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著者： Michael Rowe Michael Martine Andy Piper
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At the nexus of games, work, and techCopyright Games at Work dot Biz, 2012-2026 政治・政府
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  • e560 — Sweating the Small Stuff

    e560 — Sweating the Small Stuff
    2026/07/06
    Photo by nik biziuk on Unsplash Published 6 July 2026 e560 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stickshift & phone handsets with Ian Bogost, camping at EMF Camp 2026 & Mountain Quest 2026, brain cooling, dwarf lemurs, World Cup 2026, USMNT, ThreeLions, the tokenpocalypse and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael get things started with a TechCrunch interview with Ian Bogost on his about to be published book, The Small Stuff. Building on the success of his article on the demise of the stick shift, Ian wrote a book that focuses on the details of life that make a difference. The cohosts harken back all the way to episode 17 in August of 2012 when Ian was a guest on the podcast. Part of the discussion from the article focused on the nature of the telephone handset, which brought the EMF Camp telecommunications setup to mind for Andy. Electromagnetic Telecom allows anyone attending EMF to register a phone number on the network and communicate with other participants. Speaking of camping, Michael M shares an overview video of Mountain Quest 2026, where he was a participant the prior weekend in the mountains of North Carolina. It’s hot in the UK and in North Carolina – so the maker article about the brain turbocharger looked to be a welcome relief from the heat. This modified construction helmet recognizes when the user has been thinking hard and signals multiple fans built into the helmet to cool things down so the user’s brain does not overheat from overclocking. Recent discussions on the podcast about the Steam hardware made the BC250 an intriguing topic. Michael R recounts his recent trip to the Duke Lemur Center to see the small Fat-tailed dwarf lemur. And in the small and cool category, the team considers the “Impossible Watch” from D1 Milano. The cohosts then take a brief World Cup interlude from the tech discussions. While neither Michael is what you may consider a ‘bandwagon’ fan for the World Cup, the Lay’s potato chip television commercial is pretty funny. Check out the embedded video below. At the time of recording and writing, both England and the USA are still in the hunt for the cup – best wishes to both national teams! Wrapping up the episode, the team discusses the tokenpocalypse. The 404 Media article highlights how companies are have gone from tokenmaxxing to tokenhoarding as the price point for AI is soaring. Have you been impacted by restrictions on your token usage? Have your bots 🤖 (if you can spare the tokens!) drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links Beating the heat by sweating the small stuff TechCrunch article: Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from too much convenience Small Stuff Book by Ian Bogost The Atlantic article: The End of Manual Transmission Games at Work e17: Things Are Weirder Than Expected (for special guest Ian Bogost) Electromagnetic Telecom plc (phones at EMF Camp) Are the North Carolina mountains a rainforest? Yes. Makers (staying cool with cool stuff) Arduino blog post: Brain hot from serious thinking? This helmet automatically cools your head Aftermath article: Bless The BC250, The Budget E-waste Steam Machine Photo by Michael Rowe at the Duke Lemur Center, Durham North Carolina July 2026 Wikipedia article: Fat-tailed dwarf lemur Duke Lemur Center Gear Patrol article: This May Be the First Kickstarter Watch I’d Actually Consider Buying World Cup – England and US still in at recording time! Data Guessr site: Who wins if not football decides? Token Throttling 404 Media article: Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
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  • e561 — For the Birds

