Musings on technology, science, music, art, and life.https://blog.oberbrunner.com/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/ai-coding/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/ai-coding/Thoughts on AI-assisted coding in early 2026: acceleration, results, and risksSat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/long-form-music/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/long-form-music/What do symphonies have in common with the Grateful Dead? How long-form instrumental music acts on the mind and enables subconscious creativity. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/sea-temp-globe-viz/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/sea-temp-globe-viz/I created a web tool to visualize warming world sea surface temps on a 3d globe Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/deep-timeline/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/deep-timeline/A small web project based on a science project I did in the 1970s Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/curse-of-dimensionality/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/curse-of-dimensionality/I wanted to prove to myself that high-dimensional vectors are almost always nearly orthogonal Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/waffle-recipe/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/waffle-recipe/Some excellent waffles Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/evolution-and-scientific-method/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/evolution-and-scientific-method/Evolution and the scientific method are essentially both processes of variation and selection. Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:53:36 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/small-volumes/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/small-volumes/I've always thought that using seeds is a good way to get an intuition of the sizes of small things, so I figured I'd make a chart. Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:53:36 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/new-blog/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/new-blog/I've been thinking about starting a simple blog to share my thoughts on whatever topics come to mind, and replacing my old website from the '90s. Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/climate-change-personal/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/climate-change-personal/Climate change has become the most pressing existential challenge of our era. We are close to or have already crossed multiple climate tipping points. Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/entropy-and-passwords/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/entropy-and-passwords/How secure is a passphrase vs. a random password? Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:59:30 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/js-looping/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/js-looping/Javascript and Typescript have _way_ too many ways to iterate and loop over arrays, objects, and iterables. Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/js-promises/https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/js-promises/A low-level introduction to Javascript promises and async/await for C++/python programmers. Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT