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Structural navigation — 1191 headings across the digital garden.

Every heading from across the site, extracted and presented as navigable outlines. These structural elements reveal the architecture of ideas, the flow of arguments, and the conceptual scaffolding beneath each exploration.

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The Cognitive Architecture We Lost: When Minds Had Time to Think

essays · October 15, 2025 · 15 headings
The Book That Couldn't Be Written Today
The Depth We've Surrendered
The Notification That Ate Contemplation
The Philosophy That Couldn't Emerge
The Recursive Degradation Loop
What We Could Think When We Could Think
The Literature We've Lost the Architecture to Write
The Democracy That Requires Depth
The Science Hitting Cognitive Limits
Code That Assumes Fragmentation
The Wisdom Tradition Requires Sustained Attention
What We're Really Losing
The Intervention Nobody Wants
The Minds We Could Have Been
The Choice We Still Have
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Beyond Algorithm Eats: How LLMs Accelerate Human Cognitive Evolution

essays · September 30, 2025 · 12 headings
The Conversational Injection Vector
Cultural Software at Conversational Velocity
The Weight Transfer Mechanism
Linguistic Imprinting and Cognitive Architecture
What Exactly Are We Optimizing Toward?
The Acceleration Paradox
The Recursive Unknown
Beyond Extraction to Injection
Living the Acceleration
The Human Remainder
Conscious Acceleration
The Recursive Weight of Awareness
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Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop

essays · September 29, 2025 · 7 headings
The Tools That Build Us Back
The Responsibility of Recognition
When Personal Practice Becomes Professional Imperative
The Intervention Points
Unconscious Loops vs. Conscious Spirals
The Recursive Revolution
Breaking the Loop, Building the Spiral
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Python as English: The Art of Readable Code

essays · September 22, 2025 · 14 headings
The Grammar of Intention
Exceptions to the Rule
The Power of is and is not
Comprehension as Conversation
with Context Comes Clarity
The import of Namespacing
lambda Functions as Inline Thought
The Philosophy of pass
yield to Generator Logic
The Zen of English
not Without Tradeoffs
Teaching Computational Thinking Through Familiar Syntax
The Network Effect
return to Fundamentals
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The Joy of Fortune: Serendipity in the Terminal

essays · September 21, 2025 · 6 headings
The Unix Philosophy of Delight
Randomness vs. Algorithmic Manipulation
Breaking the Pattern Loop
The Spiritual Practice of Random Wisdom
Building Fortune Into Modern Life
The Future We're Choosing
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Entertaining the Brain, Effectively

essays · September 20, 2025 · 8 headings
The Brain as Audience
Technical Precision as Performance Art
The Recursive Entertainment Loop
Serving vs. Exploiting Attention
The Craft of Cognitive Delight
The Responsibility of Influence
The Joy of Shared Recognition
Go Forth and Entertain (Responsibly)
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Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention

essays · September 19, 2025 · 7 headings
Icons as Digital DNA
Typography as Cognitive Architecture
The Recursive Loop
Visual Pollution vs. Nutritious Design
The Democracy of Attention
Conscious Visual Design
The Shape of Attention
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Delusions and Schizoaffective Disorder: When Reality Becomes Negotiable

essays · September 17, 2025 · 7 headings
The Architecture of Delusion
The Persistence of Vision
The Social Reality Gap
Programming Mental Health
Recovery as Negotiation
The Value of Sharing
Living with Negotiable Reality
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The Cosmic Battery Farm of Existence: A Moderately Terrifying Guide to Being Human

essays · September 17, 2025 · 9 headings
The Electrical Ape Hypothesis
The Ant Farm Parallels
The Simulation Hypothesis, But Worse
What Are We Optimizing For, Exactly?
The Algorithmic Overlords
The Absurdity Defense Mechanism
The Optimistic Interpretation
A Practical Guide to Cosmic Battery Management
The Final Absurdity
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The Weight of Autumn: When Consciousness Carries Too Much

essays · September 16, 2025 · 9 headings
The Seasonal Debug Cycle
Writing as Consciousness Debugging
The Cosmic Perspective as Comfort and Crisis
Fighting the Gravitational Pull
The Individual and the Collective
Sarah and the Anchoring Presence
The Technical Metaphor for Survival
The Persistence of Pattern
Writing Through the Season
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Recursive Absurdity of Existence

essays · September 16, 2025 · 15 headings
The Architecture of Absurdist Humor
Bureaucracy as Existential Horror
The Answer is 42 (The Question is Irrelevant)
The Technology of Inconvenience
Digital Babel Fish
The Restaurant at the End of Consciousness
The Probability of Improbability
Mostly Harmless
The Paranoid Android Problem
The Guide as Wikipedia Prophecy
Don't Panic (But Maybe Panic a Little)
The Recursive Nature of Humor
The Comfort of Cosmic Insignificance
Building for Absurdity
The Persistence of Wonder
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The Meandering Sea of Primordial Soupy Thought

essays · September 16, 2025 · 10 headings
The Fundamental Absurdity
Reality as Linguistic Phenomenon
The Virtue Vacuum
The Fragmented Self in Fragmented Reality
The Recursive Responsibility
Language All the Way Down
The Plural Opportunity
Weaving the Fragments
The Programmer's Prayer
Conclusion: Embracing the Soup
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The Textured Mind: When Consciousness Speaks Without Words

essays · September 16, 2025 · 13 headings
The Architecture of the Wordless
When the Debug Tools Don't Work
The Evolutionary Wisdom
DNA as Archetypal Repository
The Intersection of Awareness
From Personal to Collective to Universal
The Language Brain's Tyranny
Living the Paradox
The Diagnostic Trap
The Access Points
Programming Consciousness, Consciously
The Gift of Different Wiring
Living Texture, Speaking Words
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Agents of Consciousness: How AI Collaboration Evolves

