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Brent Morris

@closetgeekshow.ca
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I wear many hats. At work I'm a 🎩 UX Architect. My recreational hats: 🕸 Web Developer, 🕹 Hobbyist Game Developer, 🎙Podfaded Podcaster. closetgeekshow.ca

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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 27/08/2026
Hearing Optimus Prime's voice at the beginning of this album was a mind blowing experience that started me on the realization that musicians were actually just a different kind of nerd.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 26/06/2026
Lol I love/hate it when an llm or a search engine finds me a really good link and I then I realize *I'm* the OP.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 04/06/2026
Hell of an earworm youtube.com/watch?v=XCCW...
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Masks Off
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 02/06/2026
As usual Anthony, cuts through the bullshit and shows why the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank is unethical and not aligned with the Canadian values our govt pretends to hold. open.substack.com/pub/theradco...
open.substack.com
A Missile with Every New Account
For generations, the image of a Canadian abroad was defined by the blue beret of the peacekeeper, a neutral voice in a noisy world.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/05/2026
I was going to dump Ollama purely for performance reasons, I had no idea that they were also shady as hell sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-...
sleepingrobots.com
Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engi...
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 01/05/2026
This "frontier llms corrupt 25% of document content over long edit workflows" thing is kinda wild. Long in this context is 20 turns. arxiv.org/html/2604.15...
arxiv.org
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 14/04/2026
getting a new gaming pc today, haven't had one for over 10 years. It'll run everything in my library that I've lacked the juice to play for almost as long. What's weird is that I couldn't care less about it gaming uses if I tried right now. Thing I'm most excited to run is llmfit.
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/04/2026
this point is everything like, large language models are structurally incapable of fact-checking; you have to assume everything they produce is bullshit (which is why they work with code, because code can be bullshit and still run)
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 20/03/2026
DOOM.css is getting somewhere. Gameplay is pretty much done completely in JavaScript, but the whole rendering is 100% CSS. This map is 768 div's with 3D transforms. Added a nice spectator view as well which is literally just adding a couple of CSS custom properties override for the rendering.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 19/03/2026
@hey.cafe you guys know if any tools for finding people on your network based on their bsky profiles? I remember using something like that to quickly port my follow list from the bird site to Bsky (or maybe it was mastodon)
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 19/03/2026
This is an excellent read on impractical metaphors in the Primer in The Diamond Age but while reading it I'm thinking about LCARS which tends to be one of the underlying fictional techs that i think about a lot andymatuschak.org/primer/
andymatuschak.org
Exorcising us of the Primer
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 03/03/2026
It's not just that we live under private government of the monopolies, but it's private government by casinos. #Rebuild
Slide: We ended up in casinos

