RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mralancooper/116245470610261434 This rhymes with my life.

Flaunting: waving something around. Flouting: flagrantly ignoring [a law] Fragrant: smells nice. Flagrant: obvious.

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@ayoli/116243817531855460 This is important!

You know how sometimes there’s little beads of hard white stuff attached to the outside of soda cans? That’s ambergris, which can be sold to perfumers and apothecaries for a princely sum

Not "Atlassian laid off 1,600 people, 10% of its workforce" But rather: "Atlassian leadership, with 300,000+ paying customers & ~5.2 billion USD in revenue & 6+ billion USD in assets in 2025, failed to line up their financial projections with their own staffing projections, and acted to place […]

Making Dungeons More Pleasant Well, dungeon CREATION. We'll start with a little refactoring. I remember why I recommend testing bug fixes. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/v/

How Much of a Language? Making a dungeon seems generally to require looping and even conditionals. Do we want special support for those? https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/w/

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116234756535032848 Wow, great read!

These fuckers are psychotic. They are both ignorant and stupid. They are cruel. They are greedy. They are jailing innocent people. They are killing innocent people. They are destroying our nation, the world, our society. There is no good in them. They must be removed.

zomg I *just* realized: LLMings 🤣 It was there the whole time! (apologies if y'all figured out that joke already long ago…it literally just occurred to me!)

If your company actually became vastly more productive, because of "AI" or whatever, you wouldn't lay off people: you would take on new efforts, make higher profits, have more things going on. Layoffs are always - always - a sign of bad decisions, misallocation of priorities. Gross […]

It's #piday!

Toward a Little Language? Suppose we wanted to create many different kinds of maps. How might we make it easier? https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/x/ Oh no, typo in blurb. I'll fix it next time I'm at the computer. Grr.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/116207312113330693 I blame my iPad ...

Please let the Simpsons be right.

I feel like if I were on the other side, and I wanted to advance AI, I'd focus a lot less on rhetorical tricks and a lot more on taking the criticisms seriously and making sure that what I'm advocating is actually ethical. I don't mean local models here, either. The problems with AI are […]

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

Rooms Within Rooms We sometimes get rooms within rooms by accident. Let's see if we can do it on purpose. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/y/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116218123864742737 Quite possibly your last opportunity. Recommended.

Psych! Not Sike!

What's My JND? 0.0065 Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AokcIP_993s

Why I'm such a jolly chap these days.

What's My JND? 0.0115 Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=BHofKP__sHf8

Tendencies? FGNO had some ideas. I'm not ready to work on holes. What about paths? A weird solution emerges. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/z/

Holes and Paths The new jaggy room shapes sometimes include holes. Makes me think about secret rooms. And, not unrelatedly, about paths. Just thinking, and an interesting experiment. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/a/

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

New Shapes Now that we can have as many room shapes as we can imagine, let's imagine some. The results may surprise you. They surprised me, in a good way. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/b/

I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing): https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

There was another exciting aspect to our hike today. For years I believed that the Tiny Balancing Sheep breed was just a myth, as I've done so many walks and hikes through the British countryside and never seen one. But reader, I was mistaken. And I have proof.

Small Refactoring I veer into philosophy and LLM/AI, based on thinking about many small changes, and how they add to understanding. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/c/

Round Room I had a few moments and decided to do a round room. At which point I realized that something can be improved. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/d/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@r3dr3clus3/116186968074905568 Yep!

Factory Breakdown A common but rookie mistake needs fixing. Using the same RoomMaker to make multiple rooms engenders chaos. Today, as often happens, I don't do what I thought I might. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/e/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116184497356488517 Totally ghosts. I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

Factory I have a bit of time and a bit of energy. Let's scavenge Room to make a RoomFactory. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/f/ After action note at end of article, a silly flaw.

Shape Attempt II Yesterday's work has been taken as an experiment in having different room shapes, via different room builders. today, Let's get started on the real thing. I have some ideas. That's never a good sign. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/g/

Struggling to get a legit RSS feed with full article contents. Very close, but file format obvs not right. Need to find a raw copy of a legit file.

After yesterday's brief exchange, I was thinking about "leadership" and "power over". The following is p-baked 0 <= p <= 1, but ... I think they are almost completely incompatible, and cannot be used at the same time. Power-over pushes, forces, compels, even when dealt with a very gentle hand […]

I kind of hate people who tailgate me, or who drive only 70 in the left lane, but I see no point in hating someone for the shade of their skin, what they wear, what they have under what they wear, or who they love. Hatred is too heavy to be carrying it around all the time.

Apology to all my queer and queer-adjacent brothers and sisters and siblings and all, but someone brought me a Chick-fil-A sandwich and after praying for forgiveness, I ate it and enjoyed it. I do not shop there, but they do make a good sandwich. These moral dilemmas are whip-sawing me.

Shapes FGNO Wants Better Shapes. We do an inadvertent spike. Along the way we discover an issue in generate, and learn the difference between a square and a circle. A superior day! https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/h/

Jane: expresses some idea. Joe: interrupting, presents a different idea. Sam: Hey, gang, just a second. Jane, what was that you said? Leadership? I think so. Servant leadership? In support of Jane, and of how to act, and of good ideas? I think so.

I'm thinking of using "You go, girl!" as a universal cry of approval. Would that be OK, or no?

Y'know, I really don't care how soon we put folx back on the moon. There's work needing doing right down here.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/115968075819077232 "Every moment of joy is a victory."

Minutiae Recording some small changes. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/y/i/