While working on the Vesuvius Challenge  to read the Herculaneum scrolls, I kept encountering early writing systems—not just as symbols, but as systems . The Rosetta Stone is the most famous example, yet I realized I had understood it mostly as a metaphor (“a Rosetta Stone for X”) rather than as an engineered artifact. The stone contains a decree issued in 196 BC affirming the cult of Ptolemy V. The content itself is administrative and unremarkable. What matters is how it is

I’ve been thinking about a simple question: What is our most regular, physically measurable contact with extraterrestrial material? Most people would say "meteorites." But that’s the wrong scale. The dominant input isn’t dramatic rocks—it’s dust. Earth is constantly ingesting space. Depending on the measurement method, we accrete roughly 20,000–40,000 tonnes  of cosmic material per year. A more conservative estimate for micrometeorites alone is ~5,200 tonnes/year. This refram

Title:  The Anomaly in December We tend to model the solar system as finished clockwork—a static, predictable machine where the major events happened billions of years ago. Every December, the Geminid meteor shower suggests this model is wrong. The Geminids are currently the strongest meteor shower of the year, yet they are an astronomical anomaly. They violate the standard rules for how meteor showers work, and they do so on a timescale that feels less geological and more hu

There's something nolstagic about department stores. It was such a vibe. With malls kind of dying and rise of ecommerce, the whole brick and morter everything store might have been a flash in the pan. One of my favourite christmas movies is home alone- christmas in new york. So many iconic spots, all explored through lens of kid in a candy store. Sometimes I'll imagine a movie and it just feels like it should or already exists. I had to double check because this franchise see

Wanted to get a better sense of what's happening during the meteor showers. Apparently this isn't actually accurate - plays fast and loosee with some of the scaling or placement. But gives a general sense of timing/action.

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While working on the herculean scroll challenge, I came across various examples of early human writing. One of the most famous was the rosetta stone. I had always heard of it and was generally aware of it but actually knew almost nothing about it. I was probably more familiar with the language platform than the historical artifact. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-o

I've been toying with various zodiac related apps for the last few months and have found myself using this one daily. It's a world clock tracker displayed with various cities and the related zodiac information. Includes the chinese zodiac animals along with their elements and direction.

This reader has better functioning read along audio but the UI/design is more basic. also made with bolt.new

Tried out online coding platform bolt.new and finally got around to making an epub reader I've been thinking about. Their one-shot prompt coding works surprisingly well and I ended up with a few variations I actually use. This one has the design most fleshed out but is missing some library functionality and the audio can be buggy. But besides that- it's an easy audiobook creator from any text source.