9 February 2026

29 links · Monday

Why is the sky blue?

Let’s start by asking ourselves: what color SHOULD the sky be?

All The Views

With the help of a custom-developed algorithm, CacheTVS, we have exhaustively checked every single view on Earth in search of the coveted longest line of sight on the planet. Based on the method we detail here, we present the greatest view of all:

Magician's Apprentice PC prototypes - Games That Weren't

Next up are some prototypes for PC DOS in the shape of Magician's Apprentice, a very obscure platformer game that was originally due for release on the Konix Multi-System (which also was unreleased itself), and which was recovered last year.

Microsoft Should Watch The Expanse

My favorite piece of technology in science fiction isn't lightsabers, flying spaceships, or even robots. It's AI. But not just any AI. My favorite is the one in the TV show The Expanse. If you watch

Context is part of the game

For a while I used coding agents for small, self-contained things. Refactor this method. Rename this variable. Extract this into a function. Safe, short instructions where the agent couldn't go too far off track. But I kept seeing people push further — giving…

Everyone should play more games offline

There's something cozy about playing a video game offline. Try it. Turn off WiFi in the house or go into offline mode and boot up your favorite game. Get ...

Cheap design

In the physical world, making things has two costs: design and fabrication. Design is drawing up the part. Fabrication is producing it. Both are expensive, so physical things are made from standard parts: bolts, beams, extrusions, brackets. You accept the over…

Installing OpenClaw on a Jetson Nano

I had a Jetson Nano lying around doing nothing and wanted to use it as a self-hosted OpenClaw gateway. OpenClaw gets broad system access — filesystem, shell, network, credentials — and there’s been a steady stream of security issues, including a one-click RCE …

Entropies

Making sense of entropies

Thoughts on LLMs — finestructure

I find it difficult to coherently collect my thoughts on LLMs. They’re undeniably an interesting technology. There are also people I follow online that I have a lot of respect for and who I trust, making a strong case that they’re finding LLMs useful in many a…