Tom Carden

@randometc.org

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Inbetweener, deputy bike dad, hacker. Volunteering with @senadorajulie.bsky.social, @bikewalkbus.bsky.social, Denver Tool Library, and Pedestrian Dignity.

Cover of a cookbook called Don’t Think About Dinner, by Jenn Lueke.

screenshot of github ui showing "contributors (2): claude and fly-io[bot]"

Excerpt from On The Internet by Hubert Dreyfus.

Key paragraph reads:
“But the vision of a worldwide electronic agora precisely misses the Kierkegaardian point that the people talking to each other in the Athenian agora were members of a direct democracy who were directly affected by the issues they were discussing, and, most importantly, the point of the discussion was for them to take the responsibility and risk of voting publicly on the questions they were debating. For Kierkegaard, a worldwide electronic agora is an oxymoron. The Athenian agora is precisely the opposite of the public sphere, where anonymous electronic kibitzers from all over the world, who risk nothing, come together to announce and defend their opinions.
As an extension to the deracinated public sphere, the electronic agora is a grave danger to real political community.
Kierkegaard enables us to see that the problem is not that Rheingold's 'electronic agora' is too utopian; it is not an agora at all, but a nowhere place for anonymous nowhere people. As such, it is dangerously distopian.”

Google sheets visualization of the log10 value of the number of tachyons at each cell of the simulation. Green = 0th percentile, yellow = 90th percentil, red = 99th percentile.

Screenshot of implementation of consolidating the ranges in Advent of Code 2025, day 5, part 2. Full code follows:

consolidateRanges() {
for (let i = 0; i < this.freshRanges.length; i++) {
for (let j = i + 1; j < this.freshRanges.length; j++) {
let range = this.freshRanges[i];
let other = this.freshRanges[j];
if (range.intersects(other)) {
let newRange = range.merge(other);
this.freshRanges[i] = newRange;
i--; // backtrack to start over with new i
this.freshRanges.splice(j, 1); // throw out j
break;
}
}
}
}

Screenshot of VS Code showing node.js assert.equals statements for the example test cases offered in Advent of Code 2025's day 3 puzzle. I called my function "largestPossibleJoltage".

A product selector that offers a choice between “contains PFAS” and “PFAS-free”

a spaceship from the movie Flash Gordon pulls a banner that says:

ALL CREATURES WILL MAKE MERRY
UNDER PAIN OF DEATH