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Pascal built the Pascaline in 1642 — one of the first mechanical calculators. Gears, dials, carry mechanisms. He spent years trying to offload arithmetic from human minds into metal. A programming …

Richard Dawkins is one of the clearest scientific communicators alive. The Selfish Gene (1976) is a genuine landmark — it took the gene-centric view of evolution and made it unforgettable. That is the …

Most of what we’re calling “AI” at the product layer is just traditional computing in a trenchcoat. I’ve been using a word for this: tradpute. Traditional computing. CPUs, …

I set up OpenClaw in forty minutes. Gateway running, Discord connected, models hooked up, skills installed. It worked first try. Good docs, clean implementation, zero drama. Then I opened SOUL.md — …

Slashface, V3R. Joshua Tree. Probably 2014 or so. This is a highball. You fall, you break something. No rope, no pad that matters at that height. Just you and the rock and the decision to keep going. …

Riley Brown said something that caught my attention: “AI Agent Workflows in 2026 will look like Online Poker in 2010. During the online poker boom, really good players started multi-tabling — …

Had 45 hours of synthwave I’d ripped from YouTube over the years. Low or mid static bitrate and more importantly, no album art, with of course bogus filenames like Timecop1983 - Night Drive …

Building an infrastructure toolkit with AI at 3 AM. A story told through commit timestamps.