I don’t normally comment on celebrities dying. But Sir Stewart going is very sad.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with STTNG. And have always admired his humour, dedication, gentleness.
A social feed FULL of the goodness that he created and left behind fills my heart. ❤️
I love “cultural exchange” with my international co-workers. 😃
I don’t think I have many local folks here, but trying anyway.
Does anyone know places/near Swindon that offer (or want to offer themselves) a work experience placement to a talented, creative, technical y10 student for a week in March.
He codes in Godot and Python. Does graphic design,art & music
He’s really interested in video games, but not expecting that really. Something in IT or design though?
I’d love to know if you have ideas.
Thanks!
Even JMac vibe codes now?
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You know… I can see how I could think myself down the pro-AI path. I really can. In some ways I wish it were easy to go that way.
But the mere existence of the AI-is-so-very-problematic path means it’s so hard to make the choice to start in that direction.
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Hello, game, indeed! I wonder if this is any good.
(Alt: No Man’s Sky in the Apple App Store)
Sorry for many AI thoughts. I’m keeping most of it in. But I have a week off looking after school-holiday kids and my mind is racing and I have time to write.
A conversation this morning is giving me the thought that the value equation is way off with LLMs and agents.
I am convinced that there is some value somewhere. But the high value work done with them is drowned out by low value work.
If they were priced at what they actually cost then they would only be thoughtfully used for the high value work.
Maybe then the real advances would be clearer and the usage and output more trustworthy?
Really struggling with it this week though.
So #thankYouToday for Ticket To Ride – our family’s new favourite board game!! 😃
Anyway. Trying to focus on what I CAN do and what I’m grateful for.
We got Ticket To Ride digital edition a while back. And we played quite a lot. So we invested in the physical version and it’s a delight! (Well, I wish the trains were wooden)
If you want to try digital there’s a Humble Bundle on!
OK. Not everything. But so many things that it’s really starting to annoy me.
Nothing is sacred. Every software project that you thought was run by someone who cared about their craft is now slop.
So annoying.
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And yes, I know I keep posting this and no one ever plays it. But the IDEA that you can store state/data in a URL is really flipping cool.
I’m listening to the Vergecast with the guy who made the tiny office suite with data in the URLs:
“why don’t we make more things like this … this kind of play was pricey before AI. It’s hard to make stuff like this.”
Err. No? Why is a static-hosted web app with no backend “hard” and “pricey”?
I’ve been thinking about simple, low-infrastructure, low-dependency, privacy-friendly, ad-free, fast, friendly web apps for years.
It’s not hard or expensive. It’s just not profitable. So no one other than hobbyists does it.
Again… here’s flippin junk-free Words With Friends: https://words.pico.games/ !!
Pffft. People saying they’re welling up with tears at a 3 minute game trailer.
What is this thing.
Hmm…
Some art thing.
Oh…
Oh right… a weird fish drawing thing.
OH…
Hang on…
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(What is this emotional magic??)
For FREE? Go get this web people.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f64vb5rx6mqokvtn3gbgtnkv/post/3myu6cwakpc2r
Puzzmo’s card games are so good.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5ode5bkf6vjtt6ahtssuxui/post/3mysf3h5dsk25