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It's true: TypeScript surpassed Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language on GitHub. 📈

NEW POST Powerful context engineering is becoming a huge part of the developer experience of modern LLM tools. Birgitta Böckeler explains the current state of context configuration features, using Claude Code as an example. martinfowler.com/articles/explo…

How do you keep up-to-the-minute on information during the week of CodeMash 2026? Read the following blog post to find out how: codemash.org/codemash-2026-… Also in the blog post is a link to our attendee handbook. It is a "what to expect" for when you get to the conference.

Session registration is live! Please read the following information before you head over to buy kits and/or session register: codemash.org/session-regist…

Click here to read about what KidzMash is doing this year: codemash.org/kidzmash-2026-… Divez registration will go live soon.

Disagreement isn’t dangerous. Silence is. When leaders silence hard questions, toxicity grows in the shadows. Healthy conflict isn’t risky — it’s essential. If your team feels like there are things they can’t say, something’s already broken. Courage + honesty = real progress.

Don't worry, you're not bad at chess. You're actually bad at everything. Chess is just one of the only things with a good rating system.

I went to @Gen_Con for FT Weekend Magazine and wrote about the unique way that board gamers think about play

Yo dice! Shaking it up at America’s largest board-game convention on.ft.com/4oqeSpX

Latest game (Shogun / Samurai Swords / Ikusa) is live on Gamefound. Updating another classic from the Gamemaster Series by Michael Gray: gamefound.com/en/projects/re…

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The content selection committee has combed through all of the submissions, and we have compiled a list of sessions for CodeMash 2026! codemash.org/codemash-2026-…

We're so excited about CodeMash 2026 that we couldn't wait until Oct. 1 to open tickets. We're going ahead with making admission tickets and hotel rooms available now! codemash.org/of-tickets-and…

Diplomacy Fans! Mark your calendars for October 3rd. The next RenCon on YouTube will feature the reveal of "The Golden Blade"! Check out the interview with legendary game designer Michael Gray on the 40th Anniversary release of Shogun. renegadegamestudios.com/renegade-con-o…

Welcome to Legendary Tactics! In this video, we dive into Diplomacy: Era of Empire, the new take on the classic strategy game from Renegade Game Studios. We explore what makes this edition different! @renegadegamestudios youtu.be/JZSiSxRlufA

Are you interested in speaking at CodeMash? Our Call for Speakers is open! codemash.org/codemash-2026-…

My mid-afternoon session at #KCDC2025 is @COGSfun with Test Data Management: There is no silver bullet but we can nuke it from orbit @kc_dc

🏆 Charles S. Roberts Awards 2024 – Best Solitaire/Cooperative Game Winner: „I, Napoleon” 🇫🇷 A solo historical RPG by Ted Raicer (GMT Games) putting you in young Buonaparte’s boots in 1793 France. Will you shape history… or be forgotten? #BoardGames #wargames #Napoleon

Played a Diplomacy tournament tonight on a board made out of legos at @Gen_Con. Got rinsed in the tournament but nobody else on my board got asked for their autograph (!!)

Here's the content interest survey track results. (1 is "no interest at all", and 10 is "extremely interested".) Also, it was nice seeing some of you in the abstract workshop! We look forward to seeing your abstracts on August 15!