Things Of Interest

Code » The HATETRIS algorithm has always been perfectly deterministic, with no "RNG".

There Is No Antimemetics Division » Okay, so: if you see a book for sale with this cover, there are some things you should know before you buy it: it is nothing to do with me, I didn't publish it if you pay money for it, none of that money will go to me t…

There Is No Antimemetics Division » There Is No Antimemetics Division will be published in a single state as a limited edition signed by the author and artist.

Code » qntm's leap second simulator During a leap second, Unix time cannot represent 23:59:60.

Code » This essay builds on results from my previous essays "How many valid JSON strings are there?"

There Is No Antimemetics Division » "What is different between the original self-published version of Antimemetics (V1) and the new traditionally published version (V2)?"

Code » Quick simple one.

Code » A valid JSON string is a finite series of characters, each character chosen from an alphabet of 1,114,112 possible characters, which additionally conforms to the simple grammar described at json.org.

Blog » Prominent OpenAI invester Geoff Lewis may be facing a conspiracy theory-related mental health episode brought about by extended conversations with ChatGPT.

HATETRIS » This page presents every known record in the history of HATETRIS.

Fiction » On sale 11 November 2025.

Code » If I see code along the lines of: const ref = application + ':' + endpoint then I'm going to request that you provide a rigorous proof that neither of the strings application or endpoint can ever contain a colon.

Blog » Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the world.

Blog » On this page, every vertical pixel is equivalent to 100,000 years of time.

Code » We've started playing a new board game.

Blog » In fact I have two publishing deals.

Blog » tl;dr: this is your last chance to buy Antimemetics V1!

Blog » In fact I have two publishing deals.

Blog » I just want to see it.

Blog » At work we recently started experimenting with generative AI for assistance with programming.

There Is No Antimemetics Division » This was written around March 2022, long after the completion of the Antimemetics tales on the SCP wiki.

Code » The HATETRIS algorithm has always been perfectly deterministic, with no "RNG".

Fiction » "[D]elivers a refreshing dose of existential despair at the transhuman condition." — Charles Stross qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium.

Code » Play Hate Tetris.

Fiction » "[D]elivers a refreshing dose of existential despair at the transhuman condition." — Charles Stross qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium.

Blog » Mirror's Edge came out for the PlayStation 3 in 2008 and it is literally the only PlayStation 3 game I own.

Code » Exactly one of the following statements is true.

Blog » Control is a 2019 third-person action shooter developed by Remedy Entertainment.

Blog » Quite a lot of science fiction isn't about what it's about.

Code » Absurdle is an adversarial variant of the charming and (currently) viral word guessing game Wordle.