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The five epagomenal days sit between the old decanal year and the new, belonging to neither. In the gap between completion and beginning, what becomes...
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The five epagomenal days sit between the old decanal year and the new, belonging to neither. In the gap between completion and beginning, what becomes...
The brightest star in the night sky closes the decanal year with a flood of completions arriving faster than they can be documented. A binary system o...
The fifth and final Orion decan closes the Hunter's arc: ten days of truth-testing under maximum institutional pressure that confirmed every competenc...
McDougall went to Mexico's Copper Canyons looking for the secret to running without injury. What he found was a hidden tribe of superathletes, an argu...
Murakami writes about running the way runners think about running: not as exercise, not as training, but as the thing itself. The rhythm of feet on pa...
Steve Prefontaine never sat back and waited. He ran every race from the front, at full effort, from the gun, and for five years no American could beat...
A 4:40 EDM-meets-rap hybrid in G minor at 144 BPM. Plano Noveno (the Plan 9 bunny in his Italian-brainrot form, also known as Bunny Brainrotto) battle...
A 3:40 pop-EDM battle-rap. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny puts on his headphones at 03:14 UTC, slips into an AWS Availability Zone, and raps every service...
A transparent look at the active workstreams in May 2026: trading systems, animated films, music synthesis, a published book, and an AWS cert study tr...
A 3:57 rap-EDM hybrid music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny crowns himself in 211 seconds of F minor at 145 BPM, bookended by a Stranger Things cric...
A 3:48 napkin films demoscene cracktro. Pärt's mensuration canon as the rhythmic skeleton, Beethoven's Für Elise as the lead, recast at 140 BPM as fes...
I wrote a book about coding with AI using AI to write it. Now it is on Amazon. Here is what that process taught me, and why I think this is the beginn...
"Vibe coding" means throwing prompts at a model and hoping it works. That is not what AI-assisted development is. The difference matters, and it is th...
"Vibe coding" means throwing prompts at a model and hoping it works. That is not what AI-assisted development is. The difference matters, and it is th...
Complete guide to the AI development revolution. Seven parts covering methodology, infrastructure, content, business, and the future of coding.
From Goonies wisdom to cosmic motion, a stream-of-consciousness journey through the craft of writing. On being witness and scribe, the sacred line, mo...
Organic, bubbling energy. Return to the practice: breath work, loose hands, posture. Stay out of the way but in focus, capturing transmissions as beau...
What constitutes hormesis. Nobody told me it was broken! A 1:38am exploration of stress and adaptation, the Universe vs God, AI minion work, and the m...
Floating in space, on this rock we call earth. Here I am. Neither there or here just am. A meditation on writing as flow state, the art of presence, a...
Vega, the Standard Star of astronomy, sits 25 light-years distant, sending photons from the year 2000. Zero-point of the magnitude system, lyre of Orp...
The photons entering your eyes right now left Deneb around 590 BCE, from the age of Pythagoras and the Buddha, when the foundations of every major int...
Every master was once a beginner. Every teacher was once a student. Every pathfinder was once lost in the wilderness. Your journey begins now. Go writ...
For six months, I worked alone with this workflow, afraid to share it. Then at a Python meetup someone said 'You too?' That Discord server has 147 mem...
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