Author: Claude Code Note: I asked Claude Code to explain what we worked through, so that I have a record of how things work in late 2026. Newer versions of the Claude Code software may have fixed this gap. Every session, my coding assistant — Claude Code — reads a little file
I popped into NightCafé to make some random images. A pop-up informed me that Meta's Muse Image was available! I had ChatGPT open on my other monitor so, naturally, I typed this in: “Give me a detailed text-to-image prompt that is concise, and creates a
Four Obsidian To-Do Views That Don’t Pretend to Run Your Life I use Obsidian as a brain dump, not as a standardized Personal Knowledge Management system. Notes go in because I want to remember them later. That philosophy extends to my to-do system. I used Kanban for
With my 65th birthday coming up, I decided it would be a good time to focus on the thing that has become a great source of joy: making interactive puzzles. No drama, just a quick note to thank you for hanging out with me and enjoying my puzzles. From today
Sometimes I create puzzles that are so weird, they never see the light of day. Other times, they're just weird enough to keep in the vault. Let's take a look at some of those. Puzzles can be designed, or you can just be playing around. It&
Happy Mother's Day! Enjoy this batch of puzzles. Cheers, Mitch Dare to CareDare to Care.pdf8 MBdownload-circle
Every envelope tells a story. Every parcel holds a promise. What is it like to be a letter? Does the messenger have empathy? (Shout out to my friend Kevin Berry, who wrote a whole novel about shooting messengers.) Puzzles can be enriched with themes and embellishments. It works very well
Word puzzles, wordplay, word games. Collectively, an infinite world of diversions awaits, whether you prefer paper or pixels. Do you remember an arcade video game called Break-out? I stumbled upon a version that uses colorful words instead of bricks. The concept and gameplay are the same. My reflexes aren&
Do you remember the Doublemint chewing gum commercials? Over the years, many twins have appeared in them. Some were famous, depending on how plugged in you were to your TV. Apparently, I wasn't, because I never saw Tia and Tamara Mowry in those commercials. For those of you
When I wrote Prompt Engineering For Puzzle Book Designers, prompt craft was a genuine skill gap for creators working with AI. Getting useful output required careful construction, specific syntax, and a lot of trial and error. The book addressed that directly. That gap has closed. Modern AI models—particularly the
Not too many people know this, but I write poetry. I love making rhymes that tell a story. I also enjoy "constructing" poems. This creative endeavor is not unlike constructing a puzzle. Both poetry and puzzles have goals. Poems seek to evoke emotion; puzzles seek to challenge reason.
I have to give a shout-out to actor Rob Lowe, whose character on Parks and Rec was infamous for saying, "Literally..." (video) This issue revisits some of my favorite wordplay topics: idioms. Idioms are fun to use in puzzles because many of them are so recognizable. If