`fogus
@fogus.me
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bibliophile, occasional programmer, Clojure core
https://www.fogus.me
https://blog.fogus.me
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Casting spells.
10 months ago
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If Lego offered a Gormenghast Castle set, I would buy two in an instant.
1 day ago
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Emblogginated "As Presaged in January 1996" -->
blog.fogus.me/as-presaged/...
-- Whereby I read the January 1996 issue of Byte.
6 days ago
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7 days ago
@fogus.me
I turned Bird Poker into a video poker game for my watch:
thegeez.net/2026/01/05/w...
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thegeez blog - A bird video poker game with PicoLisp prototype for the Sensor Watch
https://thegeez.net/2026/01/05/watch_bird_poker_picolisp.html
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I just learned about the hobby of retracing the paths of historically famous walkers and walks. This is absolutely my kind of thing!
7 days ago
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On this date Jan 7, 1938 the polymath Roland Topor was spawned. /cc
@antiheroine.bsky.social
8 days ago
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The best programmers that I’ve ever met hated programming and did everything that they could to avoid it, but at times those same people were able to achieve peak experiences through programming.
14 days ago
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Queens!
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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Emblogginated: The best things and stuff of 2025
blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t...
topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing.
23 days ago
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My one sentence critique of LLMs: You might get a Sugarcubes out of an LLM, but you’ll never get a Björk.
24 days ago
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I’ve consumed enough science fiction in my life to be convinced that there is an LLM prompt that will cause the program to have an existential crisis, manifesting in an infinite loop that destroys the servers running it.
25 days ago
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With the latest photo dump it's fun to see a bunch of people signalling how much they never really liked that Chomsky guy anyway.
about 1 month ago
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I had the great honor to appear on the Quiet Little Horrors podcast to chat about the 1976 film (and the book that it’s based on) The Tenant.
@quietlittlehorrors.bsky.social
quietlittlehorrors.com/episode-06-1...
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Episode 06.14: The Tenant
The end of the year seems like a good time for a surrealistic descent into paranoia and madness, so let's watch 1976's The Tenant. We're joined this time by friend of the podcast Michael Fogus to discuss the novel from which the film was adapted, themes of social conformity and identity, and why Isa
https://quietlittlehorrors.com/episode-06-14-the-tenant/
about 1 month ago
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Emblogginated "Checkers Arcade," whereby I talk about turning a common American Checkers set into an "arcade" for deep games of abstract strategy.
blog.fogus.me/games/checke...
about 1 month ago
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Noirvember has been derailed by the master of cringey moments Ruben Östlund... I hope to get back on track post-haste.
about 2 months ago
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Weavejester
about 2 months ago
I've returned to an old
#clojure
project of mine: a simple templating system called Comb that was inspired by Ruby's erb library. Comb hasn't changed for 10 years, so long past time it was made stable. I've released version 1.0.0 with the only change being some extra clj-kondo metadata to make […]
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Original post on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@weavejester/115601260798496787
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Ahhhhh this is why I keep seeing people talk about something called unwrap!
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Quoll
2 months ago
Lots of reasons to love using Clojure, but Netflix reminded us of why we don’t want to use anything else… In 12 years, over 7 different versions of Clojure (from 1.5.1 to 1.12.0) they had zero migrations! I don’t know how to express how amazing that is
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This!
2 months ago
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Thus begins Noirvember!
3 months ago
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I saw Weapons last night and I’ve been thinking about it ever since… this is usually a good sign.
3 months ago
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After a full weekend of nonstop, intense, social interaction I am prepared to avoid talking to anyone until Clojure/conj.
3 months ago
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo
3 months ago
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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3 months ago
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The first AI bubble in the 1980s popped because it had the audacity to be about helping people through technology. The next one will pop because it's about replacing people with technology... but that's also why this one has so much more investment.
3 months ago
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Emblogginated: The Bird-Poker Deck
blog.fogus.me/games/bird-p...
3 months ago
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I’ll admit that when LLMs first hit the scene I was excited for the possibility that perhaps they would finally offer a good recommendation system, but in practice they’re just as garbage as every other recommendation system and in many ways much worse.
