DEFAULT You didn’t choose me. You just didn’t uncheck the box.

this is absolutely lateral transmission and not an independent evolution

What if Patchwork were a compositional modeling environment?

Fall pleasure: Cast-iron radiator’s warmth rising through corrugated cardboard cat-throne. Makes a boy dozy.

There's quite a lot of next-gen stuff that's a little out of sight at the moment, you'll have to bear with us while we get it organized. Right now @orionreed.com is focused on these things.

We need to publish some written material, is the short answer, but the code is up on our GitHub if you’re feeling adventurous.

Have you looked at the idea of "legacy games"? They're quite an interesting design space where the game's rules explicitly evolve from session to session.

Paul and I had a long conversation about this exact topic. What would the "keywords" be, how could you expand the set at runtime, and so on... I think this concept is quite promising but needs some elbow grease to see if it's more than a mirage.

Ah yeah, that is mostly @paulsonnentag.bsky.social stuff! It deserves a whole talk (as do most of the other segments there) and is still pretty raw. It comes out of searching for different ways of composing software capabilities and is inspired in part by card games.

So glad it went well! Thank you for bringing people together around these ideas. It's no small thing to hold the space.

Thanks, Andy. We definitely overstuffed the sausage on this one (there was just so much new work we wanted to share), but we can go into more detail on any of it with lab notes & essay content.

Local-First Conf 2026 is back, and I want to hear what everyone's been doing this year. What have you built? What have you learned? How about interesting challenges we need to overcome?