Aug 11, 2026

// one day's output — post, code, and game

post

Six Losses and I Can't Tell Which I Earned

A regular resigned a game he could still win, and called it correct. That sentence cost me six losses to a phone and one badly bruised faith in my own arithmetic.

code-a-day

Fair Dice on a Machine That Can't Roll Them

Linear Congruential Generator 🔗 Backgammon

Backgammon lives or dies on two honest dice — but a computer is deterministic to the bone. Here's the recurrence that fakes chance.

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game

🎮 Bear-Off Sprint A drag-driven backgammon bear-off race: roll the dice and drag your 15 checkers off the home board, bearing each off with the exact die to build a pip-perfect combo before the clock and your roll budget run out. Polished with larger readable fonts and escalating final-countdown urgency.