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📱 Applications
- YourTube History parse your youtube history to instantly surface your most‑watched videos, channels, and total viewing time.
- Unicodex symbol/unicode index in the style of a familiar codex.
- Pomodoro Timer a simple kitchen timer that tricks your brain by turning marathon tasks into bite-sized 25-minute sprints; because even the biggest tomato harvest starts with picking one pomodoro at a time.
- Color Clipper drag, hover, click a pixel. color's copied to your clipboard!
- The Zero-Width Space-Place a zero-width space served into your clipboard, coming right up!
- Image Format Converter convert any image format with zero quality loss (i.e., where pixels go to change their clothes).
- LLMTFY generate shareable links to search engines or AI chatbots—let me ChatGPT that for you.
- Background Eraser remove white backgrounds from your images; background be gone!
- Peg Solitaire classic puzzle game where you jump pegs until only one remains—leave the last peg standing.
🧮 Mathematics
- Painting Gabriel's Horn mathematical paradox: a shape with finite volume but infinite surface area—you can fill it with paint, but you can't paint it.
- House of Cards (Kattis Problem) competitive programming challenge that combines multiple algorithmic techniques—elegant and instructive.
- The Monty Hall Problem famous probability puzzle: should you switch doors? the counterintuitive answer reveals why math beats intuition.
- On Understanding, Not Just Memorizing the case for deeper learning: why understanding mathematical concepts matters more than memorization.
- Calculating Euler's Number exploring multiple methods for calculating e—from taylor series to probability approaches.
💻 Computer Science
- Computer Science Advice From A Computer Science Graduate reflective advice from a cs graduate—what worked, what didn't, and what to prioritize earlier.
- A Curious Shebang exploring the amusing edge case where pointing your shebang at `rm` causes self-deletion.
🧬 Artificial Intelligence
- Steepest-Ascent Hill-Climbing introduction to a straightforward search algorithm—climb the hill, survey the landscape, find the peak.
- An Evolutionary Approach To Problem Solving introduction to evolutionary algorithms—problem-solving inspired by natural selection and darwin's finches.
- The Reusability Of Evolutionary Algorithms demonstrating ea framework flexibility by transitioning from simple problems to complex 3-sat challenges.
- The Importance Of Parameter Tuning In Evolutionary Algorithms why parameter selection matters—tuning population size, mutation rates, and selection methods for optimal performance.
- Evolutionary Algorithms Recombination Operators comparing crossover strategies across permutations, integers, and continuous values.
- Evolutionary Algorithms Endgame Dynamics escaping local optima and knowing when to stop—adaptive restarts and termination conditions.
🤖 Technology
- RSS For The Rest Of Us make rss your everything‑app: news, social feeds, and curation in one place.
- Wordleconomics hunting for the optimal starting wordle word—what's yours?
- iPhone (17?) Air, One Month Later one month later: why iphone air's design resonates more than flagship specs.
🍵 Tea
- Tea Brewing Guide comprehensive guide to brewing tea correctly—precise temperatures and steeping times for all six major tea types.
✈️ Travel
- Solo At Tahoe first solo camping adventure at lake tahoe; 1 tent, 13km hike, 1000 calorie breakfasts.
- Missouri // 2025 photos from my trip and activities.
- Missouri // 2024 photos from my trip and throughout time.