Are you taking LT + Ozzie Newsome or Jim Brown + Kellen Winslow? perthirtysix.com/nfl/17-0

The game I released 36 hours ago has been played more than 50,000 times. It's called "NFL 17-0". The premise is simple, based on NBA 82-0, where you try to assemble a perfect roster. These are the game-design decisions I think make all the difference:

Can't catch @shrikhalpada.dev at the top

100% optimal, time to retire

MINA! Thanks for playing Need to add a playoff gauntlet immediately perthirtysix.com/nfl/17-0

Today's 17-0 NFL challenge @minakimes.bsky.social perthirtysix.com/nfl/17-0

🏈 NFL 17-0 is live! Assemble the best all-time players from randomly drawn teams to try to go 17-0. perthirtysix.com/nfl/17-0

Steph Curry made an absurd 44% from beyond 30 feet in 2015. So no one was really surprised when he hit this game winner from 38 feet. And that makes it all the more impressive. A short write up on game winners and what information theory tells us about the Steph perthirtysix.com/essay/curry-...

this guy is one of my favorite interactive visuals I've ever built :D (from the latest How The Heck piece, about solar panels: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...)

Across every NFL trade since 2006, the trade-down side wins the best-player comparison 45% of the time, the trade-up side 35%. It seems like Buffalo cracked this code. The Bills did three first-round trade-backs in 2026 (26→28→31→35) picking up two extra fourth-rounders and moving up in the 3rd.

The 12 best NFL draft classes in the last 20 years: The Seahawks 2010 (#11), 2011 (#8), and 2012 (#5) drafts were insane. Landing Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor, Golden Tate, and Russell Okung. Transforming them from mediocre to a juggernaut in the NFC

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

Had fun building out this NFL draft scorecard project, based on our pVAR (player valuation above replacement) perthirtysix.com/nfl/draft/re...

We're optimizing language models for mediocrity. LLMs are trained to find the most likely next word. But history's greatest ideas were, by definition, were improbable. The future belongs to models that don't predict what most would say, but what one in a million might say to change everything.

Fantastic paper from @majeedkazemi.bsky.social on how learning to code in the age of AI. AI writing code negatively impacts learning, no surprise there. This paper looks at how we can fix that with embedded learning mechanisms. 3 thoughts from reading this →

"Do not wear too fine, nor yet too frowzy, a toga" - Seneca On the Philosopher's Mean (V)