• Daily – 5. Feb 2023

    Played a lot of this prototype game that my partner designed over the weekend. We’re still in the process of fine-tuning the game mechanics.

  • A Local Development Setup for BookWyrm Federation

    BookWyrm speaks ActivityPub, but testing its federation capabilities locally can be tricky. Besides running two separate instances, there are a few caveats that complicate things further, namely that both instances need to run on their separate domain and they need to have an SSL certificate signed by a common certificate authority. Satisfying these caveats without…

  • Recommended: A Piece of Work

    Reading (listening really) to Abbi Jacobson’s memoir I Might Regret This reminded me of her brilliant single-season podcast A Piece of Work. In it, she explores the topic of modern art like Duchamp’s in a very approachable way, from Duchamp’s surrealist art, Yves Klein’s blue, to James Turrell’s light installations, and a whole lot in…

  • Working with Product, not Working for Product

    John Cutler once again succinctly puts words on a general feeling that I’ve had on the state of the tech industry. In one of his latest weekly articles on The Beautiful Mess, he talks about three different team models for building tech products: For most of my career, I have worked on teams with one…

  • Book Notes: Soft City

    The architect David Sim has managed to compile a manifesto on how livable cities ought to be designed. One of his main arguments is to soften the harsh form of built-up density by explicitly designing for as many exposures as possible. Exposing people to their fellow neighbours, be that the immediate neighbours living under the…