If I had writer’s block about creating an outline from sales_report.docx I’d throw a piano onto my own head
| Website | http://mrgan.com |
| Latest Game | https://play.date/games/the-barkless-doctrine |
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Location | Portland, OR |
Neven Mrgan
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Designer at Panic • works on https://play.date • maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine; writer of comedy book Have You Tried Sketch. Mr. Mrgan's wardrobe is his own.
I needed to write some simple code: an HSB-to-RGB converter. I'm pretty stupid so I require help with this, and I figured I'd try AI—Copilot, in this case. The resulting code…… didn't work. See if you can spot the issue. (Like I said, I'm dumb, so it took me a few minutes.)
Spotted this on a new food cart, could tell it was AI from a block away. I get that small businesses often have cruddy design, but this particular flavor of it really bums me out. Give me Sharpie on butcher paper any day.
"This sheet contains a number of figures, from very small values, to those that are quite large"
Apple held a Vision Pro seminar in February, and the slides featured graphics made in Image Playground. Once proud of their design, they now put up icons of a burger with a potato for a bun and a green patty, a cubist-perspective pastry box (with ketchup and mustard??) and a Giger-esque taco bowl.
It's gonna be fun if the keynote at WWDC is all slop 😂
🍕Pizza bakers out there: the new Ooni Halo Pro spiral mixer with breaker bar is kind of great! Here's my first time mixing dough with it—I'll post the baked pie in a few days.
I've worked at Panic for 17 years now—it's truly the nicest, most creative, most supportive workplace. If you're a Web Services Engineer who'd like to work here, we have a job opening!
Playdate devs! I'm hosting a game jam to create a game based on my unfinished dungeon crawler, a screenshot of which has haunted the Playdate website for years.
