Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan Starfleet Log, Delta Quadrant—Classified Briefing At the edge of the known, maps fail and instincts take over. We don’t just explore new worlds—we build places to survive …

There is a shared soul shard between Dwarf Fortress, Emacs, and AI that lured me to them and has kept me engaged for over a decade. For a long time, I struggled to articulate the connection, managing only to describe …

AI slop is all around and increasingly extraction of useful information will face difficulties as we start to feed more noise into the already noisy world of knowledge. We are in an era of unprecedented data abundance, …

The concept of a "universal library" has captivated human imagination for centuries, from the Library of Alexandria to modern projects like Wikipedia and LLMs. Miroslav Kruk’s paper underscores historical challenges …

Today’s product builders and data scientists shape the way people see the world. The analysis, plots, and UI we create are places where others dwell. Not merely occupy but live and harness the mental space we give them …