ROSE-9?

21 August 2026

More thought experiments about…CPU design, inspired by Pavel Panchenka’s (LLM-assisted) “We’d be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes”.

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Tags: Programming

What I Didn't Know About Jury Duty

04 July 2026

As of this year I’ve had my first experience serving on a jury, in a criminal case in a California court. Years of TV and a few school electives told me what to expect, while still knowing an actual trial probably wouldn’t be like that at all. And…it was and it wasn’t! Hence this post.

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Tags: Me

YAML is (not) my preferred configuration format

17 March 2026

An article about…configuration formats. More interesting than it sounds! …to some people.

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Tags: Programming

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