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Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins

For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.

So you want to make a bot | Josh Larson

Agentic orchestration and key ingredients for building a consumer bot in 2026

Amelia Wattenberger

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

A software engineer's tasks - before and after AI - Henry Armburg Jennings

I liked how an Anthropic article modelled a job as a bundle of tasks rather than a single thing that either survives or does not. I did that exercise on my own week as a software engineer - before AI, now, and some guesses at what the future may hold.

A Staff Engineer’s Guide to Inventing Work

A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

Pirating the Pirates on Notebook | MUBI

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

3d retro graphics

Free CC0 library of 3d retro graphics you can paste into a site. Plasma, starfield, raytracer, globe, fluid, and more.

Spotted wildcat from Bolivian forest revealed as new species

A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.

On Lucasart’s Afterlife

I can hardly believe I’m writing a blog post about a game that came out 27 years ago, but here we are. Lucasfilm, at one time had a gaming subsidiary called Lucasarts, and they produced somet…