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Twelve months, unabridged The year 2026, start to finish

79 posts, newest first. A few have aged in public.
An empty room aboard a spaceship at night, a wide slanted window opening onto dark, almost starless space, a low table with a single steaming cup of tea and an empty chair pushed back from it

Engage, One Last Time New post The bridge is empty

Sir Patrick Stewart has died at 86 - a farewell to the Shakespearean actor who made Jean-Luc Picard the captain a whole generation trusted.
EN· ·Art & Media
Two figures seen from behind on a dark sofa watching a TV that shows a volcano lair with a rocket and a monorail, the screen framed by tropical houseplants, an orange LED strip under the cabinet, fairy lights across a violet ceiling and candle jars on a small round table

Bond, Binge-Watched Twenty-five relics and a monorail

Dr. No to No Time to Die in one marathon - James Bond as an accidental time capsule of furniture, villains, sexism and one very loud ricochet.
EN· ·Art & Media
A baking sheet full of golden cinnamon rolls on a wooden table in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass front, one roll on a small plate beside a glass of Vietnamese iced coffee, with Saigon rooftops and distant towers in an early sunset glow

Baking Against the Season Cinnamon snails at 37 degrees

Cinnamon rolls with cardamom, baked in a 37-degree Sài Gòn and devoured by an entire office in minutes - full recipe included.
EN· ·Life & Leisure
A small child in a navy snowsuit and bobble hat stands with head tipped back under a single orange-glowing streetlamp on a snowy hilltop at night, a wooden sled beside them and a church tower with an onion dome faint in the dark behind

Winter In The Hinterland Warp speed in a snowsuit

A sledding hill, iron-runner sleds and one humming streetlamp - a mid-90s Bavarian winter memory about flying through falling snow.
EN· ·Personal Lore
How big is Phoenix A, the largest known black hole in 2026?

Unhelpfully Explained How big is Phoenix A, the largest known black hole in 2026?

Phoenix A, the largest known black hole as of October 2026, measured in Earths, Chuck Norrises, Coruscants and googols - back-of-the-envelope, of course.
EN· ·Curiosity & Science
Luitpold-Alexander Zollorsch
Luitpold-Alexander Zollorsch
@luitpold.me

Nobody joined, nobody typed a command, nobody placed a single block – and after ≈1,975,000,000 [1.975 billion] simulated years, the Ender Dragon died anyway. RedLogic ran an idle Minecraft world as a Monte Carlo simulation: Endermen haul pumpkins out of pillager outposts, the pumpkins accidentally turn into snow golems, the golems provoke creepers, the creepers blast a tunnel down to a naturally completed end portal. Opening that route alone took ≈37,500 years; the first end crystal fell after ≈3 million, to a snowball that missed its Enderman. Villagers went extinct somewhere along the way. That’s ≈30 times longer than the dinosaurs have been gone – for one dragon. Running Minecraft Until It Beats Itself is the most gloriously pointless thing on YouTube. GG, nobody.

EN· ·Chirps
A young person in a pink unicorn hoodie and rainbow backpack, seen from behind, stands in front of a heavy oak desk where an older man in a gray suit leans back with a cigar, vertical blinds and ring binders behind him

An Off-Meta Millennial Raised by dinosaurs

Old work meta vs. new: a millennial raised by post-war bosses on Gen Z, Sài Gòn's version of the clash, and what matters at the very end.
EN· ·Personal Lore
Illustration of an open-plan developer office with an exposed concrete ceiling, silver ducts and rows of wooden desks, where six young Vietnamese interns gather around a cake while a taller European man stands a step apart, watching them in the late afternoon light

Buddy Duty, Week Two Back then, I was still liquid

Intern buddy duty in Sài Gòn: 18 young Vietnamese grads, one German engineer from another generation - and why their hunger is contagious.
EN· ·Personal Lore
Hand-drawn illustration of a lone pale android seen from behind, standing in sunlit Roman ruins before a beige retro computer on a stone pedestal, umbrella pines and broken columns around it, a tall tower rising in the lavender haze far away.

A Save Game, Not an Ending Only us

The Talos Principle never really ended for me - two games about robots, souls and responsibility that kept playing in my head long after I closed them.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A man seen from behind at a desk with three glowing monitors in a dark high-rise bedroom at night, beds behind him and a window wall with a city skyline framing the scene

Make It So, Number One I haven’t written a line of code this year

AI agents write all my code now: no IDE, pull requests no human can read, agents that gossip - and friends and colleagues losing their jobs.
EN· ·AI