Jodie's Blog

People living comfortably in the first world complain about how hard it is to see so much suffering in the world.

— Written as part of We Have Inkhaven at Home We tend to focus on not feeling bad, but the goal isn't feeling nothing.

A friend of mine is going to this big fancy retreat called Inkhaven where you write one blog post a day.

we're different types of gray mine is jagged concrete yours a calm rainy morning people always say we match but gray is just the way colors look when they're all blended together

The Farmers Meta makes about $50 per user per year.

— Read at the 2025 Secular Solstice celebration At first glance humans aren't very equipped for survival.

Why Be an Accelerationist?

My own behavior baffles me.

I made this dead-simple rational approximation of the black-body radiation formula. vec3 blackbody(float t){ vec3 a = vec3(2.59734600e-07,4.72510121e-07,1.47450666e-07); vec3 b = vec3(9.63147451e-04,6.61403216e-04,-2.61032012e-04); vec3 c = ve…

Possibly the fastest (decently) accurate square root yet. 5x less latency and 7x throughput!

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. ― Arthur Conan Doyle Anyone who's pulled an all-nighter, been bored, or fallen into a YouTube rabbit hole knows that time is subjective.

I've been working on an image compression format lately (coming soon!).

Your words linger in the silence.

Shifting a float by 1 approximately squares or square-roots it very quickly.

My blog now has an RSS feed!

The idea of work-life balance is harmful.

there's a voicemail full of excuses you haven't listened to yet I wonder if you miss me like I do if you'll rewind the tape to hear my voice your scarf still hangs by my door waiting for you to walk in I watch the snow fall outside my window I trace your…

Replace unhealthy sugary treats with fancy salads.

Relative colors and Oklch in css enable this clean, composable pattern.

https://godbolt.org/z/djTqa5x7K static float garbage_sigmoid(float x){ return utf( ~ftu( utf(~ftu(x))- utf(ftu(4.f)|ftu(x)&ftu(-0.f)) ) ); }

time moves like honey sweet and slow even the wind limps dragging its hem across the thorns the clouds weep softly too heavy for the sky to hold each moment settles like dust remembered but never recalled here, for a moment or an eternity I can stop doing,

Humans aren't made to have long-term goals.

Things that are pleasurable aren't necessarily addictive, and things that are addictive aren't necessarily pleasurable.

shimmering dewdrops jewels in the grass dawn's vaulted ceiling adorned with golden clouds this hill, my ornate throne where I am king

One limitation of therapy is that you can't have a therapist be with you 24/7 to examine your behavior.

I recently got interviewed by Charlotte Collins of Architectural Digest about furniture-free living.

I've been using my phone as my main computer for a week now.

About a year back, I moved into a new apartment and couldn't bring my desk.

Do you feel like you have no time?

┌───────────────┐ │ Am I happy?

One common flaw in HNSW implementations is using ordered sets to track visited neighbors.