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Jordan Seiler
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One of the most useful things I learned this year is that Parmesan cheese starts to split at about 180F. If you make a lot of pasta like me, letting it cool a bit before adding cheese is a must!
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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ME: no idea why I’m having so much trouble getting to sleep lately

ALSO ME:
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My hot take is that preheating is a myth by Big Oven to shorten the lifecycle of appliances.

No I don’t make many baked goods, how did you know?
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Just finished up this prototype for Beach Chummers: a game about feeding trash to seagulls, so you can have a nice day at the beach!

It's free and you can play it in your browser
cheeseoncheese.itch.io/beach-chummers
#godot #indiegamedev #pixelart
Beach Chummers: Calm before the Swarm by CheeseOnCheese
When tourists crowd every inch of paradise, a lone townie must harness raw seagull power to reclaim what was once his.
cheeseoncheese.itch.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Today's moment of ai zen
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
NEW RAMBLINGS: jordanseiler.xyz/posts/2025-1...

I recently returned to weightlifting, and got a bee in my bonnet a week ago about AI "research" and people saying "here's what ChatGPT said when I asked it...". This latest post is the result.
There’s a book I think you should read. Wait! This is not an ad! I bought the book with my own money around 4 years ago, and recent developments have prompted me to write about it because I think more people should read it. The book in question is How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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me in theory: dev containers sound so cool!

me in practice: this barely works and took all day to get going
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Please, I beg you, do a literature review to see if there’s research about your problem instead of assuming an “Agentic system” is gonna fix all of your problems.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I’ve been in front of the computer too long. Time to take a break and look at my phone.
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
All these chat bots out there and all I really need is an AI to tell me how many bananas to buy so I actually eat them all before they go overripe.
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I haven’t charged my Apple TV remote since I got it and it’s still got 20% battery left 🤯🤯🤯
October 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Kudos to @proton.me on the new Mail app on iOS! Not sure if it’s actually new or I was simply behind, but the facelift looks great and it seems a lot more responsive.
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Can someone explain why salted butter is wrapped in red wrappers but packaged in blue boxes, and unsalted butter uses blue wrappers and red boxes?!?
September 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This time in Seiler's Corner, I've got a brief essay on one of my favorite subjects for abstract drivel: types in programming languages.

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One thing that’s great about having a blog is that it gives me a place to talk about the abstract nonsense that flies around my head so that it can… stop doing that… Most recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about types in programming languages, and how to situate them in my mental model of programming.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
August 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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me, sobbing: babe you can't just point at everything and call them valid YAML documents
girlfriend, pointing at my post: valid YAML document
August 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
For all of those out there who (like me) prefer social systems to be spelled out rather concretely, I've put together a post about networking: what it is, the dynamics at play, and some practical advice I've found helpful: jordanseiler.xyz/posts/2025-0...
If you, like me, find networking confusing or awkward, hopefully the way I've come to understand it will be useful to you.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Nothing like having to access the “confidential and anonymous” engagement survey through a personalized link and while logged in to the employee management system…
August 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
jj seriously saved my bacon today by allowing me to recover the individual commits from a squash-merged PR.

A single commit in that PR introduced a weird bug and I would’ve had to manually recreate and test each change from scratch if not for jj!

#jjvcs #jj-vcs
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So far my day has been dominated by that feeling of circling a personal existential breakthrough without being able to get a grip on it. Kinda like a goldfish getting flushed down the toilet.
August 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
During my short career I've had much difficulty from the social impacts of analytics data. Here's a short essay with two observations to this point: jordanseiler.xyz/posts/2025-0...
August 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Writeup on Hotwire Hospital - my first ever game jam submission! This one was for the 2025 GMTK game jam, which asked developers to complete a game in only 4 days! #GMTK #gamedev #godot #gamejam #indiegame

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · GMTK 2025, and my first game jam submission! ·  Last week I participated in the 2025 Game Maker's Toolkit game jam - a 4 day event where the game community is asked to make a comp…
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August 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM