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Scrawls Library Updates Next August doesn’t have many holidays for us to latch onto, so fair warning, this month’s developer diaries will end up naming themselves for an assortment of sometimes-odd anniversaries. Case in point, today...
First, a thank you to Kristopher Mosby for his kind letter about The Color of Paper. He raises several great points, so with his permission, I’m including his email here, followed by my wandering response. Kristopher wrote: “I just...
By Mario Barbati0one GamesShadowdarkLevels 2-3 They say the well ran dry generations ago. They do not say why. They say the Pickmans have always been good stewards of this land. They do not say at what price. The villagers go on tending...
Bea Gull slid the application across the metal table and folded her hands.“So, Ryder. You are ten years old, and you are looking to adopt six dogs today to form a Paw Patrol. A German Shepherd, a Dalmatian, an English Bulldog, a mixed...
Most people have never eaten a McDonald’s McCrescent. That includes me. The sandwich only existed in Rockford, Illinois, for about three months in 1983, and it never expanded anywhere else. It was a food ideas, as others would...
Dear Friends, Happy August, Merry Lammas. I'm writing this from a moving car journeying up the length of Vancouver Island, cutting it a bit fine before I vanish into the Wayward Retreat for the next ten days (about which I've written at...
After having gladly wasted an entire month watching an unholy amount of football in what was by far the best World Cup of my life, after having seen either the entirety, or part of, or the highlights of most of the 104 (!) games that...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
Can you bootstrap your way from annotating data to training a frontier model in one thousand days? Play Idle Frontier! In this blog post, I want to share my experience developing this game with the aid of Opus 5 (which I’ll just call...
In a gratuitous display of violation of consent, BMW forced their way into their driver's luxury vehicles to play an ad on their dashboards.That's not a dystopian nightmare – that's the lived dystopian reality. Got this commercial in my...
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Type 1 Diabetes in the Hospital … IT’S TRICKY and OFTEN DANGEROUS! Diabetes Technology in the Hospital: Where We Stand Type 1 Diabetes in the Hospital by Michael Hughes, MD Could a Future Smart...
In January 2019 I wrote out scores of prompts for thinking long term that I felt should inform the foundation I was later co-chair of, The Long Now Foundation. These axioms were only shared internally, but I feel they would be useful to...
The NYC Department of Building has launched a monthly newsletter specifically about the new Existing Building Code: here. They don’t explicitly say, but given that the code goes into effect next July, my guess is that there will be...
A DACI is a lightweight way to make decision ownership explicit before work stalls. It separates the person moving the process forward from the person with authority to make the final call.What is a DACI?Driver: Moves the decision...
This week had some desultory work on various projects, a bit of reading, and some travel. I’m working to adjust my expectations in terms of what I can and need to get done before the start of the fall semester. My classes are mostly set...