What is this?

is an experiment in constructing an anti-mnemonic online identity. All of these names are algorithmically generated^[1] and cycled every 28 days such that I become less salient in people's memory.

In doing so, I can practice non-attachment towards my writing. Think a joyless Pessoa.

The algorithm is simple. To generate the next username, take a SHA-256 hash of the previous username, truncate to the first 32 bits, and then slice two 11-bit indices and one 10-bit index corresponding to words from the BIP-39^[2] english wordlist. Since anyone can trivially compute future usernames, this provides no real benefit towards maintaining anonymity.

The "seed" username, lee brisk cyrano, was generated by sampling randomly from /usr/share/dict/words.