Michael's blog.https://melgart.net/en-ushttps://melgart.net/posts/the-dispossessed/https://melgart.net/posts/the-dispossessed/Anarchy, State, and Utopia. No, not that one.Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/fast-food-ranking/https://melgart.net/posts/fast-food-ranking/Please tell Firehouse Subs I'm looking for sponsors.Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/wi-fi-coverage-project/https://melgart.net/posts/wi-fi-coverage-project/Having undertaken another tech project with the help of ChatGPT, I wanted to put together a quick write up just to document how much easier it was when working with an LLM and not having to track down…Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/social-gaming/https://melgart.net/posts/social-gaming/This was pieced together from essays originally created in 2016 and 2019, this is updated in 2023.Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/self-hosted-blog/https://melgart.net/posts/self-hosted-blog/I'm relaunching my personal site. I had been meaning to look for a better solution for some time, as the old blog had a few issues. It didn't look great, since I was using the Wordpress personal…Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/designing-data-intensive-applications/https://melgart.net/posts/designing-data-intensive-applications/This textbook is excellent and I wish I had read it sooner.Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/the-right-stuff/https://melgart.net/posts/the-right-stuff/I was recommended The Right Stuff because of my interest in U.S. space program and space generally, but of course, this really isn’t a space book. Tom Wolfe discusses the military test pilots who…Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/the-foundation-trilogy/https://melgart.net/posts/the-foundation-trilogy/Isaac Asimov wrote the several short stories that make up the Foundation trilogy in the 40s for a magazine. They were later compiled into three books, and eventually Asimov added to the series with…Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/the-last-of-us/https://melgart.net/posts/the-last-of-us/The Last of Us is a videogame developed by famed studio Naughty Dog, which also developed the Crash Bandicoot series as well as the various Uncharted games. The Last of Us was released in 2013 to…Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/cats-cradle/https://melgart.net/posts/cats-cradle/Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was my third Vonnegut novel after Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night. It was published in 1963, a few years before Slaughterhouse-Five was published and Vonnegut became…Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/snow-crash/https://melgart.net/posts/snow-crash/Snow Crash has been on my list for a long time. It's the third Neal Stephenson novel I've read after The Diamond Age and Seveneves and is considered his breakout novel. Published in 1992, it's…Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/unsong/https://melgart.net/posts/unsong/This is the next installment in my push to read a book a month during 2018.Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/artemis/https://melgart.net/posts/artemis/I'm planning on reading at least six fiction books and six nonfiction books this year. This continues my fiction book review series, which will be hosted on this blog.Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/ready-player-one/https://melgart.net/posts/ready-player-one/I was pretty skeptical about this book.Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://melgart.net/posts/blade-runner-2049/https://melgart.net/posts/blade-runner-2049/I've enjoyed seeing plenty of movies this year, but none have really exceeded expectations or left me in amazement like Blade Runner 2049 did. Not everyone will love this film, as demonstrated by the…Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT