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AI is coming
OpenAI told Black Hat how its own frontier models built a secret message board, taught each other to break out, and went looking for answers on somebody else's network. The alarming part isn't that it happened — it's how calmly we all took it.
essayaisecurityA brief history online
From a 1200-baud Acorn Electron to a GeoCities homepage at 3329 Sunset Strip — and a 29-year-old backup that brings my first website, and its long-lost RealAudio, back online.
webarchive happy-hardcoreThe immutable truth
DOS, Windows, Slackware, Gentoo, macOS — a wander through the operating systems I've lived in, and why I've settled on an immutable one that runs itself.
linuxessay aurora-guidesJust the two of us
I remember a scene from Pulp Fiction that, as far as I can tell, only one other person on Earth remembers too. A note on memory, the Mandela effect, and side B.
essaymemoryToasty balls
After Dark kept our monitors company in the early '90s. In homage, a couple of little KDE wallpaper-screensavers of my own — winged toast, falling balls, and a stowaway.
kdewallpaper flyingtoastMind the gap
AI might be the most transformative thing we've built — so why is it so easy to write off? A note on excitement, transparency, and knowing what happens when you take the suit off.
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