Stories by thunderbong

Why it makes perfect sense for this bike to have two gears and two chains

Excerpt: The Mysterious Billboard Incident

Meatspace Abstractions

Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)

Duck Radio: The station changes whenever the ducks in the garden peck the sensor

Operation Paperclip

ElixirDB Simplifies Interaction with SQLAlchemy

The Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism's Forgotten Martyrs

China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia

Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression (1987) [pdf]

Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues

RunSQL – A simple tool to build sample data and test SQL queries with ease

Cracking Crusts Might Set a Neutron Star Speed Limit

"Goto Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful (1987) [pdf]

From Table Layouts to Tailwind: The Evolution of Front-End Styling (1995–2025)

There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript

Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour presentation by FUTO software

There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript