Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Nintendo has another home run in “Super Mario Bros Wonder”. It’s definitely not the grand slam that Tears of the Kingdom was, but Wonder is a surprisingly fun game (I’m trying very hard not to say it’s wonderful) that breaks new ground while also giving old Mario fans a heavy dose of nostalgia.
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MindMac - A Native AI Client Experience
AI is everywhere! …but in another sense, it’s everywhere. Meaning, it’s all over the place. By that I mean, I have to go to 10 different websites to experiment with the various models via their developer playgrounds. It’s a pain. So I went in search for a native client on macOS that could at least interact with OpenAI’s API, and I found MindMac.
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I’m Leaving my Role at Studio71
Back in October, after 11 years at the company, I made the decision to leave my full-time CTO role at Studio71. I came to Studio71, then called The Collective (and later Collective Digital Studio), because I wanted to build something big. I love building things, and by things I mean all the things: software, teams, culture, process, business, revenue, arcade cabinets…I’d love to learn how to weld, but I digress.
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An Office Tour in Pieces
I’ve been experimenting as a TikTok (and YouTube Shorts) creator. Let me explain. I recently shot a home office tour (thanks to my daughter Molly who was my camera operator) but when I started to edit it I just didn’t love it. I might still release it, but what I was inspired to do instead was to make a bunch of little videos showing off one specific thing in my office rather than a long video going over everything at a high level.
Read moreEgg.js Hits 1,500 GitHub Stars
I love putting easter eggs in the applications I write, and years ago I wrote the Egg.js javascript library to make that easier. My little silly library is used around the globe and it has 1,500 stars on GitHub! Anyway, here’s a video I made about it.
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I Made an Arcade Cabinet
As a kid in the 80s and 90s there were a few things that you could see in a friend’s house that would immediately impress you. Examples would be, a second fridge, usually in the garage, one of those big projection TVs, or, and this is the big one, a full stand-up arcade cabinet.
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