"don't get left behind by ai." by Jane (@janebwriting on IG)

"Managing Humans" by Rands was one of my favorite books as a new engineering manager, so seeing this is a bummer. If you're using genAI to build your next book and are rage-quitting over watermarks, that means you're hiding your AI usage from your audience. randsinrepose.com/archives/rip...

RIP Claude

I've used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I've done for years, I've

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Pretty excited to be attending the Software Crafters Unconference Online. I really like the open space / lean coffee format and I'm hoping there's space to talk about how people are using agentic coding with pairing / mobbing. scunconf.com

Software Crafters Unconference

A loosely structured gathering where topics and themes are generated just in time. Participants gather, build an agenda, and convene sessions.

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I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

Finished game 5 of "Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic" last night and geez. It really feels like they put all the ideas in this game. But we've finally figured out the strategy for bosses, so that's helpful.

Huh. I can't recall ever getting a solid yellow row before. Neat. Wordle 1,838 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#caturday #cats

In the middle of reading a book and noticed one chapter near the end was 1.5h compared to the other 20m chapters. Figured that'd be the big climax with lots of action. Nope, it's a brain dump of world building, presumably setting up the second book. Bleh.

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

About - 4 Pillar Games

About 4 Pillar Games The people and philosophy behind our company 4 Pillar Games is building a living historical record of the tabletop game industry. We cover current tabletop news while preserving t...

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"Playdate doesn’t ask students to master it before they can use it — they can be prototyping a real, playable game on physical hardware within hours of picking it up. Students aren’t waiting to do game design someday; they’re doing it now." news.play.date/news/duke-pl...

How a Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design - Playdate News

Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.

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At House Rabbit Society, we believe rabbits are wonderful companions, but they're not for everyone. If you've never had a rabbit before, we encourage you to spend time on our website, houserabbit.org, learning more about them, and not purchasing one impulsively for the Easter holiday.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

One of the worst parts of this change is how it punishes the loyal monthly subscription customers. They get less V-Bucks each month for their money PLUS the four battle passes they pay for each year give less V-Bucks. It's the equivalent of raising $144/year cost to $200 without admitting it.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Epic Games increasing the price of V-Bucks to 'help pay the bills'

A little rant about a so-called "AI Maturity Model" that's just really a CTO waxing about the stick he and his friends are using to beat engineers into using agentic coding. jon.camp/software-dev...

A So-Called AI Maturity Model

A critique of a viral ‘AI Maturity Model’ that reframes forced adoption and performance review enforcement as maturity. Contrasted with …

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After a free preview, Blink wants me to pay $8/month more for AI descriptions of the video clips from my camera. During the preview, the descriptions were always useless (e.g. "a person is walking in the room") and one time scared my wife (it mistook a shadow for a person.) Who asked for this?

Hey Philly! I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city. Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible. Please help us spread the word! Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

Decided to experiment w/ the AI coding technique "ralph loop" while also toying with an older "Recipe of Theseus" idea. How many substitutions can you make in a recipe before it's no longer the same dish? (Spoiler: It seems like recipes have load-bearing ingredients) jon.camp/software-dev...

Ralph's Chili aka Recipe of Theseus

Combining the Ship of Theseus with the Ralph Loop, I ran an AI agent in a loop substituting one ingredient at a time in a chili recipe until the AI itself …

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Late night reading about a very specific flaw in WolfSSL, a library I hadn't heard of, reminded me why I love reading niche blog posts. So I wrote about it on my own blog, lol. jon.camp/software-dev...

Write About Your Niche Technical Learnings

@feld wrote a deeply specific blog post about WolfSSL’s broken TLS 1.3 implementation and it reminded me why niche technical writing matters more …

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"Strong pairing" has never sat right with me, either in concept or practice. IMO it eliminates the benefit of pairing by removing collaboration and honestly just seems like the polar opposite of the common "pairing is just a jr watching a sr code" problem. jon.camp/software-dev...

@magpiegames.bsky.social is making a Temeraire RPG so if you think Napoleonic era air battles between entire crews on the backs of dragons sound cool than I encourage you to keep an eye on the kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Coming soon: Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game

The officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of the Temeraire novel series by Naomi Novik!

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I have no idea how Wheel of Time ended up higher than Taskmaster Australia or other Dropout shows.

When I was in college, one of the classes was Windows NT installation and configuration. During installation wizards, our teacher would repeatedly say "Ready everything, accept the defaults" Now that people are vibe coding, it feels very similar. Like AI told me that variable name was good, ship it

Rogue Trader did a really great job of making Ulfar, the Space Marine, feel incredibly tanky next to even my shield-warror. It's rare that a game features an "overpowered" class/species/hero from the lore and they don't end up feeling like a level 1 grunt.

Do you like corporate satire, sexy demons, or crow familiars who want to steal your tortilla chips? I have an ARC of my upcoming book, STARTUP HELL, from @titanbooks.bsky.social. It's signed, with a doodle. And it wants a home (in the US because of the realities of shipping).💙📚

After decades of tech marketing conflating machine learning, LLMs, computer vision and more as "AI" to sell the hype, now those same people are upset when others say "Ban AI". "AI is many things, it's not just genAI!!" You created this confusion for your own benefit. Now you can wallow in it.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Our cats had a fun year watching videos. This is their YouTube Wrapped.

Wanna support SMALL BIZ SATURDAY? Wanna support a cool indie bookstore? Want my books signed, personalized with holiday horror and sticker accompaniment shipped right to you? DO YOU WANT TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY. Then @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social has you covered: doylestownbookshop.com/WendigHoliday

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Weird Al Lindsey Stirling In This Moment Papa Roach Halestorm

C. L. Polk@clpolk.com · 9mo ago

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Nine Inch Nails Duran Duran Gary Numan James Brown Mötörhed

First time playing Jackbox Party Pack 11 and I won Cookie Haus with this banger.