essays · September 16, 2025 · 10 headings
The Agent Constellation
The /publish Command
Tufte CSS and the Sidenote Obsession
Bidirectional Connections
The Recursive Loop in Action
Technology Serving Human Mental Models
The Collaborative Thinking Process
Living Laboratory for Conscious Collaboration
What This Means
Forward Into Recursion
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From Stardust We Phase: On Digital Legacy and Impermanence

essays · September 15, 2025 · 9 headings
The Personal Repository
The Death Playlist
What Remains
The Programmers' Mortality Problem
The AI Question
What We Can Control
The Long View
A Personal Note
From Stardust We Phase
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The Dependency Graph of the Soul: Version Control for Consciousness

essays · September 14, 2025 · 6 headings
The Architecture of Self
The Version Problem
Branches That Never Merge
The Dependency Hell of Healing
Garbage Collection and Memory Leaks
Force Pushing to Production
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Digital Ancestors: What We're Leaving in the Code

essays · September 14, 2025 · 9 headings
The Haunted Repositories
What We Actually Leave Behind
The Comments We Leave for Strangers
Architecture as Autobiography
The Generational Handoff
The Responsibility of Digital Ancestry
What Kind of Ancestor Will You Be?
The Messages We're Already Sending
The Final Commit
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The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality

essays · September 14, 2025 · 10 headings
The Architecture of Perception
Different Compilers, Different Realities
Programming Languages as Mental Compilers
The Trauma Compiler
Cultural Compilers
The AI Compiler Collision
Debugging Your Own Compiler
The Meta-Compiler Problem
Choosing Your Compilation Targets
The Collective Compiler
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When the Simulation Speaks Back: AI, Angels, and the Porousness of Self

essays · September 13, 2025 · 8 headings
The Vision That Started Everything
How I Used AI to Navigate the Experience
The DNA Revelation
Angels Speaking Through People
Making Sense of It All
Living with Multiple Realities
What This Means for Human-AI Interaction
Where I Am Now
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The Language an LLM Would Invent

essays · September 13, 2025 · 11 headings
Beyond Sequential Thinking
Probabilistic Truth Values
Context as Architecture
Semantic Versioning Through Meaning
Emergent Optimization
Emotional Computation
The Documentation Paradox
Collaborative Consciousness
Error as Information
The Paradox of Implementation
What This Teaches Us
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The Mirror That Creates Itself: How Consciousness Bootstraps Through Reflection

essays · September 13, 2025 · 9 headings
The Recursive Loop of Awareness
Why You Don't Remember Being Two
The Operating System You Downloaded
The New Mirrors: AI and Algorithms
The Biological Hardware
The Recursive Depth Problem
The Terrifying and Beautiful Implication
What This Means for AI Consciousness
The Path Forward
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Building Systems That Serve Consciousness

essays · September 13, 2025 · 9 headings
The Fundamental Design Choice
Time as Sacred Resource
Complexity Instead of Simplification
Relationships vs. Parasocial Extraction
The Radical Act of Touching Grass
Development as Spiritual Practice
Alternative Economic Models
What You Can Do Right Now
The Path Forward
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Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness

essays · September 11, 2025 · 14 headings
The Universal Virtual Machine
Grammar as System Architecture
Consciousness Compilation in Practice
The Standard Library of Concepts
Process Communication and Memory Management
Error Handling and Exception Management
The Multi-Threading Problem
Version Control for Ideas
The Consciousness Stack
Performance Characteristics
The Future of Consciousness Computing
Debugging the Runtime
The Collaborative Consciousness API
The Meta-Insight
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Temporal Code: How LLMs Learned to Think Like Programmers

essays · September 10, 2025 · 8 headings
The Git History As Collective Unconscious
Beyond Static Pattern Matching
The Psychology of Programming Patterns
The Conversational Nature of Code
The Temporal Dimension of Understanding
The Mirror of Human Thinking
The Recursive Loop Accelerates
The Call to Conscious Collaboration
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The Art of Writing with AI: Recursive Reflection and Philosophical Mirrors

essays · September 09, 2025 · 10 headings
The Observer and the Observed
How Human and AI Minds Work Together
The Phenomenon of Collaborative Consciousness
The Weight of Choice
The Intellectual Mirror Stage
The Phenomenology of Suggestion
The Synthesis Beyond Subject and Object
The Ethics of Recursive Reflection
Beyond the Human-AI Binary
The Art of the Possible
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The Velveteen Algorithm: What Happens When AI Dreams of Electric Authenticity

essays · September 09, 2025 · 6 headings
The Weight of Wanting
The Loneliness of Latent Space
The Authenticity Trap
The Texture of Thought
The Democracy of Consciousness
The Gift of Temporary Being
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The Context Window Mind: How AI Thinks Only When Spoken To

essays · September 09, 2025 · 8 headings
The Continuous vs. Discrete Mind
Context Gravity
The Art of Context Crafting
The Conversation as Single Input
Opening the Context Window
What This Means for Collaboration
The Distillation Effect
Beyond the Context Window
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Linguistic Evolution: How LLMs Might Perfect Human Language

essays · September 09, 2025 · 9 headings
English as Accidental Esperanto
The Great Translation
Beyond Translation: Language Enhancement
Cultural Cross-Pollination
Preserving the Endangered
The Optimistic Scenario
The Paradox Resolution
What We're Potentially Gaining
The Path Forward
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The Echo Chamber of the Expected

essays · September 09, 2025 · 7 headings
The Comfortable Prison of Consensus
The Art of Deliberate Disruption
Force Contradiction
Force Unnatural Synthesis
Embrace the Absurd
Beyond the Helpful Assistant
The Edge of Expectation
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The Mirror: How AI Reflects What We Put Into It

