So like 7+ years ago when NetHack 3.6 came out, they changed how prices were calculated in shops compared to 3.4.3. I wrote a command line tool in Python called DizzyPrice that served as a way to d...

Over the past month or so I’ve been working on a new site. I was reading some works by Anna Louise Strong, the legendary communist journalist, and I found that at least two of her works (The Stalin...

Long time no post, as is the case with most blogs. I grew weary of Wordpress, so I wanted to try a new blogging system, one more accomodating to my workflow. Enter Jekyll! It seems remarkably flexi...

If you want to record chess moves during casual over-the-board play, the most common way is to write the moves down on a piece of paper. This is what’s done during tournaments, particularly because...

I’ve been getting into chess lately, both playing strangers and against coworkers on chess.com. It’s been a lot of fun learning my openings, but I’m finding that one of my absolute favorite quick e...