The Star Map, 2023-12-27
Advertised, now delivered. An interactive Elite style star map with octodecillion stars.So actually quite a bit bigger than was promised. Bonus thoughs included.
Pretty Big Maze, 2021-05-21
Goof around in the biggest maze you'll ever see. This is not an article, but some bonus thoughts are presented for the philo-savy anyway.
In this lightly technical paper, an algorithm is introduced to create procedurally generated Elite syle star maps with quadrillions of stars or more. As a bonus, a mega-maze is also presented.
No Mans Sky was a flop, but maybe not for the reason you think. The core reasons is that procedural generation does not create content for you. You have to.
The DAO attack of 2016 was only in a small part a software exploit. It was social engineering on an unprecedented scale that largely destroyed trust in decentralized currencies, even if you dont know about it.

Celestia picture of the hour

This picture was created with Celestia virtual planetarium. Click to see in full. A new image is generated every hour, the object, the time and the direction is randomly chosen. It is not that simple, but that's the gist of it.