Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026WAXY is the longest word whose letters (by alphabetic position) follow the Fibonacci recurrence relation 2100
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Your annual reminder that I made a website called New Year Zone that counts down to the new year in all 38 time zones If nothing else, it works pretty great for syncing your actual countdown at your new year's gathering 251
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Just in the nick of time, here's my list of the best albums of 2025! #1 is a perfect little gem that I haven't seen on any year-end list. Can't stop coming back to it aaronson.org/full-moon-al... 121
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Crucially, Grokipedia lacks any discretion over what makes a source reliable, placing random blogs and Reddit posts on a par with peer-reviewed journals and news articles. 130
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025They also lack images, links to other articles, and structured data (like tables) that make Wikipedia articles so useful beyond their prose alone. 130
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025But in the worst cases (many such cases), they amplify Elon's right-wing political viewpoints, biasing the articles not by crowdsourced consensus but by the arbitrary whims of one guy. 140
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The articles that aren't ripped directly from Wikipedia are weird. In the best cases, they're alright articles that are just bloated and follow the overly verbose writing style characteristic to AI slop (which is what they are). 140
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Elon criticizes Wikipedia as being woke and biased. So it's curious that Grokipedia relies directly on much of its content, AI-paraphrasing it ever-so-slightly under a Creative Commons license. 130
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025My thoughts on Elon's Grokipedia as a Wikipedia editor, and—because Grokipedia has copied nearly verbatim many of my Wikipedia pages—inadvertently, a Grokipedia editor. (a thread) 180
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Got a puzzle triple header today - Crossword for @nytimes.com - Crossword for @billboard.com (kicking off Latin week) - Alphadots for @bloomberg.com (where all 7 puzzles this week will be by me) 170
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This one's for the all the numerologyheads www.billboard.com/p/billboard-... 030
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace 151
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Had a blast at the inaugural WikiGameJam this past weekend hosted by @wikimediafoundation.org @wikimedianyc.bsky.social! Great crowd of creative tech + wiki + game people, and a great chance to lock in on a project (which won the "Most Likely to Keep Me Coming Back for More" award!) 171
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025NEW NEWS: I'm making music-themed crosswords for @billboard.com! Solve the inaugural one, constructed by me and inspired by a certain album that dropped today: www.billboard.com/p/billboard-... 1203
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I made a trombone for HTML Day @htmlenergy.bsky.social aaronson.org/trombone/ 0241
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Just a couple of guys who made a crossword. #NYTXW 1140
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Made another @newyorker.com crossword. This one's for the bookworms 080
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025How it started / how it's going @rickycruz.bsky.social 2150
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Made my @bloomberg.com Businessweek magazine debut with a stock-flavored word puzzle! Catch it on the last page of the June issue 160
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The owner of In-N-Out LYNSI SNYDER has the crazy palindrome YNSISNY hidden in her name 3121
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Went into #ACPT2025 with the sole goal of finishing all the puzzles error-free, so in that sense I won. Placed 3rd alphabetically (my worst yet) and 36th by score (my best yet). So proud to witness @gppasco.bsky.social pull off the back-to-back championship! 2271
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025My new @newyorker.com crossword answers the age-old question: what if crossword, but for nerds? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-... 161
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Total appearances of secondary intercardinal direction entries in the New York Times crossword 2216
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I realized there wasn't a great website for making custom text-based emoji for Slack or Discord, so I cooked one up last night Here's Emoter: aaronson.org/emoter/ 150
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The playground retort matrix (per @puzzletrip.bsky.social's request) 260
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Total appearances of various "Makes sense to me!" entries in the New York Times crossword 291
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Read this as a cute way of saying HERE like SAMESIES 0182
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Happy year of the snake! Now you have to play my game Snaclops that I made in high school. It's like Snake but the snake has one eye: aaronson.org/snaclops/ 050
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Heartbreaking: The Most Broken Clock You Know Just Displayed The Right Time 0260
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Leave me alone with a pad of paper and I will make a multiplication table but for overlaying each number's seven-segment display 7452
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025At some point in 2024, the International Bartenders Association expanded their list of official cocktails from 89 to 102, which meant there were some new Wikipedia articles to write. Just finished the Jungle Bird page, including a picture of one I drank myself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_... 330
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I noticed years ago that this deodorant brand RIGHT GUARD SPORT FRESH was four 5-letter words but it took me until today to realize it's also supervocalic (exactly one of each vowel) 4491
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Top NBA players by points per game whose last names are Scrabble-legal English words (updated) 000
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Achieved a goal I didn't even know I had last night: have a clue from my crossword used in a Celebrity Jeopardy! "Hard New York Times Crossword Clues" category 5203
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I was thinking about burritos right when this truck passed so I noticed DISTRIBUTOR ends with an anagram of BURRITO. Make of this what you will 1150
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I made a new musical instrument It's called etheremin, it exists inside of a web browser, and you can play it on your computer or your phone (just make sure your volume is on) Try it out here: aaronson.org/etheremin/ 54810
Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Made a list of my 25 favorite albums of 2024! And this year I decided to make it a website: aaronson.org/full-moon-al... 130
