Been thinking about this a fair amount recently (especially as I’ve been doing a bunch of proposal writing and such) - how even mundane writing tells you something about the person who wrote it.

Tom MacWright@macwright.com · last mo.

thought about this and had to write it, the gist is that it's weird and bad for people to use llms to try and get people to care about them or their projects and the mean take that unfortunately i believe is that most people are cowards when it comes to writing and art macwright.com/2026/06/24/a...

Among many other things! This was a ton of fun. Thanks Brennan for the chat, and looking forward to listening to more episodes :)

brennan@brennan.computer · 2mo ago

untitled simcluster podcast episode #2! a chat with @luxaritas.com about blender, open-source renderers and playing horn in a drumline youtu.be/6wwu9FXeJOA

I've been gesturing towards the idea that: 1. Groups can be smarter than individuals 2. Proven in other fields and species 3. Social protocols + sensemaking make it buildable I'm trying to gather papers, books, etc that lend precedent or otherwise support the idea Open contributions via @semble.so

Collective Intelligence Research (by Rudolph Fraser.) — Semble

Explorations into the idea that a group of humans is "more intelligent" than the sum of their "IQ" (i.e. "groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent")

semble.so

I am going to make so much use of this

Wilco@wilco.npmx.social · 2mo ago

In @npmx.dev you can now view a package's changelogs currently only package's that use Github to host their releases or changelog.md are supported but support for others are planned

It was a joy to chat with Ronen, get some insight into the direction Cosmik and co are going, and explore all the shared vision we have (which only seemed to increase as we went!). Also inspired some exciting concepts for the future of participatory research (including with @atproto.science!)

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 2mo ago

Great conversation today with @luxaritas.com ! So cool to learn more about games for participatory science, feels like we are barely scratching the surface of the potential in research gamification. I learned about the Eterna project where video gamers became core contributors and authors on papers

So sad this isn’t universal. Instead: * I have to choose to either get a bunch of content in my feed I don’t want to get the bits I really want to see from someone * Multiple channels on YouTube is a thing * Discovery of my own stuff is worse * Poor access to circles of trust and identity

Hugo@there-hugo.dev · 3mo ago

Right, that's a good point. Should we bring back "Circles"? And call it AT+ 👀 (iykyk)

I do love the classic formulation of “naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors”, but if you think about it they’re all communication problems 😛 For real though, this is such an important part of what we do!

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · 7mo ago

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

‘git history reword <commit>` 🎉 Thank you, one more minor inconvenience I encounter every so often that now need not be an inconvenience!

GitHub@github.com · 4mo ago

Git 2.54 is here with features like config-based hooks, new ways to rewrite history, and much more. ✨ Check out the highlights from this release. 👇 https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

Look I know I don't usually post about stuff like this, but... I am so looking forward to it, it should be SO much fun. And for a good cause! Sad my Sunday plans were cancelled but glad I'll be able to catch it ^.^

MC Championship@mcchampionship.com · 4mo ago

These look familiar… 🔍

…magnetized star? Huh!

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 5mo ago

Observations of an extra bright stellar explosion, known as a superluminous supernova, indicate that the event may be powered by a highly magnetized star, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4s6OVOB 🔭 🧪

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

samhenri.gold

Vite+ is open source under MIT and free for everyone.

VoidZero@voidzero.dev · 5mo ago

Announcing Vite+ Alpha. Now open source. To make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. A single binary that: ◆ Unifies your frontend toolchain ◆ Manages your runtime & pkg manager ◆ Caching & monorepo support Works with every framework and meta framework in the Vite ecosystem.

Just thinking about this again these past two days The exact same game can succeed or fail based on whether the people jumping in are getting the game they expected A lot of the wrong players -- players that won't like it -- jumping in to play is really gonna color perception of that game.

