Stephen Granade

@granades

Science presenter, robotics researcher, fiction writer, interactive fiction person, award-winning Virgo. Co-editor of @smallwondersmag.com SFF magazine. website:

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Stephen Granade@granades· 26d

Continuing my hedonistic night with a Dusk & Drizzly.

Ingredients for a Dark & Stormy cocktail except it’s diet ginger beer and Ritual zero-proof rum substitute.

Stephen Granade@granades· 26d

I’m home alone this week so I’m free to eat unhealthy dinners.

A bowl of salad leaves. They’re from June, so the only downside is that some of them have turned into spinach sludge.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jul 12

Logan Airport has a White Castle vending machine, truly we as a civilization have arrived.

A vending machine offering White Castle hamburgers, which: amazing, no notes.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jul 10

While @misty.granades.com and I are at #readercon our offspring is sending Corgi proof-of-life pics.

A very blurry photo of a Corgi’s snoot, taken at 0.5 so that the dog appears to be 50% now by volume.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jul 10

Hello lovely #readercon folks! Come say hi! I have @smallwondersmag.com swag! I’ve got a reading on Saturday but otherwise will haunt the halls like a ghost in a gothic novel.

A bald white person, masked, in a blue mushroom shirt and carrying a red handled cane.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jul 7

She was the best dog.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jul 6

Because I’m petty, I screenshotted mine. This is about my first ever published short story: escapepod.org/2020/01/23/e...

Feedback on my story “Physics by the Numbers”:

I have finished reading your story. overall I didn't enjoy it.
There was no real story. It felt like a collection of random events. You had no central problem that I could see, no obstacle the main character had to overcome.
Like I mentioned there is no focus. The algorithm is interesting but you don't do enough with it to make this worthy of being Sci-fi. It doesn't feel like a sci-fi story at all.
Your writing style and the words you choose in your sentences are clunky and awkward to read. this is the area you need the most work as you story was not entertaining and joyless.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 30

Here’s our Corgi looking very normal.

A picture of a Corgi taken at a 0.5 setting like a fisheye lens. She’s all nose and alert eyes.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 28

I regret to inform you that my younger kid is once again taking 0.5 pics of our Corgi.

A Corgi photographed at 0.5, so that her nose is huge and the only other thing you can see is her face. Also she’s looking up like doom hurtles towards her from above.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 28

Dressed up for Stonewall day at church.

A bald white person with a goatee wearing a rainbow striped shirt.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 26

slopbot author spam but make it for interactive narrative designers love the sense of agency I gave players in my story about having dementia

Spam email I received that was clearly written by the slopbot:

Hi Stephen,
I hope you're having a wonderful week.
I've been exploring your work in interactive fiction, and I wanted to reach out and say how much I admire your approach to narrative design. The way you craft systems that feel both technically robust and narratively compelling, especially how you handle complex state-tracking and player agency in your work, is truly impressive and deeply aligns with the vision we have for In The Story.
That same fascination with choice-driven narratives is what inspired my partners and…

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 22

Geocities is “how you remember the internet looking” says the 23-year-old who is younger than my first and still existing non-LiveJournal blog, written by me, a mummy crumbling to dust.

From a NYT article about nostalgic design used in modern advertising:

Their nostalgia has taken the form of spinning GIFs, novelty cursors and Windows XP graphics - a hodgepodge of anachronistic elements that Goodspeed describes as "Geocities Neue," after the early web-hosting service. (See also: the cover of "My First Book" by Honor Levy; promotional artwork for the singer-songwriter Audrey Hobert; websites for clothing brands like Praying and Online Ceramics.)
"This is how you remember the internet looking before everything was polished, and 3-D anr incredibly smooth," Aitor, 23, said.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 20

I can tell I’ve been offline because I missed this Chotiner interview, which has the biggest shock ending since The Lottery.

Chotiner: it's hard to fathom

Israeli anchor: I don't have a lot of moments like this. I don't remember someone in modern history who would go with you and do wonderful things, and then suddenly disappear and go against you. So now I am the bad guy? I supported you! I was the good guy! How did I become the bad guy and the Ayatollah is the good guy?

Chotiner: This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 13

I’d like to thank my assistants for helping me replace our faucets.

I’m on my back under a sink, and our Corgi has shown up to stick her nose in my side because I now have the good smells. In the foreground, a yellow lab/Corgi mix wanders by.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 12

You should absolutely subscribe to 404 Media—they’ve been relentless about Flock’s terrible license plate trackers, regularly FOIA important info that they release freely, and get Amazon to respond to claims their AI tools make slop with absolute slop.

"We're always looking to understand our teams' experiences with various tools - that's how we learn what works for them and what doesn't - and while this handful of comments doesn't reflect what we hear from most Kiro users, we still appreciate the chance to learn from the feedback," Amazon said. "In general, we're seeing incredible improvements in efficiency and delivery from Kiro, which more than 80% of our software developers use. Kiro offers differentiated capabilities that other tools don't provide, particularly in spec-driven development and property-based
testing. [HIGHLIGHTED:] These aren't just incremental improvements—they represent a fundamentally different approach to Al-assisted development that prioritizes production readiness and correctness.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 4

whoa whoa whoa where did that dog come from?!? total jump scare

A Corgi asleep on a rug by some couches. She is no longer hiding by shoving her head under a couch.

Stephen Granade@granades· Jun 4

For international #corgi day, our Corgi is hiding.

A corgi on the carpet, head jammed under a sofa. The rest of this dingus is clearly visible.

Stephen Granade@granades· May 24

Timeline cleanse: my younger offspring likes to take 0.5 pics of our Corgi, Beef. One of their friends drew this caricature and offspring then showed it to Beef.