Field log
Build logs, weekly notes, and field reports from the work of designing hardware, games, and programs.
Computer games, more so than many other artistic mediums, are bound by their delivery mechanisms. Think of the last five games you’ve played, and how you’ve interacted with them. Quite likely, your experience went something like this: your hands engaged with a standard control interface…
It was over a decade ago that I started my first NFP (non-profit). Since then, I’ve chaired various NFP organizations or served as an officer or administrator within them. Something’s changed over that time — they’ve gotten more ravenous. Desirous of funding at any cost…
Innovation has been reduced to simply building upon existing industrial-era systems and methods, as has disruption. Think about it – can you name a single instance of disruption that did not rely on an already-established industrial system? We must go beyond this surface level and…
Welcome to our first version of a Friday post released the following Thursday, but pre-dated for last Friday. Make sense? This week we’re talking ammunition, disconnection, and AI alignment. — A cool 6-channel stereo mixer with built-in equalizer, filters, compressor, aux send, cue and digital…
“I believe that one of the greatest causes of the ecological crisis is the state of personal alienation from nature in which many people live. We lack a widespread sense of intimacy with the living world. Natural history has never been more popular in some…
— My wife bought me a Soda Stream last year, and it’s been in almost-daily use since then. Little did I know, there were other handy uses for it outside of carbonated drinks. For instance, preserving your greens. — Danielle Riendeau over at Game Developer…
A successful new theoretical idea typically alters and extends the existing body of theory to allow for observational facts that could not previously be understood or incorporated. It also makes possible new predictions that can some day be tested. Almost always, the novel idea includes…
This Friday link dump includes new tools, old stories, and a pretty good critique of AI. I’ve been thinking about how to mix the new and old a lot lately — something we might think of as keeping one eye on the past while another…
Sometimes our expectations of what a thing is, or rather, what it should be blind us to the possibilities of what it could become. These expectations can prevent us from understanding the true potential of an object, and lead us to miss out on opportunities…
This week I’m mixing it up by bucketing our links in four different categories: read, watch, objects, how-tos. Read on for more on Ferris wheels, new Playdate games, and how to build a web server that only uses solar power. Read — Paul Graham is…