Jeff Turkstra's personal website. Contains photographs, memoirs, TI-86 & TI-89 programs/games, quotes, MIDI's, SeaQuest images, links, and more!

Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.

Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube” . I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where…

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The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

A blog about software craft and quality

The 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years.

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

Link to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/

A C++ parser generator: lexer, parser, and AST generation in one tool. - TantrixAuto/yantra

Gov Gavin Newsom called it a "long overdue measure to protect young Californians".

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

– Today’s wikipedia picture of the day. That bird looks classy. Violet-backed starling by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every now and then I have to wear suit and ties. When I first started doing so I hated it. The suits didn’t fit me, the shirts made me…

Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional…

Previously, I started a new Play Store account because I wanted to make video games for Android. But I never got time to finish my game. As a result, my personal play store account was closed by @…