Posts

Jul 2025

(Gradient) Descent into Mediocrity

While the rest of the world loses its collective mind over artificial intelligence, Tasmania is sitting on an amazing competitive advantage… …

Jul 2025

Space News, July 2025

These are my notes and expanded thoughts from this month’s Space News segment on ABC Radio Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania. Every month I join …

Jun 2025

/dev/world and X World are back!

CFP open now! I’m thrilled to, once again, be helping run two of my favourite conferences in the world: /dev/world and X World! Both are …

May 2025

Don't use Wise

Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it. We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were …

Apr 2025

Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner

You’ve been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner… 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn …

Mar 2025

Constraints are the Point

I get it. I disagree with it, but I get it. The tech industry is throwing obscene amounts of money at LLMs. VCs are salivating over AI startups. The …

Mar 2025

Beyond Bad Output

The Deeper Problems with AI in Creative Work “But AI will get better at writing stories, won’t it?” This response to my rant about …

Mar 2025

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development …

Feb 2025

Yarn Spinner at GDC 2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Jon, from the Secret Lab and Yarn Spinner team will be presenting a talk at the GDC this year in San Francisco: …

Feb 2025

SAGE 2025

Today, I got back from the South Australian Game Exhibition 2025 (SAGE). It was an expo and mini-conference with a showcase, and an awards night, run …

Feb 2025

TasICT Creative Technologies Event

Update: This event is now passed, and it went great! I’m incredibly excited to be speaking at the upcoming TasICT event in Hobart, alongside the …