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
Why Cryonics Makes Sense: A Scientific Proof for Reincarnation from Logic and Observation
If time is infinite and your existence has a non-zero probability, then your pattern recurs without end, and most lives that have ever existed were brutal. H...
Why Is Cryonics So Dismissed by the Scientific Community?
We can already revive cells, tissues, and whole organisms from the cold, so why does mainstream science still treat cryonics as pseudoscience? Two reasons ma...
Pennsylvania's Statement of Contrary Intent - and the Rest of Your Cryonics Paperwork
When you arrange cryopreservation, the real risk isn't the science - it's a relative who objects at the worst possible moment. Here is how Pennsylvania's Sta...
An Open Letter to Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson dismissed cryonics as a scam. Here is the letter I wrote him, and why a trusted scientist's offhand words could cost real lives.
Why I Wrote Practical Cryonics
A short note on the reasoning behind the book - why cryonics is best understood as a decision made under uncertainty, not a leap of faith.
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...