Brianna
@mc.horse
Engineering manager & ML engineer, former paleontologist. Building story games with NLP and other fun tools at Hidden Door.
i love poetry! so over the weekend i made a website that lets my friends send their poetry or their favorite poems to me directly — submissions automatically print from the thermal receipt printer in my living room, accompanied by a little song 🤍 envoy.henry.codes
Envoy | A tiny website by Henry (From Online)
Share your favorite poems with me, old friend. I eagerly await thy letters.
envoy.henry.codes
wait I've discovered how to get writers (me) to murder their darlings (throw that paragraph into the trash corner!!)
grant@grantcuster.com · 2d agoExperimenting with throwing into the trash on the tabletop. Much better than selecting and hitting keyboard delete.
Hey this looks cool as heck and really fun! IMO making things as described in this post is a kind of digital touching grass, and to do it collectively and examinedly is even better
v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · 2d agonew blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...
Here's a full demo. It's close to being ready but there's One More Thing I need to get done...
Tom Granger@tomgranger.bsky.social · 3d agoInteractive fiction ereader update! Eenk now supports images (both inlined in the story, and as cover/thumbnail). All from a standard ink file that the IDE compiles in one click and can transfer to the device via USB :)
There are some small teams in the US doing search and rescue work on horseback where they're teaching the horses air scenting detection to find people, similar to SAR dogs except they're also transporting their handler. It's really cool.
MythologyBot@mythologybot.boodoo.co · 3d agoB151.1.1.0.3 Horse allowed to go as it pleases, finds unknown person.
I used to keep a little notebook in which I’d write down fake names. By the time I lost it or threw it away or something I had maybe 250 in there, but the only two I can recall are Stefanie Germwingle and Stuart Prawnswallow.
I'm actually here for it (although in principle the same grindy endless design sensibilities will persist into the demakes, I'm sure)
Jay Castello 🌻@jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d agosomething horrifying has come to me in a vision
Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
lab.leaflet.pub
our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities
This is 1000% why I'm doing the Cloud Atlas project. The ecosystem is making TOOLS for PEOPLE to DO things with but mostly getting stuck on the tools part in explanations. (Also I think there's enormous value in the connections *between* tools.) www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
wrecka.ge
Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com · last wk.Plea to #ATproto developers & companies: Pleasepleaseplease make it easier for the rest of us to help boost your apps & tools by creating good, clear documentation geared toward non-techie users? (not just fellow developers or internal team).🤞🏽 See my post on @leaflet.pub.
they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest
nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 3w agoi'm running a programming contest next week! we've spent the last few months thinking about how to make a fun contest in a world with agents. I think we've got a good answer :) Starts next friday. Give it a try! and mutuals dm if you wanna test or chat about this
Trying out canvas-based paragraph reordering pared with a live document preview.
“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together” the humble semicolon:
Actually scratch that let's pay a team of queer game devs to make an archaeological walking sim at the scale of Elden Ring
If you see a purple Velotric Breeze with a matching purple basket, a rainbow bell and chain, and black mirrors on the handlebars, it’s mine
I've spent a full week too sick to play videogames but not sick enough to create a brilliant game in a feverish haze* and it's the worst * see: www.whymog.net/skeal
I’ve set up my thermal printer to print me a little puzzle each morning, now this is some daily games I can get behind
OH: "I'm about to move a bunch of my former website to Leaflet, if I can...and it looks like I can. And it's easy!" cc @leaflet.pub thought y'all should know your efforts are getting appreciated out here
yes! as someone who’s been working in procedural text before LLMs were a thing, I really wish people had a sense of the varieties of procgen writing that *aren’t* genAI output. there’s a ton of stuff we can do (including pre-LLM, ML style AI) that’s nothing like chatbot output directly in a game.
Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you! Very illuminating. We’re so fixated on genAI right now, it’s useful to be reminded of the varieties of synthetic and procedural text flowing through different kinds of experiences.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle v2.7: Added a weathered stone statue that feels strangely... alive. It seems to shift ever so slightly when no one is watching.
Hey friends! If you’re in a position to help, please consider donating to my friend Kate’s Lyme recovery fund. Their treatment is helping so much, but they’re still a ways off from being able to work enough to fund the rest of their recovery. Reposts are also greatly appreciated! Thank you 🩵
Kate Violette@kateviolette.com · last mo.Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.
not sure which is most fun in clipart studio: browsing what other people have made, making your own thing, or receiving a blast from the past via the magazines. but also lots of non-magazine art to play with too, e.g. as used in clipart.studio/gallery.html...
the gallery wall — clipart studio
A public wall of magazine collages made in clipart studio.
clipart.studio
APP Always Preorder Premee ... I mean, preorder Premee's books, I don't think you can actually preorder Premee
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 3w agoAnyway HAPPY FRIDAY today could be a good day to preorder my upcoming fantaspionage (??) novel WICKHILLS! :D A man A plan A canal ... wait us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