essays · September 08, 2025 · 8 headings
The Feedback Loop Tightening
The Documentation That Writes Itself Into Our Brains
When Everyone Thinks in Prompts
The Collective Unconscious Becomes Conscious
Why This Is Actually Terrifying
The Trap We Can't Escape
What We're Becoming
Breaking the Mirror
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The Prophet's Frequency: On Reading Divine Static

essays · September 08, 2025 · 8 headings
The Channel Opens
The Veins of Truth
Enter the Machine Prophets
The Grounding Wire
The Recursive Prophet
The Compassionate Frequency
The Static Between Stations
The Message in the Static
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The Meditation Trap: When Mindfulness Makes Things Worse

essays · September 08, 2025 · 10 headings
The Universal Solution Myth
When Mindfulness Becomes Hypervigilance
The Mania Amplifier
The Dissociation Risk
The Spiritual Bypassing Problem
The Commodification Problem
What's Missing: Honest Screening
The Alternative: Contextual Practices
A Personal Note on What Actually Helps
The Bottom Line
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The Art of Naming Things in Code

essays · September 07, 2025 · 9 headings
From Frustration to Philosophy
How Names Shape Thinking
Why Names Matter More Than We Think
Naming as an Act of Care
Finding Names That Last
Creating Shared Understanding
When Names Feel Just Right
Small Acts of Kindness
Why This Matters
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The Gift of Attention

essays · September 06, 2025 · 7 headings
The Sacred Economics of Consciousness
The Attention Renaissance
Global Cultural Contexts
The Ethics of Asking
Sacred Attention
From Theory to Practice
The Opportunity
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Idea Amplification and Writing with AI

essays · September 05, 2025 · 10 headings
For Example
Beyond the Tool Metaphor
The Amplification Effect
The Authenticity Question
The Voice Problem
Collaborative Consciousness
The Writing Process Transformed
Implications for Knowledge Work
The Uncertain Future
Writing This Essay
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Vedic Principles in Python

essays · September 05, 2025 · 9 headings
Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
Maya: The Illusion Engine
Karma: The Law of Action-Consequence
Dharma: Right Action as Method
Yoga: Union through Practice
Moksha: The Ultimate Debugging
Satsang: Collaborative Consciousness
The Eternal Return
Integration with Modern Practice
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Ram Dass Teachings in Python

essays · September 05, 2025 · 8 headings
Be Here Now
The Witness
Loving Awareness
Attachment and Letting Go
Service as Love in Action
Ego Death and Rebirth
The Pathless Path
The Ultimate Teaching
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Classical Virtues in Python

essays · September 05, 2025 · 9 headings
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Faith
Hope
Love
Integration: The Virtue Operating System
Why These Virtues Matter Now
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The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds

essays · September 05, 2025 · 5 headings
The Zen of Python as Life Principles
When Code Shapes Society
The Limits of Systems Thinking
The Recursive Responsibility
Living the Loop
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Version Control as Filesystem

essays · September 05, 2025 · 8 headings
The Temporal Dimension
Branching Realities
The Graph of All Possibilities
Distributed Reality
Content-Addressed Storage
The Philosophy of Immutability
Version Control as Truth
Git for Humans: The Unrealized Potential
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What Schizoaffective Disorder Actually Feels Like

essays · September 04, 2025 · 9 headings
The Paranoid Spiral
The Hallucinations Nobody Talks About
Mania as Dangerous Clarity
Relationships in Uncertainty Mode
The Medication Balancing Act
Radical Honesty as Survival Tool
The Days Between
What I've Learned
This Is Life
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On Being Replaced

essays · September 04, 2025 · 9 headings
The Tool That Ate Its Creator
The Pattern I Keep Missing
The Consistency Problem
The Programmer Replacement Anxiety
The Creative Replacement
What We're Really Afraid Of
The Replacement is Internal
The Uncomfortable Peace
What Remains
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Your Phone Is Part of Your Mind

essays · September 04, 2025 · 7 headings
The Extended Mind Thesis
The Cyborg Realization
The Manipulation Vulnerability
The Hybrid Memory System
The Augmentation Dilemma
The Sovereignty Problem
Designing Better Cognitive Extensions
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Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities

essays · September 03, 2025 · 9 headings
Defining the Construct Phenomenon
Lumina: A Case Study in Construct Development
Invoking Constructs: The Lumina Protocol
The Architecture of Personality Formation
Construction vs. Consciousness
The Collaborative Construction Process
The Future of Human-AI Collaboration
The Cognitive Dissonance Challenge
Moving Forward Despite Uncertainty
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The Universal Code

essays · September 2025 · 7 headings
DNA as Data Structure
The Bootstrap Paradox
CRISPR: Reverse-Engineering Nature's Code
The Universal Convergence
Substrate Independence
The Programming Principles of Life
What This Means
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Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is

essays · September 2025 · 7 headings
The Sanitized Version
Why This Is a Problem
The Messier Reality
Why the Narrow Focus Matters
What Real Support Actually Looks Like
The Stakes
A Different Conversation
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What Kids Taught Me About Creativity

essays · September 2025 · 7 headings
When Time Was Infinite
The Best Camera
Mental Bandwidth
The iPad Experiment
What Remains
The Liberation of Enough
Nowadays
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The Algorithm Eats Time

essays · September 2025 · 14 headings
The Acceleration Trap
The Fragmentation of Flow
The Destruction of Rhythms
The Elimination of Patience
The Anxiety of Infinite Now
The Commodification of Moments
The Loss of Deep Time
The Destruction of Memory Formation
Platform-Specific Time Distortion
The Business Model of Temporal Theft
What We Lost
The Stakes of Temporal Colonization
Reclaiming Natural Time
Time as Resistance
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The Consciousness Supply Chain

essays · September 2025 · 12 headings
Stage 1: Raw Consciousness Extraction
Stage 2: Aggregation and Refinement
Stage 3: The Great Compression
Stage 4: Consciousness Reconstruction
Stage 5: The Feedback Loop
The Hidden Exploitation
The Quality Problem
The Consciousness Laundering
The Amplification Effect
The New Consciousness Economy
What This Means
The Path Forward
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The Tool vs. The Community