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social · 2y ago

My stance is: player expectation and framing are huuuge factors that affect how players experience a game. Marketing and community management are all about managing player expectations and framing Therefore, they are affecting the player experience, and thus are doing game design

The community being built on display here is so inspiring 💚

npmx@npmx.dev · 5mo ago

this is open source

IMO a tragedy of AI’s trajectory (amongst other complicated feelings I have) is that it theoretically has the potential to be powerful as a tool for play, but the reality is contrary

Kate@katef.bsky.social · 5mo ago

men have somehow discouraged themselves from wasting time or outright having fun, that they're inadvertently creating dumb little ways to make that happen without acknowledging that they're doing it. martin here is *playing*. the hideous plagarism robot isn't the sweet thing; you are

My heart is so full tonight at this concert. Amazing music, and especially a joy to get to chat with the group. Haven’t smiled like this in ages, I so needed that. 🙂

we have 6 different clouds all collaborating: - Dynamic mask clouds based on "cloud cover" parameter - High up stylized cirrus clouds to create direction\interest - Far static horizon cumulonimbus, to create a "back plane" - 2x static midground clouds for parralax -"bounce plane" clouds

Spry Fox@spryfox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

sometimes you record a little timelapse and stare lovingly at the clouds in your video game

Oh no, I’ve found a new obsession.

sybers@sybers.fr · 6mo ago

A graphic designer lurks within me. dialed.gg

Oh hey I was wondering about the viability of this. Want to look into implementing this under @vite.dev Vitepress (for the @frameshifter.org site and eventually my own once I finally get around to migrating off VuePress and implementing the blog stuff I’ve learned from building that)

danielroe@danielroe.dev · 6mo ago

👉 here's the PR, if it is useful for anyone else

Corollary to an argument I've been making recently: If you're applying AI to solve something for you, maybe what you actually have is a UX problem. open.substack.com/pub/signalsn...

AI as Friction Indicator

If stakeholders use AI to "translate" your organization, you've lost the narrative. Learn why shadow AI is a friction signal—and how boards can reclaim the mission.

open.substack.com

A couple months late, but finally got to write about some exciting work that was finally published and the broader impacts. Link to the full blog post in thread!

Eterna@eternagame.org · 6mo ago

Eterna players were able to design molecular calculators which could revolutionize global health, low-energy computing, and biosensing - lets talk about why this is exciting! (1/7)

ProtoPro is no longer invite-only, and we've moved the app to the regular domain: www.protopro.blue

My obsession for a decade: Parts of games are real, not fiction. Like, you are not really becoming a powerful knight when you gain a virtual level. That's fiction, fantasy. But you DO gain real skills. In manipulating buttons, game tactics etc. In multiplayer games, the friendships are real.

Daniel Cook@danctheduck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space. I deeply believe we can make the world a better place. If this interests you, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

I was amazed when I saw @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social present about this in an @rdaslab.bsky.social meeting. ROOL and GOLLD are stunning (dare I say beautiful) structures. She presented about this for @eternagame.org last year too! Recording available at eternagame.org/eternacon/2025 #RNASky 🧪

RCSB Protein Data Bank@rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Large and intricate naturally occurring structures composed exclusively of RNA... ROOL! More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

EternaJS in TypeSlayer ^.^

MichiganTypeScript@michigantypescript.com · 7mo ago

🥳 TypeSlayer is out! celebrate by posting what your type graph looks like! it legit has an actual leaderboard now: so bonus points if you win lol 🏆🏆 run: `npx typeslayer` source: github.com/dimitropoulo...

It’s only networking if it comes from the LinkedIn region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling friendship

Man, what a fun way to spend Christmas, curled up doing a score study of John Powell’s score for HTTYD with a fresh copy of the book from Omni and the deluxe soundtrack on play. Really gives me a deeper appreciation for this fantastic score

Huh! This is neat

Joyee Cheung@joyeecheung.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Made some progress in my hobby project 🎄 Moving single executable application building into Node.js core for better UX/DX, currently works on macOS and Linux and open for feedback! (No Windows yet because I don't take another laptop with me on vacation 😅) github.com/nodejs/node/...

I wrote an article about dialogue choice as part of a narrative designer’s toolkit *aside* from branching, instead considering how choice can invite us to *perform* a character. My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!

Gamers with Glasses@gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're just over the moon to be sharing this with you: the one and only @hannahnicklin.bsky.social on South of the Circle and how developers use in-game choices to give players space in which to perform the story. www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...