom, and learning to stay somewhere long enough to build something. This one is mor...
I've had the Creality K2 Plus for a couple months now. It's been incredibly fun learning how to use the thing, learning how to make my own designs in CAD, and getting into the deep end exploring ...
These aren’t strictly “hacks”—they’re just a few things I learned with my son to help our everyday fun. Commands are tested in 1.21.5 unless otherwise noted. It’s aimed at parents who don’t know mu...
This is a good way to set up a full stack production-like learning environment, at a very low cost or for free. Once you know how to do this stuff, you can learn how to host your own hardware, too—...
For this project I started working with a MacMini M1 I had lying around. Once the computer has a user logged in, you can login with that user using macOS's Screen Sharing app on another computer fo...
[This is an extended playful response to a thought-provoking post by Matjaž Leonardis] If memes were passively passed between people like genes between animals, they would be indistinguishable fro...
Both the myth of the apple falling on his head and the ideas it was said to have caused were actually created by a mind guessing about data that WASN’T there. He was guessing why the apple would f...
I have been trying to understand critical theory for a decade and a half. It came up again and again in my communications studies, and I found it very confusing, full of contradictions and except...
I use this guide to install Ruby locally with Ruby's "just in time compiler", substituting for latest versions where possible: https://dev.to/wizardhealth/install-ruby-320-with-yjit-3mmo But what...
““Your parents or even your friends may want you to treat your children in some way they deem best… This sets your children up to live their lives within the expectations of others, just as you are...
[Edit: 2025, November 13] I un-published this for awhile and have decided to re-publish it. I think I'm finally past the uncomfortable feelings of it all. Plus, I have a much better TL/DR, the take...
[The Infinima]For a few years now, I've been a dedicated listener of Christofer Lövgren's podcast Do Explain. He frequently has on Jake Orthwein to discuss ideas like meta-rationality and David Cha...
On Twitter awhile back I saw an ad for a 'domino train' that automates setting up dominos. In the comments I saw a few disparaging comments. One read, "Nobody needs a fully-automatic, magazine fed ...
[Image] “Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’. It is one of the characteristics of the magical attitude o...
[多元宇宙陰陽]Sometime in 2009 or so I made a short found footage film named Conatus using audio from open source record labels, clips from old video in the public domain on archive.org, and inspirationa...
Hi, I’m Cody! I’m interested in computers and programming, media, language, communication, science, philosophy, epistemology, Making Music and Bitcoin, skateboarding, and Taking Children Seriously....
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