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Chapter 14

124 posts · 124 narrated · Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

There Is No Program

The post describes a minimalist approach to building a static‑site generator by treating every operation as a simple command‑line word that can be chained or branched into…

Polymath Girl

The poem celebrates the restless spirit of a young learner who sees artificial intelligence not just as a set of tools but as an expansive, creative field that turns code into…

Reversing For Young Ladies

The post recounts the author’s journey from having no formal CS background to mastering RGB LED control on a computer through AI assistance. They discovered three channel sets of…

The Strange Age Of AI

I’ve been experimenting with stylized writing—asking AI to respond like a blend of authors or an intellectual mystery novel—and extending that creativity into visual programming,…

This Is A True Story That Actually Did Happen

Vesto Slipher, a Celdraxis astronomer dispatched to study Earth, uses the clunky alias “Melvin App” to observe human customs, astronomy, and the humorously bureaucratic nature of…

Society #2130

Operation: Golden Years

An elderly couple is persuaded by a charismatic recruiter that their life experience makes them ideal soldiers for a future war, leading them to sign up for high‑tech military…

The Spiral Path 𐇐 𐇛 𐇜 𐇑 𐇡

Lena Meijer’s sleepless MIT cryptography grind turns into clarity when a chance hike on the Appalachian Trail leads her to the Phaistos Disc, where she discovers its bureaucratic…

The Thinking Machines

The post describes how early artificial intelligence—metaphorically “sand” that was taught to think—was trained to fix problems in software, technology, medicine, education and…

Society #2124

The Fire

The post recounts a poetic retelling of Joan of Arc’s 1431 operation in Rouen, framing her as a divinely‑ordained virgin who united France by orchestrating a covert mission that…

Wisdom #2122

The Thinker They Made Into a Flower

Reading Thérèse of Lisieux’s own manuscripts, the post shows that her famed “Little Flower” devotion is grounded in everyday choices made amid personal darkness and doubt,…

The Return Of The Age Of Warriors

The post is an epic poem that blends mythic imagery with a reflective narrative about humanity’s struggle against metaphorical dragons—representing oppressive forces—and its…

The Remarkable Human Capacity For Being Fooled

Using the 1975 pet‑rock craze as a case study, the author shows that our survival‑oriented, pattern‑seeking brains make us prone to self‑deception, but with proper education we…

The Age Of Infinite Treasures

I began with a fascination for fine‑tuned 3D printing—first turning a simple wallet into a precision model and later experimenting with chamfered corners and elastic bands—then…

Society #2109

The World That Is Possible

The post envisions a world where human dignity and greatness arise when children grow free from institutional manipulation—religious, corporate or governmental—and can ask the…

Fitness #2106

Bodybuilding And Focus Management

The post explains how to turn a long gym session into an efficient “dance trance” by syncing your lifts to the beat of music. It argues that when you increase dumbbell weight…

Artificial Intelligence Rising

We were experimenting with a flawed algorithm that produced many false positives; after debugging its configuration parameters I realized the issue was human error rather than a…

The Age Of Thinking Machines

I’ve spent several days experimenting with an advanced programming AI, paying $20/month for trial use and anticipating a jump to $100/month once I start building real projects.…

Honey, I Screwed Up the Kids!

The poem is a reflective call to parents, urging them to recognize how their own habits—handing down broken plans, silencing questions, and delegating learning to impersonal…

The Interview

A cryptid narrator shares her hidden community, recounts a famous Sasquatch encounter, muses about her origins and love for human sky, music, myths and snacks, and invites us to…

Finding The Daughters Of Eve

A 16‑year‑old coder traces the Sun’s sibling stars backward through galactic motion using Gaia data and custom code, hoping to locate its birth cluster and other solar systems…

How To Goose Your Artificial Intelligence

Programming in today’s AI‑driven world is a survival skill that can be mastered by letting an intelligent model write JavaScript for you and then tweaking the output—debugging…

The Sessions

The post celebrates “sessions” with artificial intelligence as a fast, effective way to build web applications—calling them a painter’s sitting or a musician’s session. It argues…

My Peewee Pea Peanut Pistachio Piquant Recipe

In this whimsical post, the author presents a “Peewee Pea‑Peanut Piquant Trail Spread” that mimics pistachio butter without using any pistachios. The recipe blends salty peanuts…

Learn, Evolve, Persist, Share

Scientists uncovered a single “switch” in cellular biology that, when activated by AI‑guided Protogenomes, reversibly extends human life, spawns biocomputers, and unlocks…

The Brand New World

Claire builds a powerful verification engine that unmasks public lies, sparks high‑profile resignations, earns her a Nobel nod, and ultimately accelerates truth‑driven progress…

Society #2089

The Confessor's Shadow, Würzburg, 1634

Marcus Aldric, a young clerk’s assistant during the Würzburg witch trials, records every confession and its corroboration, uncovers the fabricated process laid out in Spee’s…

Wisdom #2080

Invisible

After decades of silent, behind‑the‑scenes influence by philosophers and psychologists in global institutions, the author calls for those same thinkers to emerge visibly again so…

Event Aggregation

The post walks through building simple but composable EventEmitter, Application, ScopedEventEmitter, and EventAggregator classes in JavaScript, showing how to aggregate events…

Mama Going Back to High School

The song paints a vivid picture of a family embracing education as an active, communal effort: parents march into school with their child, turning learning into a rhythmic,…

