https://lsiddd.blog/ Writings on code, math, and how to spend time well. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/the-instrumentalization-of-eileen-gu-and-alysa-liu-in-the-new-cold-war/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/the-instrumentalization-of-eileen-gu-and-alysa-liu-in-the-new-cold-war/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Badiucao drew it in two panels. In one, Alysa Liu skates triumphantly beside the Statue of Liberty. In the other, Eileen Gu is wrapped in a bloodstained yuan https://lsiddd.blog/posts/how-the-gang-of-four-and-uncle-bob-industrialized-accidental-complexity/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/how-the-gang-of-four-and-uncle-bob-industrialized-accidental-complexity/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. That's a real class name in the real Spring Framework, not satire. Four levels of indirection stacked into a single https://lsiddd.blog/posts/typst-optimized-for-the-wrong-reader/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/typst-optimized-for-the-wrong-reader/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Typst isn't losing to LaTeX because of missing features. It's losing because it built for the wrong customer. The complexity it's scrambling to add now is https://lsiddd.blog/posts/on-living-slowly/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/on-living-slowly/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Life moves fast, but it doesn't have to. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/on-writing-code-that-lasts/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/on-writing-code-that-lasts/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Most code is written once and read many times. The ratio is probably ten to one, maybe higher. And yet we optimize for writing speed, not reading ease. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/why-probability-feels-wrong/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/why-probability-feels-wrong/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Our intuitions about probability are systematically broken. Not occasionally wrong. Systematically wrong, in predictable ways. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/my-terminal-setup-in-2026/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/my-terminal-setup-in-2026/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tools I use every day should be fast, minimal, and not require much thought to operate. Here is what I run. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/hello-world/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/hello-world/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Welcome to my blog. This is the first post. https://lsiddd.blog/posts/attention-as-a-finite-resource/ https://lsiddd.blog/posts/attention-as-a-finite-resource/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 There is a strange asymmetry in how we think about time and attention.