Civilization as color.
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Monday 26 October 2026
"Jooohhhhhhhhhhhhnnn Hennnnnrrryyyyyyyyyyyy!"
Music, memory, and Black labor.
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Thursday 1 January 2026
Would you enter?
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Friday 18 October 2024
On being a member-owner of two different coops.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Lost and found folk and funk music from pre-civil war Somalia.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Thursday 13 July 2023
No one drowned in the writing of this post.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Saturday 21 January 2023
Reflections on Khalil Gibran's The Prophet.
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Saturday 31 December 2022
Spinning Up a Personal Feed Reader
A simpler, slower way to enjoy the internet.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Wednesday 21 December 2022
Some reflections on learning an instrument.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Wednesday 3 November 2021
Right ideas. Right time. Wrong country.
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Friday 10 April 2020
My Terrible Time with Tuberculosis
In John Green's voice: I give TB zero stars.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Sunday 5 April 2020
Cognics and Distilling Concepts
Some one-word philosophizing.
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Monday 20 January 2020
An observational case study on salt mining.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Monday 30 December 2019
My Experience as an Amateur Puzzle Master
Making a puzzle can be as tricky as solving one, but for different reasons.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Saturday 10 September 2016
Infinite Representation in SVMs
Even just theoretically, support vector machines are amazing.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Wednesday 27 January 2016
A photo essay of my time in Japan.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie
Tuesday 2 September 2014
What does the common ground of two philosophies look like?
Ahmed Ali Diriye
Friday 14 March 2014
The first post should also be the shortest.
Abdi-Hakin Dirie and Ahmed Ali Diriye
Monday 3 February 2014