~fibson
Welcome to my website! This is where I write about things I find interesting. The main navigation is at the top, you’ll find the usual links there. To browse the content by categories, head to the tags. There’s also an atom feed, if you prefer updates without style.
Most articles have tags. If they do, they’re listed below the main navigation, usually with a date. There’s not much here yet, but that’s subject to change.
Here are my latest articles:
Mother
Let me take you back to a fateful Saturday in the summer of 1988. My day begins as I violently hit the floor, immediately followed by my bedside lamp. Jolted awake by a terrible nightmare, I must have grabbed for it when I sensed myself falling. As I regain my bearings, the last fragments of that night fade away. I realize the lamp is smashed into a thousand pieces; shards of glass litter the floor. Mother will be angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.
Soyuz IDS Software
Toki Pona
Toki pona is a constructed language by jan Sonja. It is designed to be simple to use, with fewer than 150 words and minimal grammar. It is neither a pidgin, nor a cant, but a fully fledged language. It was designed to simplify communication and thought by reducing concepts to their essence.
Sep. 2025 in linguistics. Reading time: 5 minutes
Simple Web Server
Sometimes it’s handy to have a simple static web server you can use locally. It can be useful for quickly transferring files between devices or checking out static websites before you deploy them. Python makes this very easy, just switch to the directory you want to serve as root and run:
Bookmarks
What do you call someone who explores the web? A “webex”? A “cybernaut”? An “internet explorer”?
Synth Schematics
It’s surprisingly simple to build your own analog synthesizer. Schematics have been around for decades, and many are online. Finding them can be a harder task, so I’ve compiled a list of interesting circuits a while ago.
Sep. 2025. Reading time: 1 minute
Corewars
About
I made my first website when the web ran on PHP and people still gathered in IRC. Too much of the web still runs on PHP and some people still hang out on IRC, but you get the idea. It was a mess of CSS inlined into HTML inlined into PHP. Discovering Wordpress only made it worse. I think it was a collection of jokes, but I don’t remember a single one. This iteration is different, I think.