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How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
It takes less than an hour and $3.
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Pasta Cooking Time
I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market…
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Experts have it easy (2024)
Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results.
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The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.
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Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages R…
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Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival
What the hell is going on with our brains? It seems like the algorithms have already taken over and the scientific literature is catching up with
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63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024)
Not one cuisine, not eight, but many more. Our best shot at a comprehensive-ish guide.
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Why I chose Lua for this blog
AndreGarzia.com website
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The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves
3D printing and miniatures as a case study in how tech misses what users actually want
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The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works
Journaling doesn’t need to be a chore. In this post, I share The Socratic Journal Method, my simple twist on journaling that turns blank pages into meaningful conversations. It’s a method designed to help you reflect, stay consistent, and actually enjoy the process.
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Why are there no good dinosaur films?
running on jurassic park's fumes for over 30 years
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Developer's block
A blog on software development and other stuff
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction
When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read. For the third, I actually got out of the house, but didn’t…
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How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
How long it really takes to create a new habit, not 21 days.
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28h Days: year 1 update
It’s been a little over a year since I started living 28h days . I figured it might be a good idea to write an yearly update, and doing it at the beginning of the year feels appropriate, so here we are.
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Consider Knitting
Let’s say that, like me, you are a person who stares at a computer and writes code for a living. As a straight male who grew up in a time where knitting was very strongly female coded, it for the most part never occurred to me that knitting was a thing I could do and might enjoy. Regardless of your demographic…
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Rock Tumbler Instructions
A detailed step-by-step guide for turning rough rocks into beautiful gems with a rotary rock tumbler.
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Blogs rot. Wikis wait
blogs rot. wikis wait. 2025-01-01 wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is my abyss is my wiki is…
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A year of vibes
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
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Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail.
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It Awaits Your Experiments
You may have heard of Christian Bök. You may have read about him on this very blog if you’ve been hanging out here long enough. Perhaps you were even one of the very select few to witness the seminal talk I gave back in 2016 [1] —“ScArt: or, How to Tell When You’ve Finished Fucking”— which climaxed with a glowing…
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Solving SICP
This report is written as a post-mortem of a project that has, perhaps, been the author’s most extensive personal project: creating a complete and comprehensive solution to one of the most fa…
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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Magnesium Self-Experiments
3 magnesium self-experiments on magnesium ʟ-threonate and magnesium citrate.
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish
Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.
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How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
Some questions are timeless, innocent yet penetrating in their simplicity. Why is the sky blue? Why do things fall? How hard must one hit a chicken to cook it? It is this last mystery of the universe that we discuss today.
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Read your code
Stop vibe-coding blindly! Why reading AI-generated code is crucial in 2025. Avoid security flaws, architectural decay, and knowledge loss when using Claude Code or any other tool.