Chris Peoples

Nicholas has struggled balancing parenthood with his ambitions: I know many ambitious parents; it’s not an uncommon combination.

…so Dan Q fixed it for you!

Another daily puzzle game that has captured my attention.

The term “astrophotography” is new to me, but Rod’s work is gorgeous.

A cool way to share/embed your terminal sessions.

Wordle meets hang man.

I was particularly taken by this piece from Heydon Pickering’s generative art gallery.

Another 500 games of Wordle played since 1000.

I had a fun time taking on the What’s in a Name?

I found this fun end of year reading survey from Perpetual Page Turner and thought I’d fill it out.

An interesting bug fixing tale.

Vercel is slowly being the placed by a time traveler stuck in Internet Explorer 6.

2025 was a year like any other.

Reilly Chase played 1,000 hands of online poker, used PokerTracker4 to analyze those hands, then built this pretty neat site to review the results.

Hacker News users share stories about the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them.

I enjoy a good book challenge but some of them are just too daunting (I’m looking at you, r/fantasy).

A partial archive of Anthony Bourdain’s lists published to the now-defunct li.st website.

A gorgeously constructed article about the history of science fiction in India.

My first true introduction to the crafting video game mechanic.

I don’t tweet anymore, I’ve yet to join Threads or Bluesky, and I never really got into Mastodon.

What a lovely site by Sophie which harkens back to the internet of old.

Ibrahim Diallo on leadership: By definition, leading is knowing the way forward.

The next time you hear “it’s just one line” pause for a moment.

I shocked myself by solving a Game of Crowns puzzle in only ten seconds!

This week, two services that I’ve used for years announced that they will enter the web’s graveyard: Pocket and Glitch.

When Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick says that today’s game features much more movement than eras past, is it just conjecture or can it be quantified by data?

The end my nearly two year Wordle streak.

Jonathan Snook opened his 2024 recap post musing, Sometimes I wonder if doing these recap posts at this point are masturbatory.

Every morning since January 13, 2022, I’ve faithfully done the same thing: played the daily Wordle.

Every year, the r/Fantasy subreddit issues a challenge: complete a bingo card filled with various science fiction and fantasy topics on it.

It’s been far too long since I’ve done a personal year in review.

Hello, 2023!

Jim Nielsen asked the following question on Twitter: “I’ve used the online diff checker a few times, but does anybody know of or use a simple utility for Mac that will do this?

Giovanni Contardi shared this great video on how to solve a Rubik’s Cube.

Originally published at Medium on April 29, 2013.

I don’t read enough books written by women.

Continuing the tradition I started last year, I celebrated Black History Month by reading black authors.

2020 was quite a year, wasn’t it?

One way that I’ve been able to stay connected with family during the quarantine is by hosting a semi-regular trivia night.

Reading is one of my favorite pastimes, and the pandemic hasn’t stopped my appetite for books.

After I migrated my website to Hugo, I needed a way to deploy the site to my host without manually FTPing files every time I make change.

I started using a static site generator for my personal site back in 2018.

I decided to celebrate this Black History Month by reading only black authors.

Kobe Bean Bryant.

Music was a bit of a mixed bag for me in 2019.

2019 was quite a year of reading for me.

As the decade draws to a close, I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite books, albums, and movies released or published in the 2010s.

From xkcd.com: Challenge accepted, Randall!