pood.re/blog

Autistic trauma 2026-06-19 Here are a few things that I am traumatized about because people refused to accommodate my autism.

The 2025 pood.re year in review 2026-01-08 Looking back on the year gone by and getting a little sappy toward the end.

How to do polyamory according to me, a stranger on the Internet 2025-12-07 So.

"my brain" is a construct of my brain 2025-12-02 Content warning: discussion of depression and general mental health issues.

Scripting in fish is delightful 2025-10-17 Scripting in fish has renewed my interest in shell scripting at all.

You don't need philosophy to reject so-called AI 2025-06-29 You don't need to define consciousness or humanity, and maybe you shouldn't.

Falsehoods queer people believe about queer people 2025-04-16 Just because a statement appears here doesn't mean that it's never true, just that it can't be assumed to be true.

A better YouTube embed 2025-03-01 The YouTube embed HTML code that YouTube generates by default is kinda cruddy.

The 2024 pood.re year in review 2025-01-09 Here's a quick look back and forward on pood.re as the year comes to a close.

Coming off of anti highs 2024-12-31 A poem about meaning. discovering things about myself while barely conscious, in a complete haze the fog is not gonna lift for a while, you have to enjoy it, fake it until you make it the clouds are pretty while you're…

I love watching my girlfriend work 2024-11-24 This was written a few days ago while she was working.

Thank you 2024-10-28 In my native language, French, thank you is usually said merci.

Unicode bestiary: the White Spaces 2024-10-02 I really like the beasts of Unicode, the shadow beings that live within your bytes.

Broken glass 2024-08-30 (a short poem) I am like broken glass on the cold kitchen floor.

I love Adventure Time so much. 2024-08-18 No spoilers ahead for any Adventure Time media.

I dig my nails into the earth 2024-08-17 I dig my nails into the earth.

I don't really care if I was born that way 2024-04-05 Or: appeal to nature is not the only way to prove that people deserve rights.

A cool LLVM optimization quirk when implementing CRC32 2023-01-02 LLVM did a cool optimization and I'm writing about it.

Trivial file formats Here are some super-simple easy-to-write file formats for quickly getting graphics and sound out of you program, no library required.

What's in my lube?

Privacy and security on the Internet: the "no financial incentive" version 2020-07-07 This guide written by someone who does not have any sort of stake in privacy or security companies.