Prose and Cons

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2025

  • “Winter, with its inwardness, is upon us. A man is constrained to sit down, and to think.” — …

  • I built an open-source UX writing skill for Claude A UX writing agent for Claude has been developed to audit interface copy from Figma, aiming to …

  • OK yeah, we’re in an AI bubble. Google announces Project Suncatcher

  • Slop fraud is coming for books: youtube.com/watch

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Vampires and Vengeance: Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter You haven’t read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing …