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Projects
Erguil
Erguil is a search engine I made with two purposes: 1. Search the "small web" — give visibility to smaller websites that typically won't rank high enough on the major search engines. 2. Make the search engine usable as a daily driver (i.e. try to compete with Google, not in popularity or scale but in search quality).
Concord
My ideal social network. A lot of new social networks are clones of Twitter, and I find this to be an incredible lack of inspiration. Concord is the good parts of the blue one your parents use, the dark one the gamers use, and the online harddrive thing combined. It also has a "Debate" section where argumentation theory steers the conversation.
CraftGate
A platformer game written in javascript
My Resumé
My resumé is an HTML document generated from a YAML data file. Lately I've been experimenting with using LLMs for curated resume generation.
SCHOR
SCHema Overload Registry - a small library that makes it easy to work with graphs of data dependencies in Javascript code.
Tessellation
I saw a neat tessellation in a Facebook group and I wanted to create code that can generate this. In the future I'd like to try generalising this to other tessellations.
ericdube.com
My old website had a tiling window manager built-in which was pretty cool, but it was left pretty bare due to lack of any real content on it. I decided to build a new one using React Router and Sanity.io.
Musings
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The expression "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" ought to be "don't look a gift horse in the mouth, unless it is a large wooden gift horse, in which case definitely look it in the mouth as well as other places".
One thing that will never be entirely comfortable to me is hearing ghostly fragments of human voices in hold music because audio compression is optimized for voices rather than music.
A decision someone I don't know made in April 2023 defines my work for the next hour...
I'm neither smart nor stupid; my talents are just distributed unevenly.
OpenAI is one of the largest providers of closed-source AI. 🤔
We can all agree that data corruption su©s
Nobody will ever understand that really cool thing I just did in vim
Papercuts are a feature of life that life would have been absolutely fine without.
I take issue with trivial pursuit. That pursuit is NOT trivial!
"Have you observed Unordinary World?" "I have observed" "They are us" "But also they are not us" "It is unsettling" "Unsettling, yet joyful"
How is your day going? Because MY day is going "CJS/ESM interop in javascript is clearly attacking me personally".
raven gone, given you up
You can ping 127.1 instead of 127.0.0.1 and it still works.
If fish made their own Star Trek, would the intro say "further up, the final frontier"?
me: "}F2T7{+{A%4ZN"; password security checker: "Password must have at least one lowercase letter".
Permission fatigue is not just a UX design issue, it's a security vulnerability.
Slack emailed me a survey because they opened a support ticket because I gave feedback in a survey that they gave to me on Slack.
Your code is 285538. Do not use this anywhere as it is meaningless and not private.
Is the one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater purple in colour, or does it exclusively eat purple people?
SpaceX can do atmospheric reentry but so can my farts.
Claude Code just hit me with a "Yes, and always allow access to .git" 💀
When Claude Code notes "Plenty of disk space.", I find that a bit alarming.
A childhood memory many of us have but never talk about is hearing "don't drink and drive" on the radio and an adult explaining to you that it's not all drinks, it's just specific drinks.
Fonts where uppercase I and lowercase l look the same should be outlawed.
If I had a nickel for every time a sentence was unintentionally ambiguous without a doubt I would wonder if I'm wondering without a doubt or if the condition for my wondering was the lack of doubt that a sentence was unintentionally ambiguous.
instead of just moving the date of my return trip my entire trip is now a single flight from Ottawa to Ottawa with a stopover of 10 days.