I made a random number generator API that used a shared caps lock key as entropy (https://eieio.games/blog/the-global-capslock-key/). It didn't really work because bots made everything kind of deterministic. But it's kind of weird.
When I visited London a few years ago I went to the British Library and stumbled into their collection (and it was incredibly impressive). I had no idea they had two original Magna Cartas. If you have a chance to see the document at Harvard, you should! It's really something.
The Harvard document is a copy of Edward I's 1297 Great Charter that is still partly in force today.
There were earlier versions of the Magna Carta; originally authored by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1215, rejected, revised and eventually reissued and negotiated (largely by force) by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke in 1217.
> impossible deadlines and lots of pressure at work
Freelancing/consulting has unfortunately a lot of this. It helps if you start within your existing network, but once you branch out it gets stressful trying to please your clients.
On using MCP servers with Claude: It's actually been kind of annoying. Sometimes I just need a quick script to copy/paste and it tries to connect to a GitHub repo or write to a local file even when I specify I don't want those things. Overall they're the behavior when using them is wildly inconsistent when I use them. It's annoying I have to manually shut off the MCP servers to get what I want.
I updated the catalogue of movies and added some internal tools to my movies released on YouTube website: We Love Free Movies (https://welovefreemovies.com/). It's hard to share it because it gets flagged because of the name... But yeah, planning to add search, design touch ups, more movies, etc. this year.
Also working out the logistics of offering a microgrant to award people who want to make movies like this!
Game jams might be interesting, especially 24-hour ones. Someone who uses an LLM to handle some coding tasks can focus on the art and mechanics. I think it would still challenging and fair with vibe coding.
Experienced game designers have a lot of tooling and libraries of previous code they can borrow to make prototypes quickly. AI would level the playing field.
Read.cv was the only professional networking website that I enjoyed using (and many others too). It was authentic, unpretentious, and without gimmicks. If anyone wants to make something similar, look at what they did for inspiration.
