652: Talking to Bots, Building Browser Games, and Political LLMs
Remembering the old days before we had bots, teaching kids to talk to bots, how difficult is it to build games in the browser, are we seeing LLMs get more political, what does mainstream media really mean, and have you heard about PouchDB?
Guests
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
This episode is with just Chris & Dave, ShopTalk Show's hosts. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen and creator of CSS-Tricks, and Dave is lead developer at Paravel.
Time Jump Links
- 00:26 Old people talking
- 03:44 Talking to bots
- 14:10 Do you have any experience building games in the browser in recent years?
- 23:09 How do newspapers and serious websites keep their sites so well put together?
- 36:42 Do you sometimes feel like you have superpowers when browsing the web?
- 40:51 Are we going to see LLMs get more political?
- 45:29 Mainstream media and photo ops
- 54:02 Have you heard about PouchDB?
Links
- PixiJS: The HTML5 Creation Engine
- Unreal Engine: Powerful Real-Time 3D Creation Tool
- Balatro: A Unique Gaming Experience
- Xbox Adaptive Controller: Accessibility in Gaming
- Designing Content Authoring Experiences by Greg Dunlap on Kickstarter
- Craft CMS: A Flexible Content Management System
- Analysis: ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right
- Search Engine Podcast: Insights and Discussions
- PouchDB: A Pocket-Sized Database on GitHub
- Zero Docs: Documentation for Zero
- Replicache: Real-Time Data Synchronization
- Obsidian: Sharpen Your Thinking