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A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system

Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...

I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine): Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...

This is a story in three acts, where we go from “trying to procure more nuclear power plants in 2024 is nuts”, to “I could see why you’d want some nuclear”, to “but if so, not like this”. This post has been quite a trip to write, where I rediscovered that writing something down is an ACE way to find out you didn’t know what you were talking about. It was also a good exercise in changing my mind a few times.

Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I hav...

And so it continues! Here’s my interesting links for this week:

• Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don’t Know What To Do About It
• New Euripides just dropped: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’
• Should’ve just used that Brother printer everyone has: Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle
• From the “they quoted my clever wife” department: Space is becoming an ‘unsustainable environment in the long term,’ ESA says
• A public draft of the second edition of the brilliant Artificial Intelligence and Games book is available
• Computer Archeology: Exploring the Anatomy of an MS-DOS Virus (if you found this interesting you may also find this interesting)
• Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft (original here)

See you next week!

sometimes it's boycotts

I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web. Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious...

Keygen relicenses from ELv2 to the Fair Core License.

A definition and discussion of my term “symbiosisware”, describing software consciously designed for only yourself to use.

Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest iro...

Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometime...

We’re so excited to announce that we’ll be presenting at the amazing GCAP conference in Melbourne, Australia, this year!

We’ll be showing off what we’ve been working on, and talking about how you can use Yarn Spinner to make your own games. We’ll also be around for the whole conference, so if you’re there, come and say hi!

With the death of Twitter, and the fracturing of social media, I’m going to try an experiment! To that end, I’m going post some of the more interesting things I’ve read online each Thursday. I hope you find them interesting too. Or not, I don’t mind. I’m just going to keep doing it anyway.

I’ll post links in no particular order, and they might not be recent. Just things I’ve found interesting in the previous week or so.

ft. tactical guy

An essay about the order AI will move through the economy

I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that, together with my wife Mars, I’ll be heading to the West and North West coasts of Tasmania to present a series of space-themed events and workshops for kids and adults alike.

We’ve called these events the West Coast Space Show. This National Science Week project is supported by the Australian Government.

This is an early step in our efforts to establish the West Coast Space Centre. You can follow our work on the web, and on Instagram.