The Boiling Frog
Power should shift while people still possess meaningful bargaining power.
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Shipping Hexfall
I shipped a 4X strategy game for the iPhone in three weeks. The code was the easy part. Everything a game studio does that isn't programming was the work, and each of those jobs turned into something you invoke instead of someone you hire.
Height-mapped raycasting on a 10MHz 68000
A raycasting engine with elevation, occluding sprites, and procedural levels on a TI-89. Every interesting decision is downstream of two numbers: a signed divide costs 158 cycles, and you have 32KB of RAM.
Belt Counter
A Factorio mod that measures one belt's throughput over time and by quality, and the camera trick I needed to draw a line graph in a game that has no chart widget.
Family Tree Maker
A free tool for building and sharing family trees, without the Ancestry subscription.
ChatGPT to Word
A small tool for turning ChatGPT conversations into Word documents.
Attention Decay
Tracking how long news stories stay in public attention
So Quaint
A short story about a future where AGI has reshaped civilization and humanity's role in it
Island Explorer
Building an infinite procedural world using PixelLab's AI-generated pixel art
Finance Planner
A simple tool for projecting your financial future
GitHub Actions Watcher
A TUI for monitoring GitHub Actions runs -- started in Ink, rewritten in Go/Bubbletea for flicker-free rendering.
Autotiler CLI
A CLI tool to generate blob autotile tilesets from Wang tilesets
Lyric Lab
A web app for writing song lyrics with rhyme analysis and AI assistance.
Advice
The best advice shows you what's possible. Deciding what will work is still on you.
SpanPlan
A collaborative timeline planning tool that works instantly - no signup required
nanogpt-mlx: Training a GPT-2 Class Model from Scratch on Apple Silicon
Porting nanoGPT to Apple's MLX framework. Training a GPT-2 class model (173M parameters) on M-series chips with modern architectural improvements.
Ocarina Tabs
A web app for sharing ocarina fingering charts, built on Firebase.
New Site
Launching a new personal site to share projects and thoughts.