Tag: culture
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Happy Public Domain Day
On January 1st 2026, copyrighted works first published in 1930 entered the public domain in the US.1 There are plenty of articles online about what works are included this year. To name a few, there’s the first Nancy Drew novels, The Maltese Falcon, the first film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, and…
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Treating Factorio Withdrawal
I’ve learned a lot of lessons since college. One big one is that I have to treat Factorio like alcohol. It’s fun, great for hanging out with your friends, and don’t consume it during your lunch break or else you’re going to have a very awkward conversation with your boss. In case you haven’t read…
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Games I love, ranked by “spreadsheet factor”
I’m a big fan of video games. There are lots of specific of games that I enjoy, from indie titles like Celeste and Outer Wilds to triple-A masterworks like Baldur’s Gate 3. But there’s one genre I keep coming back to, which I like to call “spreadsheet games”. It’s a descriptive name. If you have…
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Review: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, by Maciej Cegłowski
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel is an engineering marvel that stretches underneath the US from coast to coast, whisking San Francisco mission burritos to hungry New Yorkers. Originally built as a pneumatic mail tube in 1933, the tunnel fell out of use with the advent of air travel before being repurposed to carry burritos in 1979.…
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Factorio is a zombie shooter for nerds
Left 4 Dead 2 is a 2009 game where you shoot zombies. It’s very popular, owned by maybe 60 million people. It’s also…