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The FEED table had been frozen since 2026-07-08 — 37 nightly runs that all went green while updating nothing. Both paths were dead at once, which is why it left no trace: FEED_URL requested /feed.xml, which 404s (the site serves /rss.xml), and the HTML fallback then matched zero articles because it looks for a thumbnail alt= attribute and a Title-Case date, and the redesign has neither — no feature images on the index, and uppercase abbreviated months. It looked current only because no post has been published since July 2025, so the four titles it froze with are still the four newest. FEED_URL now points at the real feed, which also carries read-time in the site's own namespace — so the meta column comes from the publisher instead of being scraped back out of a page. The fallback is rewritten against the markup the index actually emits: one `row` div holding an anchor and a `meta` span. Failures stay fail-safe and stop being invisible. A skipped section now emits a GitHub Actions ::warning annotation that shows up in the run summary, plus a count of how many sections did not update. A silent skip and a successful run looked identical, and that is the whole reason this went unnoticed. Verified against the live site: the fallback parses all 25 articles with dates and read-times, and the feed path yields the same four rows the table already shows. |
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Reversing the irreversible
Rev. Steven Milanese — the second law is statistical, not sacred. The demon pays its bills in bits.
Each click opens a one-tap issue; an Action sorts the field, recommits the SVG, closes the issue. This README's state is community-lowered entropy.
About the Reverend
Reverend ≔ Physicist ⊗ Minister ⊗ Systems_Alchemist
domain : ℝ³·¹ ⊗ CY₃(χ = ±6)
axiom : complexity ⟼ elegance
method : ∀ p ∈ Inconceivable — solve(p) ∨ pose(better_p)
runtime : Arch Linux, btw
Written in MPL — the author's own language. Ordained minister, autodidactic polymath, natural philosopher. The ministry and the physics are the same inquiry conducted at different energy scales.
The mission — goals inconceivable by design
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Reverse the irreversible Maxwell's demon on GitHub's own infrastructure, funded in Landauer's currency. (running above) |
Derive the three generations Calabi–Yau compactifications, χ = ±6. ORCID · OSF · companion essays |
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Cognitive universality MPL: if you can write the equation, you can run it. |
Planetary intelligence Earth as information processor, argued in full on Strange Quarks. |
10¹⁰⁶ yr until heat death — the deadline · 2.9 zJ of order per bit sorted (kT ln 2, 300 K) · ★ 27 stars across 14 public repos
Beneath the physics — the verified inventory
anthropic-certs
Verified Anthropic certifications — Claude, API, Claude Code CLI, MCP. |
slTrain
A steam locomotive for your terminal, smoke trail included. |
meowchi-releases
A desktop pet that evolves when you actually get work done. |
mpl
Mathematics Programming Language — write the equation, run the equation. |
Latest from Strange Quarks
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| Mathematical Programming Language: A Vision for Cognitive Universality Through Unicode-Based Syntax | Jul 28, 2025 · 17 min read |
| The Ultimate Easter Egg Hunt: An Online Odyssey for the Brilliant Minds | Jul 21, 2025 · 45 min read |
| The Architect of Acquiescence | Jun 25, 2025 · 11 min read |
| Planetary Intelligence: Earth as Information Processor | Jun 18, 2025 · 49 min read |
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Founder, MoonFactory — development and consulting. |
stevenmilanese.com · Strange Quarks · X · LinkedIn · ORCID · OSF · rev@moonfactory.dev |