Journal / Recently
Journal / Recently
I’ve got two separate social graphs right now — one on Bluesky, one on Mastodon — and no real sense of how much they overlap. I follow people on one who I probably also want to follow on the other, but I had no way of seeing the gap. So I asked Claude Code to help me figure out a way to actually see it: compare both follow lists and surface who I was missing on each side.
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# AI, Making things
Tim Langdell — the trademark troll who spent decades threatening anyone using the word 'edge' near video games — has filed yet another federal complaint against Mobigame, despite his previous losses vs Future Publishing, Electronic Arts, and Mobigame themselves.
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# Gaming, Business
Childhood trips to the local library sparked unexpected discoveries. Now Google’s AI-driven search promises frictionless answers — but what do we lose when the librarian stops pointing at shelves and starts handing us pre-digested ones?
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# AI, Technology, Marketing/advertising
Sixteen years ago I wrote three sentences about email signatures being a mess. Turns out they still are — but for different reasons now.
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# Marketing/advertising, Technology, Business, Branding
A reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee.
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# Expressionengine, Code, Web development, Making things
A full energy economy mod for OpenTTD that introduces nuclear and renewable industries over time — built for my own amusement.
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# Gaming, Making things, AI
From BBC Micro to browser - how nostalgia for text adventures, a dog-eared Ken Williams memoir, and some late-night Replit sessions led to a mobile-friendly port of Colossal Cave Adventure, built entirely on iOS.
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# Gaming, AI, Making things
After five years away from writing code, AI tools reignited a passion for building things — and changed what it means to be a solo maker forever.
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# AI, Making things
The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.
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# AI, Blogging, Technology, This website, Expressionengine, Textpattern, Astro
Pretty pleased with this one, we just launched a lovely little site at Nine Four for our client Design & Contract Interiors. Mobile first, responsive, clean...
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# Branding, Design, Expressionengine