Archive - Brainwaves

The internet is a bot war

My clients’ websites keep getting attacked. The tools I want to defend them are becoming more useful to the people attacking them too.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Ten thousand residents enter an auditorium. One hundred leave their old lives behind.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Howard and the Habidash

A desperate man from Wet Eighteen joins a Habidash crew for Mara, Eli and June and is trapped by a killing used to test his loyalty.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Two private diaries follow the same long-distance relationship from the person being recruited and the Follower guiding him.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

An unnamed detective follows an anonymous file into the cover-up surrounding Annabelle Klanders's death.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

A camera fixed in the back seat records Jain and Alex's attempt to leave an Iron Fist puppet state before curfew.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

An unnamed survivor finds passage off a dying Earth, but the Ark carries a crime that New Atriad will turn into history.

Oct 12 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

I probably need to close the door and pray

Sunday Series · Private prayer, ordinary words, and giving God some attention before everything else claims it.

Oct 10 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

I don't feel good enough. I also need to watch my ego.

Trying to admit I'm good at something without making everybody else the comparison.

Oct 9 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

I made Sudoku worse. You're welcome.

Nine boards, one extra rule, and another thing I built because I could.

Oct 8 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Please stop writing to a word count

The Big Book of SEO · Part 3 of 16

Oct 7 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

When the machine gets harder to read

We want AI to do more of the thinking, while both its reasoning and our ability to question it become harder to rely on.

Oct 5 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

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