eric skogen

My last #39c3 talk made it to @hackaday! I talked about how we recreated the Roland JP-8000 by reverse engineering the custom silicon it used and emulating all the chips. hackaday.com/2025/12/29/39c…

I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. @GoogleMagenta

New case study, end-to-end, showing a project done Shape Up style in a real-world team. Timestamps: 00:00 - Framing/Shaping terminology and assumptions 02:47 - What is Shape Up 03:38 - Basecamp vs. more typical real-world teams Case study: 04:49 - A simple kanban for framing/shaping checkpoints 05:11 - A candidate from top leadership with unanswered questions 06:55 - Framing the problem/outcome with an SME 10:34 - Why I need to shape before jumping forward 11:35 - Shaping session with a senior engineer 15:29 - Back to framing with the SME 17:42 - Shaping session with the senior engineer and SME 19:19 - Writing it up for kickoff 20:57 - Kickoff with the team 21:30 - Mapping out vertical slices (scopes) 23:54 - Wiring first, high fidelity last 25:17 - The launch brief 26:01 - Reflection: Roles involved, progressively getting warmer 26:28 - Reflection: Long stretches of autonomy and spiky live sessions 27:53 - Misunderstanding about pitches. Shaping one thing per time box. 29:12 - Questions, Shaping in Real Life Series

Kids deserve better screentime So we built Spark: world-class puppeteers + AI performing a character who actually knows your family Real humans ensuring real connection. Think Sesame Street meets the future First 20 Portals shipping this month Interviewing the next 200 families now

Get your Quantum Portal here illusionoflife.inc

OK LET’S GO!

Our minds are freakin blown! 🤯 We're grateful for your support as a community. We collaborated with our friends at @pumpdotfun to forward @sparkboinkboink's fees to @sesamestreet. Jim Henson & Sesame Street have been a life long creative inspiration. We're in this for the long run. Thank you for being part of Spark & @IllusionOfLife's story.

A message from our Founders

holy smokes what @KevinAFischer & @okpasquale & team have built is INCREDIBLE. I just met Spark the dog & I thought this experience was like 1-2 years away from existing. memory, awareness, behavior, design, all fantastically executed. here’s us posing for a photo together

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by simply being smarter and more competent than those who are doing it wrong.

David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes. Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe. Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life. Love, Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch

@meekaale @BrettPAndersen direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog… Excerpt from Chapter 1

@BrettPAndersen what book is this? 🤓

"When calculating planetary motions, however, adding a third planet yields a system that is chaotic and unpredictable. The laws of motion fail to predict their trajectories. Newton himself was aware of this so-called three body problem, an example of environmental influence completely transforming a system’s dynamics. The puzzle was an early hint that context should not be so readily dismissed, but modern science and philosophy ignored its warning."

*steve jobs introducing the frog he found in a time capsule at a construction site* my baby… my honey… my ragtime gal… ARE YOU GETTING IT??

“human light day” sounds like a wicker man thing

ford: tell me bernard, will santa bring you the new iphone this year? bernard: no *glancing up over his eyeglasses* i’m an android man

they’ll get it eventually

flow: yes #binaryreview