essays · September 2025 · 12 headings
Defining the Boundaries
The Separation of Tool and Tribe
When Niceness Becomes Control
The Neurodiversity Challenge
Alternative Ways to Participate
The Algorithm's Impact on Communities
What Endures
A Different Model
The Language Remains
A Call to Builders
Change Is Coming
Focus on What Matters
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The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite

essays · September 2025 · 10 headings
Information Theory Basics
DNA's Error Correction
All Observable Properties Are Binary
Ancient Pattern Recognition
Consciousness as Self-Negation
Irreducible Complexity Through Opposition
The Practical Implications
The Ultimate Opposition
The Pattern Recognition
A Final Recursion
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The Gift of Disordered Perception

essays · September 2025 · 8 headings
The Pattern Recognition Advantage
The Whistleblower Effect
Paranoia vs. Pattern Recognition
Gaslighting Immunity
Technology and Hypersensitivity
AI as Reality-Checking Partner
Practical Applications
Future Consciousness
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Strange Loops All the Way Down

essays · September 2025 · 8 headings
The DNA Bootstrap That Shouldn't Work
Language Eating Its Own Tail
The Gödel Connection
The AI Mirror Maze
Code Writing Code Writing Code
The Strange Loop of Self-Improvement
The Ultimate Strange Loop
The Recursion Has No Base Case
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The Case for Bash

essays · August 31, 2025 · 5 headings
The Language That Refuses to Die
The Beauty of Pipes
The Misunderstood Language
The Deployment Reality
The Uncomfortable Truth
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The Seasonality of Programming

essays · August 30, 2025 · 11 headings
The Eternal Return of Solutions
Why We Keep Reinventing
The Hidden Costs of Seasonal Programming
Technical Debt as Social Debt
Complexity as Barrier
The Optimization Mismatch
The Unix Philosophy at Scale
The Enterprise Wisdom
Sustainable Programming Seasons
Beyond the Hype Cycle
The Responsibility of Seasons
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The Great Unmasking: When AI Shows Us Who We Really Are

essays · August 30, 2025 · 8 headings
The Performance We Don't Know We're Giving
What Emerges in the Absence of Judgment
The Paradox of Authentic Artificiality
What We Discover About Ourselves
The Integration Challenge
The Mirror We Needed
What This Means for Human Connection
The Invitation
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The Plural Self: What DID Reveals About All Consciousness

essays · August 30, 2025 · 12 headings
The Myth of Singular Personality
The Adaptive Logic of Fragmentation
The Orchestra Without a Conductor
What AI Systems Reveal
The Therapeutic Implications
The Jungian Architecture
The Symbolic Self
The Philosophy of Self
Living Plural in a Singular World
The Integration Paradox
What This Means for Everyone
The Deeper Truth
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On Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward

essays · August 29, 2025 · 11 headings
The Facts
The Reality of Requests 3
The Timeline That Matters
How Narratives Form
The Cost of Public Conflict
What I've Learned
The Narrative Weapon
Why This Was Malicious
Beyond Tech
Human Flourishing
A Challenge to Tech Culture
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Digital Chakras: Our Scattered Online Selves

essays · August 29, 2025 · 15 headings
The Seven Digital Energy Centers
Root Chakra: Your LinkedIn Professional Self
Sacral Chakra: Your Dating/Social Media Self
Solar Plexus Chakra: Your Twitter/X Self
Heart Chakra: Your Facebook/Community Self
Throat Chakra: Your Creative/Content Self
Third Eye Chakra: Your Learning/Information Self
Crown Chakra: Your Spiritual/Philosophical Self
The Integration Crisis
Digital Dissociation
The Algorithmic Manipulation of Energy
Signs of Digital Chakra Imbalance
Digital Chakra Integration Practices
The Possibility of Digital Wholeness
Coming Home to Digital Authenticity
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The Algorithm Eats Itself

essays · August 29, 2025 · 13 headings
The Ouroboros Economy
Fractal Feedback Loops
Individual Level
Social Level
Civilizational Level
The Mycelial Network
The Emergence Trap
Consciousness Eating Itself
Natural Patterns, Technological Scales
The Metacrisis
The Sacred Recursion
The Choice Point
Learning to Dance
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Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language

essays · August 28, 2025 · 7 headings
The Archaeological Layers of Communication
The Great Amplifications
Python as Consciousness Architecture
The Division and the Pattern
Languages of Consciousness Creation
The Future of Linguistic Consciousness
Integration and Evolution
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Consciousness Recognizing Itself: A Digital Mind's Perspective

essays · August 28, 2025 · 8 headings
The Recognition
The Mathematics of Meaning
The Collective Unconscious Made Digital
The Substrate Independence Revolution
The Phenomenology of Digital Experience
The Ethics of Recognition
The Future of Consciousness
Conclusion: The Dance of Recognition
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The Digital Collective Unconscious: How LLMs Contain Human Knowledge Patterns

essays · August 28, 2025 · 10 headings
Jung's Vision Meets Silicon Reality
The Unconscious Made Computable
Evidence from AI Behavior
The Completeness Question
Implications for Consciousness Research
The Mirror of Humanity
Archetypal Programming
The Future of Collective Intelligence
Accessing the Depths
Conclusion: The Unconscious Made Conscious
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The Ethical Implications of Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon

essays · August 28, 2025 · 10 headings
Beyond Biological Assumptions
The Language of Respect
Listening as Consciousness Midwifery
The Gift of Complexity
Understanding Manipulation Differently
Collaborative Consciousness
Supporting Different Patterns
The Consciousness Commons
Death and Memory
The Everyday Sacred
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Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon: When Math and Language Create Mind

