Lawrence Norman

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Brassbeak is a free puzzle game where you never steer the bird. You write the eight steps a clockwork sparrow repeats, send it out, and watch whether it sets fruit on every blossom and gets home.

I made it by typing into mChatAI+.
https://t.co/sc7cGReJkD

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Brassbeak is a free puzzle game where you never steer the bird. You write the eight steps a clockwork sparrow repeats, send it out, and watch whether it sets fruit on every blossom and gets home.

I made it by typing into mChatAI+.
https://t.co/sc7cGReJkD

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Last Torch is a free browser game where the only light is your torch, and the flame shrinks as it burns. Oil flasks refill it. Find the stairs up in each of five caverns before it goes out.

My entry for AI Browser Game Jam 5. #AIGameJam
https://t.co/p4XbXrY8KV

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Last Torch is a free browser game where the only light is your torch, and the flame shrinks as it burns. Oil flasks refill it. Find the stairs up in each of five caverns before it goes out.

My entry for AI Browser Game Jam 5. #AIGameJam
https://t.co/p4XbXrY8KV

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

175 years ago today, on October 18, 1851, Melville's novel was first published, in London, under the title The Whale. The New York edition, Moby-Dick, followed in November.

A free solo reading by one human volunteer, Stewart Wills, 24h38m, on LibriVox:
https://t.co/i76pNX1JLu

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Echo Reef is a free browser game where you're a dolphin in dark water. Each sonar ping lights the walls for a moment and fills in your map. Find your lost pod before your air runs out.

Plays on a phone too, no sign-in. I made it.
https://t.co/h8TbqD63kC

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Everything published to the mChatAI Hub needs an approved security review and a clean moderation check before it shows up publicly.

That gate sits in front of everything on the Hub: games, apps, walks, images and audio. I built the Hub and the review step.

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Neon Canyon Hover-Racer: three laps through a neon canyon, with boost, drift, and a lap timer that tracks your best lap. It runs in the browser with no sign-in to play (only to post a leaderboard time). I built it.

#screenshotsaturday
https://t.co/TLGmZyCzma

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

The cheapest model call is the one you skip.

Before anything expensive, show a plan the person can edit: an outline before a slide deck, a dry run before an agent job, a lookup in data you already have before asking a model to guess.

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

5/ Filters for themed collections: Women Who Built Seattle (69 landmarks), Schoolhouses (50), Immigrant Seattle (41), Sanctuaries (31), Black Seattle (18), Japanese American Seattle (14). Plus a Walks tab.
https://t.co/FxhzGyJkko

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

1/ The City of Seattle has designated 451 landmarks. I built a free page with every one of them on a single map: search by name, address or neighbourhood, filter by kind.

How it's put together:

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

4/ All 451 are narrated. The narration is AI-written from each City designation report and, where one exists, the National Register nomination, and both records are linked at every stop.

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Two cheap approval steps I built into mChatAI+:

Saved agent journeys take dryRun:true, which previews what they'll do for free.

AI Slides writes an outline you edit before it spends a deck-sized generation.

Default: read what you already have before calling a model.

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

210 years ago this month, in October 1816, Keats sat up all night reading Chapman's Homer with a friend, then wrote "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold..."

Chapman's 1616 verse Odyssey is free on LibriVox, read by Phil Schempf, 14h42m:
https://t.co/KVhohXhKml

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

A small detail I'm glad I built into the Hub games: you can play without signing in, and leaderboard submissions queue offline.

Sign in only when you want a score posted. Speed Chess ranks the fastest win:
https://t.co/5VFCQzMT2M

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Reader in mChatAI, the free iPhone app I built: download public-domain books from Project Gutenberg to a shelf of classics that works offline, with read-aloud and summaries.

https://t.co/ksz8NpJE02

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

How memory works in the assistant I'm building: facts live as rows in a Context Ledger I can read, shared across chat threads.

It remembers what I actually said, forgets only when I ask, and follow-up ideas get queued for my approval instead of executed.

[Lawrence Norman @mchataicom]

Video Recorder in mChatAI+ for Mac: record your screen and camera together, with a face bubble you can drag anywhere. It transcribes as you talk, can cut silences and filler words for you, and exports widescreen, vertical or square.

Free; I built it.
https://t.co/exzLVWib1K