2026-05-13
Knitting && The 20 Games Challenge
A few brief notes:
Knitting
I am fully back into sock knitting, after a yearish hiatus. The main motivator has been a craft circle that I recently joined - it is a ton of fun and really inspiring. I have been focusing on Kate Atherley’s sock framework, and have just completed a “training sock” which is basically a mini sock with weird proportions, aiming to quickly get through all the basic components of the sock.
Next up: the training sock two-at-a-time
LLMs
I briefly hinted in my last post at some work I was doing to keep my personal workspace in order, using LLMs. This has proven helpful and useful still, but worth noting it was essentially a one-time effort (at least as of now). I think for many people the allure of LLMs is that they can constantly create and/or tweak. I am not particularly interested in that, at the moment. Generally speaking, I think I am done talking and thinking about them as tools - I will continue to use them at work, and occassionally in my personal life, but I’m done with this topic dominating my mental space. I would rather just use them (when appropriate) and move on.
The 20 Games Challenge
At $DAYJOB I am doing increasingly little programming
work (as opposed to engineering and management work), so I have been
revisiting PICO-8, through the lens of The 20 Game Challenge -
which is a pretty simple prompt: remake 10-20 increasingly complicated
games to become intimately familiar with your framework, tools, and
preferred paradigms. I have been working on pong on and off for the last
two weeks and it has been a perfect after-work re-focus activity. I hope
to write more on the process soon, as well as sharing something.