Wilson Bilkovich
defiler.bsky.social
Wilson Bilkovich
@defiler.bsky.social
Space Barbarian. Software Engineer. Feminist. Reader. I like languages for machines, humans, and others. The gods made Heavy Metal and it's never gonna die.
What sort of "Wilson content" would people like to see over here on Bluesky? I always have either a wall of tech/science stuff to mention, or an endless stream of epigrams from book highlights in my collection, etc.

Or, you know, memes?
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Wilson Bilkovich
Pro ttrpg GM tip: every time you describe a new place or person to the players, conclude with, “… and as far as you can tell, none of this is a dream.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Fiction I suggest:
Footprints on Sand: L. Sprague de Camp
The Deed of Paksenarrion: Elizabeth Moon
The Winter of the Fisher: Cameron Langford
Earth: David Brin
The Primal Hunter: Zogarth
Rise of the Living Forge: Actus (fun)
Cast Under an Alien Sun: Olan Thorensen
Heretical Fishing: Haylock Jobson
October 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Screenshot of my recent "Tweet" on the old platform, because this one has a strict character limit.
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Wilson Bilkovich
if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼
September 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If I am around to see us calculate the 6th Busy Beaver number, I will buy every quantum state in our light cone a round of drinks.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
We prove that $S(5) = 47,176,870$ using the Coq proof assistant. The Busy Beaver value $S(n)$ is the maximum number of steps that an $n$-state 2-symbol Turing machine can perform from the all-zero tap...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Quran was an interesting blog post, but wow that guy was angry.
August 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The year is 2025. A generation ago, Gopher defeated the upstart "World Wide Web" in the market. Forth remains the most-popular client-side scripting language. Everything has a routable IP address and a cryptographically-attested firewall ruleset.
May 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
re: Strange Loop, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how relevant Ruby still seems to be. I've been off in Python land recently and wasn't sure.
September 24, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Just returned from Strange Loop 2023; great conference, great people, great food.
September 24, 2023 at 5:01 PM