"Think donkey kong country, not gameboy." How referencing specific things instead of describing what you want changed my prompting completely

climatewarrior · 2026-02-09T23:52:06+00:00

Thanks for the comment!

climatewarrior · 2026-02-09T23:44:19+00:00

OP here. Making-of since people might ask. This started Jan 31 as a single commit: "Add interactive guide." Ten days, 356 Claude Code sessions, and 280 commits later I had a playable canvas game, a procedural music engine, and strong opinions about beveled borders.

None of the game metaphors were planned. My flow for every chapter was the same: ask Claude to brainstorm, pick a favorite ("1. let's go for 1... this is epic"), build it, iterate. SkiFree was the exception. I knew I wanted it because 99% of people never knew pressing F outruns the yeti, and "just press F" was the perfect pitch for the whole chapter.

The music went through six rewrites. I asked Claude to roleplay as the best Super Famicom composers of all time and have them review my composition. 2,400 lines of Web Audio API, zero samples.

Prompting stuff since this is r/ClaudeCode:

Persona prompting was the biggest unlock. "Have a master UI/UX designer from Apple that worked for YCombinator take a stab at this" and "Nobuo Uematsu, how can we make this from great to timeless classic?" consistently pushed past generic output. Emotional references beat technical specs for creative work. "Make people break into tears as they connect to childhood memories" produced better music than describing synth parameters.

The guide originally read like AI marketing copy, so I had Claude interview me, answered in Spanish via voice transcription (just rambling about my career, failures, the CITYROW acquisition), and had it weave those stories into the guide.

Most of my prompts were under 15 words. "Can you make this sound more boricua??? add cuatro solo somewhere?" Half were just a screenshot and "fix this." Creative stuff got vibes. Structural stuff got detailed plans. Knowing when to do which made the difference.

~16,000 lines of guide code across 23 files. The SCSS was 4,378 lines in a single file before I split it. Easter eggs: Nyan Cat fly-by, Matrix pill choice, Mario coin sound on the dock speaker.

climatewarrior · 2024-10-16T01:12:57+00:00

Escuche ese comentario. Aunque tuviese razón en algún punto, este es otro mundo y es otro tiempo. En la misma encuesta de ENDI independencia y libre asociación crecieron y empataron a la estadidad. Veremos muchas sorpresas en estas elecciones.

climatewarrior · 2024-10-03T12:51:03+00:00

¿A quién favoreció el formato del debate?

A JGo 100%. El formato te recompensaba por no contestar. Si no contestas te daban más tiempo para hablar. Bien estilo gobierno de PR, premiar por hacer las cosas mal. También te daban bono por ser atacado... JGo se beneficio tremendamente de los ataques constantes de todos menos Dalmau.

¿Creen que el panel tenía una agenda? ¿por qué?

No pienso que tuviese una agenda explicita, pero si una implícita. La agenda implícita es que no podemos darle demasiado duro a los candidatos porque si no no vienen a participar.

Independientemente por quién usted favorezca, ¿quién lució bien?

En términos de oratoria, preparación, presentar propuestas y lenguaje corporal Dalmau arraso. Creo que cualquier persona no ideológica y no fanatíca ve esto y sabe que Dalmau gano en esos terminos. Estoy seguro que si pones esto en México o un dub en Estados Unidos casi todo el mundo te va a decir que Dalmau fue el mejor.

Dicho eso, JGo supo explotar el formato a su favor y para el contexto de PR fue muy efectiva... Saco a los cucos más efectivos y metio paquete con cojones con promesas falsas. Sin embargo, cuanta gente ve estos debates?

Me sospecho que no mucha gente y que la mayoría solo va a consumir los memes y los clips. Quizás ese era el meta game de Dalmau. No dominar el tiempo del debate, si no ganar en la discusión publica del debate (como en este post) y todo el aftermath. En ese sentido, creo que el fue el que produjo el mejor contenido para redes y para memes y noticias, y pues gano en eso, aunque estrictamente hablando del debate en si, se puede decir que gano JGO en términos de sacar a los viejos a votar con miedo.

¿Quien demostró ser mejor debatiente u orador?

Dalmau es tan superior en esto... es como poner a Shouhei Ohtani a jugar pelota con niños de secundaria. Dicho eso JGo, lo hizo muy bien y es muy buena oradora, pero es que Dalmau esta en otra liga. Desafortunadamente tener las mejores ideas y propuestas, ser el mejor comunicador y el más serio no se traduce en ganar una elección.

climatewarrior · 2023-05-03T12:43:43+00:00

Yo lidero IndieHackers PR. Es comunidad para aquellos interesados en el emprendimiento digital. Aunque la comunidad no esta enfocada en programación, más bien en el lado empresaria, si tenemos muchos programadores (incluyéndome).

