Developing StoryWeaver
… or, co-creating an AI-powered interactive fiction platform, using a multi-AI development approach What I (“we”) Built StoryWeaver is an AI-powered “Choose Your Own Adventure” platform, which can…
Making
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Coalton Playground "V2", now with sharing and snippets
Following up on the initial version here, so read that first. tl;dr: Coalton is a statically-typed dialect library for/within Common Lisp. You get to have your ML cake and eat it with the parenthe…
Janus v2.0
* I've released Janus v2.0, a native macOS AI chat application with dual provider support. You can download it here. Why Build This * The original Janus prototype solved a specific problem: I…
Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in Your Browser
I wanted to share a side project I've been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground - basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting sta…
Playing with Julia
Google Colab now supports Julia, so I gave it a spin Take a look here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1t18zqNOqQujzn2czr-bMILf6vHhLxXtY?usp=sharing Then make your own! (I plan to use this…
From Idea to App Store: a 1-month iOS project
I had this nagging little idea for an app for a while. I wanted a simple, visual way to keep memos to myself – a mix of images and text – always readily available, on my phone's home screens. Pr…
Replit as personal computing.
The dream of “deployable” personal development I’ve been experimenting a lot with Replit, and found their “Core” subscription quite valuable. My former understanding of it (from a few years ago) as a…
Writing with constraints
This might be an extreme example of a maxim. I was dimly aware of a novel written without the letter “E”. Recently saw a mention of it and looked it up. "Gadsby" is a novel written by Erne…
Solo app development
A wonderful look behind the scenes, for what it takes to build a single app, alone. https://papereditor.app/dev The amount of work that goes into this is immense -- and won't feel commensurate w…
The power of art
From a book I’m slowly reading right now, “The Creative Act”…
Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
DIY Chocolate Fondue
(Credit to my wife)…