Computation

Your Computer Is Dumber Than You Think. This Game Proves It.

📅 July 30, 2026 📂 Systems & Hardware

Every computer you’ve ever used is built from four simple logical operations: AND, OR, NOT, XOR. ChipBuilder is a game that lets you wire them together, gate by gate, until you’ve built a working CPU. It reveals the paradox at the heart of modern computing — immense complexity arising from irreducible simplicity — and gives you the visceral experience of constructing computation from first principles.

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Regex Is a Computer. I Have Proof.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

A developer built a full Doom game that runs entirely on regex find-and-replace operations, proving that regex is Turing complete. The game is absurdly slow, but it works — and it challenges everything we think we know about what counts as a computer. It’s a stunning reminder that computation is universal, not just the domain of silicon.

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