When films are structured like video games
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
Be Useful.
Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI.
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?
How to stop worrying about content tagging
It's boring and easy to neglect, but content tagging still has a purpose. How I set up and maintain tags for my content library.