“Winter, with its inwardness, is upon us. A man is constrained to sit down, and to think.” — Thoreau, Oct 27, 1851
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AI
I built an open-source UX writing skill for Claude
I built something I needed: a UX writing agent for Claude that reviews interface copy directly from Figma.
Here’s what it does — you drop in a Figma frame link, and Claude uses the skill to audit your copy against UX writing best practices. …
OK yeah, we’re in an AI bubble. Google announces Project Suncatcher
Slop fraud is coming for books: youtube.com/watch
Books
Pulled noodles, pulled heartstrings in Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle
We’ve all been told robots will take our jobs. What if they taught us how to resist instead?
The four robots in Annalee Newitz’s novella, Automatic Noodle (Aug 5, 2025), Staybehind, Sweetie, Cayenne, and Hands, do just that. This book has a big …
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AI
Snap it. Shake it. Share it.
Take a photo. Shake your phone. A haiku “develops” on a Polaroid-style frame. Built in Gizmo as a quick AI × writing experiment.
What it is Haiku camera is a tiny tool that turns photos into Polaroids with a poem on the border. It’s playful, fast, …
Books
Vampires and Vengeance: Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
You haven’t read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing blend of vampire mythology and Indigenous history offers something new to the horror genre. Released on March 18, 2025, this nested narrative holds a …