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Dancing Monkeys

Shahid Kamal Ahmad

Developer since 1982. Commissioned No Man's Sky and Hellblade at PlayStation. Wrote Code is Just. Back at the keyboard with Freeholder.

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Making Beds with ADHD

Why do I make the bed? I don’t just make it. I go full on ADHD hospital bed style. Military even. So why? I mean it’s only going to get messed up again.

For the same reason that a Coca-Cola executive once chided a plant manager when he ask...

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Reverie

Reverie is the journal that plays your writing back to you.

Reverie is the first commercial software I've shipped in 44 years of programming that isn't a game.

I used AI to build it, but it features no AI within the code itself. Like me,...

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My Journal App Found Its Voice

I’ve been using Day One for fifteen years. It has been the trusted repository for my thoughts and memories through thick and thin, it’s had a remarkable run. If you’re happy with where it’s going, I’d still recommend it.

Where it’s going i...

22 days ago
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Code Is Just is now on Kindle

No posts for months and then two at the same time, you can tell I’m from London!

No apologies though, I’ve been building things. One of them is finally ready. The other I hinted at yesterday is called Reverie, and will be out soon.

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A Place That Doesn't Talk Back

I recently opened Day One, the journal app I’ve been using for over 15 years, to be confronted with this.

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