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2026

• Semaglutidonomics (Apr 14 · 1)
• No More Inkslop (Apr 13 · 11 · 3)
• You can just take less Mounjaro (Apr 12 · 2)
• Keep Thinking with Claude (Apr 12 · 2)
• The median take is taken (Apr 11 · 5 · 2)
• Blogging – a colossal waste of time? (Apr 10 · 9 · 4)
• The connection gap (Apr 9 · 4)
• Inkhavening (Apr 8 · 14 · 1)
• Should anyone be vegan? (Apr 6 · 15 · 7)
• Talking to strangers: an app adventure (Apr 5 · 3 · 6)
• Cult of REWE (Apr 5 · 5 · 1)
• Gabapentinoids I have known and loved (Apr 3 · 5)
• Capture and coast (Apr 2 · 1 · 1)
• A paean to bigness (Apr 1 · 7)
• Not yet Dariopilled (Mar 3 · 2)
• I'm doing Inkhaven (Feb 24 · 6 · 2)
• The magic toothpaste you can't buy (Feb 17 · 6 · 1)
• New Claude Code funsies (Feb 7 · 5)
• Does shutting down dark web markets kill people? (Jan 20 · 3 · 2)
• My Claude Code workflow (Jan 12 · 4 · 3)

2025

• Could LLM psychiatrists be better than meat ones? (Dec 10 · 1 · 1)
• A fabulous train journey (Dec 6 · 2)
• I went on a Zen meditation retreat (Oct 9 · 2 · 2)
• Everything is broken and that's great (Aug 10 · 4 · 1)

2022

• Moving to Substack (Mar 20)

2021

• Get boosted - especially if you had the AstraZeneca vaccine (Dec 11)
• The value of information (Apr 12)

2020

• Coronavirus testing (Mar 28)

2019

• Blackout in Britain (Aug 9)
• Xiaomi electric scooter - the missing manual (Jul 27)
• Boris Johnson addresses the masses (Jul 18)

2018

• A Buildpack for GraalVM (Aug 9)
• Getting started with Graal (Jul 30)
• Multi-file wordcount – an exercise in concurrent Ruby (Jul 17)
• Tracking physical presence with packet sniffing (Jun 26)
• Geoffrey Miller on polyamory (Jun 25)
• 🔗 Drug elimination calculator (Jun 18)
• 🔗 Where We Donate and Why It Matters (Jun 15)
• Scope insensitivity and d3.js (Jun 15)
• Blagging your way through d3.js (Jun 13)
• Hey, Cochrane - quick answers to medical questions (Jun 5)
• Becoming a dramatically better programmer (May 31)
• Learning Programming Languages with Spaced Repetition (May 29)
• BitTorrent clients for fun and profit (May 23)
• Last chance – see an Iridium flare (May 22)
• How to improve EA Funds (Apr 4)

2017

• London's short-sighted Uber ban (Sep 23)
• I went to an Effective Altruism conference (Mar 21)

2016

• How to BOSH (Nov 4)
• Two gweilos in Morocco (Oct 30)
• Brexit: the next step (Jun 28)
• Honest abstractions (Jun 21)
• Links #2 (May 27)
• How we spend our days is how we spend our lives (May 7)
• State of the Union: programming professionally in 2016 (Apr 15)
• Sleeping better with melatonin (Mar 6)
• A huge opportunity to do good (Mar 3)
• Ruby bindings (Feb 11)
• Giving what we can (Jan 10)

2015

• To mistakes (Dec 25)
• The wrong idea (Dec 10)
• App icon product placement (Nov 26)
• Change your defaults (Nov 12)
• Concourse: CI as Code (Oct 18)
• An eternal golden braid (Oct 4)
• Startup Lessons (Aug 20)
• Kill your Buddhas (Mar 22)

2014

• Employed! (Dec 15)
• The Twelve-Second Code Year [part 4] (Nov 5)
• Makers Academy (Nov 5)
• Getting started with Sinatra and test-driven development (Oct 16)
• Goodbye, Little Printer (Oct 7)
• The Twelve-Second Code Year [part 3] (Sep 29)
• FizzBuzz in CoffeeScript – a worked example (Sep 25)
• Anniversary (Sep 9)
• The Twelve-Second Code Year [part 2] (Sep 7)
• The Twelve-Second Code Year [part 1] (Aug 25)
• How not to forget your dreams (Jul 15)
• To be happier, talk to strangers (Jul 8)
• The passing of a psychedelic giant (Jun 3)
• Why it doesn't matter if people are offended by Live Below the Line (Apr 29)
• A simple game for a large group of people (Apr 3)
• However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light (Apr 2)
• Encryption and veganism can go mainstream -- by being invisible (Feb 23)
• Push back against state surveillance (Feb 11)
• Amazon reviews as poetry (Feb 10)
• PRISM break (Jan 30)
• Links #1: Don't give to beggars, more rational resolutions, one hour R, write for yourself (Jan 19)
• Start cautiously. Always produce. (Jan 14)
• The temptation of smart drugs (Jan 4)
• Why Hailo works (Jan 3)

2013

• Notes from FutureFest (Sep 28)
• Google fights aging (Sep 19)
• Do the groundwork, but keep the vision in mind (Aug 3)
• Right on the money (Jul 31)
• Beating PRISM with Hemlis (Jul 11)
• Wrong about nearly everything (Jul 10)
• I know I don't know what I want (Jun 20)
• Fail more. (Jun 19)
• Summing up happiness research (Jun 15)
• That's a lot of drugs (May 23)
• Relationships are the important thing (Mar 17)

2012

• Preparing for the pandemic (Feb 25)

2011

• Be grateful for MDMA (Dec 7)
• Don't confuse consuming and producing (Nov 6)
• What's the point of OpenPCR? (Oct 31)
• Shortcuts for supercentenarians (Oct 26)
• Ambitious psychology (Mar 16)

2010

• The youth of synthetic biology (Nov 6)
• Learning to learn (Oct 22)
• Pause (Jan 30)

2009

• Fashionable pharmaceuticals (Dec 18)
• The immortality brigade (Nov 27)
• Thinking of the children (Aug 24)
• Hello, world. (Jul 7)