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Still in the Game From Assembly Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence My world view as a teenager was binary in at least 10 intertwined ways: all the code, obviously, and the fact that you were either elite or a “lam...

Still in the Game - From Assembly Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence

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#coding #ai #demoscene

07.06.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unseen, Too Small I Like Being Autistic Recently, US Eugenicist in Chief and conspiracy theory trafficker RFK Jr. held an unsurprising, yet somehow still shocking, news conference in which he reduced humanity’s existen...

I like being autistic. This new article is my response to RFK's latest hallucinations.

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#autism #neurodiversity #disability #politics #antifascism #fascism #antiauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #government #diversity #ablism #rfk #rfkjr

19.04.2025 05:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shallow Breaths: Living Autistic With OCD The piss molecules were inside my skin. There was a cloud of urine with a 200 foot radius emanating from the drunk passed out on the sidewalk and I was already in it. I knew this was going to happen b...

Took willpower to publish; early readers described visceral reactions & could imagine the intersection of autism and OCD.

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#autism #OCD #neurodiversity #disability #NeurodivergentExperience #SensoryOverload #MentalHealth #IntrusiveThoughts #hyperawareness #LivedExperience

02.04.2025 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big Tech Is Compromised: How to Reduce Your Footprint As a user, Consider Offshoring Your Data and Services Privacy is a human right. Privacy requires data protection. I want America to do better. I want American tech companies to do better. I think that...

One of my articles from February, 2025, and we're all caught up.

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#privacy #security #surveillance #HumanRights #government #BigTech

01.04.2025 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Autism, Algorithms and Authoritarianism Autism and Fascism Have Crossed Paths Before—but Not How You Think “Information wants to be free”, observed Stewart Brand during a discussion with Steve Wozniak at the 1984 Hackers Conference. In hind...

One of my articles from February, 2025.

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#autism #neurodiversity #disability #SocialMedia #politics #AntiFascism #fascism #AntiAuthoritarianism #authoritarianism #government #BigTech

01.04.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Communication in Stressful Times Short-circuit evaluations of logical expressions can cause problematic behavior, and so can short-circuit expressions in human communications. In stressful times such as looming deadlines or other pro...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#communication #stress #teams #toxicity #neurodiversity

01.04.2025 01:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Estimates and the Fog of War A lone engineer stands at the city gate. She built a subway station here three years ago on a sunny day. On this dark, foggy night, she wishes her flashlight shone brighter, her map was up to date and...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#estimates #production #coding #ProjectManagement #TechDebt #MVP #scope #toxicity #communication

31.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Code and Music, Timelines and Lifelines When I kick the bucket drum, I’ll leave behind three creations: my spawn and 10 buckets of bits. One bucket full of code and another brimming with notes. /* No, not these kinds of notes. */ Perhaps th...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#coding #music #retro #creativity #happiness #productivity #CodersBlock #WritersBlock

31.03.2025 07:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Disaster at the Ready At some point, your co-worker (peer or otherwise), or even an entire team, will massively screw up. Or you will. Perhaps you already have. If the latter is true, congratulations – you’re in a great pl...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#teams #communication #leadership #management #mistakes #discipline #coding #crunch #overtime #heroics #goodhabits

30.03.2025 21:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Mithril Border: Beautiful Constraints Stravinsky talked about the concept of creative limitation in music being useful in order to reach new and different results. There have been TED talks on limitations as an upside. (LaaU?) Publication...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#creativity #constraints #retro #coding #music #atari #demoscene #optimization #performance

30.03.2025 04:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pros and Cons Are Inseparable While my perception of my own knowledge path has been something like “I know nothing” -> “I know everything” -> “I know nothing”, engineers at any level can become overly convinced that their own appr...

One of my articles from 2022.

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#teams #communication #conflict #leadership #management #coding #toxicity #goodhabits #productivity

29.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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15.03.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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