SCIENCE / 2026.10.14 · 6 min read

What If Your Mind Needs a Better Question?

I built Mind to explore the everyday patterns behind how we describe ourselves. Then a few people tried it, and their answers made me rethink the questions. Have you ever read a sentence in a personality-style quiz and thought, “Yes, that…

SCIENCE / 2026.10.01 · 11 min read

What If the Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning?

A Programmer's Thought Experiment About a Pulsing Universe I keep coming back to one question whenever I read about the end of the universe: What if the Big Bang wasn't really the beginning? Not in the sense that there was simply…

SCIENCE / 2026.09.17 · 11 min read

A 302-Neuron Nervous System in Your Browser: What worm-sim Is Actually Simulating

There is something wonderfully strange about opening a web page, dropping a few dots of “food” onto a dark canvas, and watching a tiny virtual worm wriggle toward them. What makes worm-sim more interesting than a normal animation is what…

CODE / 2026.10.10 · 15 min read

FACT: Before You Believe It, Follow the Evidence

Why I built a multilingual, evidence-first fact-checking tool — and how you can run it yourself. Category: Code / Open Source / AI Project: FACT — Public Evidence Verification Engine GitHub: https://github.com/alesmcgregor/fact Live…

CODE / 2026.09.28 · 8 min read

I Found a Phishing Page on My Website. Here’s What I Learned

At some point, I discovered something you never really want to find on a server you manage: a phishing-style sign-in page sitting inside one of my websites. My first thought was the obvious one: How far did they actually get? Finding a…

CODE / 2026.09.26 · 3 min read

Building a Human-Reviewed Audio-to-SRT Pipeline with Whisper and Gemini

A transcript is only the start of a usable subtitle file. You still need timing, readable line breaks, quality checks, and a person who can catch mistakes before delivery. I built SRT Subtitle Pipeline to make those steps part of one…