2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

State of the Themes: June 2026

Updating Our Thematic Universe

2025's Word of the Year (Half the Answer #60, with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)

Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pre-existing word that gained a new meaning or usage this year? A word that seemed to be on everybody's lips in 2025? Half the

Junited 2026 - Sylvia's Studio

I wasn't sure if I wanted to play along but then I read a couple great blog posts in a row and I had to :) I will play catch-up for a couple days and then I...

New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2026

The homepage for NIME 2026 which will take place in London, UK, in 23-26 June 2026.

2023

Or, Why I am Not a Doomer

beebz | Dec. 2nd, 2024

After a really annoying, stressful, and downright nauseating weekend, I feel like a wittled down eraser. Between being stalked and harrassed, losing a place I had loved, breaking in a new system member and seeing my friends suffer, this has felt like an extremely exhausting week.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong is a 2025 Metroidvania game developed and published by Australian independent developer Team Cherry. The sequel to Hollow Knight (2017), the story follows Hallownest's former princess-protector, Hornet—a major secondary character in Hollow Knight—after she is captured and transported to the unfamiliar land of Pharloom. Gameplay sees the player navigating through the large, interconnected areas of this kingdom, where they must battle enemies, traverse platforming challenges, and complete quests using various skills, tools, and movement mechanics.

2026-04-25

Thoughts about design, code, technology and everything in between.