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Last Light in the Dark drops June 15 — five weeks. For May, the Raven's Peak trilogy gets its month, and a straight note on where Ashen 3 actually is.
Meet Kate Morrison
She's nine years old, alone on a corrupted moon base, and she hears a song that shouldn't exist. How Kate Morrison became the heart of a nine-book series.
My Take on Why I Made Claude Code Tap Me on the Shoulder
Terminals are a firehose. IDEs already have a notification system. Notification Bridge bolts the two together so my coding agent can tap me on the shoulder.
Your IDE Should Have an API (Here's Why I Built Two)
Your IDE already knows your SDK, dependencies, terminals, and project structure. All that data is locked inside the process. I built two JetBrains plugins to fix that — and I think it's a pattern every local tool should follow.
Why Written Dialogue Sounds Nothing Like Real Conversation
Good dialogue isn't a recording of how people actually talk. It's a magic trick — stylized, compressed, and nothing like real speech. Here's why that paradox is the whole point.
The Covenant Files: A World Lore Deep-Dive
Chicago as a theological city, the bureaucratic cosmos of Heaven and Hell, the biology of Nephilim grace, and the architecture beneath all five books of The Covenant Files.
The World Beneath the Lie: A Lore Deep-Dive into The Darklands
A deep-dive into the cosmology of The Darklands — the Church of the Lord of Light, the Mithras faith and the doctrine of dormant magic, the lie about the Collapse, and the property machine underneath thirty years of witch hunts. Spoilers for the entire trilogy.
Build Your Dream Zoo: Zoo Simulator is Live on Alexa
Zoo Simulator is now live on Amazon Alexa. Build a zoo from scratch, collect 42 species, breed rare genetic variants, and manage your dream sanctuary with your voice.
Behind the Scenes: World Lore Deep-Dive — Graveyard of Empires
A paid-tier deep-dive into the three load-bearing systems of Graveyard of Empires: the Vanguard neural implants and their alien origin, the Republic's institutional architecture of atrocity, and the six-hundred-year patience of the Arcadia.
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