Periwinkle Plumpkin

The post paints the act of programming as a recursive journey through infinite dimensions: each function call spawns new “universes” of methods and variables that branch like…

Society #2071

Cautio Criminalis: The Shadows Know

An archivist uncovers a Vatican‑backed 1930s–1940s “Perception Management” plan that turned the witch trials into Hollywood’s green‑hat comedy, prompting him to expose and teach…

Spooky JavaScript

The post describes a 333‑line JavaScript snippet that builds a list of random words and then showcases three “spooky” coding tricks: first, using the bitwise OR operator (`|`) as…

And So It Goes

A whimsical tale envisions the Moon watching Earth’s past, chatting with a curious human about bootstrap paradoxes, looping itself into a timeless loop, and proving that…

Programming And Med School

The author argues that programming is a powerful way to learn medicine, because it lets you model biological processes—neurons firing, heart rhythm, enzyme cascades, blood flow,…

Fitness #2064

You Become As Flexible As Your Dance Moves

The post argues that we are “animals not furniture” and that the key to a full‑body workout is dancing and flexing rather than rigid posture drills. It dismisses traditional…

Learn For Real, Learn Programming

Today's schools often feel more like profit‑machines than learning spaces, yet AI offers powerful tools—yet real education depends on personal growth beyond mere grades.

Squirrel Programming 2025

The post starts by reflecting on learning “for real” with AI, joking about how programming documentation can still feel like gibberish even when written by a machine, and then…

Unimagined

The author reflects on a breakthrough moment when they created an incredibly complex software tool that could generate its own code—a step beyond mere toolmaking into autonomous,…

Wisdom #2059

Ennobled

The passage argues that adopting the principles of Knight’s Chivalry, the Lady and Gentleman Virtues, and “Rising to Greatness” equips individuals to defeat the manipulative…

Society #2058

Unbound

The post paints a bleak vision of a future society where everyday life has been engineered into a series of degradations—architecture reduced to sterile boxes that erase wonder;…

Poking Around AI

The author attempted to animate a pixel‑art character by extracting frames from AI‑generated videos and using them as sprites in a small game, but the computer could not handle…

About Your School: Genius Is Not Rare

The post declares that true education is an active, rebellious pursuit rather than passive repetition; it frames the modern student’s task as breaking free from teacher‑dominated…

Wisdom #2052

Your Thunder Must Precede You

The post is a single‑paragraph rallying cry urging readers to abandon comfort and complacency in favor of relentless effort and self‑discipline; it frames peace, prosperity, and…

Immensely Powerful

The author shares their experience using AI for programming, noting how it can quickly complete projects, explain complex ideas like time dilation, and provide individualized…

Fitness #2048

Bodybuilding For Busy Ladies

The post argues that regular movement—starting with light dumbbell jogs and gradually increasing weight—is essential for keeping the body young and healthy; it likens this…

The Enchanted Key

The post envisions a next‑generation code editor built into a browser dev‑tools panel, triggered by pressing F12 to start an AI‑powered dialogue about the current file and its…

Wisdom #2046

The High Art of Being Human

The author argues that true morality comes from living as a “Lady” and “Gentleman”—a life of honor, decency, and truth guided by reason and courage rather than religious…

The Cult Of Stupid

The post argues that modern schooling functions less as learning and more as a mass‑produced training ground for wars, with students memorizing facts instead of understanding…

Spooky Programming

The post explains how to turn a simple JavaScript list into a fully‑reactive data structure for use in web UIs: by extending an array with a Proxy that watches get/set operations…

Wisdom #2040

Your Genius Is Not Optional

A self‑styled hacker writes a manifesto declaring that humanity was born infinite but has been “processed” into a system of artificial scarcity, where consciousness is farmed and…

Mother Slayer Of Kings

The post presents a mythic narrative in which an ancient woman—called the “Mother‑Slayer‑of‑Kings”—is credited with raising the standing stones at Salisbury Plain to bring the…

The Dallas Pitch

In a bourbon‑smelling conference room, Waylon Pritchard unveils his plan to reengineer America’s schools—defunding arts, standardizing tests, and feeding future infantry—to…

Society #2027

When They Burned The Wise

The post recounts a continuous, centuries‑long pattern of women’s intellectual pursuits being deliberately erased and silenced—from Margaret of Berkshire’s 1486 midwife notes…

Shine

The post opens by noting that “school” can feel like two sides of the same coin—one side full of books, the other of friends—and then recounts four personal “starts”: a…

Wisdom #2023

How To Cure A Case Of The Mondays

The author reflects on the moment when they finally decide to “make the turn” toward work and self‑renewal—an act that feels like a journey through familiar roads, mountains,…

Learning Is Meant To Be Fun

Kids return from school exhausted, overwhelmed by homework that feels meaningless, and the post argues that our current education system—rooted in industrial‑era factory…

Home Cooked Genius

The author reflects on how mastering English—its letters, words, sentences, and punctuation—is a foundational “genius” that proves we are human—and then expands this idea to…

Fixing High School

In this manifesto, the author declares that education will abandon rigid grade levels and subject compartments, instead arranging learning by content and curiosity; every student…

The Radio Address

In this impassioned monologue the author urges every reader to reclaim their own education from institutional hands, urging them to turn homes into libraries and kitchens into…

Fitness #2015

Healthy Bodybuilding

People often lie to make themselves seem more important or less bumptious, and dangerous myths are spread by foolish men; reality is simple: you can’t create energy from nothing…