Tools / 13 min read
What If the Whole Computer Changed Faster Than You Could Hack It?
What happens if we stop trying to make software impossible to understand, and instead make what an attacker understands expire before they can use it?
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Your first campaign in Stupid People
Choose an employer, read your first argument, and build a deck through the Breadwinner browser demo.
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Tools / 3 min read
Neuron is the system. Orion is the agent.
Giving the agent a name clarified a larger design question: who owns the work when a conversation ends?
Tools / 3 min read
Teach the team to own the workflow
Brainn for Business starts with one repeated task, a result people can check, and a team that knows how to run it again.
Tools / 3 min read
When the hooks block the repair
A terminal cascade exposed a hard requirement for our agent harness: recovery has to work when the normal execution path is blocked.
Games / 4 min read
I asked for the bad reviews before we had players
Imagining opposite reactions to Stupid People exposed useful playtest questions, especially the risk of a good first run with no reason for a second.
Games / 4 min read
Making the game clearer nearly removed its personality
Stupid People's interface revisions taught us to reduce reading pressure while preserving the conversation, illustrated cards and visible player choices.
Games / 4 min read
The deployment succeeded. The browser disagreed.
Putting Stupid People online exposed a gap between a successful deployment and the response the browser actually received.
Games / 4 min read
Designing game choices you can actually understand
What Stupid People's card and consequence system taught us about exact numbers, honest uncertainty, and keeping the player in control.
Tools / 4 min read
The page had content. Navigation made it disappear.
Brainn.dev's Work and Research lists exposed a state ownership bug that a direct page load could miss.
Tools / 4 min read
Stop the command. Keep the terminal.
Neuron's terminal work exposed a small but consequential distinction between ending an operation and turning off a capability.
Games / 4 min read
Your first campaign in Stupid People
Choose an employer, read your first argument, and build a deck through the Breadwinner browser demo.
Tools / 4 min read
Make an editable workflow diagram with TurtlePen
Start with a real six-step example, reuse its prompt, and keep the editable drawing alongside the finished SVG.
Tools / 4 min read
A green check still needs a pair of eyes
Building TurtlePen's gallery showed why geometry checks, visual inspection and an editable source file each earn their place in the workflow.
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