Trenton J. Tompkins
Author of Practical Cryonics.
The science of hope: a clear-eyed look at life extension, the technologies behind it, and how to think rationally about the future.
Books by Trenton J. Tompkins
Practical Cryonics
What modern science actually says about preserving the human mind: the science, the ethics, and the logistics, so you can weigh the question of long-term survival honestly and decide for yourself.
Coding with GPT
Build smarter, code faster, create more. A practical guide to working alongside GPT to ship real software, from first prompt to finished product.
Coding with Claude
Build smarter, code faster, create more. A hands-on guide to pair-programming with Claude to design, build, and ship real software end to end.
Notes & Essays
247chat: AI-backed live chat for your website, with a real desktop console
247chat is an AI-backed live-chat widget plus a native desktop operator console - one window for every site you run.
Tile-voting image registration: how a refusal to slide a PNG became a free CV tool
A refusal to nudge a PNG by hand became a free computer-vision tool: cut the source into tiles, template-match each, and let the pieces vote on an offset. Oc...
Killing the Tofu Box for Good: Grafting a Star into Noto Color Emoji
That empty box isn't broken text - it's a missing glyph. How I grafted a star into Noto Color Emoji with fontTools and built a font that can't tofu.
How to Automate Email with Forward Email (and Save $100+/yr vs. Google Workspace)
Google Workspace bills per mailbox and won't let you script DKIM. Forward Email is flat-rate with a REST API that automates everything — DKIM included. How I...
The Secret Button That Wasn't There: scripting the Twitch API
I went to grab my Twitch client secret and the button wasn't there. Here's the whole path to scripting the Helix API — creating the app, the Confidential-cli...
I Gave dev.to a Command Line: scripting the Forem API end to end
I cross-post my build-logs to dev.to, and doing it by hand got old. Here's the Forem API end to end — getting the key, the one call that publishes, and the c...
A SYSTEM Command Queue: letting automation run elevated without a UAC every time
I wanted my automation to run admin commands without a UAC prompt every time. The answer: a SYSTEM scheduled task that polls a user-writable queue file. Here...
Who Manages Your Chrome? Killing "Managed by your organization" for good
Chrome says "Managed by your organization" but you don't have one. The culprit is a leftover, often ACL-locked Group Policy key. Here's how to find what's se...
Cracking Open a 2004 Game: pulling every asset out of a Clickteam EXE
Old Multimedia Fusion games pack every sprite, sound, font, icon, runtime DLL, and event script inside the .exe. With Anaconda (a Python 2.7 Clickteam decomp...