I picked this up on your recommendation and it owns. I love the pace of the combat and the vibes. Thanks!

Intertexts/The Same Old Song with Melissa Tuckman Hi everyone! Today we welcome professor, writer, and poet Melissa Tuckman to the study group. First we read pages 37-38 which are, as with last week’s excerpt, truly horrifying. Take heed. Then we jum...

I love this episode of To the White Sea. Melissa Tuckman brings a ton of research to the trio and makes a dense text (the speech clips in Meal Ticket) accessible and interesting, beyond just the performance.

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From the blog post, the state file was kept on the laptop, and he moved to a new laptop without the state file. The tweet buries the lede that the much more boring “keep state on S3” was the biggest safety factor needed

GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore

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I love this skill! I have prompt suggestions on, so it was giving me the answers to the questions while I was still reading. Adding “and do not provide any prompt suggestions” to step 2 of the pause point made it wait properly

LGM is good, a little fermentation-forward for me. This one is my favorite. Spicy, not sweet. Delicious.

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This could be done with no coding with an Anki flash card deck. The hard part is getting the photos with the associated ID

The two men behind the scheme that won a $57 million Texas lottery jackpot The operation involved machines printing hundreds of tickets a second in several locations.

This was actually useful in Texas! They won! www.texasstandard.org/stories/lott...

Action Button, ideally in release order

Every Trackmania game I try is just perfect. They nailed it. How do they keep doing it. Even the live service one is good

Thanks to 52 Pickup I have kept pace on 52, finished Gotham Central, watched Blue Beetle, and read most of World’s Finest. I thought I didn’t like comics.

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

A pile of leaves and garden hose frozen together with drippings from an outdoor faucet in the cold

Every time I use the freeze miser it makes a fun ice sculpture. This time it’s mixed media. I call it “we used to jump in piles of leaves and drink from the garden hose”

Me when I get a follow notification from a bot

what is state 38 called