Ideas and implementations that I arrived at independently. Since it is impossible to claim true novelty, I can only make a softer claim of newness: when I came up with these things, I hadn’t seen them before.
A foolproof method for hand-based fly-killing
Sneak up to the fly, and smash your palms together around 3 inches above the fly. It will fly right into your hands.
When: Sometime in middle school
Horizontal table of contents
Viewable at nickarner.com/book. Saves lots of space for long ToCs in a single-column layout while still providing a navigable summary of the post.
When: August 2023
Monthly shareholder letters to friends
Write the most official-sounding monthly update possible. Add stats and figures and challenges. Anybody invested in you in any way deserves a shareholder letter.
When: June 2024
Font-switcher for a personal website
As seen in the top-left corner of this site.
When: January 2024