I wanted to try writing something with ChatGPTs new canvas feature. It’s the start of a little storyline with some worldbuilding and characters. As with the first time I tried something like this a couple years ago, you really need to come up with the interesting ideas yourself. Since these models are trained on many…

“How do we fix what?” *Gestures broadly at everything* “Oh. That.” Ok, I wont actually be trying to solve every problem ever. But I want to talk about a very simple and very fundamental one (the best kind) and give an equally simple “gesture” towards a solution. It’s an idea I haven’t been able to…

or Why Outer Wilds is the Greatest Game Ever Made Player agency is a tricky problem. Games have always had an advantage over other media since the viewer is able to take part in the story in a way not possible in books or movies. But writing a story isn’t free. For every choice a…

Ever thought about how Love (or having a crush) is like having an addiction to a person? Well, it is and you can benefit from knowing this. Ever gotten to know someone slowly and realised after a while that even though they seemed almost-perfect (kind, outgoing, cute, smart, introspective, and understanding) you still didn’t have…

I want to talk about an idea that I’ve started seeing everywhere during my work. To introduce it, here are a number of cases where excessive pressure in the software development process leads to certain perhaps undesirable designs. The last one here is what I want to talk about because I think it goes most…