Stories and Portfolio https://conorbarnes.com en Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/substack https://conorbarnes.com/blog/substack I'm off to Substack! Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/100storystats https://conorbarnes.com/blog/100storystats Length, trends, frequency! Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/corvus2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/corvus2022 Microfiction published! Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/flashboulevard2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/flashboulevard2022 Published! Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2023resolutions https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2023resolutions What would be rad this year? Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/sleet2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/sleet2022 Published! Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2022reflection https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2022reflection This year was grand! Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/100storiesreflection https://conorbarnes.com/blog/100storiesreflection I wrote one hundred short stories! Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/harpyhybrid2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/harpyhybrid2022 Published! Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/parliamentliterary2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/parliamentliterary2022 undefined Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/applevalley2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/applevalley2022 @ The Apple Valley Review Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/chamber2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/chamber2022 @ Chamber Magazine Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/thefountain2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/thefountain2022 They could access inner peace with a little concentration Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/like-the-setting-sun https://conorbarnes.com/blog/like-the-setting-sun People die every day, just like the setting sun. Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/sonya https://conorbarnes.com/blog/sonya One of my faves is published! Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/metaworker2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/metaworker2022 Three tiny stories published! Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/agreatbird https://conorbarnes.com/blog/agreatbird Fifth story published! Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/xrisktree https://conorbarnes.com/blog/xrisktree Technical details Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/funfacts2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/funfacts2022 Published! Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/kind https://conorbarnes.com/blog/kind The startup I was interning at figured out creating good diseases Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/whitestag https://conorbarnes.com/blog/whitestag They slew a white stag on my eighteenth birthday that had wandered into the park behind the high school. Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/jobhunt_2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/jobhunt_2022 Hire me! Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/whitewall2022 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/whitewall2022 I'm published! Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/theagent https://conorbarnes.com/blog/theagent Before the war I didn't really think about anything. Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/afterthefire https://conorbarnes.com/blog/afterthefire Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/thechristian https://conorbarnes.com/blog/thechristian I am going to love everybody in the world, like a Christian. Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/medea https://conorbarnes.com/blog/medea He upset several of his classmates by claiming to live in the bottom of a swamp Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/parrhesia https://conorbarnes.com/blog/parrhesia When it got bad, he hid inside the moon. Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/pixelsorter https://conorbarnes.com/blog/pixelsorter A website for creating glitch art through pixel sorting. Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/simplecreation https://conorbarnes.com/blog/simplecreation Just build what you want to exist Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/mrsfields https://conorbarnes.com/blog/mrsfields Mrs. Fields is very worried. Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/boycott https://conorbarnes.com/blog/boycott It started when my friend said he’s never seen Star Wars and never will. Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2022quests https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2022quests What would be awesome this year? Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2021 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2021 better than the last, wooo! Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/review-cod https://conorbarnes.com/blog/review-cod Characters must do things in order to be interesting. Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/progress https://conorbarnes.com/blog/progress We can make life dope. Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/odin https://conorbarnes.com/blog/odin A year ago, I had zero programming experience. Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/simpleethics https://conorbarnes.com/blog/simpleethics I’ve been thinking about normative ethics lately. Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2020 https://conorbarnes.com/blog/2020 This year sucked! However, I was lucky to spend most of it learning. Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/tipsforabetterlife https://conorbarnes.com/blog/tipsforabetterlife The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit's from last year! Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/fortyprogrammingqs https://conorbarnes.com/blog/fortyprogrammingqs I started teaching myself to program about six months ago. Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/pregnancyexperts https://conorbarnes.com/blog/pregnancyexperts 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. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/poetrywithheart https://conorbarnes.com/blog/poetrywithheart Do we like bad writing? Does it have heart? Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/virtuesofmelee https://conorbarnes.com/blog/virtuesofmelee Two weeks ago, improvements to the netcode for Super Smash Bros Melee (Melee) dramatically expanded the potential for online play. Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/secondorderxrisk https://conorbarnes.com/blog/secondorderxrisk How important is creating the conditions to fix existential risks versus actually fixing existential risks? Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/threeways https://conorbarnes.com/blog/threeways On simple ways to think better about groups. Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://conorbarnes.com/blog/valuesofothers https://conorbarnes.com/blog/valuesofothers 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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