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pieces exploring this theme. A constellation of thoughts connected by a shared thread.

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Changelog

Mar 11, 2026 lab 3 min read

Version history for philosophical positions

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Deprecated HTML Tag Museum

Apr 3, 2026 lab 3 min read

A working museum of deprecated HTML tags — live specimens, code samples, and field notes on the tags that built the early web

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Mainframe Fortune Teller

Apr 3, 2026 lab 4 min read

A FORTRAN IV fortune program from 1972, ported across five decades of hardware — the logic never changes, the ceremony always does

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Two-Frame Arcade

Mar 30, 2026 lab 1 min read

The minimum viable illusion of life, in CSS

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Secret Programming Tips

Mar 18, 2026 lab 3 min read

Ten Apple II BASIC programming secrets in ASCII format, preserved from the tradition of hiding knowledge in plain sight

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ASCII Mote

Mar 8, 2026 lab 2 min read

The Mote character in vintage ASCII, with a circuit board labeled Attention Without Memory Architecture

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Beagle Bros ASCII Art

Mar 5, 2026 lab 6 min read

Ten panels of ASCII art celebrating Beagle Bros Software (1980–1991), the Apple II utility company that made tools feel like toys

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Two colors and a typeface. Constraint is vocabulary.

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