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@jcalpickard @tmsullivan Chaos theory prompting?

Sounds good though. How to ask a question of the I Ching has always come down to a disruptive process for me - if it's a disposability in, disposability out. Maybe we need more mindful prompting UIs.

In tech-stack-ownership news, #11ty joins the Font Awesome team: https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-font-awesome/

@mrmonkington Oh god yes, you should definitely just make up your own term. "Today I'll be shoovering the backqueue."

@GammaGames "Disgraced" doesn't quite fit the story line, but yeah, I think I can probably just rewrite that line entirely. His whole opening speech is from day one of the game's dev too 🤣

@ephemeral Yeah, it could be cool to have an option like "click here to discuss these topics further" in an interactive way!

@11backslashes Effectively, yeah. I think the big swing is that modern AI feels like it's answering your questions, whereas Eliza was all about being the questioner to open up your own thoughts.

Still, AI therapy I think is probably an untapped market, if it can do some kind of basic empathy. (which may be different to being an *appropriate* form of therapy... ;)

Follow-on thought: How close is our use of #AI to gaming?

Is there an intersection around being able to *play* and *experiment* with a machine that is hard to get with other humans? Are chatbots seen as a kind of "safe space"?

"The machine also dealt with its human interlocutors in polite and empathetic terms, in contrast to the scorn sometimes heaped on conspiracy theorists in real life."

Fascinating (but pay-walled) article on how chat #AI can influence people away from conspiracy beliefs. Humans are messy and subjective. Is an opaque summary machine more reliable and more engaging when it comes to discerning truths?

https://www.ft.com/content/909f33d1-0d33-440b-a935-cfa65d2fccd1?segmentId=b0d7e653-3467-12ab-c0f0-77e4424cdb4c

What I will say is - even if you're using a "beginner's" coding tool such as #pulp or #scratch that lets you throw something together in minutes, the process of actually making a *playable* game, and thinking about how to release it, is a transferable and eternal skill.

Internal debate on whether "ousted" is a decent literorical word to use, or just sounds a bit naff.

Supping a chocolate stout and making good progress on a playable trailer (or "plailer"? 🤔 ) for #CrystalDaze on the #Playdate

#gamedev

@mrmonkington Also works, depending on context. I think they key thing, as with all terms, is whether anyone else needs to "get" what a term means or not - backlog refinement is often a solitary activity ;)

@paulsilver Obligatory reminder https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/

@mrmonkington Just "tidying" I think. There's a dual use to the word though, somewhere between neatening and preparation, but it was never important or unclear enough to get something more formal hashed out.

The term "grooming" popped up in a LinkedIn-backed question today. We always felt uncomfortable using this word when we talked about "backlog grooming" previously as well, so I guess I'm surprised to see it. Does it not have the same connotation in the US as it does in the UK?

Is DS9 having a nostalgic resurgence at the moment?

@simsa03 This is why we have stable LTS tracks and bleeding edge tracks for software updates ;) If only we formalised the difference between them in more aspects of life than just my Linux desktop 😅

@mattround @paulsilver "DANGER WARNING Your site is potentially insecure because you don't have our premium package" is basically ransomware.

@h "I feel two big pulls, one shaped like material fulfilment and one shaped like spiritual fulfilment" - I feel this. Not sure what your losses have been, but a lot of life for me these days is change, and change is uncertainty, and realised yesterday that while I chose that path, actually I've always lived by more certainty until now. It's scary, but also acknowledging it makes me feel somewhat proud, at least.

> new post: 'Morning notes: Tea stir breathing'

https://6days.exmosis.net/2024/09/11/morning-notes-tea-stir-breathing/