Matt Arnold

Correction to a typo: 100 to a hundred and seventy lines each, not a thousand and seventy.

I wrote/maintained a 1K+ word coding standards/architectural doc to keep the AI on target, & another 1K+ words for a roadmap of features & debugging. It has 313 source files averaging 100 to 1070 lines each, ~36K lines of TS, 90 test files & 446 passing tests.

For ~14 yrs, I've tried to implement a browser-based deck-building game, to be able to make any change I want & find out what it'd be like. This fall I finally got it, by spending an hour or 2 a day for ~4 months in lengthy conversations with gen code tools in my IDE.

The game has the ability to export diagnostic logs, & restore a previously-saved game from a code string. There's persistence so your sessions survive browser reloads.

Dismaying seeing so many metamodern-ish thinkers concluding that their attempts to find a solution to the "meaning crisis" have failed, and returning to eternalist religion. Strong disagreement by @jim_rutt here! x.com/jim_rutt/statu…

@PoemsWeBurned x.com/NemoRathwald/s…

@NemoRathwald uhhh what

This will probably take years to develop, but I'd like to adapt "Spectrum Of Ecstasy" into a Live Action Strategy Boardgame played on a retreat, in which players arrange a series of meals, karaoke, & ceremonies which simulate communal skills. Too ambitious. But I don't mind that

To my gamer group: The cards you are drafting aren't "harmful" or "beneficial", they're "wisdom energies"

@Meaningness There is more that can be said about anything. Even taking this into account there's still more. Forever. Finishing things is the art of inventing a smaller increment that could be massaged into a finished shape.

I thought it was a long post. Maybe it's seven long posts.

Working on "Unavailable dakini catalyst" again, for the first time in a year. 7️⃣ true stories of romantic relationship failures 💔 forcing stage transitions. Having at last drafted the first: it's 3,332 words. 7*3332 = 23,324 words: a short novel. Another unfinishable project?

@Meaningness @connerdelights What are the odds this starts a tiny heretical American sect of the Catholic Church with its own extremely syncretic rites?

@connerdelights Well #%^*. I just recorded a video everyone will assume is a response to that. Charlie (who got the relevant draft bit yesterday) can confirm that I am a prophet (although an unlikely candidate for pope nonetheless)

failure of prediction markets

"A Reader's Guide to David Chapman": maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/the-world-is…

5. Whichever color scored highest at the end of the weekend wins as a team.

4. At the end, you score 1 point for each of these conditions if met: - the person you attached your clothespin to has a different 🟥🟦 color, - the person you attached your clothespin to has your symbol's target🪨📄✂️symbol - you never had a clothespin attached to you

A new weekend-long convention game idea, which combines rock-paper-scissors, clothespin as$@s$in, & social deduction. 1. There are 6 clothespins, painted & labeled: 🟥🪨, 🟥📄, 🟥✂️, 🟦🪨, 🟦📄, 🟦✂️. 6 players get 1 random clothespin each & conceal it on their person.

I didn't publish any new posts last year, but that doesn't mean I didn't write anything. I've come a long way towards finishing my book and I'm now doing the last round of editing before I have a presentable text. The whole thing has seven parts, a cryptic overview:

At the risk of distracting you from the gifts you just got for Xmas... the free version of Slipways is really good. krajzeg.itch.io/slipways