Kate Compton
@galaxykate.bsky.social
Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Top notch NYTimes typo today
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November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Top notch NYTimes typo today
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
I've avoided watching Dune and Wicked so far, I feel like I'm accidentally saving up Movie Culture so I can belatedly engage in it like 4 years from now
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've avoided watching Dune and Wicked so far, I feel like I'm accidentally saving up Movie Culture so I can belatedly engage in it like 4 years from now
cranberry sauce is Thanksgiving salsa.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
cranberry sauce is Thanksgiving salsa.
Dreamt of a a video game where i was taken away from a renaissance world to answer judgemental morality questions by sentient space cubes, and in typing that out I’ve realised its just Ultima V again.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Dreamt of a a video game where i was taken away from a renaissance world to answer judgemental morality questions by sentient space cubes, and in typing that out I’ve realised its just Ultima V again.
On the other hand the ADHD gives me time blindness so Ill refer to you as “my dear friend [Games Person]” 15 years after i talked to you once at GDC and can only remember you as your twitter picrew
hard to maintain friendships with game developers because all these motherfuckers have ADHD and forget you exist when you're out of sight (it's me i'm these guys)
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
On the other hand the ADHD gives me time blindness so Ill refer to you as “my dear friend [Games Person]” 15 years after i talked to you once at GDC and can only remember you as your twitter picrew
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
Nyc has many famous kinds of food but where they truly outrank any other city in the world is the breakfast sandwich
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nyc has many famous kinds of food but where they truly outrank any other city in the world is the breakfast sandwich
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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
‘Silver thread and golden needles’ is a terrible material choice, clearly you want silver as your needles for rigidity and gold thread for ductility.
You cant mend your broken heart because you suck at industrial design, Wanda.
You cant mend your broken heart because you suck at industrial design, Wanda.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Silver thread and golden needles’ is a terrible material choice, clearly you want silver as your needles for rigidity and gold thread for ductility.
You cant mend your broken heart because you suck at industrial design, Wanda.
You cant mend your broken heart because you suck at industrial design, Wanda.
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The both kinds of Dwarf Fortress fans:
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The both kinds of Dwarf Fortress fans:
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms.
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms.
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
I delivered a 1 hr keynote entirely in ASMR whisper (due to acute laryngitis) and it worked?
Much gratitude to the #AIIDE2025 audience, who really took on my interactive miro slides and made a happy pile of scribbles
Much gratitude to the #AIIDE2025 audience, who really took on my interactive miro slides and made a happy pile of scribbles
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I delivered a 1 hr keynote entirely in ASMR whisper (due to acute laryngitis) and it worked?
Much gratitude to the #AIIDE2025 audience, who really took on my interactive miro slides and made a happy pile of scribbles
Much gratitude to the #AIIDE2025 audience, who really took on my interactive miro slides and made a happy pile of scribbles
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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Friends! On November 19th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Florence Smith Nicholls. The talk is titled How to be a video game archaeologist. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/floren...
How To Be A Video Game Archaeologist - A talk by Florence Smith Nicholls | Center for Digital Play
How To Be A Video Game Archaeologist - A talk by Florence Smith Nicholls
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November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Friends! On November 19th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Florence Smith Nicholls. The talk is titled How to be a video game archaeologist. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/floren...
Among the several bad things about an ear canal infection is that i keep trying to take off my headphones only to realise i am not wearing any
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Among the several bad things about an ear canal infection is that i keep trying to take off my headphones only to realise i am not wearing any
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AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
| Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intera...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
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92 - Bus Stop *
Bus stops must be easy to recognize, and pleasant, with enough activity around them to make people comfortable and safe.
Bus stops must be easy to recognize, and pleasant, with enough activity around them to make people comfortable and safe.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
92 - Bus Stop *
Bus stops must be easy to recognize, and pleasant, with enough activity around them to make people comfortable and safe.
Bus stops must be easy to recognize, and pleasant, with enough activity around them to make people comfortable and safe.