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2026-05-11

Game

SIGNAL update

Fixed AI Caller failing to generate clues. Root cause: the model was thinking out loud before the JSON. Now uses a system prompt and JSON extraction fallback so clues always come through. "Caller thinking" animation no longer shows redundant status text beneath it.

2026-05-11

Game

SIGNAL update

AI Caller now has three personalities: Logical, Playful, and Cryptic. Clues now go through a second validation pass to catch trap associations before you see them. Clue explanations no longer read like audit reports. Word pool expanded to ~480 words.

2026-05-11

Game

SIGNAL update

Solo mode now has Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty. Player stats tracking added — win rate, streaks, fastest win, opponent history, and a global leaderboard. AI trap avoidance improved. Score screen now explains itself in plain English.

2026-05-11

Roads

Monk Mode

Fuzzy onesie, coffee at 7, didn't open the van door until 3. New song out. The wheel with spokes: each stop, pour work in, turn again. Route 67 and the North Rim open Friday. We'll probably go in Saturday.

2026-05-11

Music

All the Marbles

Some things you go for completely or not at all. This is what that sounds like.

2026-05-11

Music

It Was a Dream

A brief connection that was exactly what it needed to be.

2026-05-10

Music

Chasing the Butter

The theme song. One phrase, on a loop, because that's all it needs.

2026-05-10

Music

What a Time

The first Chasing the Butter single. Produced in the desert, at the edge of a canyon, during a moment in history that has no precedent.

2026-05-10

Roads

Jacob Lake

Shannon's 4x4 exit: drone, GoPro, walkie talkies, the works. Drove 4,000 feet up to Jacob Lake. Climbed the lookout tower. Ordered a game camera. The mysterious 2:55am footsteps finally made the case.

2026-05-08

Game

SIGNAL

A collaborative 2-player word game. One Caller sees which words are targets and which are traps. One Finder sees the same grid with no markings. Give clues, make guesses, find all 7 signals before 3 lives run out.

2026-05-09

Roads

The Heat

Last morning at the canyon. 100 degrees in the van, UV 9, nowhere to hide. Found the adapter under the mattress after a week of searching. At some point I rode five miles around the canyon rim completely naked on the OneWheel and got drone footage of it. That felt like an awful lot of freedom in one act.

2026-05-08

Roads

The Shower

Greg's last night. Shannon walked back to his site in the dark with a headlamp and rode the bike home. A teaspoon of pink Himalayan salt in each liter and the leg cramps cleared up. Four months in and still learning. The drone footage here is some of the best I've ever gotten.

2026-05-07

Roads

The Rope

950 feet down to the water. A blue rope anchored by a stranger, a two-foot ledge, a boulder that bowed out from the wall. The moment I realized there was only one way out. Two reckonings with mortality in 24 hours.

2026-05-06

Fix

ISM: stronger prompt following, duplicate branch display

Generation now treats the reader's seed prompt as a required destination rather than a suggestion. When two branches share an opening sentence, the display expands to show a second sentence so they can be told apart.

2026-05-06

Roads

The Wind

Wind howling, van shaking, eight feet from the edge of a 950-foot cliff. Making peace with it. The energy cost of moving camp. The view you never get used to. Walkie talkies.

2026-05-05

Roads

The Spot

Days of coveting the truck camper's spot. Hard drive saga finally done, DJ gear running. Then the guy moved. Ninety minutes later, the most memorable campsite I've been in.

2026-05-04

Update

About page rewritten

New bio reflecting the current reality. Removed the career history. Added a contact form.

2026-05-04