Archive - Contraptions

Discworld Rules

And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

Mar 8 •

Manichean Realpolitik

When good and evil cancel out in the picture

Mar 1 •

February 2025

January 2025

The Steppe Function

Review of January book club read, preview of February read

Jan 31 •

The Modernity Machine

The case for a 13th century birth rather than 16th century

Jan 26 •

Monsters and Mediocrity

Includes a recipe for making the perfect monster!

Jan 17 •

The Gramsci Gap

System emergence in monstrously morbid interregnums between worlds

Jan 11 •

Contraptionist History Book Club

Plus, a dev environment photo-motto contest and an administrative note

Jan 3 •

December 2024

Where did we come from, where will we go?

Dec 28, 2024 •

Engineers and the New Technocracy

How should engineers think about the Silicon Valley takeover of DC?

Dec 21, 2024 •

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