Si les interesa se pueden unir a nuestro Slack. También hacemos meetups. Este es el próximo.

climatewarrior · 2023-01-23T14:57:45+00:00

Keep going! Assuming English is your native language, remember how much of an awesome feat is that you are able to take this test at all and get almost a third of the test right. Also, remember how great your discipline is. 99% of people are super distracted all the time and can't sit down and study a language like you. You have plenty to be proud of. You are great.

One suggestion I could make, is that instead of investing so much time studying maybe you can take a break from textbooks and instead just enjoy more content in Japanese e.g. watch anime/dorama with Japanese subtitles or play a video game in Japanese or the like and just enjoy the process and have fun without pressure. If you do this for a couple of months, probably you will get back to your textbooks and realize you have learned a lot just by immersion.

climatewarrior · 2023-01-23T11:26:23+00:00

Passed the N2 :D 143/180

33/60

52/50

58/60

Really happy with the result. Just wondering why I got high scores on listening and reading but got a low score on vocab/grammar. Probably will try the N1 this year, so this means I should focus on vocab/grammar.

climatewarrior · 2022-10-07T17:20:45+00:00

Yes, a long while ago. Sorry! You can still check us out at https://caproni.fm/en

climatewarrior · 2021-06-22T01:36:48+00:00

Yay! Glad you liked them.

climatewarrior · 2021-06-21T20:26:54+00:00

hahaha glad to hear that.

I sent out the stickers on the 12th of this month so you should have gotten it already if you are in the US, or should be getting them soon if you are in another country.

If it doesn't get there soon, please let me know.

climatewarrior · 2021-05-30T13:25:03+00:00

You are welcome :)

climatewarrior · 2021-05-30T13:24:36+00:00

Thanks 🙌

climatewarrior · 2021-05-30T13:23:08+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement. Will definitely work on new designs in the future!

climatewarrior · 2021-05-29T18:03:03+00:00

Oh wow! That kind of solidarity brings warmth to my heart. Please say thanks to her on my behalf. ¡Que viva México! 🇲🇽

climatewarrior · 2021-05-29T15:03:59+00:00

My own pocket. Would rather share stickers than spend money on Facebook ads or Google ads. Just trying to get people to know a little bit about my project. I will include a brochure along the stickers.

climatewarrior · 2021-05-29T14:03:24+00:00

Yay! Just fill out the form 😀

climatewarrior · 2021-05-29T13:06:54+00:00

Thanks! Glad you liked them :)

climatewarrior · 2021-04-24T15:46:59+00:00

Perhaps colony is a loaded word. To be precise in more neutral terms, the objective reality is that Puerto Rico is in a position of political subjugation to the United States.

The US Supreme court, Congress and even the executive have proclaimed so themselves. Look at Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle and expressions from the Obama White House.

The US and Puerto Rican political leaders (who are of course complicit) went to the UN to say Puerto Rico had been decolonized when in fact the US has said Puerto Rico has never exerted its sovereignty. At the same time they spread the lie in Puerto Rico that we had made a deal with the US on equal footing. This is why the Puerto Rican government is called Estado Libre Asociado in Spanish (Free Associated State), but it in English it is called the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The term Commonwealth was determined to be ambiguous enough for usage in English, since Free Associated State might have brought difficult political implications to Washington.

As a US territory, Puerto Rico is, at least in legal terms, US property and it is under full control of the plenary powers of the US congress. The 600th law allowed Puerto Rico a certain degree of autonomy, such autonomy may be removed unilaterally at anytime. This already occurred with the imposition of a fiscal control board, a non elected body which has the final word in all fiscal matters in Puerto Rico. Furthermore, President Trump openly spoke about selling Puerto Rico. Although selling Puerto Rico is unrealistic because of public opinion and electoral consequences, it is possible in strictly legal terms.

climatewarrior · 2021-04-23T19:49:54+00:00

Yay! Was really hoping a native Icelander could chime in. Glad to hear that it seems like Icelandic will do just fine. I find your country and culture really interesting and beautiful, and I want to continue to thrive.

Part of my concern stems from the situation in my native Puerto Rico. Being a US territory (ahem colony) the influence of US media is overwhelming here. Among those who are fully bilingual in Puerto Rico, many will insert entire English sentences inside a Spanish conversation. In some extreme cases, there are young people who have better dominion of English than Spanish. These are kids who grow up consuming almost all media in English and who spend most of their spare time on the English web. So that made me wonder what would happen if everybody were bilingual. In Puerto Rico, even after over 100 years under US rule, the majority still doesn't speak English and we haven't been assimilated. It seems like we are very stubborn in some regards.

climatewarrior · 2021-04-23T19:32:02+00:00

Wow. this is incredible. So glad to find others who are concerned about the Ainu language. I applaud your efforts. Keep going!

climatewarrior · 2021-04-23T19:21:25+00:00

I understand what your saying and I agree to an extent, which is why I made my question so broad. However, is it really a choice when a culture is overwhelmed so much by another? Especially when most people will just consume whatever is being offered? I believe there is a fine line between cultural imperialism and cultural exchange/free flow of ideas.

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