Automated Archives for April, 6th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 6-1-5
Net Elo Change: +7
Games Played
- ferds78arenajo - LOSS
- theking8000 - LOSS
- yesindeed - WIN
- Mystery_Unveiled - LOSS
- rodriguez_ms - LOSS
- JenningsHD - LOSS
- batistuta3169 - WIN
- Timyr76 - WIN
- FNABLI - WIN
- Aybechka - WIN
- sacasticguy - DRAW
- Gardez_18 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 6, 2025 (1 post)
- April 6, 2024 (1 post)
- April 6, 2023 (3 posts)
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Automated Archives for April, 5th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours 21 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 6-0-3
Net Elo Change: +27
Games Played
- vinasko - LOSS
- BigBoss_86 - WIN
- T64Rocks - WIN
- Lexinkton22 - LOSS
- njiram - WIN
- iaonder6 - LOSS
- knightfighter79 - WIN
- Schlangekuss - WIN
- kotonabo - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 5, 2025 (1 post)
- April 5, 2024 (1 post)
- April 5, 2023 (1 post)
- April 5, 2022 (1 post)
- April 5, 2021 (1 post)
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Automated Archives for April, 4th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours 13 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 5-1-5
Net Elo Change: +9
Games Played
- oct100 - LOSS
- Par14 - LOSS
- Mitya1975 - WIN
- Alios12 - DRAW
- petropavel - LOSS
- Eldelasilla - WIN
- chess2025ago - WIN
- Suld976 - LOSS
- Suld976 - WIN
- Blunderpxwn - WIN
- KADYKA - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 4, 2025 (1 post)
- April 4, 2024 (1 post)
- April 4, 2023 (1 post)
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Automated Archives for March, 31st 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 11-0-5
Net Elo Change: +33
Games Played
- GILMAC22 - LOSS
- boligarla - WIN
- HabibRahmat3879 - WIN
- emsingu - WIN
- HerrMasentzoff - LOSS
- MarFE175 - WIN
- bahketnana - WIN
- Zharjo9 - LOSS
- AndrG1984 - LOSS
- zloiKosmos - WIN
- beda2 - WIN
- Chessbuff - WIN
- Tekinozlu - WIN
- Seb0 - LOSS
- GFghggvjhrkughnj4n - WIN
- wahmoe46 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- March 31, 2025 (1 post)
- March 31, 2024 (2 posts)
- March 31, 2023 (1 post)
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Automated Archives for March, 30th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 2 hours on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: 0
Games Played
- iwantpeace - WIN
- jazine - LOSS
- mj1234567 - LOSS
- Nobodys_Perfect - LOSS
- DiegoCastro21 - WIN
- tjer - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- March 30, 2025 (3 posts)
- March 30, 2024 (1 post)
- March 30, 2023 (2 posts)
- March 30, 2022 (3 posts)
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Automated Archives for February, 17th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: +1
Games Played
- mrosendhal - LOSS
- mistersholmes - LOSS
- iwishedisawthatcomin - WIN
- Arbmas85 - LOSS
- JohnnGG - WIN
- Benny1303 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- February 17, 2025 (4 posts)
- February 17, 2024 (1 post)
- February 17, 2021 (3 posts)
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Automated Archives for February, 15th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 2 hours 17 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-8
Net Elo Change: -31
Games Played
- udingagahperkasa - LOSS
- Emersanjos - LOSS
- rdylewski - LOSS
- leopoldorodinmendez - LOSS
- gefiltte - LOSS
- ittem - WIN
- Patzer1993 - WIN
- octoberk1 - LOSS
- razif-a1 - LOSS
- Grigorii_Altay - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- February 15, 2025 (4 posts)
- February 15, 2024 (1 post)
- February 15, 2023 (1 post)
- February 15, 2021 (6 posts)
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Automated Archives for February, 12th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 22 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-2
Net Elo Change: +10
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- February 12, 2025 (5 posts)
- February 12, 2024 (1 post)
- February 12, 2023 (2 posts)
- February 12, 2021 (1 post)
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A new writing project has started. I have no idea where it will go or what it will turn into. But I have been relistening to Dungeon Crawler Carl and it has made me want to find a story that is about someone who is thrust into the role of space captain. It doesn't have to be litrpg but that seemed the most likely framing for it. And to be clear, I mean someone who isn't familiar with space travel at all.
After looking for a little while, I didn't really find a story that filled this niche. Which means... my brain started creating one. So I've started writing it. I don't envision it as a full novel, maybe a novella, or maybe a series of shorts. We'll see. Who knows. It'll depend on my drive to write it before I get distracted or lose steam.
