What's up with people always acting shocked when someone brings to bananas to work for lunch/snacks.
I wonder if it has anything to do with deep engrained knowledge from our primitive monkey times (ie. bananas = valuable; why does he have more than one? I have none! He’s got too many bananas!)
I often joke about using the “dark arts” [AI] for good ~ could this be my outlet?
I’m going to try and start posting some new type of content, something more in the direction of birds and music than tech and AI. I guess you might call it public engineering, civic engineering or something along those lines(?).
The catalyst for this wasn’t just this post I saw on this Sub-Reddit I love: r/NoLawns: My city has started converting a park lawn to a native pollinator meadow (which I think is so frickin cool, and it makes me think “I want one of those in my town!”)
I was originally inspired to write about this sort of thing from an earlier dog walk ~ There's a little park next to me, and I thought it would be awesome to put up a little community bulletin board with everything that happens locally; I know there’s a casual little doggie group gathering some days, the park across the street has (weekly?) roller blading, we could post our house shows there, etc.
So I opened up a Claude session and started talking through that, curious to see what the process would be like. (What forms I would need to fill out, who, where it would go, would I could talk to, etc.)
It’s pretty crazy thinking that these types of projects no longer feel out of reach. And I don’t know if that’s just because I’m getting older + burnt out on fast tech, or if using Claude is what makes these processes feel achievable ~ most likely a hybrid of both.
Cheap writing, expensive reading, and a post about God's admin panel
Interface elements that exist inside the game's world, so the characters could see them too. From diegetic: of or relating to diegesis, the world a story's events take place in.
I love this stuff, I traditionally think of Dead Space and Gears of War when I think of this concept, and it’s been popping up in my thought again recently as I’ve started to get back into UI design a...
Seeing things visually really does help
I’ve been using Claude more and more to visualize my work in a variety of ways, web artifacts are probably my favorite ~ especially when they’re 3d lol.
You can use this yourself to, either by logging in with GitHub or on a local codebase on your machine. Here’s a hosted version & here’s the GitHub repo
A feral pig that is trapped, tagged or fitted with a tracking collar, and released so it rejoins its group and leads hunters back to other pigs. Adapted from the older "Judas goat" technique. Sows tend to work best, since they stay with their group.
TBH, this is pretty scary.
Playing a game against computer-controlled opponents ("comps") instead of against other people. Used in the RTS community as a synonym for a bot bash. Informal slang with no official definition.
Pretty funny/cool terms for playing co-op against a bunch of bots or "cubes" as my brothers and I used to call them.
A casual game session where you play with friends against computer-controlled opponents (bots) instead of against other people. Used in the RTS community, for example for a weekly group night against the AI. Informal slang with no official definition. Also called a comp stomp.
Pretty funny/cool terms for playing co-op against a bunch of bots or "cubes" as my brothers and I used to call them.
Adapting games is a milestone again, and Arc Raiders got there fast.
A short thought on Google Docs and Drive adding native markdown support.
A small interactive widget inside an explanation that lets the reader change one thing and watch what happens. A toggle that switches a bug on and off, or a button that makes two people edit at the same time, are toys. Each one is built around a single idea, runs on tiny made-up data, and exists to …
I ran into this word when Claude explained a hard design decision to me as a web page with diagrams and two clickable demos, and kept calling the demos "toys". I liked it enough to ask where it came f...
The songs I liked in October 2026.
![[Cease & Desist] DIY (Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era 1978-82) — Spunky Onions · 1 song](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273000b234f55281f36cc2d8d42)
21 songs
The practice of using unusual or adversarial message patterns to get a language model to do something its guardrails are meant to prevent. The name borrows from *phone phreaking*, the hobby of exploiting the telephone network to do things the phone company didn't intend, like free long-distance call…
Phone phreaking worked because the network of the era carried its control signals in the same audio channel as the voices. Play the right tone down the line, the famous example being 2600 Hz, and the ...