Brent Morris
@closetgeekshow.ca
I wear many hats. At work I'm a 🎩 UX Architect.
My recreational hats: 🕸 Web Developer, 🕹 Hobbyist Game Developer, 🎙Podfaded Podcaster.
http://closetgeekshow.ca
My recreational hats: 🕸 Web Developer, 🕹 Hobbyist Game Developer, 🎙Podfaded Podcaster.
http://closetgeekshow.ca
Just under a decade ago (lol what even is time?) I used to make cross-genre EDM mixes and put em out on torrent sites and as a podcast. It was called Colours Out Of Space and probably had more downloads and listens than anything I made before or since.
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just under a decade ago (lol what even is time?) I used to make cross-genre EDM mixes and put em out on torrent sites and as a podcast. It was called Colours Out Of Space and probably had more downloads and listens than anything I made before or since.
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BUSINESS IDEA: release your game on the 9th of October, and then you can make one of those images promoting your game with "9/10" plastered all over it, regardless of the actual review scores you receive.
September 10, 2023 at 5:52 PM
BUSINESS IDEA: release your game on the 9th of October, and then you can make one of those images promoting your game with "9/10" plastered all over it, regardless of the actual review scores you receive.
ever have that thing where you are looking for something obscure online and then the only links about it you can find online are forgotten forum posts from yourself asking about it years ago?
Happened 3 times in a row just now. There's gotta be a word in German or something for this feeling.
Happened 3 times in a row just now. There's gotta be a word in German or something for this feeling.
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ever have that thing where you are looking for something obscure online and then the only links about it you can find online are forgotten forum posts from yourself asking about it years ago?
Happened 3 times in a row just now. There's gotta be a word in German or something for this feeling.
Happened 3 times in a row just now. There's gotta be a word in German or something for this feeling.
I wish I had a better understanding of what affects the usage stats on Ona (and really all of these agentic tools I've tried). My OCUs haven't gone up in like a day, I went through 120 OCUs in a few days and then yesterday used it the most yet and they haven't budged
October 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I wish I had a better understanding of what affects the usage stats on Ona (and really all of these agentic tools I've tried). My OCUs haven't gone up in like a day, I went through 120 OCUs in a few days and then yesterday used it the most yet and they haven't budged
Holy shit Ona (formerly @gitpod.io ) is scarily good at what it does. I've been trying to make a DSL, pointed it at some markdown specs, told it to turn it into a vscode extension and went to bed. I woke up to a working vscode extension. 🤯
October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Holy shit Ona (formerly @gitpod.io ) is scarily good at what it does. I've been trying to make a DSL, pointed it at some markdown specs, told it to turn it into a vscode extension and went to bed. I woke up to a working vscode extension. 🤯
Just jumped from Rogers to Fizz Mobile and cut my cell bill at least in half. It's a slight downgrade in mobile data speeds but at this price it's worth it for how little I use mobile data (5G? In this economy?!)
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September 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just jumped from Rogers to Fizz Mobile and cut my cell bill at least in half. It's a slight downgrade in mobile data speeds but at this price it's worth it for how little I use mobile data (5G? In this economy?!)
Use my referral code and we'll each get $40 in your 2nd month: IAX71
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Gemini REALLY needs an option for setting a folder to shunt all the Google Docs it exports into. At a global level and chat-specific level. Just opened gdrive and I have ~50 random docs to sort through, some of which are just later versions of the same doc. It's kind of a nightmarish experience.
August 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Gemini REALLY needs an option for setting a folder to shunt all the Google Docs it exports into. At a global level and chat-specific level. Just opened gdrive and I have ~50 random docs to sort through, some of which are just later versions of the same doc. It's kind of a nightmarish experience.
GPT5 did a real good job getting me used to Gemini, it's not the same and it's not the best. But I really like some of the Gems and I really like that IT FUCKING WORKS
August 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
GPT5 did a real good job getting me used to Gemini, it's not the same and it's not the best. But I really like some of the Gems and I really like that IT FUCKING WORKS
What is good design documentation? @grantslatton.bsky.social has a great distillation of the format:
"Observation A
Observation B
Because B, idea C
But problems D and E
Observation F
Therefore idea G
And improvement H"
grantslatton.com/how-to-desig...
