I figured it would be fun to document how I'm using AI right now so I can check back in next year to see what changes. I also wrote out some of my worries near the end. davesnider.com/how-i-use-ai

How I use AI in 2026 - Dave Snider

A summary of my last year experimenting

davesnider.com

Orioles news is pretty devastating for the fans. It'll take some time to get over I'm sure. Took the fam to Adley's first game at Oriole Park. Just rough.

Made a quick video to show off how the visualization on my site's activity feed works, and how I decided to build a Textualized based TUI for my bookmark management. My personal website is becoming so nerdy. davesnider.com/file/G0IWokP...

Gotta love a theme manager built in Rust that decides it doesn't even want JavaScript in its example gallery. I'm migrating my theming from Flavours to Tinty.

My son and I finished up the "Fear No Evil" expansion for Marvel Champions by defeating Kingpin. I think it's probably my favorite expansion since "Sinister Motives". Daredevil and Echo are very combo-driven heroes, and the villain encounters introduce new mechanics, but remain easy to set up.

Apparently I've created a small hobby for myself of alerting companies that their online renewal flows are against the law (way to go Maryland!). I consider this the previous generation's equivalent of a "Letter to the Editor".

Rewatched the Daniel Craig era Bond movies recently with my family. I put text reviews in my activity feed on my site if you're curious, but here's the star ratings: ★★★★★ Casino Royale ★★☆☆☆ Quantum of Solace ★★★★☆ Skyfall ★★☆☆☆ Spectre ★★★☆☆ No Time to Die

My curiosity got the better of me, and I started looking at Ebay auctions for Star Trek stuff before the con in Las Vegas next week. The weirdest? Someone is selling the bricks from the childhood home of Deforest Kelly. www.ebay.com/itm/29848753...

Star Trek TOS DeFOREST KELLEY Bones Dr McCoy CHILDHOOD HOME Brick-ONE OF A KIND! | eBay

My partner is an architect. These are original bricks made from red Georgia clay from the front porch seen in the pictures of the house. One of the pictures is from DeForest's Wikipedia bio. And I HAD TO add the picture from "The Devil In The Dark" where Bones says, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!".

ebay.com

@afkostka.bsky.social Have you done a story on the O's auto-renewal practices lately? It's pretty rough. Happy to provide a fan account of what's changed this past year. Feels relevant given some states like NY trying to ban these sorts of things.

Our Marvel Champions obsession is high enough that we buy and play the new expansions on day 1.

Saw "The Odyssey" and enjoyed it, but wasn't blown away like I normally am with most Nolan flicks. I liked the recent Ralph Fiennes' godless version "The Return" a little better, even though it was smaller in scope.

State of my table after the 11 year olds run off to eat lunch. They're off to Wave Echo Cave next.

Man. Orioles vs. Red Sox felt like playoff baseball in July.

The joy of seeing your house plants are still alive after returning from vacation.

Took the fam to Cooperstown. Kind of surprised how much we enjoyed it. Really well run museum.

Table Slayer now provides the ability to add polygon "fog rooms" that allow you to quickly toggle fog on and off in specific areas of your map.

Watching the latest season of X-Men 97 with my kid. It's pretty rad.

I finally have cracked Figma quality multiplayer responsiveness in Table Slayer. This took all day. Such a fun/hard project. Just when you think the problem is on the network side (lag), or the sync side (update clobbering), it's actually on the 3D rendering side. This was all three!

Table Slayer now handles large maps in a more elegant fashion. It projects an outline of your viewable TV space in the editor (based on your TV size). Then you can pan around as you need.

During the Summer we force "i'm bored" time into our kids day so they aren't on a screen all day (exemption if they are creating things). Recently my son has been digging these game books. It's like a massive choose your own adventure, but with dice. archmagepress.com/collections/...

Legendary Kingdoms

Greetings Adventurers! Welcome to Legendary Kingdoms, an epic series of choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks set in a sandbox fantasy world. Prepare for adventure in this huge open-world gamebook serie...

archmagepress.com

I feel pretty lucky that whenever I want to remember my buddy I can just load up YouTube and listen to his voice. There was nothing better then making him bust up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYgm...

Giant Bombcast - 02/09/10 - Whirl World

YouTube video by TechnoSyndro

youtube.com

Hey all. If you're using Table Slayer with larger maps that need to pan, take a look at this video and let me know if this solution makes sense. It's not deployed yet, as I want to get feedback first. snid.es/2026JUL/fys2...

Somehow I've kept up my streak of writing reviews for every movie I watched recently. I reviewed 13 in the last month. I'm trying to get back to my younger media habits of watching more movies than shows, and its been fun introducing my kids to some classics. davesnider.com/activity?typ...

Activity - Dave Snider

What I'm watching, coding, reading, and posting across the web.

davesnider.com

Table Slayer now has a performance setting so that you can trade frame rate for effects fidelity. This should help folks trying to run it on older hardware.

I'm getting reports of issues on Table Slayer. Looking into it now.

I wrote a bit about why and how I built an activity feed system for my personal website. davesnider.com/activity-feed

An activity feed for one - Dave Snider

Slurping content from my public profiles into one feed

davesnider.com

Counter Slayer now supports "standee" style storage for games like Plum Island Horror / Star Wars Rebellion. I love these small bin packing / efficiency puzzles. It reminds me a lot of my UI component work. How can you make something generic enough to be useful and reusable?

The nice part about having lots of projects (Counter Slayer, Table Slayer, and my person site) is that I'm never bored. I always think... oh, that one is in pretty good shape, and then suddenly have a new idea for it. Today I'm adding "standee" storage to Counter Slayer similar to this one.

This took me a while to compose. Here's a list of my favorite TV shows, after compiling a similar one for movies a couple years ago. davesnider.com/posts/tv

My favorite TV shows - Dave Snider

An unordered list of some tv that left an impact

davesnider.com

Working on a blog post for my favorite TV shows. How many times has "The Last Supper" imagery been used for a show cast?