🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack

I made a trombone for HTML Day @htmlenergy.bsky.social aaronson.org/trombone/

I'm in this! Along with lots of other fun and cool people!

Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail: or, at least, all 102 listed in the International Bartenders Association's official list https://aaronson.org/blog/i-dr...

I drank every cocktail on the IBA official cocktail list, and I wrote some words about it aaronson.org/blog/i-drank...

Just a couple of guys who made a crossword. #NYTXW

Made another @newyorker.com crossword. This one's for the bookworms

Borg chart

Jim Acosta macOS Tahoe 🤝 MACOSTA

How it started / how it's going @rickycruz.bsky.social

New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math aaronson.org/blog/square-...

Made my @bloomberg.com Businessweek magazine debut with a stock-flavored word puzzle! Catch it on the last page of the June issue

PUZZLE: Two complementary crossword tournament solving divisions anagram to European capitals. What are they? (no spoilers)

New crossword on Aaronson.org! And yeah—it's a "tricky" one aaronson.org/crosswords/b...

Helium balloons float because He is risen

STATUS: cannot stop listening to the new YHWH Nailgun album (and made a Wikipedia page for it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Pounds

The owner of In-N-Out LYNSI SNYDER has the crazy palindrome YNSISNY hidden in her name

Went into #ACPT2025 with the sole goal of finishing all the puzzles error-free, so in that sense I won. Placed 3rd alphabetically (my worst yet) and 36th by score (my best yet). So proud to witness @gppasco.bsky.social pull off the back-to-back championship!

Gonna start an Etsy shop that sells sorting algorithms. They're made to order

My new @newyorker.com crossword answers the age-old question: what if crossword, but for nerds? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

Total appearances of secondary intercardinal direction entries in the New York Times crossword

I realized there wasn't a great website for making custom text-based emoji for Slack or Discord, so I cooked one up last night Here's Emoter: aaronson.org/emoter/

USC USC 🤝 Being a 1 seed in the women's bracket

Total appearances of various "Makes sense to me!" entries in the New York Times crossword

The Beatles in alphabetical order by first name (George, John, Paul, Ringo) are the same as in alphabetical order by last name (Harrison, Lennon, McCartney, Starr)

At the intersection of wherever books are sold and wherever you get your podcasts

The same is true of DEKALB AVENUE

It's really remarkable how you hear "the thing is, is that" more often than "the thing is that". My headcanon for why this is is that we internalize "the thing is" as a noun phrase instead of a subject+verb because it co-occurs so often

Jersey Mike's Amazing Hard Hot Honey Mayo Lemonade

Read this as a cute way of saying HERE like SAMESIES

NFL wordplay game: name the words/phrases whose only consonants are N, F, L Custardy dessert (4) Like lions and panthers (6) Herb with a bulb (6) Button-down material (7) Side of a baseball diamond (8) Recurring credit card charge (9) 1964 Beatles single (9)

made this little tool, govwayback.com. add “wayback.com” to “.gov” on any US gov website and it’ll redirect you to that page on @archive.org … from before January 20th 2025

It's really funny how Apple quietly forces iPhone users to obey its style guide by autocorrecting "tapback" to "Tapback" and "Apple store" to "Apple Store"

If you're craving some more puzzling, I dropped this Sporcle quiz yesterday. I think it's pretty neat www.sporcle.com/games/BanjoZ...

And now, a crossword

Grammy Award

[sees a farm with animals on it] this is so Orwellian

Happy year of the snake! Now you have to play my game Snaclops that I made in high school. It's like Snake but the snake has one eye: aaronson.org/snaclops/

7th Street Burger needed a Wikipedia page so I wrote one. Officially 10% of the way to the achievement of "write one Wikipedia article starting with each digit from 0 to 9" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Str...

Palindromic ramen review: Tonkotsu: just ok—NOT!

Times Square rhymes pair

Heartbreaking: The Most Broken Clock You Know Just Displayed The Right Time

Leave me alone with a pad of paper and I will make a multiplication table but for overlaying each number's seven-segment display

Today's date 1/21/2025 can be read as an equation, including the slashes: 1/2 * 1/2 = 0.25

At some point in 2024, the International Bartenders Association expanded their list of official cocktails from 89 to 102, which meant there were some new Wikipedia articles to write. Just finished the Jungle Bird page, including a picture of one I drank myself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_...

I noticed years ago that this deodorant brand RIGHT GUARD SPORT FRESH was four 5-letter words but it took me until today to realize it's also supervocalic (exactly one of each vowel)

Top NBA players by points per game whose last names are Scrabble-legal English words (updated)

Jon Bois has exposed my bio as fraudulent. I categorically deny this claim

Got this Sporcle quiz featured on the front page today. I made it when I was 10 years old (I am 23 years old now) www.sporcle.com/games/BanjoZ...