Fogknife

I first discovered Vancouver-based Perfume Tree in 1998, at a big Borders bookstore in Bangor, Maine, up in the second floor which was largely given over to music and movies.

The day before I announced Crawlspace, I shared a link to the tool with the His Majesty the Worm Discord server.

Introducing Crawlspace, an online-play tool for the tabletop role-playing game His Majesty the Worm.

John Gruber describes his experience using ELIZA, the famous proto-chatbot, from a contemporary perspective.

I have a few follow-up thoughts on yesterday’s post.

A letter I composed to a friend today, about certain experiences I had last week while visiting Chicago.

I furtively took this photograph inside a certain European-style cafe near Chicago.

For the first time since the pandemic, I have resumed active, public development of Plerd, the software that freshly publishes this blog every time I update a certain directory of Markdown source files that lives on my laptop.

For my whole adult life, I sometimes get intrusive thoughts in the form of unsolicited and unpleasant memories from my own past, flashing against the walls of my mental-subjective theater with near-visual intensity.

Photo by Julia Ryans The pronouncement of certain programming languages as “dead” or “dying”—as has long been the prognosis of Perl, my own home-base language—has become far less relevant in the era of AI-assisted coding.