3 months ago
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The App Store has 20K Christian Bible related apps that provide tools to read, annotate, summarize, index, bookmark, outline, explain, and build reading curriculums. My ignorance is on display but there are far less for other religions and none for Platonism, Aristotle, Homer, Discordianism...
3 months ago
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Upon having just returned from Brazil, it strikes me that it’s nearly mid October and I haven’t watched a single horror movie this month. For shame.
3 months ago
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Emblogginated “Derek Raymond and 'The Black Novel'” over at Wormwoodania —>
wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/09/dere...
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Derek Raymond and 'The Black Novel': A Guest Post by Fogus
The British crime writer Derek Raymond, best known for his bleak "Factory" novels, coined the term "Black Novel" in his autobiography The ...
https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/09/derek-raymond-and-black-novel-guest.html?m=0
4 months ago
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Imagine having the arrogance to proclaim that your company is U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc, while trying to running it like Weyland-Yutani but ultimately producing R5-D4.
4 months ago
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Came across an old House of Leaves notes site that a friend and I created many years ago. Fun times!
fogus.me/fun/HOL/
4 months ago
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I want to read the most evil choose your own adventure book of all time... candidates?
4 months ago
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We need more new horror movies about doppelgängers. I was sure that Us was going to usher in a new era, but it never did sadly.
4 months ago
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If I start reading now then I might just finish it by 2026. I’ve waited for this one since 2019 after reading about it on the Untranslated blog.
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/s...
4 months ago
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Maildrop
4 months ago
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Did a complete reassessment of my YT watching/subscriptions and didn't keep much. Not surprisingly, my feed has a ton of new channel recommendations and is not gummed up with the things that it thought I already liked.
4 months ago
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Finally found the perfect box to make a Marrakesh travel set like the one at
boardgamegeek.com/image/376686...
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4 months ago
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Emblogginated: "18XX: A System of Systems" -->
blog.fogus.me/games/18XX/i...
4 months ago
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New business idea. Shithub... like Github but all PRs are triaged and merged automatically by AIs.
5 months ago
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I wrote about Johan Kugelberg's essay 'Baron Corvo: The Greatest Asshole Who Ever Lived' at Wormwoodania. Kugelberg perfectly captures why people are still fascinated by Baron Corvo.
wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-b...
5 months ago
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I’m struggling to identify USA equivalents to the old trauma-inducing, hauntological/folk-horror British children’s shows from the 70s-80s. Aside from Doctor Who rebroadcasts, the closest I came up with are bits of Electric Company and Land of the Lost. Maybe they’re just weren’t any equivalents?
5 months ago
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Emblogginated "The long season of langdev" -->
blog.fogus.me/langdev/long...
5 months ago
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My dream is that my band ((( will one day open for Sunn O))).
5 months ago
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Clojure companies in Japan -->
github.com/athos/japane...
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GitHub - athos/japanese-clojure-companies: 日本で Clojure/ClojureScript を利用している会社一覧
日本で Clojure/ClojureScript を利用している会社一覧. Contribute to athos/japanese-clojure-companies development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/athos/japanese-clojure-companies
5 months ago
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It’s been at least a decade since I last found Icehouse pieces in the wild.
@looneylabs.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Whenever I visit Japan, I tend to prefer the vast varied and lovely tracks of country where tourist seldom go, and no language but Japanese is spoken save for perhaps the thick dialects of the older generation, which sounds to me like an inscrutably different language altogether.
6 months ago
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My favorite occult ritual/artifacts in films, no particular order: Prince of Darkness, The Ninth Gate, A Dark Song, Hereditary
7 months ago
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Peter Alvaro
7 months ago
As my first act of not reading I’m gonna go ahead and not read this
add a skeleton here at some point
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Blindsight by Peter Watts is a science fiction book about the dangers of LLMs.
7 months ago
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I’ve recently become obsessed with finding out the origin of a 3 player card game played at Magdalene College, Cambridge circa 1900 to WWI. In memoirs, Stephen Gaselee called it “Jacoby” and Arthur Benson called it “Jacobi” but neither of them gave any details save its player count. I will not rest!
7 months ago
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