Idle Thoughts

Intel Xeon E-2236 @ 3.40GHz · gcc 15.2.0 · 2026-07-13 We compiled nine small kernels while progressively reserving registers with gcc -ffixed-<reg>, then measured spills and runtime on one machine.

The other day I started thinking about registers for some reason (I need more exciting hobbies).

Like many others, I've played around with the "remote" functionality of various agents.

There's a sort of periodic trend where every year or so I end up reading articles about utilitarianism from skeptics.

In which I share a paper I liked and we discover yet again that people will use whatever tools they can in creative ways.

In which we explore various patch formats and the struggles of getting LLMs to put characters in the exact right spot.

I found myself perusing YouTube the other day, the way you do when you're desperately trying to avoid doing any useful work for the day, and found myself somehow watching a video about a ...

A simple strategy of having LLMs write fuzz tests and build up a port in topological order seems effective at automating porting from C to Rust.

Reflecting on cleaning a cast iron pan.

I reflect on the Entscheidungsproblem how it relates to Sudoku solvers.

The other day I was playing around with Claude Code, experimenting with porting some C code to Rust - not for any particular reason, just because I was curious how well it could do.

tags: grumble, grumble I'm now convinced that the last few jobs left for people will be home plumbing projects and web development.

I recently read The housing theory of everything from Works in Progress.

A short post.

For some reason I found myself recently watching an arbitrary episode of Stargate SG-1, I believe it was the episode where there's a Stargate-like show within the show, and the main characters are trying to understand how the writer ended up knowing so mu…

I found myself recently reading a Reddit conversation about electrical outlets, specifically comparing outlets in the US vs the UK.

The recent Trump administration's focus on tariffs have made me think about the US economy and its structure.

An old hat, but -- it's remarkable how easy LLMs have made writing Chrome extensions.

TLDR: I made a little app to help generate flashcards or Anki decks with context sentences & translations.

TLDR: You can convert your handwritten journal into HTML or Markdown with nice links and rendering using Notematic.