The /order endpoint of the Flask shop is slow. The view calls the order service, the service calls the gateway and then the ledger, and the question is which of those the time is going to. To give the question … Read more
Ben Kallus’s cool website Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote’s Abstract Algebra During my second week at the Recurse Center, I’ve been trying to formalize Dummit and Foote’s abstract algebra textbook (appropriately titled “Abstract Algebra”) in Rocq. I had … Read more
Posted on June 19, 2026 by Adam Wespiser Bebop, my 83lb, 33 inch tall, Greyhound, loves three things: running fast, following me around the house, and treats. Whether it’s a chew treat, pizza out of a child’s hand who strayed … Read more
In April of 2025, my heart threw an unexpected exception. I was 46, healthy, and active. I ran regularly. I ate reasonably well. I stayed busy. Too busy, maybe. When I started feeling short of breath walking up a flight … Read more
So you know when you’re flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia? It’s a feeling I know all too … Read more
Explore The neighborhood was quiet. There was a chill in the air. The scent of Spanish moss hung from the cypress trees. Plumes of white smoke rose from the burning cane fields and stretched across the skies of Terrebonne Parish. … Read more
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric … Read more
As some of the work planned for Marginalia Search this year has been progressing a bit faster than anticipated, there was time to implement an unplanned change. This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are … Read more
Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data TL;DR, here’s the GitHub repo This project generated around 30 Billion individual 4kB files of random data. These files were winnowed down to about 10,000 through some heuristics gleaned from the complete collection … Read more
In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 million votes [1]. More recently, an Instagram post … Read more