Maps for The Dying Unicorn side adventure, which did not have any, being a small adventure. I like very large battle maps maps rather than the standard 40x30 or whatever. Ranged with long bows and the like aren’t too fun on tiny maps. Plus, if you end up playing a cat and mouse game, you need space to roam around. Making these maps is also part of the “play,” especially when doing solo D&D. It’s fun to put little potential stories in there. In these, an ancient, ruined temple in one map, and then an abandoned logger camp in another. These are made in Dungeondraft, which is just fine.

In the second one, with the waterfall, I experimented with making the tree tops more transparent. Otherwise, they block those squares making it difficult and irrelevant to see anythign under then. Of course, seeing your people and monsters move around on them (in VTTs) is also difficult. To do this, I put the trees on a layer above the “ground.” Then when I exported it, I set that level at 60% opacity. I think it works well!

To Apple, there is only one time zone. www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…

When the AI policy board is slowing everything down youtube.com/shorts/Xq…

“PRACTICAL ESTHETIC SERVICES ADAPTABLE TO CLIENT SITUATION.” Art card

“Executize this” -> “write this for someone who doesn’t care about the topic but needs to deal with it for their job."

“I couldn’t imagine anything worse than running my dad’s Hooters.” An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl

“Music for Claude Coding.” What I think about when I think about Claude Code

“I was drinking coffee because I was tired, and I was tired because I was drinking coffee. Can not drinking nearly two liters of coffee every day improve your sleep quality? Big if true.” Less Coffee, Better Sleep

Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’

Some enterprise uses of AI. In this case, it feels like it’s all just using a chat app integrated with data - if even that!

“Goldman rolled out its generative AI-powered platform – GS AI Assistant – to all its roughly 46,000 employees in June, telling staff the aim was for it to help with tasks such as summarising complex documents, drafting content and performing data analysis.”

And: “They offer enormous efficiency gains, such as drafting documents for an initial public offering in minutes that previously would have taken months, or quickly sketching out a multiyear investment plan. But they can lack the personal nuance that is crucial in a demanding client service business such as banking, which commands multimillion-dollar fees.”

Also: “So far she says AI has helped her do her job in four key ways: getting quick answers to complex technical questions; summarising the key points within dense documents; editing and polishing her own written work; and brainstorming. Time saved can be spent with colleagues and clients.”

From: “Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance,'" Joshua Franklin, Financial Times, September 14th, 2025

An air fryer means fresh croutons in ten minutes.