Thirteen Years Later The better tomb, and the man who wouldn’t build it
Tomb Raider 2 is the better, rounder Tomb Raider - and the game its own creator refused to make. On levels, gunplay and the Lara hype machine.
Twelve months, unabridged The year 2026, start to finish
48 posts, newest first. A few have aged in public.
Twenty-Five Megabytes Of Island Stranded 2 still eats weekends
Stranded 2 runs on Linux in 2026 - a 2007 freeware survival island, a lost weekend, and one German guy still building the sequel.
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For a couple of months now every terminal I own wears the same bar: coralline, a Powerlevel10k-inspired statusline for Claude Code. All segments on, tokyo-night, two lines. Branch and dirty state, the active model plus its effort level, the context window filling up, the 5h and 7d rate-limit gauges with their reset countdowns, session cost, session length. I have stopped guessing how close I am to a wall.
Run the installer yourself, or hand the playbook to Claude Code and let it interview you. The readme’s own trust section says a Claude that stops to inspect that playbook first is behaving correctly. It is. Read the script, then run it – trust is good, verification is better.
Needs jq and a Nerd Font, or VL_ASCII=1 without the font. Renders locally: no network calls, no tokens.
Grammar All The Way Down Then I found four pebbles
Ultrafinitism wants infinity banished from math - but every fix for infinity is just another grammar, and quantizing an 80B model shows why.
Class of 2005 F*CK YOU – two words, no argument
The bug in the system - Heartstopper landed 20 years too late for a queer kid at a Bavarian village school. Six years, two carved words, what came after.
A Thousand Kilometers Of Intent Every metro line planned for Sài Gòn – and what is actually being built
The Sài Gòn metro in July 2026 - 27 planned lines, what is running, what is under construction, and which ground-breakings were only ceremonies.
A Loanword Rebuilt The trapboy takes the stairs four at a time
Trapboy and trapgirl mean something in Việt Nam they never meant in English - a courtship protocol, a fishing metaphor, and a stamped government form
Ten Years Of Being Right Knowing is not preventing
Germany knows exactly what the AfD is - and it is rising anyway. On memory culture, a blog post from 2016, and a calendar.
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First exomoon in sight, maybe. A team on ESO’s VLT clocked a Jupiter-sized object circling a brown dwarf that circles a red dwarf star. The catch: it’s massive enough to be a planet in its own right, but it’s orbiting something that orbits a star. Lead author says being ‘the third wheel’ is what makes them want to call it a moon – so in the paper they hedged and wrote ‘exosatellite,’ because nobody’s written the rulebook for this yet. We named everything for one tidy solar system, and the cosmos never signed off on the terms. Confirmation waits on the 39-meter Extremely Large Telescope, online 2029. Spektrum has the writeup (German).
The Trärchen Year Two boyfriends and a contract on the kitchen wall
Throuple life in Frankfurt - a three-page relationship contract on the kitchen wall, one very good year, and the slow way it came apart.