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2025

• 2025-03-11 I’ve been working on a weather forecast app that presents information in a more compact form. It’s easy to see the difference in perception when you
• 2025-03-07 Watched Brutalist. This might be the best movie I’m going to watch in 2025
• 2025-03-06 Feynman’s Lectures Exercises 6.9
• 2025-03-05 Reading quotes from the book in the previous post made me think that this nightmare bicycle is the main reason design is so bad right now. Designers
• 2025-03-05 From Avoid the nightmare bicycle: Imagine a bicycle where the product manager said: “people don’t get math so we can’t have numbered gears. We need
• 2025-03-04 Finished reading Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder. This book is about Sabine being frustrated with the current state of physics and science in
• 2025-02-24 Definition of stupidity from The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (haven’t read): A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or
• 2025-02-20 The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched in the Stomach is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. It feels like reading Camus or Kafka set in
• 2025-02-05 Great as always from Lucidity, Brainwash An Executive Today where he writes about how management makes decisions. I kept nodding every a few
• 2025-01-29 McMaster is a U.S. supply company with more than 700,000 products, from nails to air pumps. It might be the best example I’ve seen of how to present
• 2025-01-29 Apparently, Moria loves dishwashers. She climbs onto the countertop and just lies there. To distract her, I’ve started playing dishwasher sounds on
• 2025-01-28 Designed a logo and made it use P3 gamut following this guide. Makes a huge difference on displays that support it
• 2025-01-23 From Incentives as selection effects: “Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome.” We take that Charlie Munger quote as a truism; I think
• 2025-01-18 From Nobody Cares: The one place in the world you get this vibe is probably Japan. Most people just really care. Patrick McKenzie refers to this as
• 2025-01-16 Finished reading The Life of Isaac Newton. It was dry to my taste, but still okay. It’s hard to read any history after experiencing David

2024

• 2024-12-24 Moria
• 2024-12-06 From It is link winter on X: The truth on X is what random people commentate, polarize, interpret, and summarize from source material that is
• 2024-12-04 Found a wonderful website and a book — Motion Mountain. The book explores the many wonders of everyday life: Using hundreds of stories, pictures,
• 2024-12-03 Geometry for FLPE 2.24
• 2024-11-27 Eiermann Desk
• 2024-11-19 It’s been almost two months since I bought Feynman’s exercises. I didn’t expect physics to capture my attention this much. I’ve finished six
• 2024-11-16 Turkey ’24
• 2024-11-14 We just returned from Turkey, where we spent a week on a sailing boat and added the first 175 miles to our logbooks. This might be the best vacation
• 2024-10-30 Recently 003
• 2024-10-28 The easiest way to solve 2.19 (Plank Weight Trough)
• 2024-10-26 Solving 2.17 and 2.18 Using the Principle of Virtual Work
• 2024-10-25 Feynman’s Lectures Exercises 2.16
• 2024-10-15 Feynman’s Lectures Exercises 2.14 and 2.15
• 2024-09-27 I finally bought the Feynman Lectures on Physics, something I wanted to do for a very long time. Ever since reading You’re Surely Joking Mr.
• 2024-09-27 Made a few changes to the site, and now I can have posts without titles. It gives a sense of freedom, similar to what you might have unconsciously
• 2024-09-23 Finally watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, a TV series produced in the 1980s. I don’t think there are many people like Carl Sagan. The show he created is
• 2024-08-28 THE GAP by Ira Glass
• 2024-08-28 Feynman on Playing
• 2024-08-28 Typeface Updates 003
• 2024-08-12 Optimistic Pessimism
• 2024-08-12 Friends
• 2024-08-11 Sometimes YouTube can surprise you by recommending a video that exists simply because someone out there wanted to create it. Recently, it showed me
• 2024-08-07 Teenage Engineering introduced new version of their EP-1320 and created a gorgeous landing for this (captured screenshot). This is the kind of
• 2024-07-09 A movie about cooking that is also not about cooking at all
• 2024-07-04 Punch-Drunk Love
• 2024-06-24 Blog Roll: Ludicity
• 2024-06-23 King Creosote
• 2024-06-21 Good Interfaces
• 2024-06-20 Universal Line Height
• 2024-06-19 Typeface Updates 002
• 2024-06-11 iOS 18 Preview
• 2024-05-30 Algorithmic Feeds
• 2024-05-16 The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• 2024-04-29 Querying OpenStreetMap Data
• 2024-04-28 Perfect Days
• 2024-04-25 Typeface Updates 001
• 2024-04-24 Welcome to the Internet
• 2024-04-18 Product Design Is Lost
• 2024-03-11 Drawing My First Font
• 2024-03-05 Not Newer, but Better
• 2024-02-28 Variable Fonts Demo
• 2024-02-10 Apple Deleted My Music Library
• 2024-01-11 Recently 002

2023

• 2023-06-20 An Eames Anthology
• 2023-03-21 Keeping Aspect Ratios in Figma

2022

• 2022-07-11 Case-study: Dunnes
• 2022-05-23 Learning about Reinforcement Learning
• 2022-05-03 Enabling LaTeX support for Mnemosyne
• 2022-04-30 On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• 2022-02-28 Recently 001
• 2022-02-18 The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• 2022-02-18 Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman

2021

• 2021-06-20 Case-study: tryrewrite.com

2020

• 2020-04-10 CVEs

2017

• 2017-05-18 Looking for WaitForSingleObject Call
• 2017-02-10 Using Return Oriented Programming
• 2017-02-09 Adventures in Linux Kernel — Task 01
• 2017-01-29 FreePBX Exploit and Brace Expansion
• 2017-01-17 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Heap 3
• 2017-01-13 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Heap 2
• 2017-01-12 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Heap 1
• 2017-01-11 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Heap 0
• 2017-01-11 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Format Levels
• 2017-01-10 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Stack 6
• 2017-01-09 Exploit Exercises — Protostar Stack 5
• 2017-01-07 Writing Shellcode for Linux x64

2016

• 2016-10-28 Windows Privelege Escalation via Token Kidnapping
• 2016-08-09 Getting Password Hashes from Domain Controller
• 2016-07-14 Getting Credentials from Unprotected Jenkins

2015

• 2015-12-29 Writing JIT-spray Exploit