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320. Wri Your WriMo, Gen Your GenMo

320. Wri Your WriMo, Gen Your GenMo

Update: 2025-12-08
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  • 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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320. Wri Your WriMo, Gen Your GenMo

320. Wri Your WriMo, Gen Your GenMo

Jim Stormdancer