I kinda want to make myself a poster of it
"Observation A
Observation B
Because B, idea C
But problems D and E
Observation F
Therefore idea G
And improvement H"
grantslatton.com/how-to-desig...
I kinda want to make myself a poster of it
Writing a good design document
A guide
grantslatton.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What is good design documentation? @grantslatton.bsky.social has a great distillation of the format:
"Observation A
Observation B
Because B, idea C
But problems D and E
Observation F
Therefore idea G
And improvement H"
grantslatton.com/how-to-desig...
I kinda want to make myself a poster of it
"Observation A
Observation B
Because B, idea C
But problems D and E
Observation F
Therefore idea G
And improvement H"
grantslatton.com/how-to-desig...
I kinda want to make myself a poster of it
Is there a framework or something I can use to visualize mechanical interaction in a game design? Something technology agnostic. I've been on a game designy kick of late which is nice. Strangely mechanically focused - usually in my head it's all very hand wavy. More vibes than actual mechanics.
July 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Is there a framework or something I can use to visualize mechanical interaction in a game design? Something technology agnostic. I've been on a game designy kick of late which is nice. Strangely mechanically focused - usually in my head it's all very hand wavy. More vibes than actual mechanics.
@danielzklein.bsky.social I think the enemy movement pattern in Time Wasters might qualify as a good example for the Mechanics Opportunity: Enemy Movement Patterns section.
I haven't played it in a while but I seem to recall the enemies sometimes being a clear spiral that tightens around you
I haven't played it in a while but I seem to recall the enemies sometimes being a clear spiral that tightens around you
July 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@danielzklein.bsky.social I think the enemy movement pattern in Time Wasters might qualify as a good example for the Mechanics Opportunity: Enemy Movement Patterns section.
I haven't played it in a while but I seem to recall the enemies sometimes being a clear spiral that tightens around you
I haven't played it in a while but I seem to recall the enemies sometimes being a clear spiral that tightens around you
@danielzklein.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading Horde Survivor Survivor. I've been designing a bullet heaven game on and off for about a year and your post is some of the best analysis of the genre I've read. Helpful for thinking through the mechanics
danielzklein.com/horde-surviv...
danielzklein.com/horde-surviv...
Horde Survivor Survivor – DanielZKlein
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July 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@danielzklein.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading Horde Survivor Survivor. I've been designing a bullet heaven game on and off for about a year and your post is some of the best analysis of the genre I've read. Helpful for thinking through the mechanics
danielzklein.com/horde-surviv...
danielzklein.com/horde-surviv...
Suddenly remembering I need to export all my Cody shit. Annoyed all over again. I haven't picked a replacement yet, going to see how free tools go for now.
Like I get why (Kilo-Code's blog has a good explanation for that blog.kilocode.ai/p/cursors-50...) but also *annoyed sigh*.
Like I get why (Kilo-Code's blog has a good explanation for that blog.kilocode.ai/p/cursors-50...) but also *annoyed sigh*.
Cursor’s 500 requests => “unlimited” => 225 requests
Flat-fee pricing doesn't work.
blog.kilocode.ai
July 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Suddenly remembering I need to export all my Cody shit. Annoyed all over again. I haven't picked a replacement yet, going to see how free tools go for now.
Like I get why (Kilo-Code's blog has a good explanation for that blog.kilocode.ai/p/cursors-50...) but also *annoyed sigh*.
Like I get why (Kilo-Code's blog has a good explanation for that blog.kilocode.ai/p/cursors-50...) but also *annoyed sigh*.
There is a serious gap in Canada's commerce ecosystem: no affiliate programs, at least as far as I can tell. The review blogs that exist are all for amazon.ca or directly on big box store websites, often with low review counts. The blogs all use AMZN because they get commissions.
July 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
There is a serious gap in Canada's commerce ecosystem: no affiliate programs, at least as far as I can tell. The review blogs that exist are all for amazon.ca or directly on big box store websites, often with low review counts. The blogs all use AMZN because they get commissions.
