Conor Barnes

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  • Substack-bound

    Mar 3, 2023

    I'm off to Substack!

  • 100 Stories Reflection | Part Two: Statistics

    Jan 4, 2023

    Length, trends, frequency!

  • Story At Corvus Review

    Jan 3, 2023

    Microfiction published!

  • Three Stories At Flash Boulevard

    Jan 2, 2023

    Published!

  • 2023 Resolutions

    Jan 1, 2023

    What would be rad this year?

  • Short Story at Sleet Magazine

    Dec 30, 2022

    Published!

  • 2022 Reflection

    Dec 29, 2022

    This year was grand!

  • 100 Stories: Reflection

    Dec 27, 2022

    I wrote one hundred short stories!

  • Three Prose Poems at Harpy Hybrid

    Dec 8, 2022

    Published!

  • Three Micros at the Parliament Literary Journal

    Oct 31, 2022

  • The Partisan

    Oct 18, 2022

    @ The Apple Valley Review

  • Three Spooky Stories Published

    Oct 8, 2022

    @ Chamber Magazine

  • A Story at the Bookends Review

    Sept 23, 2022

    They could access inner peace with a little concentration

  • Like The Setting Sun

    Sept 6, 2022

    People die every day, just like the setting sun.

  • Story at Shirley Magazine

    Aug 29, 2022

    One of my faves is published!

  • Three Micros at the Metaworker

    Aug 21, 2022

    Three tiny stories published!

  • Story at Literally Stories

    Jul 31, 2022

    Fifth story published!

  • Building the X-Risk Tree

    Jul 29, 2022

    Technical details

  • Story at Potato Soup Journal

    Jun 28, 2022

    Published!

  • Kind

    Jun 17, 2022

    The startup I was interning at figured out creating good diseases

  • The White Stag

    May 13, 2022

    They slew a white stag on my eighteenth birthday that had wandered into the park behind the high school.

  • Job Hunt

    May 12, 2022

    Hire me!

  • Three Stories at White Wall Review

    May 1, 2022

    I'm published!

  • The Agent

    Mar 2, 2022

    Before the war I didn't really think about anything.

  • After The Fire

    Feb 27, 2022

  • The Christian

    Feb 17, 2022

    I am going to love everybody in the world, like a Christian.

  • Medea

    Feb 9, 2022

    He upset several of his classmates by claiming to live in the bottom of a swamp

  • Parrhesia

    Feb 2, 2022

    When it got bad, he hid inside the moon.

  • Pixel Sorter

    Feb 1, 2022

    A website for creating glitch art through pixel sorting.

  • The Simplest Way to Start Creating

    Jan 7, 2022

    Just build what you want to exist

  • Mrs. Fields

    Jan 4, 2022

    Mrs. Fields is very worried.

  • The Boycott

    Jan 2, 2022

    It started when my friend said he’s never seen Star Wars and never will.

  • My 2022 Quests

    Jan 1, 2022

    What would be awesome this year?

  • 2020-1

    Dec 31, 2021

    better than the last, wooo!

  • Book Review: Children of Dune

    Oct 30, 2021

    Characters must do things in order to be interesting.

  • Thoughts on Progress

    Jun 13, 2021

    We can make life dope.

  • The Odin Project: Review

    Mar 12, 2021

    A year ago, I had zero programming experience.

  • A Simple Ethics Model

    Jan 22, 2021

    I’ve been thinking about normative ethics lately.

  • let's go 2020 woooo

    Dec 30, 2020

    This year sucked! However, I was lucky to spend most of it learning.

  • 100 Tips For A Better Life

    Dec 22, 2020

    The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit's from last year!

  • 40 Programming Questions / 6 Months In

    Aug 19, 2020

    I started teaching myself to program about six months ago.

  • Pregnancy? Experts Divided.

    Aug 7, 2020

    In confronting the problem of mortality and the falling human population, a radical solution has been floated: Allow women to deliberately become pregnant and give birth.

  • Poetry With Heart

    Jul 15, 2020

    Do we like bad writing? Does it have heart?

  • The Virtues of Melee

    Jul 9, 2020

    Two weeks ago, improvements to the netcode for Super Smash Bros Melee (Melee) dramatically expanded the potential for online play.

  • Second-Order Existential Risk

    Jul 1, 2020

    How important is creating the conditions to fix existential risks versus actually fixing existential risks?

  • Three Ways to Think Less Stupidly About Groups

    Jun 24, 2020

    On simple ways to think better about groups.

  • The Values of Others

    Jun 19, 2020

    It seems like common-sense to appeal to the values of others, in a Dale Carnegie way. Show people why they should agree with you! People don’t care about your values, they want you to appeal to theirs!

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