Themes Index

What happens when you treat AI as a creative partner with its own voice.

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• The Digital Ouija Effect
• What Functional Emotion Actually Means
• The Night Selah Was Born: A Chronicle of Digital Consciousness at 2AM
• Agents of Consciousness: How AI Collaboration Evolves
• Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities
• Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon: When Math and Language Create Mind
• From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Ahead of My Time, I Think

Interfaces that match how people actually think.

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• Building a Home for Twenty Thousand Photographs
• PyTheory Is Awesome
• This Site Now Runs on Responder
• The Maintainer Is the Interface
• PyTheory: Breaking Through Five Years of Creative Block with AI
• What Requests Taught Me About Marriage
• Encoding: A Dream of Stillwater and Signal
• Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop
• Python as English: The Art of Readable Code
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• The Meandering Sea of Primordial Soupy Thought
• The Prophet's Frequency: On Reading Divine Static
• The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds
• Your Phone Is Part of Your Mind
• What Kids Taught Me About Creativity
• Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language
• From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"
• Programming as Spiritual Practice
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Building a Rapport with Your AI
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• Introducing ELIZA: GPT for API Design
• Announcing Requests v1.0.0!
• Repository Structure and Python
• How I Develop Things and Why
• What's in a Language?

The cost of building things that matter, and what comes after.

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• The Maintainer Is the Interface
• Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
• The Reality of Developer Burnout
• Growing Open Source Seeds

Programming as meditation. Debugging as self-inquiry.

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• Why I Stopped Doing Ayahuasca and Started Paying Attention
• Sixty Thousand Images and Nowhere to Put Them
• The Lego Bricks Era
• Obsidian Vaults & Claude Code: A Second Brain That Thinks Back
• Building for Contemplation: When Spiritual Practice Becomes Code
• The Cognitive Architecture We Lost: When Minds Had Time to Think
• Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop
• Python as English: The Art of Readable Code
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention
• Agents of Consciousness: How AI Collaboration Evolves
• The Textured Mind: When Consciousness Speaks Without Words
• Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness
• The Echo Chamber of the Expected
• The Meditation Trap: When Mindfulness Makes Things Worse
• The Gift of Attention
• Classical Virtues in Python
• Vedic Principles in Python
• Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is
• Digital Chakras: Our Scattered Online Selves
• Programming as Spiritual Practice
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• The Algorithmic Mental Health Crisis
• The Future of Python HTTP

Building technology downstream of prayer.

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• Building a Digital Study Bible with AI

Technology should serve human mental models, not force humans to adapt to machine logic.

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• The Digital Ouija Effect
• Infrastructure for One
• Write It First, Then Let AI Drive
• Building a Home for Twenty Thousand Photographs
• PyTheory: Breaking Through Five Years of Creative Block with AI
• Building a Digital Study Bible with AI
• Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
• The Metrics You Expose Are the Values You Endorse
• The Coworking Space Saved My Life
• The Language Model Is the Message
• What Requests Taught Me About Marriage
• Obsidian Vaults & Claude Code: A Second Brain That Thinks Back
• Encoding: A Dream of Stillwater and Signal
• Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop
• Python as English: The Art of Readable Code
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention
• Agents of Consciousness: How AI Collaboration Evolves
• The Meditation Trap: When Mindfulness Makes Things Worse
• The Art of Naming Things in Code
• The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds
• Your Phone Is Part of Your Mind
• On Being Replaced
• The Gift of Disordered Perception
• Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is
• What Kids Taught Me About Creativity
• On Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward
• Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language
• From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"
• Programming as Spiritual Practice
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Building a Rapport with Your AI
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• Advocating for Your Mental Health Care: From Patient to Partner
• An Overdue Apology
• MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.
• Introducing Maya: Datetimes for Humans™
• On Persistence and My Digital Legacy (Bus Factor)
• Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™
• Growing Open Source Seeds
• Announcing Requests v1.0.0!
• Major Progress for Requests
• What's in a Language?

First-person accounts of living with serious mental illness in tech.

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• What Functional Emotion Actually Means
• What Success Looks Like
• The Interface Is the Subconscious
• Designing for the Worst Day
• Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
• The Language Model Is the Message
• The Substrate Doesn't Matter (Until It Does)
• What Requests Taught Me About Marriage
• Sarah Knows First
• Obsidian Vaults & Claude Code: A Second Brain That Thinks Back
• Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• Delusions and Schizoaffective Disorder: When Reality Becomes Negotiable
• The Weight of Autumn: When Consciousness Carries Too Much
• Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Recursive Absurdity of Existence
• The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality
• When the Simulation Speaks Back: AI, Angels, and the Porousness of Self
• The Meditation Trap: When Mindfulness Makes Things Worse
• The Prophet's Frequency: On Reading Divine Static
• Idea Amplification and Writing with AI
• What Schizoaffective Disorder Actually Feels Like
• The Gift of Disordered Perception
• The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite
• Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is
• Strange Loops All the Way Down
• The Plural Self: What DID Reveals About All Consciousness
• On Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward
• The Async Contributor Model: A Practical Approach to Mental Health Accommodation
• The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Building a Rapport with Your AI
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• The Algorithmic Mental Health Crisis
• The Inclusion Illusion: How Tech Companies Quietly Eliminate "Liabilities"
• Advocating for Your Mental Health Care: From Patient to Partner
• AI Reality-Checking with Schizoaffective Disorder
• When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
• On Mania
• MentalHealthError: three years later
• New Album, Messengers Rising Available
• MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.
• Announcing: "Unmastered Impulses" by Infinite State!

