Writing

Field notes

Build decisions, search experiments and lessons from my projects.

• 2026-10-04

  Using Steam reviews to build AI playtesting personas

  While building a marketing-agency sim, I wanted design questions grounded in what players already care about. This prototype collects Steam reviews of comparable games, turns their themes into personas, and carries the resulting suggestions through to reviewed code changes.

  • experiments
  • game dev

• 2026-10-04

  Why I'm building a custom blog CMS instead of using WordPress

  I am building a personal project diary where AI can propose articles from my repository work and the conversations I make available. A custom CMS lets me shape that writing process around my own thinking and ideas.

  • build notes
  • writing