Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work
November 2, 2025 · 1 min read · Send your thoughts via twitter or mail. Abstract claim: The act of creation is fractal exploration–exploitation under optimal feedback control. When resolution increases the portion of parameter space that doesn’t make the artifact worse (acceptance volume) collapses. Verification latency and rate–distortion combine into a precision tax that […]
Zig / C++ Interop
Note: this blog post is cross-posted from my personal blog I’ve been writing Zig and C++ that have to talk to each other. I want both languages to be able to store data types from the other in their own structs/classes. const c = @cImport({ @cInclude(“cppstuff.h”); }); const MyZigType = struct { foo: c.SharedPtrFoo, }; […]
The Write Last, Read First Rule
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge: Composing systems, each correct in isolation, does not necessarily yield a correct system. In this post, we’ll explore how to maintain consistency in the absence of transactions, how to reason about correctness when intermediate states […]
Hiring a developer as a small indie studio (in 2025)
By Victor Hurdugaci on Nov 10, 2025 When I was at Electronic Arts or Microsoft, hiring was a multi-tier, bureaucratic process. There was a dedicated chain for budget approval, posting approval, initial filtering, screening, and offer negotiation. As a hiring manager, I only showed up for the final interview. Even at PlayerWON, which was only […]
DEC Mini – computer inspired by one of the loveliest retro computers of the 80s
The long-awaited new DEC Mini is the latest iteration of the DEC business computers that set an industry standard starting with the VT-series terminals in the 70s. Conceived to satisfy the most demanding users both at the office and at home, the DEC Mini owes its power to multiple state-of-the-art parallel processors, is fully IBM-PC […]
The ‘Toy Story’ You Remember
Plus: newsbits. A still from Toy Story on 35 mm film Welcome! Glad you could join us for another Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is our slate: 1) Digital animation on film stock. 2) Animation newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – The hybrid Toy Story used to look different. It’s a […]
Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad
Introduction The Toucan is a keyboard with an integrated touchpad, built around the familiar Cantor (Piantor) layout, designs with the goal of creating a truly portable split keyboard, something easy to bring along for work, travel, or even to use comfortably on a flight. Features of Toucan Wireless – Powered by the latest Seeed Studio […]
High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf]
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TTS Still Sucks
or at least the open versions of it. I have this very stupid rule. A couple of years ago I decided to turn this blog into a podcast. At the time, I decided to make up a stupid rule: whatever model I use to clone my voice and generate article transcripts needs to be an […]
Zeroing in on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal
Research News November 5, 2025• Physics 18, 178 A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission, which is shown to arise from quantum fluctuations in the crystal’s atomic lattice. Media Whale Stock/stock.adobe.com The atoms inside a crystal never stop moving, even when the object’s temperature approaches absolute zero. This quantum effect […]