Experience

In the summer of 2000, I could never have imagined becoming a father. I was 34, living in New York City, with a good job in social care, but still in a tiny apartment. I had been with my partner, Pete, for just over three years; … Read more

I’ve been inspired to write something for April Cools Club, and what fits better from my normal content than my experience rice farming in rural Japan! For those who aren’t aware, in 2025 I spent January-July in Japan staying with … Read more

When my son was in first grade, he came home from school in tears saying that he hated math. My wife and I are both engineers, so this was the sort of all-hands-on-deck shock that demanded our immediate attention. Before … Read more

I left my job at startup last month to have break and enjoy some time being bored, on the weekend i decided to write a bytebeat player for fun, which i was thinking from long time. This was my first … Read more

17 Jul, 2025 Hatching… Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almost infinite API request access. I had a lot of code-related work … Read more

Abstract:Mathematical software has traditionally been built in the form of “packages” that build on each other. A substantial fraction of these packages is written in C++ and, as a consequence, the interface of a package is described in the form … Read more

My daughter Kate (7 years old) really loves Minecraft! Together, we used several generative AI tools to create a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her. The whole project took around 20 hours of work and I … Read more

Soon it will be eight years since I’ve (re)started NihAV development in Rust. And for this round date I’d like to present my impressions and thoughts on the language—from the perspective of applicability in my experimental multimedia framework. Why Rust? … Read more

Cecilia Blomdahl Author of Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole At 78 degrees north latitude, which is about 12 degrees farther north than the lower boundary of the Arctic Circle, Svalbard is no … Read more