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I started madebynathan.com in 2010 as a technical blog. Programming, electronics, hardware projects, the usual maker stuff. For about fifteen years that’s mostly what it was. Then at some point I stopped filtering. I started posting about whatever rabbit hole I fell down that week: simulation theory, wargaming history, the etymology of “Cossack”. Chasing random curiosities turns out to be a lot of fun, and AI gives me superpowers here. I can go from “wait, is Prussia just Russia with a P?” to a properly researched deep dive in an afternoon. ...

Welcome to Actually Random. This blog is exactly what it sounds like: an outlet for random ideas, experiments, and rabbit holes. Some posts will be deeply researched, some will be half-baked, and that’s the point. More soon.