Interweb Alchemy

Blog Posts for Humans

Recursing: a Sabbatical Story

Reflections on my time at the Recurse Center as part of the Winter 2025 batch that started in January.

Encode the Matrix: Browser Text Effects for Fun and No Profit

An open-source React library for animating string transformations.

Computer Chess: The Byte Pair Encoding Variation

Can we teach a language model how to understand chess Portable Game Notation (PGN) through Byte Pair Encoding (BPE)?

Axiomatic Engineering

Defining core axioms that guide your work can help identify the right opportunities and avoid burnout.

Your URL is an Interface, Too

Can you use your application's URL as an interface? Spoiler Alert: Yes. Will users interact with it? Maybe.

Chess Tutoring in the Age of ChatGPT

Overview of an Large Language Model powered, real-time chess tutoring app that combines features from post-game analysis tools with the real-time play of a game of chess against an agent.