ColinWright
Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:39pm PST
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about
If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there, and quoting the element name, will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

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Fri May 23, 2025 10:36pm PST
I don't want to use GitHub ... what would you recommend?
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Fri May 23, 2025 8:57pm PST
What's So Bad About POSIX I/O? (2017)
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Thurs May 22, 2025 2:16pm PST
How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
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Wed May 21, 2025 11:04am PST
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
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Mon May 19, 2025 10:56am PST
Legal Aid Agency data breach
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Sun May 18, 2025 1:16pm PST
Epic v. Apple Contempt order
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Sun May 18, 2025 8:35am PST
Iceland's shorter working week has been a success
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Fri May 16, 2025 11:57am PST
Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don't use App Store payments
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Fri May 16, 2025 9:57am PST
Solving the local optima problem – NQueens
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Thurs May 15, 2025 1:56pm PST
Cody Dock Rolling Bridge [video]
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Thurs May 15, 2025 11:46am PST
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards (2024/Aug)
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Wed May 14, 2025 10:14pm PST
DeltaChat: "We can not hand out data that we don't have" [pdf]
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Wed May 14, 2025 3:38pm PST
Speeding duck: Switzerland traffic cameras catch flying mallard
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Mon May 12, 2025 4:27pm PST
Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet (2023)
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Sun May 11, 2025 8:25am PST
Terence Tao: Using modern tools to semi-automatically formalize a proof in Lean
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Sat May 10, 2025 11:52am PST
The Monster in the Forest
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Fri May 9, 2025 11:37am PST
CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite
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Thurs May 8, 2025 9:43pm PST
UK government websites to replace passwords with secure passkeys
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Thurs May 8, 2025 11:49am PST
Wikipedia's Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act Regs
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Sun May 4, 2025 10:14am PST
Installing PostmarketOS with full disk encryption on a OnePlus 6
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Thurs May 1, 2025 7:11pm PST
Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
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Thurs May 1, 2025 11:10am PST
People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study
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Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:12pm PST
The Fish Doorbell
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Sun Apr 27, 2025 2:56pm PST
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]
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Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:12pm PST
Category Theory [pdf]
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Fri Apr 25, 2025 4:33pm PST
Sign the Petition: It's Time to Defend Encryption Worldwide
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Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:10pm PST
Silence Isn't Consent (2023)
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Thurs Apr 24, 2025 4:04pm PST
Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia doxxed by government
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Thurs Apr 24, 2025 3:28pm PST
Jedi Blue
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Thurs Apr 24, 2025 8:19am PST
Bluesky trusts the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata
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Thurs Apr 24, 2025 8:06am PST
Morse code and the limits of human perception
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Sun Apr 20, 2025 3:53pm PST
For any multiple of 37, reverse and interleave with 0s, you get a multiple of 37
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Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:27pm PST
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (1997) [video]
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Fri Apr 18, 2025 10:21am PST
arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud
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Tues Apr 15, 2025 8:25pm PST
Remember Pidgin, formerly GAIM? It's coming back
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Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:34pm PST
Growing a Language [pdf] (1998)
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:09pm PST
Pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:09am PST
Trump administration denial of climate change continues
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:28am PST
During the French Revolution, undecimal was briefly considered
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Thurs Apr 10, 2025 12:59pm PST
Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 9:26pm PST
Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 11:30am PST
Deconstructions of the Jigsaw Puzzles
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 9:02am PST
Grappling with Infinity in Constraint Solvers
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 8:51am PST
Sentient Programming Language
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Tues Apr 8, 2025 6:33pm PST
Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title
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Tues Apr 8, 2025 2:31pm PST
The UK's proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses/domain names
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Mon Apr 7, 2025 9:52am PST
ITAPPMONROBOT (2007)
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 11:02pm PST
Learn Uxntal in Y Minutes
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 6:43pm PST
Tell the UK Government: Don't Break Apple's iCloud Encryption
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 2:15pm PST
Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 9:54am PST
ToS;DR
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Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:45pm PST
Adam Atkinson – The Heavy Boots Story [video]
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Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:28pm PST
ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge
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Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:01pm PST
Terence Tao: A short text about when to consider using an AI for a task
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Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:09pm PST
How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud
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Fri Mar 28, 2025 5:15pm PST
It's time to leave Substack (2024)
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Thurs Mar 27, 2025 11:48am PST
Tunnelling through a Mountain in Ancient Greece [video]
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Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:51pm PST
Create a Table of Contents Based on HTML Heading Elements
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