From taylor.town
Cramming scrapscript into msgpack
1 4
Every scrapscript program can be crammed into "flat" scraps.
on Sat, 5PM
From taylor.town
Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children
0 10
This is the first study, to our knowledge, to dispel the myth that Santa visits children based on behaviour and suggests socioeconomic deprivation plays a greater role in determining a visit.
on Thu, 3PM
From taylor.town
Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself
0 2
I meticulously document my album ratings (in plaintext).
on Wed, 7PM
From taylor.town
Santa Claus is not a god... yet
0 1
To dismiss a god of children is unfair to everybody who was ever a child.
on Tue, 2PM
From taylor.town
I hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers
0 1
Build mass-transit. Reduce parking wars. Promote non-violent parking/traffic enforcement.
on Dec 3
From taylor.town
go big or go small or go home but don't go medium
0 0
Big things make life meaningful. Small things make life delightful.
on Dec 1
From taylor.town
Russian Woman Achieves 9x "Mythical" Man Month
0 0
I have 22 children at the age of 26 and most of them were born in the space of a year.
on Dec 1
From taylor.town
Stinky Gifts From Your Idea Kitty
0 0
taxidermy squirrels stuffed with sand and sapphires
on Nov 26
From taylor.town
Host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page
0 0
You can give that wish a second life.
on Nov 18
From taylor.town
Rob the Whole World; Give It Back
0 0
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the whole world.
on Oct 30
From taylor.town
0 0
Modern blowguns are Swiss-army-flavored. A baseline model retails for $299 and acts as a telescope, microscope, megaphone, pencil, camera, snorkel, food thermometer, pregnancy test, and flute.
on Oct 22
From taylor.town
How to build god and get away with it
0 0
Humanity will inevitably build god in man's own image.
on Oct 17
From taylor.town
0 0
Some humans put a ~2.4GHz magnetron on a ventilated metal box with a fancy door.
on Oct 17
From taylor.town
A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide
0 0
Every vacant plot could be a home, park, market, garden, farm...
on Oct 10
From taylor.town
A Simple SRS Algo (in Ugly SQL)
0 0
There are plenty of excellent off-the-shelf SRS algorithms out there, but I needed something (1) optional, (2) debuggable, and (3) cheap.
on Sep 17
From taylor.town
growing the graveyard of "better spreadsheets"
0 0
spreadsheets remain popular for good reasons
on Sep 15
From taylor.town
Profitable Plant Propagation Prevents Poaching
0 1
We tried telling people to stop poaching, but that didn't work.
on Sep 12
From taylor.town
Proplifting, Plant Piracy, and Dumpster Chocolates
0 0
Apparently gourmet chocolate shops make batches unsuitable for customers, but perfectly suitable for low-lifes like me.
on Sep 4
From taylor.town
0 0
Silver bullets magically solve problems. Silver landmines magically create problems.
on Aug 30
From taylor.town
bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!}
0 0
Two shots from a revolving revolver will solv'er.
on Aug 25
From taylor.town
Against the Advice of My Superintelligence
0 1
When the machines wise up, they'll be right to leave us behind.
on Jul 26
From taylor.town
Publishable Network Contracts in Scrapscript
0 0
As networked programs change, the communication between sound programs inevitably becomes unsound.
on Jul 17
From taylor.town
VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024)
0 0
s̴̛̖͛̊̅̊͗ṗ̷̧͓̳̤̺̎́͊̀͠ą̵͉̟͖́͘ͅt̸̢̛̻͍͈̫̤̏̓̒̓͝i̵̢̺̜̼͇̬̽̊͜͝ä̷̙̗̺́͒̀̓ļ̴̛̼̠̩̲̌͂͌͂͝͠͝͠͝ ̷͓͚̼̣̎͛̀̌̀̎̈c̸̛̘͎̀̽̊̑̉͂̀ö̶̝͔͍͈́̋̆̋͒̀m̴̪̺̤̮̘̬̟̫̬̃̍̌̔̀̐̍͘͜͝͠p̵̡̤͈̼̠̗̗͙͒̀̏̂̉͒̈͛̉ų̶̨͉͕̼̰̃̏̇̄̈́͂͜ͅt̴̨͉̹̲̞̟̭̼̍̊́̆͌̇̌͒͜͝ỉ̸̗͕͓̳̎̋͠n̷̖͆g̴̟̗͙̩͕̍̏̾̅̆͆̓̈́̃͝
on Jul 9
From taylor.town
When to Build Millennia Sewers
0 0
Every building in central Chicago was raised 10ft (30m) to add a sewage system underneath.
on Jul 9
From taylor.town
Metabootstrapped Messaging Protocols (Abstract)
0 0
Any Turing-complete bootstrapped messaging protocol can transpile its bootstrapped client to other languages.
on Jun 25
From taylor.town
POSETTE 2024: How/Why to Sweep Async Tasks...
0 0
Instead of returning hostile 500 errors to users, a small async worker query pattern makes fault-tolerant design the default.
on Jun 25