Not by choice, but by design platforms built to extract attention, maximise engagement, and serve private profit above all else.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 01/03/2026
Data exported, deleting my ChatGPT account. Yes it is because they made that deal with the DoW. According to the wrapped thing I was in the top 5%ish of users (cant remember exactly, it was very low). Bad enough that Altman is Zuckerberg minus the charisma, I'd hoped that left room for a spine.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/02/2026
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 22/10/2025
Just under a decade ago (lol what even is time?) I used to make cross-genre EDM mixes and put em out on torrent sites and as a podcast. It was called Colours Out Of Space and probably had more downloads and listens than anything I made before or since.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
BUSINESS IDEA: release your game on the 9th of October, and then you can make one of those images promoting your game with "9/10" plastered all over it, regardless of the actual review scores you receive.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 09/10/2025
ever have that thing where you are looking for something obscure online and then the only links about it you can find online are forgotten forum posts from yourself asking about it years ago? Happened 3 times in a row just now. There's gotta be a word in German or something for this feeling.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/10/2025
I wish I had a better understanding of what affects the usage stats on Ona (and really all of these agentic tools I've tried). My OCUs haven't gone up in like a day, I went through 120 OCUs in a few days and then yesterday used it the most yet and they haven't budged
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 02/10/2025
Holy shit Ona (formerly @gitpod.io ) is scarily good at what it does. I've been trying to make a DSL, pointed it at some markdown specs, told it to turn it into a vscode extension and went to bed. I woke up to a working vscode extension. 🤯
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 09/09/2025
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 17/08/2025
Gemini REALLY needs an option for setting a folder to shunt all the Google Docs it exports into. At a global level and chat-specific level. Just opened gdrive and I have ~50 random docs to sort through, some of which are just later versions of the same doc. It's kind of a nightmarish experience.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 12/08/2025
GPT5 did a real good job getting me used to Gemini, it's not the same and it's not the best. But I really like some of the Gems and I really like that IT FUCKING WORKS
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 04/08/2025
What is good design documentation? @grantslatton.bsky.social has a great distillation of the format: "Observation A Observation B Because B, idea C But problems D and E Observation F Therefore idea G And improvement H" grantslatton.com/how-to-desig... I kinda want to make myself a poster of it
grantslatton.com
Writing a good design document
A guide
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 29/07/2025
Is there a framework or something I can use to visualize mechanical interaction in a game design? Something technology agnostic. I've been on a game designy kick of late which is nice. Strangely mechanically focused - usually in my head it's all very hand wavy. More vibes than actual mechanics.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 27/07/2025
@danielzklein.bsky.social I think the enemy movement pattern in Time Wasters might qualify as a good example for the Mechanics Opportunity: Enemy Movement Patterns section. I haven't played it in a while but I seem to recall the enemies sometimes being a clear spiral that tightens around you
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 27/07/2025
@danielzklein.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading Horde Survivor Survivor. I've been designing a bullet heaven game on and off for about a year and your post is some of the best analysis of the genre I've read. Helpful for thinking through the mechanics danielzklein.com/horde-surviv...
danielzklein.com
Horde Survivor Survivor – DanielZKlein
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 21/07/2025
Suddenly remembering I need to export all my Cody shit. Annoyed all over again. I haven't picked a replacement yet, going to see how free tools go for now. Like I get why (Kilo-Code's blog has a good explanation for that blog.kilocode.ai/p/cursors-50...) but also *annoyed sigh*.
blog.kilocode.ai
Cursor’s 500 requests => “unlimited” => 225 requests
Flat-fee pricing doesn't work.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 19/07/2025
There is a serious gap in Canada's commerce ecosystem: no affiliate programs, at least as far as I can tell. The review blogs that exist are all for amazon.ca or directly on big box store websites, often with low review counts. The blogs all use AMZN because they get commissions.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 13/07/2025
A magic friggin LLM prompt: "Give me a MECE summary" MECE I've learned stands for "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive". It's a framework to categorize a set of information exhaustively without any overlaps. I'm finding it perfect for those "summarize everything we talked about" queries
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/07/2025
I was going to code this weekend since the fireball in the sky is trying to kill us. I need to corral my personal projects that have been kind of a mess for the last few months. But the loss of Cody Pro in a few weeks really takes the wind out of my sails. I think I'm going to mope for a bit instead
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/07/2025
So the first principle of Amp is "Amp is unconstrained in token usage (and therefore cost). Our sole incentive is to make it valuable, not to match the cost of a subscription." I asked it to generate an AGENT.md file and it spent 16 cents to generate a 25 line kinda shitty directions file... cool
agent.md
AGENT.md
The AGENT.md file gives guidance to agentic coding tools on codebase structure, build/test commands, architecture, etc.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 05/07/2025
Ugggggh Cody Pro is disappearing at the end of July... I really liked that tool and I've become a much better programmer because of it. Really not enthused about moving to some new thing based on usage credits and more like Cursor and the like.... sourcegraph.com/blog/changes...
sourcegraph.com
Changes to Cody Free, Pro, and Enterprise Starter plans | Sourcegraph Blog
We're announcing important changes to a number of our Cody plans.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 29/04/2025
A pretty excellent post about designing the LCARS screens for Star Trek: Picard. I really liked the insight about blue screens getting bluer due to things like color grading.
ion.studio
25th Century LCARS — ion studio
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 29/04/2025
What the hell @cbcnews.ca, your website should not be allowing ads over top of the article text. That's basic 101 UX stuff. It's not even some special "site takeover promotion" that someone bought (also bad but somewhat explainable). It's just shitty google ads for random crap.
Screenshot of a CBC news article depicting an advertisement covering part of the article text
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 29/04/2025
This is incredibly accurate lol
Graph with axis: Task progress (Y), The illusion of AI Productivity (X), showing spikes in productivity followed by large crashes
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 29/04/2025
i just know some designer’s manager is absolutely SAUCING on the makings of a medium post about how user interface design is ground zero for the resistance
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I quit, but you totally got sh*t canned, little buddy.
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 24/03/2025
@cooklang.bsky.social weird, I was literally wondering if there was a recipe language last night. Thinking about base class meals with different mixins.
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Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Photo of Winston Churchill wearing a military jumpsuit, with the caption "1943: Winston Churchill in the White House. Not wearing a suit because he is at war."
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19/02/2025
'Doug Ford has failed to fix Ontario's ER hospital crisis' ottawacitizen.com/opinion/venu... @raghu-venugopal.bsky.social @dralandrummond.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Dougo
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 19/02/2025
I've been trying to write less embarrassing code and lately have taken to asking LLMs to give me harsh code reviews as if it was Linus Torvalds. It's pretty effective.
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Swizec Teller @swizec.com · 11/02/2025
You've heard that array or list columns in a database are bad. But why? Yesterday it clicked for me 👇 swizec.com/blog/why-the...
swizec.com
*Why* the relational data model is so good | Swizec Teller
You've heard that array or list columns in a database are bad. But why? Yesterday it clicked for me
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 11/02/2025
If you see this, quote a ss of the top 9 songs of your On Repeat playlist on Spotify
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 11/02/2025
On day 3 of creating local embeddings for the Unity Docs, it's been indexing or whatever it does since Sunday evening. Almost there, that is to say it's on 21222 of 32820 files lol
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Richardson Dilworth @richardsondilworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
404media.co
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 09/02/2025
The Gap 🌟 An interactive article about the CSS gap property in Flexbox and Grid. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/the-...
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 09/02/2025
Playing around with building some RAGs for random stuff I'm research/messing around with. One of those things is still Unity. Found this very useful python script to convert the docs to markdown that surprisingly had ZERO stars drastically reduced the size on disk. github.com/midnightroac...
github.com
GitHub - midnightroachmedia/Unity2Markdown: Unity2Markdown is a Python-based application that converts Unity documentation HTML files to Markdown format. It provides a simple graphical user interface ...
Unity2Markdown is a Python-based application that converts Unity documentation HTML files to Markdown format. It provides a simple graphical user interface for easy conversion of single or multiple...
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 09/02/2025
Anyone aware of a good blog that talks about Ollama or local LLMs is general? I don't keep up on what the best/good/interesting models are and I'd love an expert to follow
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Brent Morris @closetgeekshow.ca · 06/02/2025
@graze.social how do I sign up for graze if I have a custom domain profile and not a user.bsky.social?
user.bsky.social
Bluesky
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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
American friends: pls let yr neighbours know that Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada mean that AMERICANS pay 25% more for Canadian goods. We export all kinds of things to you, including cars, oil, lumber, minerals, potash etc. It’s not a tax Canadians are paying. Trump cannot make Canadians pay a tax
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