Oh also: cute bunnies attended too (5/5)

Most important of all, I got to spend a great deal of time chatting, getting coffee, and playing games with these excellent folks. Tuesday night we had a super fun game night, @emilyhalina.bsky.social organized an awesome mixer, and I even squeezed in some extra magic here and there. (3/5)

I presented 3 works (proceedings up!) on AI Directors, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, and Expressive Range (which would have been impossible without @owithington.bsky.social). I got feedback from my idols and inspirations in the research community, and saw so many potential collaborations. (2/5)

I started having wrist pain, so I built a new firmware for my Preonic Rev3 keyboard so that I have full mouse controls in my home row, removing the need for me to switch to a mouse/trackpad/trackball, reducing wrist stress. It's on GitHub if you want to check it out! github.com/smshields/qm...

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I stared into the abyss and like 300 of these little assholes stared back at me

Good climbs last weekend.

A brief history of self-approved PRs

Gameboy Camera filters have quickly become my favorite lens for the world.

I have this sinking feeling that interacting with LLM-driven NPCs will drive the same emotional response in me as accidentally asking this silly owl to repeat himself for the fourth time

Working on graduating to the trackball dactyl elite

I refuse to pay the "Sol Ring Tax" whenever I build a new commander deck