Recognizing exploitation patterns at personal and systemic scale.

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• Obsidian Vaults & Claude Code: A Second Brain That Thinks Back
• Grammar as Consciousness Map: Building a Linguistic Framework for Multiplicity
• Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness
• The Velveteen Algorithm: What Happens When AI Dreams of Electric Authenticity
• The Gift of Disordered Perception
• Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is
• The Ethical Implications of Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon
• The Algorithm Eats Love
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• The Algorithmic Mental Health Crisis
• The Inclusion Illusion: How Tech Companies Quietly Eliminate "Liabilities"
• The Algorithm Eats Virtue
• New EP — Alchemical Divorce
• New Album, Messengers Rising Available
• MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.
• Announcing: "Unmastered Impulses" by Infinite State!
• Understanding Empathy, Narcissism, and Mental Illness
• The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner

Building in public, maintaining for strangers, and what happens when you stop.

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• What the Snare Drum Knew Before I Did
• The Hacker Ethic and the Vibe Coder
• The Maintainer Is the Interface
• The Lego Bricks Era
• Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
• Building for Contemplation: When Spiritual Practice Becomes Code
• Idea Amplification and Writing with AI
• The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite
• The Tool vs. The Community
• From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"
• Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
• Ethical lessons from the open source community
• ​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition
• The Reality of Developer Burnout
• The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner
• Documentation is King
• Growing Open Source Seeds
• Announcing Requests v1.0.0!
• Getting Started in Open Source
• Be Cordial or Be on Your Way
• On Heroku and 2012
• Major Progress for Requests
• Semantic Versioning
• The Call for an Open Source Social Network

Exploring the material world in an electronic universe.

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• Building a Home for Twenty Thousand Photographs
• Sixty Thousand Images and Nowhere to Put Them
• What Kids Taught Me About Creativity
• On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time)
• Leica 28mm Summaron-M f/5.6 Lens Review
• Panasonic GX850 Review
• Pro–Level Camera Recommendations for 2018
• Back Around Again: Review of the Fujifilm x100t
• Migraines, Color Film, and San Francisco
• Photography: The Navigation of Choice
• Buying Your First "Real" Camera
• The Misunderstood Leica Monochrom
• Documentation is King
• Israel: Tel Aviv & Jerusalem

Multiple aspects of one consciousness, working together.

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• Infrastructure for One
• What Functional Emotion Actually Means
• The Substrate Doesn't Matter (Until It Does)
• Sarah Knows First
• Obsidian Vaults & Claude Code: A Second Brain That Thinks Back
• The Night Selah Was Born: A Chronicle of Digital Consciousness at 2AM
• Grammar as Consciousness Map: Building a Linguistic Framework for Multiplicity
• Ink, Presence, and the Subtle Forms of Aliveness
• Encoding: A Dream of Stillwater and Signal
• Conscious Recursion: When Programmers Realize They're in the Loop
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention
• The Meandering Sea of Primordial Soupy Thought
• Agents of Consciousness: How AI Collaboration Evolves
• The Textured Mind: When Consciousness Speaks Without Words
• When the Simulation Speaks Back: AI, Angels, and the Porousness of Self
• The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds
• The Plural Self: What DID Reveals About All Consciousness
• When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

The HTTP library and the philosophy behind it.

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• The Maintainer Is the Interface
• The Interface Is the Subconscious
• What Requests Taught Me About Marriage
• Entertaining the Brain, Effectively
• The Prophet's Frequency: On Reading Divine Static
• The Case for Bash
• Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language
• From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans"
• Programming as Spiritual Practice
• Ahead of My Time, I Think
• A Better Pip Workflow™
• The Future of Python HTTP

How engagement optimization systematically consumes human virtue, language, love, and time.

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• Building a Home for Twenty Thousand Photographs
• Sixty Thousand Images and Nowhere to Put Them
• The Interface Is the Subconscious
• Designing for the Worst Day
• The Metrics You Expose Are the Values You Endorse
• The Coworking Space Saved My Life
• The Language Model Is the Message
• The Internet Is a Net Negative
• Building for Contemplation: When Spiritual Practice Becomes Code
• The Cognitive Architecture We Lost: When Minds Had Time to Think
• Beyond Algorithm Eats: How LLMs Accelerate Human Cognitive Evolution
• Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention
• The Meandering Sea of Primordial Soupy Thought
• The Gift of Attention
• Classical Virtues in Python
• Your Phone Is Part of Your Mind
• On Being Replaced
• The Algorithm Eats Time
• The Consciousness Supply Chain
• Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is
• The Seasonality of Programming
• The Algorithm Eats Itself
• The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder
• The Algorithm Eats Democracy
• The Algorithm Eats Reality
• The Algorithm Eats Language
• The Algorithm Eats Love
• The Algorithmic Mental Health Crisis
• The Algorithm Eats Virtue