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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·7 Jul 2026

I’ve been trying a great many of the LLM-based “chat apps” and “games”. I sort of call it research.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·5 Jul 2026

There’s a famous Vorlon saying “The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote” and it is a fun sounding aphorism, but it is also a falsehood, both in context in its...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·20 Jun 2026

Several years back I thought about building a silly offline-first, peer- to-peer (P2P) application for a small audience and playing around with alternative authentication schemes and felt I came up...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·24 May 2026

This post is going to be full of things that are “spoiler shaped” for the MCU films and TV shows of the last several years.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·21 May 2026

Bell Labs, March 1940 “Lab Director, would you mind taking a listen to this call we found?” The earnest appearing tech at my office door seemed shy, but excited.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·9 May 2026

I was skimming old blog articles and realized it has been a while since I’ve done small posts. Some quick updates: - I separated from my job in April, so I have my shingle out and am now looking...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·29 Apr 2026

“AI-Driven Innovation” is an oxymoron to excuse over-relying on “legacy code as a service”. I don’t think there is any sort of paradox here in the way that “AI-Driven Innovation” as a strategy is...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·23 Nov 2025

About a year ago, I put together a small add-on for Fantasy Grounds to add a metric calendar (or Stardate calendar) to the extensible calendar system of the virtual tabletop (VTT) Fantasy Grounds...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·27 Apr 2025

I offered to write a new voting tool for my favorite book club. It seemed a good use of winter doldrums and new tools. I had several ideas I thought would be good for the club.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·17 Nov 2024

Butterfloat released a big 1.5.0 with a big new building block (nicknamed Stamps) for server-side rendering and static ahead-of-time rendering for the static HTML parts of components.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·13 Mar 2024

I’ve found myself giving multiple light tutorials on how simple modern ES Module-only packaging can be in Node/npm packages.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·28 Nov 2023

I’ve been working on a modern web view engine named Butterfloat (now in pre-release) that is interestingly Knockout-inspired, but with a focus on Typescript and as pure as possible RxJS...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·16 Nov 2023

I’d had a passive interest in finding this novel for years. It had been first mentioned to me in the footnote of an autobiography of a modest local 1950s television star as a favorite novel of her...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·29 Apr 2023

The other day on Mastodon I got to thinking and talking again about how some of the ideas of Star Trek: Picard’s first season really with resonated me, but that it was mostly a problem of execution...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·8 Jan 2023

In November and December I had a maelstrom of different things smash together that all sort of reminded me of strange parts of my education, all the while I was fighting some illness that was...

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·25 Nov 2022

I realize that I fell out of the habit of “of the Moment” posts as so much of that sort of discussion moved to social media.

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Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·17 Aug 2022

I wrote what follows this foreword on July 9, 2018. I was sitting with my sister at the bar at the restaurant where my brother worked.

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