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In Rainbows (2026-10-06)

Rainbows is a fantasy computer and set of peripheral devices built on top of my virtual machine, ok. It's still quite the work-in-progress, so this is mostly just me rambling about what I've been up to/thinking about while developing it.

Playing with Blocks (2026-10-01)

I built a tiny file format inspired by a 1970s programming idea that I fell down a rabbit hole learning about, and wrote about how I found it and what I hope to use it for.

POP-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect (2026-08-24)

Myself and Devine (of Uxn and Hundred Rabbits fame) have been working on an idea for a dialect of POP-2 to serve as a lingua-franca for tiny (generally concatenative) systems.

The Angola Project (2026-02-05)

A brief summary of the cultural interpretation work I did for the Angola archaeological site, focusing on the Afro-Seminole Creole language.

ok (2026-01-26)

After a long time away from this blog, I can tell you a bit more about ok, the tiny virtual machine I created for my undergraduate honor's thesis in computer science.

Wheels (2025-09-19)

I often grow frustrated with the "don't reinvent the wheel" sentiment that gets pushed in the software development field. I decided to write about it.

Rust compiles really slow (2025-09-01)

Nothing against Rust, but it has some pretty nasty compile times, especially on older hardware- I explore this a bit as I recompile a Rust to-do list CLI app that I wrote (called whatdo) on a very old laptop.