A magic friggin LLM prompt: "Give me a MECE summary" MECE I've learned stands for "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive". It's a framework to categorize a set of information exhaustively without any overlaps. I'm finding it perfect for those "summarize everything we talked about" queries
July 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A magic friggin LLM prompt: "Give me a MECE summary" MECE I've learned stands for "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive". It's a framework to categorize a set of information exhaustively without any overlaps. I'm finding it perfect for those "summarize everything we talked about" queries
I was going to code this weekend since the fireball in the sky is trying to kill us. I need to corral my personal projects that have been kind of a mess for the last few months. But the loss of Cody Pro in a few weeks really takes the wind out of my sails. I think I'm going to mope for a bit instead
July 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I was going to code this weekend since the fireball in the sky is trying to kill us. I need to corral my personal projects that have been kind of a mess for the last few months. But the loss of Cody Pro in a few weeks really takes the wind out of my sails. I think I'm going to mope for a bit instead
So the first principle of Amp is "Amp is unconstrained in token usage (and therefore cost). Our sole incentive is to make it valuable, not to match the cost of a subscription."
I asked it to generate an AGENT.md file and it spent 16 cents to generate a 25 line kinda shitty directions file... cool
I asked it to generate an AGENT.md file and it spent 16 cents to generate a 25 line kinda shitty directions file... cool
AGENT.md
The AGENT.md file gives guidance to agentic coding tools on codebase structure, build/test commands, architecture, etc.
AGENT.md
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So the first principle of Amp is "Amp is unconstrained in token usage (and therefore cost). Our sole incentive is to make it valuable, not to match the cost of a subscription."
I asked it to generate an AGENT.md file and it spent 16 cents to generate a 25 line kinda shitty directions file... cool
I asked it to generate an AGENT.md file and it spent 16 cents to generate a 25 line kinda shitty directions file... cool
Ugggggh Cody Pro is disappearing at the end of July... I really liked that tool and I've become a much better programmer because of it. Really not enthused about moving to some new thing based on usage credits and more like Cursor and the like.... sourcegraph.com/blog/changes...
Changes to Cody Free, Pro, and Enterprise Starter plans | Sourcegraph Blog
We're announcing important changes to a number of our Cody plans.
sourcegraph.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Ugggggh Cody Pro is disappearing at the end of July... I really liked that tool and I've become a much better programmer because of it. Really not enthused about moving to some new thing based on usage credits and more like Cursor and the like.... sourcegraph.com/blog/changes...
A pretty excellent post about designing the LCARS screens for Star Trek: Picard. I really liked the insight about blue screens getting bluer due to things like color grading.
25th Century LCARS — ion studio
ion.studio
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A pretty excellent post about designing the LCARS screens for Star Trek: Picard. I really liked the insight about blue screens getting bluer due to things like color grading.
What the hell @cbcnews.ca, your website should not be allowing ads over top of the article text. That's basic 101 UX stuff. It's not even some special "site takeover promotion" that someone bought (also bad but somewhat explainable). It's just shitty google ads for random crap.
April 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What the hell @cbcnews.ca, your website should not be allowing ads over top of the article text. That's basic 101 UX stuff. It's not even some special "site takeover promotion" that someone bought (also bad but somewhat explainable). It's just shitty google ads for random crap.
This is incredibly accurate lol
April 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is incredibly accurate lol
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i just know some designer’s manager is absolutely SAUCING on the makings of a medium post about how user interface design is ground zero for the resistance
White House says Amazon's decision to desplay tariff-based price increases on products is a "a hostile and political act by Amazon," who they accuse of working with "a Chinese propaganda arm."
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
i just know some designer’s manager is absolutely SAUCING on the makings of a medium post about how user interface design is ground zero for the resistance
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I quit, but you totally got sh*t canned, little buddy.
April 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I quit, but you totally got sh*t canned, little buddy.
@cooklang.bsky.social weird, I was literally wondering if there was a recipe language last night. Thinking about base class meals with different mixins.
March 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@cooklang.bsky.social weird, I was literally wondering if there was a recipe language last night. Thinking about base class meals with different mixins.
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