The last post covered the cyberdeck's gameplay loop: contracts, mission graphs, RPS combat, chain storylines, three-path endgame. With those bones in place I spent the next few days fleshing out the world around them. The OPERATOR isn't just running missions anymore; they're moving through a city that has its own …

I've spent the last couple weeks turning the cyberdeck from "a thing that talks to you in cyberpunk-flavored ways" into something that's actually a game. Now there's a real loop: you take contracts from fixers, you run them through one of several gameplay modes, the world reacts, your reputation moves …

Like a lot of people, I've been spending a ton of time with AI tools over the past few years. I wrote previously about how Claude Code reinvigorated my relationship with code by getting me out of the busy-work layer and back to the parts of building software that I …

The idea of hot-swappable AI "cores" is central to the fiction of the cyberdeck I'm building. Each core has a distinct personality, communication style, and set of capabilities. Some of them are just for fun and variety. They all bring something unique to the overall experience. I've built the supporting …

My relationship with code has changed a lot over the past 30 years. Giving an idea life on a computer screen has always thrilled me, ever since the time of staying up late writing MadLibs programs in QBasic with my friends. I've been writing code professionally for nearly two decades …