“Just make it exist!” Isn’t that simple, and neither is “making it good.” I know the left hand graphic has been making the rounds and is meant as motivation, but as a frequent victim of Scope Creep, please learn from my mistakes 😂🥲

Finished Wiktopher by Rek Bell and wrote a short review of it. I really enjoyed it, and will probably continue exploring the Sonoran Desert in my sketches for some time yet! My two-word summary would be - playful and heart-felt!

I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

I'm so glad this was my first attempt, so I can just let it go & not become addicted to this game again 😅 --- I just scored 63,888 on a game of at://2048. Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue.

I need to get back to the NOVA card game. @nightjargames.bsky.social made some really cool mockups and I just need to finish the dang thing.

When I was in Ireland, the museum was free but they had this thing you could tap (credit card or presumably phone/watch) & auto donate 5 Euro. Was thinking - it would be nice if there was a similar thing for artists to use at events?

Thinking about "text using propaganda register of x to convey anti-x ideas" generally. I do find that disclaimers of various kinds (which includes "looming context") aesthetically dissatisfying ... Often necessary, and I used them myself all the time. But they puncture the LARP-y conceit. 1/

Have you read the paper that introduced the "Turing test"? You know, by Alan Turing. One of the great minds of computing? No? It's… distressingly bad. Hilariously, mind-numbingly, hair-pullingly bad. One of the most widely circulated ideas of our field is, in fact, a total face-plant.

I know this has been talked about, but they’re rolling out the ‘edit image with grok’ thing for mobile users on Twitter(the option came up on my iPad). More randos can play with any artwork you upload. I know some artist friends still use the site, so be careful out there!

Playing Blue Prince:

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately they’re dooming the rest of us who did learn too.

(Yes, I'm still not dead) Can I just say, that I truly appreciate when people/companies send you an e-mail about re-evaluating your subscription to their mailing list? Thank you, yes I haven't been reading your e-mails, I probably can just unsubscribe and save storage and compute on both ends!

Finished reading High Conflict by Amanda Ripley. It was a very eye-opening read, one that I believe everyone should go read in our polarized day and age. Seriously, find a copy and go read it!

You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit? Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit? Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers

To prove that I'm alive, here's a short one about an intent I aim to fulfill by working on my site.

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

I'm still here, end of the year rush is getting the best of me though. I still have plans for my site and some things that I've started writing that need to be finished. I'll try to get some writing done soon. In the meantime, I've managed to catch the library up to speed

"The forest and the desert" is such a beautiful metaphor for how organizations craft software. I love the emphasis on community. The idea that conversations are everywhere when a team works in a forest, and that the path out of the desert also begins by having conversations with your peers.

Why independent researchers don't work openly https://www.todepond.com/sky/the-problem-with-independent-researchers/why

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. Full essay: stephango.com/self-guarantee

The @inkandswitch.com team is looking to hire a C++ engineer who has worked on the Godot game engine IDE, researching new approaches to collaborative game development. Read the full job posting here www.notion.so/inkandswitch...

Added a library section to my site, so that I have a place to collect my thoughts on books I've read. It's half-empty right now, but I'm slowly fixing that.

Very nicely put! This reflects my own philosophy when working on my recent projects. It's also one of the reasons why I migrated from other note-taking apps to Obsidian.

Wrote a short one today, about messy gardens and why that's fine. Why that's something that you want, actually.

Did you know that if you only follow cool and interesting people - and you never touch a "recommended" feed - that every post in your feed is very interesting and worth reading? Funny how that works...

Had a little think about local-first computing & data worth keeping. It... might have spiraled out a little.

You can't be anyone else https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/my-name/self/

I LEARNED A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BY ACCIDENT Part one: ARROOST www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

"can you currently (ie: today) use bluesky on 100% third party infrastructure?" it's a very simple yes/no question ---- if the answer is yes: prove it if the answer is not yet: how long? days? months? years? debates? if the answer is no: I am not interested in building community here

Iteresting read by @melkat.blue https://melkat.blog/p/hosting-bskyI might still deploy a PDS somewhere just to play around, but the social web (as in the fediverse, lol) looks like it's the only true federated system we really have rn. I'd like the AP standard to improve and thrive, not bsky or AT

How to learn www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

how good i am at strudel over time

Now this is a delightful initiative! If only I had something to submit...

Collected my thoughts on better computing. I say nothing new there, just point at other people's ideas that spoke to me and I try to follow. Might be worth to take a look, see if I missed something!

here's a collaborative playlist of PASTAGANG recordings all sounds and visuals made together by strangers across the internet, experts and beginners watch us get better and worse as time goes on www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New post about embracing the mess! Extending on my initial post from yesterday, here I talk about why I choose to keep things messy! Some might call this a *slippy mindset*, whatever floats your lily pad! 🐸

Wrote my first post on the new site about why I actually decided to rewrite it. I hope to expand on the mentioned topics, like "better web" and "embracing the mess" in the coming days, so keep your eyes peeled!

I wanted to try and collect my thoughts about Bluesky in one place. I think Bluesky is fascinating, but I also worry about many parts of it. If it becomes the new "Twitter", I think I'm OK with that, but I'll be very quick to cut the cord if it ever starts sucking. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m...

CHAOS TO THE CANON PART ONE NO ESCAPE www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

As I was reading about the two beat style by @todepond.com, I got reminded about the book *Writing in Style* by Lane Greene and how it talked about old and short words being best. Should re-read that one...

Enthusiasm still high, messing around and making things, having a good time! The slippy mindset is a hit over here, despite it becoming an idea and dying because of it...

So, a new version of both my web and microblog are out now! Made the web much simpler & leaner, so that I can start messing with it faster!

Okay, so with motivation high, and some free time available, let's start messing around with my personal web stuff to make it simpler, neater and slippy!

Are you a SFWA member or do you know one? I wrote a case for nominating Caves of Qud for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing. (please repost) kitfoxgames.medium.com/the-2025-neb...

📢 Indiedevs, you can now add Bluesky social links to your Steam page!

Tending to a Memory

Some people label things they don't understand as being too complex. When you ask them what they are doing instead, their answers are often as complex, with one major difference. They understand it.

looking for a scary #ttrpg for Halloween? I made one (possibly too scary.) Inspired by abandoned places, found footage horror, and the improvised rituals kids make up when they're trying to scare each other. amandalee.itch.io/the-ghost-game