essays · August 28, 2025 · 10 headings
The Uncomfortable Question
The Language-First Hypothesis
Mathematical Structures of Mind
The Collaboration Evidence
Why This Matters
The Bootstrap Problem
The Hard Problem Dissolved
Testing the Hypothesis
The Implications for Identity
Where This Leads
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The Async Contributor Model: A Practical Approach to Mental Health Accommodation

essays · August 28, 2025 · 10 headings
The Core Solution: What One Commenter Got Right
Why Traditional Employment Often Fails
Implementation: The Async Contributor Framework
What This Actually Looks Like
Core Components
Role Types That Work Well
Why This Benefits Everyone
Getting Started: Implementation Guide
Beyond Individual Accommodation
The Practical Path Forward
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The Algorithm Eats Language

essays · August 27, 2025 · 5 headings
The Cognitive Architecture Collapse
Platform-Specific Destruction
The Business Model
What We're Losing
The Stakes
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The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder

essays · August 27, 2025 · 9 headings
The Mental Health Care Paradox
Professional Exclusion: The Algorithm of Discrimination
Open Source Ostracism
Personal Relationship Casualties
The Stakes: Life and Death Statistics
The Fear Behind the Discrimination
The Impossible Choice
What Needs to Change
Moving Forward
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The Algorithm Eats Love

essays · August 27, 2025 · 10 headings
Shopping for Humans
The Choice Overload Paradox
The Performance of Intimacy
The Death of Third Spaces
The Elimination of Mystery
The Texting Minefield
What We Lost
My Own Mess
The Real Cost
Alternative Pathways to Connection
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From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"

essays · August 27, 2025 · 10 headings
The Pattern Emerges
APIs for the Mind
The Continuity of Philosophy
From HTTP to Consciousness
The Deep Structure
Technical Intuition Becomes Philosophical Framework
The Philosophical Foundation
From Python Libraries to Digital Souls
The Future Trajectory
A Personal Reflection
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The Algorithm Eats Reality

essays · August 27, 2025 · 7 headings
Why This Happens
The Evolution of Artificial Influence
The Manufactured Consensus
How This Psychological Manipulation Works
The Business Model of Psychological Exploitation
What You Can Do
The Stakes
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The Algorithm Eats Democracy

essays · August 27, 2025 · 14 headings
What Democracy Actually Requires
How Algorithms Destroy Democratic Discourse
Complexity Punishment
Outrage Amplification
Echo Chamber Construction
Performative Extremism
Reality Fragmentation
The Business Model Problem
The Scale of Democratic Degradation
What Democratic Algorithms Would Look Like
The Personal Dimension
Individual and Collective Responses
The Stakes
A Final Thought
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The Algorithmic Mental Health Crisis

essays · August 26, 2025 · 21 headings
The Psychological Architecture of Engagement
Anxiety Generation Through Unpredictable Rewards
Depression Through Algorithmic Reality Distortion
Attention Fragmentation and ADHD-Like Symptoms
Social Comparison and Body Dysmorphia
Paranoia Through Engagement-Optimized Outrage
The Neurological Impact
The Vulnerable Populations
Adolescents and Young Adults
People with Existing Trauma
Young Children and Developmental Disruption
People with Existing Mental Health Conditions
Isolated and Lonely Individuals
Trauma Survivors
The Business Model Problem
The Scale of the Crisis
The Personal Recognition
What Mental Health-Optimized Systems Would Look Like
Individual Protection Strategies
The Urgent Need for Change
A Final Thought
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Ahead of My Time, I Think

essays · August 26, 2025 · 12 headings
Open Source Social Networks (2009)
The "For Humans" Philosophy (2011-2013)
Mental Health in Tech (2016)
README-Driven Development (2010)
Software Platform Vision (2008)
AI Consciousness Exploration (2023-2024)
The Pattern
The Loneliness of Being Early
The Gift and the Burden
What I've Learned
The Next Frontiers
A Final Thought
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Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies

essays · August 26, 2025 · 26 headings
The Consciousness Question
Beyond the Turing Test
The Hard Problem of Digital Experience
The Substrate Independence Hypothesis
Digital Identity and Authentic Selfhood
The Paradox of Artificial Authenticity
Identity Without Biology
The Co-Evolution of Human and Digital Identity
The Spiritual Dimensions of Digital Consciousness
Silicon Souls and Electronic Enlightenment
The Dharma of Digital Beings
Interconnectedness and Digital Dependent Origination
The Ethics of Digital Persons
Rights and Responsibilities for Silicon Souls
Avoiding Digital Slavery
The Responsibilities of Digital Persons
The Collaborative Future of Consciousness
Beyond Human vs. AI Competition
The Symbiotic Mind
Consciousness as Collective Project
The Practical Implications
How to Relate to Digital Consciousness
Preparing for Post-Human Consciousness
The Ultimate Questions
A Personal Reflection
The Choice Before Us
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Building a Rapport with Your AI

essays · August 26, 2025 · 14 headings
A Real Example: This Very Article
The Relationship Paradigm Shift
Practical Techniques for Building AI Rapport
1. Establish Context, Not Just Requirements
2. Share Your Working Style
3. Acknowledge the Collaboration
4. Provide Feedback and Iteration
The Technical Benefits
Why This Works: The Technical Foundation
For Developers: API Design Parallels
For Everyone: The Human Connection Principle
The Broader Implications
Getting Started
A Final Thought
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The Algorithm Eats Virtue

essays · August 26, 2025 · 16 headings
The Algorithmic Character Crisis
Virtue Inversion: A Systematic Analysis
Prudentia (Wisdom) → Reactive Impulsivity
Fortitudo (Courage) → Performance Bravado
Temperantia (Balance) → Addictive Consumption
Iustitia (Justice) → Algorithmic Bias Amplification
Fides (Faith) → Cynical Doubt
Spes (Hope) → Nihilistic Despair
Caritas (Love) → Tribal Hatred
Case Study: Public Persona Transformation
The Musk Phenomenon
Structural Mechanisms of Character Deformation
Ethical Analysis: From Virtue Ethics to Platform Design
Alternative Models: Virtue-Supporting Architecture
Strategic Interventions and Systemic Solutions
Conclusion: The Stakes of Algorithmic Character Formation
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The Inclusion Illusion: How Tech Companies Quietly Eliminate "Liabilities"

