Hi! I'm Brennan.

• You can find my business website here.
• The only social media I use is @BrennanColberg on 𝕏.
• If you want to talk to me and have my number, call or text is most reliable.
• I try to check email >1x/week; you can reach out about anything and I might reply.

Writing

• [2025-05-27] The Minimum Viable Blog
• [2025-03-15] The political future of American education
• [2025-02-27] The Kafkaization of the Economy
• [2025-02-25] Touching Grass, But Quite Imperfectly
• [2025-01] my bits (2025)


• [2024-11] Criteria for Quality Baby Names


• [2023-04-30] The logic of waking up early
• [2023-03-15] Digital Personal Assistants
• [2023-02-23] JavaScript is the English of programming languages
• [2023-02-08] Please unsubscribe


• [2022-12-30] A proof of the logical equivalence of inverse and converse
• [2022-12-28] Annual Update (2022)
• [2022-12-19] Anticorrectness
• [2022-05-04] The paradox of perceived duration
• [2022-04-13] Against antisesquipedalianism
• [2022-04-06] My Musk list (2022)
• [2022-03-30] "Later" doesn't exist
• [2022-03-16] How to learn at college
• [2022-01-10] Trust is the bedrock of civilization
• [2022-01-04] Procrastinatory Doom Loops


• [2021-12-07] I'm excited about hovercraft (1/?)
• [2021-11-13] Checking metrics doesn't change anything
• [2021-11-11] Tools for thought
• [2021-09-29] The Paradox of Planning
• [2021-09-18] The Paradox of Time


• [2020-07-25] Three Word Chunks: A Poem (?)
• [2020-07-17] GPT-3 ⇒ Post-Scarcity Education
• [2020-07-16] Content >> Style
• [2020-07-15] Blog Logistics: A Preliminary Structure
• [2020-07-14] Why get out of bed in the morning?


• (archival of assorted posts from scattered old blogs is incomplete)

Projects

• [2025-07 (use) (code)] Axis & Allies Global 1940 scorekeeping web app
• [2025-02 (use) (code)] PDF-based dynamic website proof of concept
• [2025-01 (use)] basic iOS app to annoy you into touching grass daily
• [2024-2025 (u) (info)] long-form memorization app
• [2024-06 (use) (code)] family recipe archive
• [2024-Q2 (use)] randomized-quote-bot Twitter automation service
• [2024-01 (use) (code)] comment section for every DOI'd academic paper
• [2023-2024 (u) (code)] well-abstracted quote storage system
• [2023-07 (code)] script to make wife's laptop occasionally say "wow"
• [2023-03 (code)] "personal digital assistant" (LLM agent, 2y early)
• [2023-Q1 (use) (code)] timeline-based historical trivia game
• [2022-11 (use) (code)] DNA ↔ ASCII translator
• [2022-04 (use) (code)] current decimal time
• [2022-Q1 (use) (code)] strategy game based on Conway's Game of Life
• [2022-01 (code)] wordle solver (based on built-in dictionaries)
• [2021-12 (see) (code)] daily "merry christmas eve eve eve..." bot
• [2021-12 (use) (code)] multicolored interactive Conway's Game of Life
• [2021-11 (use) (code)] rectangle tiling max-size algo (for video calls)
• [2020-07 (use) (code)] daily question-writing tool to spur curiosity
• [2020-Q2 (read)] backyard aquaponics setup designed for mass production
• [2019-11 (code)] solver for those circle-style vocabulary phone games
• [2019-Q4 (see) (code)] HTML/CSS resume for college internships
• [2019-2020 (u) (code)] typewriter simulator for writing drafts
• [2019-02 (code)] script to continually unpause macOS music audio
• [2018-2020 (u) (code)] fancy periodic table
• [2018-12 (use) (code)] Axis & Allies 1942 scorekeeping web app (v2)
• [2018-Q3 (code)] University of Washington class signup sniper script
• [2018-09 (use) (code)] Axis & Allies 1942 scorekeeping web app
• [2018-09 (use) (code)] Backus-Naur grammatical sentence generator
• [2018-Q3 (use) (code)] randomized carbon cycle journey simulator
• [2018-07 (see) (code)] "chariot" robot to drive/ride around at 15 mph
• [2018-Q2 (use) (code)] keyboard-based FMBQ jump lights
• [2018-Q1 (code)] 2018 FRC #3268 competition robot
• [2016-2017 (code)] 2D game framework built from scratch in Java (v3)
• ...all older code is lost to the sands of non-git filesystems...
• [2013-Q1 (see)] regionally award-winning FIRST LEGO League robot design

Red-linked projects are currently broken in some significant way, as of 2025-08-28.

“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”