Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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A Castle Built From Random Rooms
A Twine-like choose-your-own-adventure, but with the rooms randomly shuffled each time, in sort-of a semi-rougelite way. Some imaginative work in this. And the art style is wonderful!
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Do you know the story of how Tom Lehrer hid an Easter Egg in an academic paper he wrote at the NSA, and his joke wasn't discovered for almost six decades?
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ArtificialCast
ArtificialCast is a lightweight, type-safe casting and transformation utility powered by large language models. It allows seamless conversion between strongly typed objects using only type metadata, JSON schema inference, and prompt-driven reasoning.
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DOGWALK
DOGWALK is a free, open-source Godot game for Windows, MacOS and Linux, produced and given to the world by Blender Studio as a way of showcasing some of their video lessons. And it's adorable.
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
ChatGPT lied about the functionality of Adrian Holovaty's software tool, Soundslice. So rather than try to get ChatGPT corrected, he just... implemented the feature it had claimed he already had. Is this the first time in history that this has happened? It could be!
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Zip It - Finding File Similarity Using Compression Utilities
I really enjoyed Computerphile's video about how ZIP tools can be used for abstract tasks that you might initially think were way outside their scope... like working out how close the genetic relationship between two species is, or which human languages are most similar to one another!
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Historical Tech Tree
Étienne Fortier-Dubois's excellent Historical Tech Tree is fun and informative, and worth an explore.
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The Last Post for the Nightline Association. How does that make you feel?
Fellow Nightline enthusiast James Buller has written a stirring piece about his decades of volunteering for and around Nightlines, and - as usual - underplays the importance and significance of his work. Here's my take.
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On Being
This week, my friend Boro shared a poem that he'd written. It's simple, and energising, and insightful, and I really enjoyed it.
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If this man isn't hired immediately, it's a huge loss
Shortly after I found myself redundant, the other month, my former colleague Kyle wrote some inspiring words on LinkedIn that I've re-read about once a week ever since then. So now I'm going to keep a copy here for posterity.
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The Who Cares Era
Dan Sinker looks at the symptoms and causes of the "Who Cares Era" we find ourselves living in, and raises interesting thoughts about AI's role in it. His post's worth a read, but here's my take.
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What If the EU Never Existed?
It's Europe Day, and Nebula/YouTube channel EU Made Simple has released a video, What If the EU Never Existed?, describing a chilling alternate-history of post-WWII Europe. Well worth a watch.
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LayoffBot - eliminating the human in human resources
In a perfect example of gallows humour, a friend shared with me a satirical (I hope?) website about an AI service for performing bulk redundancies. Alarmingly, compared to my recent experience, it doesn't sound completely bad...
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The call is coming from inside the house
Kellie Peterson, in response to Automattic's mass layoffs and the drama that's followed, lays into Matt Mullenweg and others in company leadership.
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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it …