Stories by Tomte

The Subnautica devs are doing a turn-based, space-pirates, tabletop game

Windows 8’s missing startup sound has been hiding in plain sight

Pachelbel Rant (2006)

Neptune’s Navy (2007)

Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist (2010)

Moscow’s Metro Dogs (2013)

Leslie Odom Jr. Teaches You Philly Slang (2021)

Michael Phelps Supersizes Every Meal (2008)

CrossFit: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly (2013)

Bodybuilding and Nation-Building (2012)

My tier list of interesting YouTube channels (2020)

Effective Altruism Has a Novelty Problem

Designing for Long-Form Articles

Graphene as the philosopher’s stone: turning waste into gold

Interview: Julia Galef (2021)

Strength Training for Non-Athletes

Thinking as Computation (2011) [pdf]

The World’s Greatest Card Trick Can’t Be Taught (2021)

The Authoritarians (2006)

IKEA’s “Cook This Page” Posters (2017)