Taylor Thompson's Homepage

I live in Helsinki, Finland, and I really like computers and writing software. I also love to read, take photos, and tinker with this website!

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    slow loris, an endangered and beautiful creature
Taylor Thompson taylor@teukka.tech https://teukka.tech eternally curious person

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Some pictures of this winter

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What's next for Tendril Wiki

Where I want to take Tendril Wiki and how I want my thoughts to be organized.

Aug 19, 2022

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Lessons from Building Tendril Wiki

What I've learned from my hobby project building a tool for thought

Aug 4, 2022

Pictures from Summer 2022

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Ideas That Have Changed My Life

Running and incomplete list of ideas that have changed the way I look at things

Jan 25, 2022

    Twitter (or decentralized alternatives) is a great interstitial journaling tool

    Jan 16, 2022 22:03 UTC

    Using the idea of Leary’s “Quantum Universe”, where all matter can be reduced to a digital 1/0 representation, I wonder what the compression ratio for memories in our brains is, and what (lossy) algorithm is used to achieve it.

    Nov 13, 2021 21:03 UTC

      All software essentially deals in simulation. Even that which supposedly interacts with β€œreal” things, like an inventory system, is actually a simulation of the inventory system designed to be more easily manipulated by the software operator.

      Therefore all software engineers are simluationists, or creators of an alternate reality whose ties and influences to the physical reality which they inhabit vary in strength.

      Nov 13, 2021 09:53 UTC

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      Neovim Tip, Smarter Path

      Easily set your vim path per project and get only the files you want.

      Nov 11, 2021

      Indieweb is the type of federated web3 I want to see rather than the introduction of artificial scarcity and an ecologically ruinous accounting system that encompasses current blockchain tech.

      Nov 9, 2021 06:53 UTC