Every one of my books is free on YouTube as a scrolling-text read-along: the full text moving past while it’s narrated. Here’s why, and how they’re made.
Why I Turn Every Book Into a Free Scrolling-Text Read-Along Read Post »
Light Through the Holes tells the history of sieves, from Eratosthenes to modern prime hunting, and what it costs to see a prime. Free as a read-along on YouTube.
Light Through the Holes: A History of Sieves and the Price of Seeing Primes Read Post »
The Big Book of Prime Secrets weaves my books on primes, difficulty and secret-keeping into one long story of why no one has cracked the numbers that protect us.
The Big Book of Prime Secrets: How Numbers Keep Secrets Read Post »
The Garden That Computes imagines computers grown in fields instead of built in factories: binary sugar, seeds that run programs, and leaves wired together like UNIX pipes.
The Garden That Computes: What If Computers Were Grown, Not Built? Read Post »
The Free Machine is a two-book guide and history: daily-driving Linux, open source tools, coding with AI, and the people who built and fought over the computers we use.
The Free Machine: Computing Without Microsoft, in Two Books Read Post »
The Number Country is a ten-book portal fantasy set on the number line, where every locked city keeps a public number and a private secret. Books One and Two are out now.
The Number Country: A Fantasy Series Where the Number Line Is a Place Read Post »
My new book is about the storms that pick us, the ones we survive, and the rooms where people gather to heal and grow. The Kindle edition is out now.
New Book: The Rooms That Hold Us Read Post »
The Real Gatekeeper asks why the same problem can be easy for one person and impossible for another. It’s on Amazon, and you can listen to the whole thing free on YouTube.
The Real Gatekeeper: Now an Audiobook Read Post »
Why are some things easy to check and hard to find? Preservation and Horizons explores the asymmetry under almost everything we do with computers.
Preservation and Horizons: On Difficulty, Verification, and Structural Limits Read Post »
Why is it hard to split a number into its two prime factors when multiplying them is trivial? The Wall at Two is a visual answer.
The Wall at Two: Seeing Why a Number Keeps a Secret Read Post »