The Two LLM Genders: Sycophants versus Gaslighters
I’ve been trying a great many of the LLM-based “chat apps” and “games”. I sort of call it research.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher7 Jul 202651 human-writing confidence
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The Pebbles' Votes Still Matter
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher5 Jul 202651 human-writing confidence
Unimplemented Idea: PFP Auth
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher20 Jun 202651 human-writing confidence
Embracing the Marvel Cinematic Chaos Phases
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher24 May 202651 human-writing confidence
Gone With The Meme
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher21 May 202651 human-writing confidence
Quick Updates
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher9 May 202651 human-writing confidence
The Simple Oxymoron of "AI-Driven Innovation" is Actually Risk Adverse
“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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher29 Apr 202651 human-writing confidence
Tiny Little Game Developer Paychecks
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher23 Nov 202551 human-writing confidence
Some of the Surprising Complexities of Voting on Books
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher27 Apr 202551 human-writing confidence
Butterfloat 1.5.0: Stamps for Static Rendering
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher17 Nov 202451 human-writing confidence
Modern Node Packaging and Bundler-Free Living
I’ve found myself giving multiple light tutorials on how simple modern ES Module-only packaging can be in Node/npm packages.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher13 Mar 202451 human-writing confidence
What is Butterfloat and Why is it The Greatest?
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher28 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
The Prismatic Decimal System
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher16 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
Playing with the Bones of Star Trek: Picard
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher29 Apr 202351 human-writing confidence
On Bluey, new PvP in Sea of Thieves, and Why It is Sometimes Fine to Suck at Warcraft
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...
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher8 Jan 202351 human-writing confidence
Film of the Moment: Slipstream (1989)
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher25 Nov 202251 human-writing confidence
Don't Grow Old
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.
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher17 Aug 202251 human-writing confidence