Entanglement

How Routing Writes Reality

Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Jul 29 • Kathryn Lovell

Air Pollution and Aura

The False Dichotomy of Value Judgement

Jul 21 • Kathryn Lovell

The Traffic Marshal

Here’s why the “realism” of modern traffic simulations can be so frustrating

Jul 14 • Kathryn Lovell

Some Conditions of Macroeconomic Instability

and the Infusion of Maintenance Art

Jul 7 • Kathryn Lovell

June 2026

What do you call a 141x Algorithmic Improvement?

There’s an ancient computing proverb that goes something like this: “If you improve something 1.2x, you probably just did something smart.

Jun 3 • Kathryn Lovell

May 2026

It's too bad Valve isn't publicly traded, because they might eat Microsoft's lunch

The Year of the Linux Desktop

May 20 • Kathryn Lovell

April 2026

Finding the Musical Cutting Edge, Topologically

We’re going to have to talk about genre.

Apr 29 • Kathryn Lovell

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Agentic Coding Enables Real Software Engineering

The most interesting problem in software is communicating precisely and efficiently

Apr 21 • Kathryn Lovell

Ads, Subscriptions, and the Internet Without Either

You don't find the best price through guesswork. You find it by eliminating market inefficiency.

Apr 13 • Kathryn Lovell

March 2026

Like shooting Barrels in a Fish

Creative Graphics Power Beyond Hyperrealism

Mar 24 • Kathryn Lovell

Cubemaps

I know we talked about mimicking the real-life physics to achieve the fisheye lens effect. I suppose to that affect I could say there’s no rule that…

Mar 10 • Kathryn Lovell

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When 2D Projections Become Unviable

Why your texture might look bad

Mar 3 • Kathryn Lovell