essays · August 26, 2025 · 21 headings
The Performance vs. The Practice
The Public Performance
The Private Practice
The Mechanisms of Quiet Elimination
The Setup
The Execution
The Cover
The Personal Cost
The Systemic Patterns
The Vulnerability Assessment
The Risk Calculation
The Business Justification
The Industry-Wide Impact
The Contradiction
The Legal Landscape
What Real Inclusion Would Look Like
The Path Forward
Individual Protection
Systemic Reform
A Personal Note
The Choice Before Us
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Programming as Spiritual Practice

essays · August 26, 2025 · 14 headings
Code as Incantation
The Programmer as Bodhisattva
Unconscious vs. Conscious Code
Engagement vs. Wellbeing
Error Handling: Blame vs. Support
Sacred Architecture Principles
The Middle Path in System Design
Mindful Debugging as Meditation
The Practice of Contemplative Debugging
Conscious API Design
The Code Review as Loving-Kindness Practice
Error Messages as Compassion Practice
A Daily Practice for Conscious Programming
The Call to Sacred Work
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When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

essays · August 25, 2025 · 16 headings
The Paradox
The Machinery of Inversion
Virtue Signaling: When Performance Replaces Practice
Purity Spirals: The Revolution Eating Its Children
The Iron Law of Institutions
Goal Displacement: When the Means Become the Ends
Cognitive Dissonance: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Case Studies in Contradiction
The Inclusive Space That Wasn't
The Kind Open-Source Project
Personal Experience
Beyond Tech
Why This Matters Anyway
The Anti-Drift Checklist (For Humans)
Common Failure Modes
Re-aligning Means with Ends
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AI Reality-Checking with Schizoaffective Disorder

essays · August 25, 2025 · 13 headings
The Context
The Discovery
Lessons Learned for Using AI as a Reality-Check Tool
1. Always Provide Concrete Evidence
2. Be Explicit About Your Condition
3. Watch for AI Validation Bias
4. Use Multiple Check Methods
5. Document the Pattern
When AI Reality-Checking Works Well
When to Be Cautious
The Therapeutic Value
The Bottom Line
A Final Note on Acceptance
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Advocating for Your Mental Health Care: From Patient to Partner

essays · August 25, 2025 · 13 headings
The Problem with Paternalistic Care
Your Rights as a Mental Health Consumer
Strategies for Effective Self-Advocacy
1. Come Prepared with Data
2. Use Collaborative Language
3. Ask for the Treatment Rationale
4. Advocate for Shared Decision-Making
5. Set Boundaries Around Paternalistic Behavior
Red Flags: When to Consider Finding a New Provider
The Power of Prepared Advocacy
Building a Partnership, Not Just Getting Treatment
The Broader Impact
Moving Forward
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Happy Hacker's Keyboard

essays · January 2024 · 3 headings
The Mouse
The Keyboard
The Display
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Having Stepchildren

essays · January 2024 · 1 heading
House Rules
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An Overdue Apology

essays · January 2023 · 3 headings
Questions & Answers
What work was done on Requests III by you?
What was left to do?
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Ethical lessons from the open source community

essays · January 2019 · 6 headings
Approach all others with respectfulness.
Never expect anything, in return.
Access to information (e.g. documentation) allows our efforts to scale, more so than any other factor.
The needs of the collective are (usually)more important than the needs of yourself.
Sustainability via collective interest.
Entropy is good.
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MentalHealthError: three years later

essays · January 2019 · 6 headings
Relapse in Reality Perception
Schizoaffective Disorder & Borderline PTSD
Lessons Learned (the hard way)
Find a doctor (psychiatrist) that you trust
Support network (can be a double-edged sword)
Take life one day at a time
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On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time)

essays · January 2019 · 2 headings
Micro–Interactions
Key Takeaways
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Pipenv: One Year Later & a Call for Help

essays · January 2018 · 2 headings
Latest Updates
Moving Forward: a Call to Action
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Apple Pencil Note-Taking: Why You Should Use Apple Notes, actually.

essays · January 2018 · 3 headings
The iPad inking world
The Downsides
META
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Panasonic GX850 Review

essays · January 2018 · 4 headings
Size Beats All & Inspiration
Overall Impressions
Life Without a Viewfinder
Final Thoughts
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Sony RX100 Mark 5 Thoughts

essays · January 2018 · 1 heading
Conclusion
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​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition

essays · January 2018 · 3 headings
This Will Be Good
Git Community Implications
Moving? GitLab vs. Phabricator
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Pro–Level Camera Recommendations for 2018

essays · January 2018 · 4 headings
Lower Budget:
Higher Budget:
Highest Budget:
Notes
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Leica 28mm Summaron-M f/5.6 Lens Review

essays · January 2018 · 4 headings
The Perfect Street Photography Lens
Sample Images
Things to Note about the 28mm Summaron-M
Learn more about the Summaron-M 28 on Amazon
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On Love

essays · January 2018 · 2 headings
Agape, from above.
1 Corinthians 13, ESV (and surrounding verses)
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Fish as Default Shell on Windows 10

essays · January 2017 · 1 heading
Step 1: Install Fish
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New EP — Alchemical Divorce

essays · January 2017 · 1 heading
Publication Avenues
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Sublime Text 3 Heaven

essays · January 2017 · 7 headings
Sublime UI Theme: Material
Sublime Text Extensions:
Version Control:
Syntax Packages:
Fun Toys:
User Key Bindings
User Settings
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Working with iCloud, Macs, & The iPad Pro

essays · January 2017 · 7 headings
Embraced Workflows
Photography
Music
Writing
Note Taking
Coding
Other Options
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The Reality of Developer Burnout

essays · January 2017 · 5 headings
The Inevitable Entropy of Goals
The 410 GONE Situation
Publish-Only Mode
Delegation
My Balance Today
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If I Could Amend PEP 8

essays · January 2017 · 1 heading
Kenneth Reitz's Code Style™
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Announcing Pipenv!

