320. Wri Your WriMo, Gen Your GenMo
Update: 2025-12-08
Description
Lords:
- Hallie
- Peter
Topics:
- Do you know where all your things are?
- How education doesn't melt
- Bebop Bytes Back
- Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl
Microtopics:
- The Directrix of Cybernetic Security.
- Unity licensing from Unity as Unity.
- Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM)
- Part zombie, part ghost.
- Accidentally GenMoing your WriMo.
- A house with a bunch of your things in it, and they're everywhere.
- Knowing someone who knows how to find things and knowing someone who knows where things are.
- Knowing where to put something because it's where you first thought to look for it.
- A person who itches when they see somebody not using a switch statement.
- Having been gradually removing yourself from social media since back when Twitter was Twitter.
- Back when you could get out of a chair without grunting.
- Getting the whooping cough and coughing your disc out. (And you're in your twenties.)
- Whether your dad named you after the murderous robot in 2001.
- Seeing your students cheating poorly and teaching them how to do it well.
- Scaffolding it pedagogically.
- Big boat: hard turn.
- How do we get education to exhibit swarm behavior?
- A brand new exciting way to be bummed.
- Education by Panopticon.
- LLMs exposing how much of people's jobs and education are bullshit busywork.
- When does the salt jump?
- Putting together the 50s and then putting together the tens and then putting together the fours.
- The simplest shallowest version of active listening that exists.
- Doritos hacking the learning loop.
- Continually finding new opiates of the masses.
- Typing hex opcodes into the Beboputer.
- An effective educational tool that has never been less appealing to the youth it's targeted at.
- Steve Jobs coming out of his grave and slitting your throat if you install a programming tool on your iPhone.
- Making the sun wink and realizing that this is the rest of your life.
- Deescalating your LLM partner when it has an anxiety attack.
- Your Socratic Oxford Don persona.
- The Life Cycle of Software Objects.
- There is a mistake, and it is being overcome.
- Steps you can take to avoid Godzilla coming back and nature reclaiming the earth.
- A poem written by a beloved children's author who absolutely loathes fat people.
- Whether the terrible children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all based on people that Roald Dahl knew.
- SwitchBitch, Roald Dahl's famous Typescript library.
- Making sure your weirdness is a kindness.
- Roald Dahl: boy did he do the stuff.
- Penning The Twits in an effort to "do something against beards."
- Why Stephen King?
- The Dollar Babies.
- Whether Stephen King is still on MySpace.
- Walking down the road and hearing Stephen King yelling at cloud.
- The Dave Barry game jam.
- Going into the sewer and solving puzzle platformer problems.
- Group hug vs. forming a blob.
- Tube Hippo is back!
- The game engine sorting hat.
- Coming out of character to talk about Inform 7.
- The year that you fucked around with interactive fiction but never shipped anything.
- Presuming that interactive fiction has continued to be great even after you stopped playing.
- Choosing Twine over Inform 7 because of your absolutely enormous forelimbs.
- LLMs as an extremely fancy Tarot deck.
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