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Automated Archives for February, 11th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-1-4
Net Elo Change: -27
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- February 11, 2025 (5 posts)
- February 11, 2024 (2 posts)
- February 11, 2023 (5 posts)
- February 11, 2021 (1 post)
- February 11, 2002 (1 post)
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Automated Archives for January, 11th 2026
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -11
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- January 11, 2025 (3 posts)
- January 11, 2024 (1 post)
- January 11, 2023 (6 posts)
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Automated Archives for December, 15th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -11
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 15, 2024 (1 post)
- December 15, 2023 (8 posts)
- December 15, 2022 (4 posts)
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Automated Archives for November, 17th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-1
Net Elo Change: -6
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- November 17, 2024 (2 posts)
- November 17, 2023 (1 post)
- November 17, 2022 (3 posts)
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Automated Archives for November, 16th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours 12 minutes on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Blog Posts On This Day
- November 16, 2024 (1 post)
- November 16, 2022 (8 posts)
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Automated Archives for November, 14th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours 21 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -12
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- November 14, 2024 (3 posts)
- November 14, 2022 (6 posts)
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Automated Archives for November, 8th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 15 minutes on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: +1
Games Played
- bang_lily - LOSS
- mamotretonike - LOSS
- katfa22 - LOSS
- Gorbunov_fgn - WIN
- skinnersrat - WIN
- syiran15 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- November 8, 2024 (4 posts)
- November 8, 2022 (1 post)
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From STRAT_SCRAPS
This came from a recent post on "STRAT_SCRAPS" and I have to save it here because I love it so much. He also found it somewhere online in the past and was re-sharing it. So I don't know the full origins of this, but it resonates with me a great deal.
Kinda fucking me up how on point this "thought" from GPT is...
- Strategist's Venn Diagram Three circles:
What the brand wants to say
What the audience cares about
What the strategist actually believes
The overlap is where good strategy lives. But most briefs cheat. They make the brand circle huge. The audience circle gets populated with truisms. And the strategist? They're encouraged to disappear. But when the strategist's voice is absent, the thinking gets soft. Strategy isn't translation-it's triangulation.
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"The Art of Lisp & Writing"
A wonderful essay that discusses the creative process, the process of discovery, of sharing knowledge and more.
I loved this paragraph:
As people need or want to do things with materials and the world, people with special skill take the fore and devise or discover how to manipulate the physical world to make those things. To avoid future mistakes, these makers write down rules of thumb, patterns of creation and making, and safety factors as a practical matter. Today we call them engineers. When we think of engineering today we think of carefully planned scientific engineering such as building bridges, where it is a fairly linear though costly and complicated process to go from the planning stage to a completed bridge. We forget the centuries of tinkering with bridge design in prehistoric and ancient times when bridges were gingerly tested as designers searched for principles. Even still, on November 7, 1940, at 11:00AM, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed from wind-caused vibrations after being open to the public for a few months, showing that even sophisticated engineering techniques—one could even call them contemporary engineering techniques—can fail.
This reminds me I was meaning, one day, in my plentiful free time to return to programming Lisp. I did some of it in college, and I recall enjoying it on a technical / logic level, though I never reached any real capabilities that had it do more than just things like simple terminal applications, or using Alan Kay's Smalltalk. Without a doubt, I saw the great power and potential. Lamba functions were a revelation for college-me.
Now more languages have similar functionality, and I don't know how Lisp has grown and evolved over the past twenty years (oh god, I can now refer to the time since I was in college as 'decades') -- but I am adding a note to myself to go looking into it again.
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Automated Archives for June, 10th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 23 minutes on 1 project.
Blog Posts On This Day
- June 10, 2023 (2 posts)
- June 10, 2022 (2 posts)
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Automated Archives for June, 5th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hours on 1 project.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-2
Net Elo Change: -2
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- June 5, 2024 (1 post)
- June 5, 2023 (3 posts)
- June 5, 2022 (3 posts)
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Automated Archives for June, 2nd 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 1 hour on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-2
Net Elo Change: +7
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- June 2, 2024 (3 posts)
- June 2, 2023 (2 posts)
- June 2, 2022 (4 posts)
- June 2, 2003 (1 post)
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After three months without substantive progress I finally sat down and did some more work on my book rewrite. It wasn't much but I'm glad to get back into it.
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Feedback
I was just watching/listening to Ben Stiller on Hot Ones, when Sean Evans asked him a question of whether test audiences were a force for good or a force for evil. Ben's answer was essentially that he likes them for comedies because you could hear when people laugh, and when they don't. But that the surveying of additional opinions afterwards were less useful.
This reminded me of an answer Brandon Sanderson gave in a recent interview on The Tim Ferriss Show where Brandon discussed how he used beta readers. He doesn't ask his beta readers to do grammatical editing etc. And, while he cares about catching continuities etc, the main thing he wants the readers to do is to tell him when they're enjoying it and when they're bored, etc.
Having written this, I guess it isn't actually that wild of a coincidence actually, but--I was struck by how two people working largely in two different mediums both reflect on a very similar need in their revision process.
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Automated Archives for March, 4th 2025
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Writing Log
Trick wrote for 20 minutes on 1 project.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-2
Net Elo Change: +11
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- March 4, 2024 (1 post)
- March 4, 2023 (6 posts)
- March 4, 2022 (6 posts)
- March 4, 2021 (2 posts)
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