What Is Today?

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Is a pancake a cake?

These all have flour and water. But how do they relate?

Language is fuzzy, like kittens.

Give your answers and see live results on my silly web app.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

SettleChip: Poker Calculator App

SettleChip is my poker game utility app, which makes for smoother, easier home poker games!

As an avid, yet amateur, poker player, I've noticed consistent confusion choosing the starting chip distribution when initially setting up a game, and also when settling up debts after the game is over.

(For home games we don't usually put our money on the table, instead settling up after with a series of transfers between players. But this process is annoying and it's easy to make mistakes!)

I decided to make a simple app to automate these parts of my home poker games. And as a bonus, it also tracks the performances of the regular players over time, storing a player profile for each of them, so you can see who is the real shark...

Hope you enjoy!

Links

Apple Store

Google Play Store

Github Project

Contact

abraham.r.m[at]gmail.com

Thursday, February 20, 2025

And Adam - A Short Story

The screeching bray of giraffes in the distance jolts me awake.

"Long necked bastards," I mutter under my breath.

Always when I wake, I need to spit. I raise myself out of our nestbed, careful to avoid waking Adam, and make enough distance so he won't hear my spitting.

Actually, there’s a particular bush I’ve been spitting behind for the last 4 days. I have the sense that if I keep spitting here in that same spot, something will grow there. I have to see this hypothesis through of course. And I guess it’s important to note, whatever rises out of the spot would basically be my spit-child.

Tragedy of the Common Mold

Slime molds are a class of simple microorganisms with a surprising amount of intelligence given their lack of brain. Famously, they are excellent at optimizing transport networks, and they also showcase rudimentary memory and communication abilities.

Unknown slime mold I found on a log

Scratch Paper: Minimal Mobile Notes App

Scratch Paper is my free re-imagined notes app with only a single page of notes.

As soon as you open it up, you're instantly typing. It is a humble piece of scratch paper for the digital age, letting you jot things down quickly and then getting out of your way.

Perfect for grocery lists, to-do reminders, or scribbling down a rough thought for later refinement. Scratch Paper has only the features it needs and nothing more.

Scratch Paper is the successor to the Android App called Jot which I released in 2018. I rewrote it in react native for cross platform availability, and with some important quality of life improvements.