    e561 — For the Birds
    2026/07/13
    Photo by Michael Martine, South Yarmouth MA, July 2026 Published 13 July 2026 e561 with Michael, Andy and Michael – arial-aquatic robotic locomotion, Puffin wingspan, e-ink mini PDAs, maker marketplaces such as Tindie, Lectronz and SmallRun, custom vinyl, cooperative LLMs and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael get things started with a new robot that can fly and swim, and transition between the air and water on it’s own. This amazing feat was inspired by diving birds such as the puffin. This story inspired the cohosts to consider the wingspan of the puffin, and while writing up the show notes, the Wingspan boarding game and the airborne velocity of the swallow. Switching to non-robotic tech, the team take a look at the PocketMage PDA, which then opens up a whole discussion on (dare we say vintage) other PDAs, and the maker culture of EMF Camp, where Andy is spending some time as discussed in e560. Crowdsupply’s Open Printer article primed the team for a number of favorite maker marketplaces which you can check out in the show notes below. Examples like Tindie, Lectronz and SmallRun all get the benefit of the Games at Work bump. And a google search turns up another SmallRun website that provides the service of creating custom vinyl for recordings, and inspires Andy on a potential gift. The team then looks at a couple of YouTube videos where a number of different LLMs are tasked to work collaboratively to play Pico Park. You can see these below, and it is an intriguing way to consider how multiple autonomous agents may work together (or not) in other contexts. In e173 in 2017, the cohosts discussed an example of two Google Homes talked to one another on Twitch. Rounding out the episode, there is an Inc article on what happened when the Starbucks app had a failure. The behavior was very reminiscent of last week’s discussion on Ian Bogost’s new book, The Small Stuff. The article concludes “Connivence creates its own fragility” – what an interesting turn of phrase. Have you had an example of when convenience created fragility for you? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links Avian Robotic Technology NPR article: A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies Science article: Leaping out of the water: Aerial-aquatic locomotion with flapping wings Audubon Bird Guide: Atlantic Puffin (for the wingspan in case you’re curious) Stonemaier Games Wingspan Interesting Engineering article: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow More Technology The Verge article: The PocketMage resurrects the PDA with an e-paper screen EMF Camp Sellshirts: HTTPShirts Wikipedia article: T-Mobile Sidekick Wikipedia article: Danger, Inc. Crowdsupply article: Open Printer – Progress Update & Details About Our Nomination for a French Design Award! Society for Hopeful Technologists Tindie Lectronz SmallRun smallrun.com.au Games experienced with AI (shhhhhh…) Pico Park for Switch Games at Work e173: Babel Fish (for two Google Homes talking to one another #seebotschat) When tech goes wrong Inc article: Starbucks’s App Went Down This Morning. What Customers Did Next Is a Warning for Every Business
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    35 分
  • e559 – Welcome to the Matrix

    e559 – Welcome to the Matrix
    2026/06/29

    Photo by Francis Painchaud on Unsplash

    Published 29 June 2026

    e559 with Michael R and Andy – it’s a catch-up and geek out on things we’ve been doing, games we’ve been playing, and topics we’ve been thinking about… including Apple history, Retro Computing, and self-hosting services.

    A slightly different show format this week, as Michael R and Andy decide not to cover the weekly news stories and links… and instead catch up with one another, across a range of topics.

    Michael has backed a new Kickstarter, for a podcast talking about Apple’s background and history in California. Andy talks about his recent visit to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester, UK.

    Then, there’s a discussion of Andy’s latest work project, a new role at the Matrix.org Foundation. There’s a dive into what the Matrix protocol is and how it is used; Michael is considering whether it might be worth trying as an alternative to existing tools for our podcast workflow.

    They also stop to discuss Markdown; Michael traces it back to Waterloo Script on IBM 3081 and WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes. Andy brings up Google Cloud’s “Open Knowledge Format” (essentially Markdown + YAML front matter) as an AI-readable standard.

    The gaming section covers Michael ordering the D&D-themed Demeo game. Andy has neglected his Meta headset for six months but has been hooked on Forza Horizon 6.

    Finally Michael wants a single “home page” for all of his communities (Slack, Discord, RSS, forums). Andy uses Glance on his homelab for a dashboard, with Uptime Kuma monitoring the show’s infrastructure.

    Thanks for joining our one-to-one this week! Let us know what you thought!

    Selected links
    • “Designed in California” on Kickstarter
    • Retro Computer Museum
    • the Matrix.org Foundation
      • This Week in Matrix 2026-06-26
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUSX1Hm201c
    • Matrix Overview
    • Continuwuity (a Matrix homeserver)
    • Google Open Knowledge Format
    • Forza Horizon 6 – get a DeLorean
    • Glance app
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    27 分
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