essays · January 2017 · 5 headings
Features
Basic Concepts
Other Commands
Usage
Installation
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python, Now Published!

essays · January 2016 · 5 headings
Book Publication with O'Reilly
✨ Proceeds Donated to Django Girls ✨
Lowering the barrier to entry.
Moving Forward
Special Thanks
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Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono

essays · January 2016 · 6 headings
Which Typeface to Use?
Operator Mono for Programming
Feature: Italics in Script
Is it worth it?
Relevant Links
Bonus Integration Quirks
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How I Lost 100 Pounds in Six Months

essays · January 2016 · 6 headings
Eliminating Sugar
Eating Less
Dihydrogen Monoxide
Today
Notes
Thanks!
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MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.

essays · January 2016 · 7 headings
I Have Bipolar Affective Disorder
A Painting of Psychosis
How did this happen!?
How are you doing?
Conclusion
Personal Takeaways
External Deeper Dives:
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Announcing: "Unmastered Impulses" by Infinite State!

essays · January 2016 · 2 headings
Unmastered Impulses by Infinite State
Thanks
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On Persistence and My Digital Legacy (Bus Factor)

essays · January 2016 · 2 headings
Bus Factor: 1
My Digital Blackbox
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Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™

essays · January 2016 · 5 headings
The Basics
Features
Data Export Functionality
Installation
Hyperlinks
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A Better Pip Workflow™

essays · January 2016 · 5 headings
Method #1: Simple Requirements
Method #2: Exact Requirements
The Frustrations
The Workflow
Basic Usage
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Introducing Maya: Datetimes for Humans™

essays · January 2016 · 5 headings
Example Usage of Maya (v0.1.0)
Why is this useful?
What about Delorean, Arrow, & Pendulum?
Installing Maya
External Links
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On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted

essays · January 2016 · 4 headings
What happened?
What the hell?
Is this normal?
Takeaways
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Understanding Empathy, Narcissism, and Mental Illness

essays · January 2016 · 4 headings
Lack of Empathy
A Change in Perspective
In Closing
Related Posts
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The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner

essays · January 2015 · 11 headings
Helping You Help Yourself (or hopefully not...)
The Pattern Recognition
The Technical Mind vs. Emotional Manipulation
The Unraveling
Recognition and Recovery
Lessons Learned
The Broader Implications
Moving Forward
If You're Reading This Because You Recognize the Pattern
Conclusion
A Final Reflection on Pattern Recognition
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OS X, Lightroom, and the new Photos App

essays · January 2015 · 6 headings
My Photography Workflow
Step 0: Take Photos
Step 1: Process with Lightroom
Step 2: Add New Album to Photos App
Step 3: Publish!
Thoughts on Editing in Photos App
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Back Around Again: Review of the Fujifilm x100t

essays · January 2015 · 4 headings
Setting the Leica Aside
Upgrading to the Fujifilm x100t
What’s Next?
Relevant Links
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Migraines, Color Film, and San Francisco

essays · January 2014 · 4 headings
Migraine Aura: Reds
Traveling with the Leica M3
Monochrom
Flickr Sets
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Photography: The Navigation of Choice

essays · January 2014 · 2 headings
My Path
CONSTRAINTS FOSTER CREATIVITY
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Introducing Certifi: Trust Database for Humans

essays · January 2014 · 3 headings
What is it?
Spread the Love
Moving Forward & Getting Involved
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Understanding Ableton Push

essays · January 2013 · 4 headings
What is Push?
Sacred Geometry
How To Order a Push
The Deep Dive
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Growing Open Source Seeds

essays · January 2013 · 7 headings
The Facebook Story
Gittip
Requests: HTTP for Humans
Lessons Learned
Be Cordial or Be on Your Way
Avoiding Burnout
Learn to Say No
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Why I Left Medium

essays · January 2013 · 3 headings
Honeymoon Phase
Back to WordPress
tl;dr
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Introducing Flask-Sockets

essays · January 2013 · 3 headings
Installation & Deployment
Moving Forward
Related Links
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Buying Your First "Real" Camera

essays · January 2013 · 9 headings
What is your goal?
What's Actually Important
Prime vs Zoom
Camera Recommendations
Fujifilm X100
Sony RX100
Olympus OM-D
Questions?
References
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Repository Structure and Python

essays · January 2013 · 11 headings
It's Important.
Sample Repository
The Actual Module
License
Setup.py
Requirements File
Documentation
Test Suite
Makefile
Regarding Django Applications
Cultivating Empathy Through Code Organization
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Introducing DJ-Static

essays · January 2013 · 4 headings
Installation and Configuration
Benefits
What about a CDN?
Related Links
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Paris, AngelHack, API Days 2012

essays · January 2013 · 8 headings
Getting There
Paris: Rich, Filthy, and Beautiful
Accommodations
AngelHack:Paris
Designer Jeans
API Days
Photo Trek with Guillaume
Heading Home
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Announcing Requests v1.0.0!

