How we planned a book

As detailed in my last post, I wrote a book.  But how exactly did plans for the book start to form?

Book!!! "Shine a Light on Me: A Story of the Blues, Friendship, and Memory"

I guess it's pretty rare to see a programmer (and aspiring mathematician) write a fictional novel... but here I am.  I'm one of the co-authors on the new historical fiction book, Shine a Light on Me: A Story of the Blues, Friendship, and Memory (2026).

Long time since last blog...

Going to be blunt here since I don't have much time, but I'm stuck on something:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5149778/

Announcing New Tags on this Blog

Lots of my tags got overgeneralized... so adding some new, specific ones.

Psychic Fatigue, Part II: Mental Debugging in a Department Store

So, in my last little post, I mentioned how I messed with a WinForms DPI Scaling bug on a trip.  Considerable time has passed since I wrote that post.  And now that I think about it, the decisions I made there went more and more terrible.

Sunken cost

When you don't realize a contest is ending and spends all your time grinding the last problem to seem cool...

A slightly altered 2000 AMC 12 #20

There's like many trash and trivial and way too personal posts on my blog recently, so thought we should do something hardcore here.