AI Needs Skeptics, Not Extremists
AI usage is still finding its place and we need skeptics to find the right patterns.
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Hello, I'm Ryan I am a Full-Stack Web Application Development Manager by day, and an experimental builder by night. For a long time, I've kept my proje...
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Why Improv is at the Heart of Great Tabletop Gaming
When I read about how others play D&D, I often feel like many try to stick to more of a strict structure in the format. There are written modules and when players do things and it doesn't match with what the module has in mind, it just doesn't work. A lot of the online discussions focus on the "crunch" - the optimal builds, the mathematical efficiency of spells, and the "correct" way to navigate a…
Resurrecting My Game Dev Time with AI
As someone who has been struggling to get side projects off the ground, I'm finding the latest iterations of AI-generated code to be a great help. I read a lot about this topic - especially on the negative side. I'm a software development manager, so it's been a lot of what I hear at work or around the blogs I read. This tool may spell doom for our careers eventually! Maybe. Hopefully not. But…
Your Team Needs an Operational Excellence Meeting
Waking up to a pager at 3 AM is my least favorite part of working in web development. I love the work, but the reality is that our services don’t have operating hours. They are expected to be up and running every second of every day. Sometimes things just break. That well-engineered service your team spent months refining will eventually stop working in some unexpected way. Yes, sometimes AWS goes…