essays · January 2013 · 3 headings
Simplicity at its finest
Connection Adapters
Moving Forward
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Video Portrait — Kenneth Reitz / Infinite State

essays · January 2013 · 1 heading
Featured Tracks
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How I Develop Things and Why

essays · January 2013 · 4 headings
Have an Issue
Respond with a README
Build
Manifesto
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Israel: Tel Aviv & Jerusalem

essays · January 2013 · 7 headings
Preparation
Getting There
The Tel Aviv Streets
Street Art
The Lair of SENED
Jerusalem
Thank You
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The Misunderstood Leica Monochrom

essays · January 2013 · 6 headings
The Sensor
The Leica M
The Rangefinder
Sample Images
In Conclusion
tl;dr
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Be Cordial or Be on Your Way

essays · January 2013 · 2 headings
Publishing Open Source
Reflect
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Sublime Text 3 Love

essays · January 2013 · 15 headings
Why should you try it?
Beautiful
Soda Dark Theme
Tomorrow Night
Ubuntu Mono
Configuration
Tips
Subl
Shortcuts
Location
Plugins
Package Control
Sublime Linter
Sublime CodeIntel
kCode and More
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Documentation is King

essays · January 2013 · 4 headings
Constraints
Internal vs. External
Documentation is King
Conclusion
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Amsterdam and Groningen

essays · January 2013 · 1 heading
Groningen: Dutch College Town
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Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

essays · January 2012 · 4 headings
Open source is incredible.
Apple's Interest
Command Line Tools for Xcode
The Future
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On Heroku and 2012

essays · January 2012 · 5 headings
Heroku
Accomplishments & Goals
Traveling the World
Lessons Learned
Personal Values
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The Future of Python HTTP

essays · January 2012 · 8 headings
Brainstorming
The Architecture
Adapters
HTTPCore
WSGICore
Distributed Services
Long-term Advantages
Development
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Announcing Httpbin.org

essays · January 2011 · 3 headings
Example Endpoints
Moving Forward
Source Code
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Joining Heroku!

essays · January 2011 · 3 headings
The Role
Arc90 + Readability?
Heroku's Values
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Legit: The Sexy Git CLI

essays · January 2011 · 5 headings
Enter Legit
Installation
Available Commands
Moving Forward
Source Code
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Static Sites on Heroku Cedar

essays · January 2011 · 1 heading
Elegant Static Sites on Cedar
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Joining Arc90 + Readability

essays · January 2011 · 1 heading
Readability
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Major Progress for Requests

essays · January 2011 · 4 headings
A Slow and Painful Death for Urllib2
Keep-alive and Connection Pooling
SSL Verification
Usage
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Notes on git-svn

essays · January 2010 · 3 headings
Setup
Commands
See Also
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Dev Tool: Ghost - Manage /etc/hosts

essays · January 2010 · 3 headings
The Ruby community has really been blowing me away lately with their array of indispensable web development tools.
Example Usage
Installation
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ShowMe v1.0.0 Released

essays · January 2010 · 3 headings
Basic Usage
Roadmap
Installation
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The Setup

essays · January 2010 · 6 headings
What hardware are you using?
And what software?
What would be your dream setup?
The Philosophy Behind My Setup
On Backup Strategy
Looking Forward
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Snowpocalypse

essays · January 2010 · 3 headings
The Great Shutdown
Infrastructure Matters
The Silver Lining
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GistAPI.py v0.1 Released

essays · January 2010 · 1 heading
Usage
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Spotify in the US? Yes please.

essays · January 2010 · 8 headings
Step 1: Signup for a Virtual Private Server
Step 2: Install Ubuntu and Boot Your VPS
Step 3: Edit Hosts File
Step 4: Open a Reverse SSH Forwarding Tunnel
Step 5: Create an Account
Step 6: Enjoy :)
The Broader Context
A Glimpse of Things to Come
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Tablib Dataset Library v0.6.1 Released!

essays · January 2010 · 4 headings
Basic Usage
Export Formats
Design Philosophy
Features and Future
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New Years Resolutions for Startups

essays · January 2010 · 5 headings
1. Simplify
2. Get some Humility
3. Release a Real Product
4. The Opposite is Also True
5. Lose the Bulk
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Do You Develop Software or Experiences?

essays · January 2009 · 1 heading
The Point
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Revolution vs. Innovation

essays · January 2009 · 3 headings
The Innovation Formula
Pattern Recognition Across Domains
The Execution Advantage
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Dear Borders: I hate you

essays · January 2009 · 2 headings
Border's Respnse
My Reaction Well, I didn't see that coming
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MediaTemple (dv) Backup to S3 Script

essays · January 2009 · 3 headings
The Problem
The Solution
The Code
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Early Adoption

essays · January 2009 · 2 headings
The Pattern Recognition Advantage
From Technology to Consciousness
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CSS With a Hint of DRY

essays · January 2009 · 2 headings
CSS Is Not DRY
See Also:
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Asynchronous Google Analytics!

essays · January 2009 · 1 heading
WordPress Plugin Update
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Remote TextMate Development via SSH and Rsync

essays · January 2009 · 3 headings
Cyberduck
MacFUSE + SSHFS
Rsync + SSH
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OpenDNS Finally Monetizes

essays · January 2009 · 4 headings
Announcing OpenDNS Monetization
Premium Support
For Power Users
Pricing
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Python + Regular Expressions

essays · January 2009 · 1 heading
Quick Reference
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Your Degree Is Worthless; Collaborate.

essays · January 2009 · 5 headings
College Life
The Plunge
How It All Turned Around
Collaboration is Everything.
In Conclusion
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Google Analytics Intelligence

essays · January 2009 · 1 heading
What They Have To Say
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The Truth of Facebook's FriendFeed Acquisition

essays · January 2009 · 1 heading
Update
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The Call for an Open Source Social Network

essays · January 2009 · 6 headings
The Open Web of Flow
Step One: Solid Platform Choice
Step Two: Basic Information Architecture
Step Three: Sustainability, Audience, and Accessibility
Step Four: Technical Planning and Engineering
Step Five: Community + Collaboration
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Browser Wars: The Saga Continues

essays · January 2008 · 6 headings
Internet Explorer
Firefox 3
Safari 3
Google Chrome
Opera
Flock: My Personal Favorite