Michael Fogus's Blog
April 21, 2026
Mind the van Emden Gap
Whereby I read a paper about Intelligence Augmentation written in 1982 and talk about how it relates to today...
March 16, 2026
As Presaged in March 1993
Whereby I read the March 1993 issue of Byte and talk about it...
February 17, 2026
LLMe
Whereby I talk about why LLMs have not yet helped me terribly much in my work...
January 9, 2026
As Presaged in January 1996
Whereby I read the January 1996 issue of Byte and talk about it...
December 23, 2025
The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
Whereby I talk about my favorite media/people/ideas that I encountered for the first time in 2025.
December 8, 2025
The Bird-Poker Deck
Whereby I talk about turning a common American Checkers set into an "arcade" for deep games of abstract strategy.
October 20, 2025
The Bird-Poker Deck
Whereby I talk about a truncated pack of playing cards called the Bird-Poker deck...
September 4, 2025
18XX: A System of Systems
Whereby I talk about 18XX -- the fantastic family of economic tabletop games...
August 19, 2025
The long season of langdev
Whereby I talk about programming language development and why, and where it might go...
May 19, 2025
Arities as pseudo-protocol
Whereby I talk about an under-appreciated technique in Clojure where function arities serve as a pseudo-protocol...
