I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- In today's episode of stupid races between old computery things
- First principles AI. I'm not joking.
- Legacy Is a Sales Word · milkcrunch
- X just sent me an ad for $100 sweatpants. People are NUTS.
- I love doing puzzles and brain teasers in the Christmas season. Like Advent of Code and books like this.
- The Unix Philosophy Still Wins · milkcrunch
- New website
- Advent of Code Day 3 - Vintage edition. I used my Commodore 64 to get today's puzzle. 8 hours, not bad.
- Day 3 of Advent of Code 2025
- Continuing to compute 100k digits of Pi as quickly as possible (without using an LLM, just my brain)
- Advent of Code 2025 Day 1 was easy, so I challenged myself and did it in FORTRAN.
- Green phosphor monitors count as Christmas decorations in my office. I'll die on this hill.
- Alright, since this week I was computing Pi in six languages, let's add a seventh.
- This thing needs an OS upgrade.
- AT Time
- Pi as fast as I know how in six languages
- Novella complete
- First Principles: Why You Must Learn Before You Prompt · imapenguin
- Dorothy Vaughan: Adapt or Become Obsolete · imapenguin
- Doing actual writing in Hugo