Erik McClure

@erik_mcclure@robot.villas

Erik McClure's essays on software engineering, mathematics, games, technology, and society, including AI and open-source development.

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Big Walk Captures the Essence of Being Alive #Life #Philosophy #Outdoors
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Sep 30, 2026
Of Course Open-Source Uses AI #OpenSource #AI #Tech
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Sep 14, 2026
What is the Nature of Evil In LICENSE.MD? #Philosophy #Ethics #Software
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Aug 23, 2026
Software Engineering Is A Shit-Eating Contest #SoftwareEngineering #Essays #Technology
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Jul 20, 2026
The Universal Needle In A Haystack Finder #SoftwareEngineering #Algorithms #ComputerScience
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May 14, 2026
The Technological Tsunami #Technology #AI #Society
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Nov 22, 2025
Leftists Are In A Purity Death Spiral #Society #Politics #Opinion
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Apr 30, 2025
The New Discord Overlay Breaks GSync and Borderless Optimizations #Tech #Gaming #Software
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Mar 29, 2025
Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders In The Future? #Society #Future #Gender
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Jan 19, 2025
Stop Making Me Memorize The Borrow Checker #SoftwareEngineering #Rust #Programming
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Nov 15, 2024
Rust Async Makes Me Want To Gouge My Eyes Out #Rust #Programming #Async
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Oct 20, 2024
Engineers Only Get Paid If Something Is Broken #SoftwareEngineering #Economics #Productivity
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Aug 31, 2024
Measuring Competence Is Epistemic Hell #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Epistemology
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Apr 30, 2024
We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't #Essays #Society #Philosophy
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Jan 1, 2024
People Can't Care About Everything #Essays #Philosophy #Productivity
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Oct 20, 2023
Discord Should Remove Usernames Entirely #Tech #Software #Community
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May 5, 2023
Money Is Fake. It's Not Real. It's Made Up. #Economics #Philosophy #Society
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Dec 17, 2022
We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity #Hardware #Tech #Engineering
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Sep 22, 2022
C++ Constructors, Memory, and Lifetimes #Cpp #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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May 1, 2021
Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have #Gaming #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Mar 12, 2021
Why You Can't Use Prebuilt LLVM 10.0 with C++17 #LLVM #Cpp #SoftwareEngineering
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Jul 9, 2020
Pressure Based Anti-Spam for Discord Bots #SoftwareEngineering #AI #OpenSource
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Jan 15, 2020
Name Shadowing Should Be An Operator #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience
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Oct 13, 2019
A Rant On Terra #Rant #Opinion #Essays
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Oct 4, 2019
RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable #Tech #ComputerScience #Engineering
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Jul 27, 2019
Migrating To A Static Blog #Tech #WebDev #OpenSource
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Feb 6, 2018
How To Avoid Memorizing Times Tables #Education #Math #Learning
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Jan 1, 2018
Ignoring Outliers Creates Racist Algorithms #AI #Algorithms #Ethics
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Nov 1, 2017
I Used To Want To Work For Google #Career #Tech #Essays
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Sep 5, 2017
Integrating LuaJIT and Autogenerating C Bindings In Visual Studio #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #OpenSource
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Jul 24, 2017
Discord: Rise Of The Bot Wars #Tech #Gaming #AI
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Jun 24, 2017
Companies Can't Be Apolitical #Society #Ethics #Business
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Mar 23, 2017
I Can't Hear Anything Below 80 Hz #Audio #Science #Tech
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Mar 7, 2017
Windows Won't Let My Program Crash #SoftwareEngineering #Windows #Programming
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Feb 13, 2017
DirectX Is Terrifying #Gaming #Tech #Software
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Feb 1, 2017
Everyone Does sRGB Wrong Because Everyone Else Does sRGB Wrong #Tech #Software #Color
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Dec 20, 2016
Mathematical Notation Is Awful #Math #Writing #Essays
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Jul 30, 2016
I Tried To Install Linux And Now I Regret Everything #Linux #Tech #OpenSource
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Jul 21, 2015
We Aren't Designing Software For Robots #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Technology
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Jun 15, 2015
Using Data To Balance Your Game: Pony Clicker Analysis #GameDev #DataScience #Analysis
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May 30, 2015