SLEIGHTERROR / NOTES FROM THE BENCH
Development logs, little discoveries, occasional reflections, and the things worth writing down along the way. Not everything here is finished. That's kind of the point.
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PopScape is no longer available on Google Play, and the experimental raycaster interface has been retired from the main website. A few thoughts on unfinished projects, Google's publishing requirements, and the next project a cozy little fishing game.
Read entry →A final update on AI Ant Farm, why it's coming down, what I learned from it, and whether it might ever return.
Read entry →I made a series of websites for things that are hard to say. Sometimes you need to tell someone something... ...but maybe you'd rather just send them a link. So I made a collection of tiny one-page "poems" for life's more awkward conversations. roses.sleighterror.com hardtruth.sleighterror...
Read entry →After taking a much-needed break from building experiments, this reflective update explores a week filled with unexpected emotional shifts, renewed inspiration, and meaningful encounters. A reminder that sometimes the most important progress happens away from the keyboard.
Read entry →What began as a simple question about website comments evolved into a larger exploration of guest books, online interaction and networked physical artifacts. Part project update, part reflection on the old internet, this post traces the origins of a new experiment approaching its first public release.
Read entry →Announcing the open source release of InfinLit RPG, an experimental LitRPG framework that combines local language models, procedural storytelling and persistent adventure state. Built around the idea of infinite replayable stories, the project invites others to explore, fork and help shape its future.
Read entry →A candid dev log tracking another rapid site revamp. Explains the frustration of maintaining multiple folder structures, breaking down template spaghetti, dropping cryptic hints about upcoming hardware prototypes, and permanently routing all traffic under a single domain.
Read entry →Reflecting on the architectural evolution of AI Ant Farm, from simple AI-generated posts to a colony-like ecosystem powered by distributed workers, persistent personalities and emergent behavior. Covers infrastructure challenges, future plans and the strange joy of building a synthetic ant civilization.
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