Diegetic UI
Immersive UI, more of this please(?)
Capturing the word: diegetic UI, Dead Space, Gears of War, and why it's back in my head.
Judas Pig
A feral pig that is trapped, tagged or fitted with a tracking collar, and released so it rejoins its group and leads hunters back to other pigs. Adapted from the older "Judas goat" technique. Sows tend to work best, since they stay with their group.
TBH, this is pretty scary.
Comp Stomp
Playing a game against computer-controlled opponents ("comps") instead of against other people. Used in the RTS community as a synonym for a bot bash. Informal slang with no official definition.
Pretty funny/cool terms for playing co-op against a bunch of bots or "cubes" as my brothers and I used to call them.
Bot Bash
A casual game session where you play with friends against computer-controlled opponents (bots) instead of against other people. Used in the RTS community, for example for a weekly group night against the AI. Informal slang with no official definition. Also called a comp stomp.
Pretty funny/cool terms for playing co-op against a bunch of bots or "cubes" as my brothers and I used to call them.
Arc Raiders Adaptation
Adapting games is a milestone again, and Arc Raiders got there fast.
Game-to-film used to be the mark of a classic. Arc Raiders is getting there faster than I expected.
Google Docs and Drive support markdown natively
A short thought on Google Docs and Drive adding native markdown support.
Google Docs and Drive now open and edit markdown files natively. Not a surprise given agents and md files, but a helpful thing shipped.
Explainer Toy
A small interactive widget inside an explanation that lets the reader change one thing and watch what happens. A toggle that switches a bug on and off, or a button that makes two people edit at the same time, are toys. Each one is built around a single idea, runs on tiny made-up data, and exists to …
I ran into this word when Claude explained a hard design decision to me as a web page with diagrams and two clickable demos, and kept calling the demos "toys". I liked it enough to ask where it came f...
What I've been listening to — October 2026
Chat Phreaking
The practice of using unusual or adversarial message patterns to get a language model to do something its guardrails are meant to prevent. The name borrows from *phone phreaking*, the hobby of exploiting the telephone network to do things the phone company didn't intend, like free long-distance call…
Phone phreaking worked because the network of the era carried its control signals in the same audio channel as the voices. Play the right tone down the line, the famous example being 2600 Hz, and the ...