R. Alex Anderson

He/Him • Husband • Girl Dad • Latter-day Saint • Code Poet • Hobby Chef • Spaceship Enthusiast • Serial Optimist • Determined Dreamer Living in Utah https://thoriumsim.com

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Longform Stories

Living Life

Remember to be happy.

May 7·1 min read·140 words

Activation Energy of Talent

May 7·3 min read·461 words

My Latest Writing — Building Dialogue Graphs into my spaceship game

Mar 24·2 min read·246 words

I'm debating getting a new phone

Mar 12·2 min read·281 words

Art Museum Strategy

Mar 10·2 min read·221 words

Grieving my Profession, Embracing my Medium

Mar 6·3 min read·517 words

Software As And End In Itself

Mar 5·4 min read·622 words

I'm having a hard time titling this one

But it comes from a place of both grief and love

Feb 28·2 min read·327 words

Reflecting on my last job in tech

"Last" in every sense of the word

Feb 27·4 min read·609 words

Confession: I like paying taxes

Feb 26·2 min read·319 words

Phantom Productivity

Feb 26·2 min read·312 words

Friction and Struggle

Feb 23·6 min read·1064 words

Reducitarian

Feb 19·2 min read·330 words

Caring about Coffee

Feb 18·2 min read·244 words

How Representative Government Should Work

The answer is Love

Feb 15·3 min read·517 words

Free AtProto Idea: Achievements and Stats

Feb 10·2 min read·281 words

Simplify

A story of almost over-engineering lighting in a crawl space

Feb 10·2 min read·296 words

Just-in-time vs Just-in-case Learning

Feb 9·2 min read·377 words

Long Range Comm

Feb 7·1 min read·42 words

Fraud Triangle

Fraud doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Feb 5·1 min read·94 words

In Defense of Going Slow

Feb 4·2 min read·260 words

When All You Have Is A Hammer...

Most of what AI can do is a happy accident. Maybe we should just use it for what it's good at.

Feb 2·4 min read·768 words

My Personal History Part 1

1993-1997

Feb 1·5 min read·908 words

What Counts as Art?

Jan 30·2 min read·225 words

Presenting to Kids

Jan 29·1 min read·157 words

Beware the Pit of Success lined with razor wire

Jan 27·2 min read·318 words

It's Easy to Overcomplicate

Jan 26·3 min read·468 words

Thorium Nova Discussions

Jan 23·1 min read·118 words

Critical CSS is a Hyper-optimization

Jan 22·2 min read·384 words

To Be Curious

Jan 21·2 min read·345 words

Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 3

Jan 21·1 min read·18 words

This Only Works If We Work Together

Jan 19·3 min read·478 words

Noticing

Jan 19·2 min read·210 words

The Value of RFCs

Wouldn't you know it, writing things down helps

Jan 16·2 min read·329 words

Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 2

Jan 15·1 min read·18 words

Intentional Entertainment

Productivity-maxing is entertainment

Jan 14·3 min read·588 words

Things I've Just Done

Jan 13·1 min read·32 words

Just Do The Thing

Even... no... especially if it's bad

Jan 13·3 min read·567 words

You Can Just Do Things

Jan 11·2 min read·354 words

What do you love to do?

A sure-fire question to make friends at unfamiliar places.

Jan 9·2 min read·279 words

Why React Router v7 Doesn't Have A Good PWA Solution

It's tradeoffs, all the way down.

Jan 8·3 min read·401 words

Best Media of 2025

Jan 8·2 min read·253 words

Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1

Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world

Jan 7·1 min read·70 words

React Server Components: Do They Really Improve Performance?

Jan 6·2 min read·330 words

Cassette Tapes

Jan 6·3 min read·511 words

Unseasonably Warm

Jan 5·1 min read·95 words

Daily Writing

A post a day keeps the brain fog away

Jan 4·2 min read·261 words