More vibe coding at Inkhaven
The Inkhaven Fair had a panoply of wonderful events. I starred in a dramatic re-enactment of some of the residents’ posts and the lunatic comments people left on them – such as Viv on the worst national park in America and Alok’s Contra Emet Hirsch on whatever the fuck he was talking about. People seemed to really enjoy me wearing eyeliner and giving a hammed-up Royal Shakespeare Society rendition of the most unhinged words written at Inkhaven.
There was also the non-execution of the one Inkhaven resident to be thrown out for posting at 12:00:48. Make an example out of him, I say.
Speedhaven
I helped run Speedhaven, which saw four people who had to speed-write head-to-head on a specific prompt. For this I wanted to show everyone’s work in real-time on a big display, and let the audience vote on their top picks.
Writers were given a laptop pre-loaded with the ‘writer’ page, from which they could enter their name to join. Once everyone was in, I could start the round using an admin interface on my phone, and each was shown an editor which would update the view on the big screen in real time. (The writers were protected from heckling by wearing noise-cancelling headphones; turns out it’s basically impossible to write coherently when a group of people is shouting at you.)
Claude did a pretty good job here although it needed a few bugfixes and layout tweaks. I gave it screenshots of the existing Inkhaven website to copy the style, which it diligently did.
Aaron Kaufman (who has an amazing blog to which you should subscribe right now) did a great job MCing and polling the audience for great prompts to torture our writers, including “Should cat ears be mandatory?”, “Yelp review of the Garden of Eden”, and “Bottomless pit supervisor”.
You can read the essays here.
Brinkhaven
I was perplexed by how many people worked late at night on their posts, either because they were putting a shitton of effort in (dope) or because they started really late (cringe) or because they just need to feel something and submitting at 11:59pm gives them a rush (based).
Luckily you can export all the posts from the writers’ dashboard, so I put together a one-page analysis of people’s posts to see how many people like to ride the ragged edge of destruction. Some of them came in three seconds before the deadline. Those people are crazy.
Inkbook
One I wish I’d built – a ‘facebook’ in the traditional sense of a book of faces of everyone here. You get shown one face, you have to recall the name of the person and type it in, and if you get it wrong you get shown the face again until you remember it, spaced-repetition style.
I actually did build a prototype of this, but so many people on the portal didn’t use a picture of themselves that it didn’t really work. I think future Inkhavens should require people to use an actual photo!
