Nearly every 7 digit number can be found in the first 100 million digits of pi.

Search for your favorites, or simply bask in the wonders of math and probability: https://www.benfry.com/pi/

Happy π day!

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

"Code is cheap. Show me the talk" by Kailash Nadh https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/

This might be the single best article I've read about the impact of LLMs on coding. The good, the bad, the ugly, the absolute unrelenting horror of how everything is changing so fast.

Something I made back in November but did not have the time to finish. DOOM on an oscilloscope because… why not?

It is rendered in full 3D with occlusion and back face culling, rendered as an array of 2D lines, deduped and ordered to create the most optimal path. Then turned into sound.

Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling

https://stanislas.blog/2025/12/macos-thermal-throttling-app/

#macos

A good example of the kind of development AI tools are good at. A developer feeds an APK of an Android word game to OpenAI’s Codex + ChatGPT 5.2 and creates a working iOS version which is now in the App Store without writing a line of code.

He did get permission from the author.
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/12/20/wordiest/