Over the last two weeks I have aligned Sharpee with a new parser-IF modeling language called Chord. This effort was not to adhere to one side or the other. It was a true alignment where both sides were required to maintain their "way", be elegant, and in

After the first pass at designing Chord, I followed the same step as I did with Sharpee. I worked with Claude to build first an Author's Guide, then documentation for the Standard Library. The first document used Family Zoo as its spine and although we found a few

Now that version 2.2 of Sharpee is shipped with the website and developer manual updated, I took a swing at developing a more author friendly syntax that compiles to Sharpee. I'm calling it Chord. It's currently implemented in a branch and working with Cloak of

Phrase Algebra Fully Implemented * Sharpee 2.x replaces the entire text-rendering system. Text is no longer a string with embedded formatters; it's a tree of typed Phrase values that defer realization, rendered by one per-locale Assembler at the end of the turn. * The old formatter chain

There is still one glaring weakness in Sharpee directly related to separating logic from text emission. Sharpee is intentionally a developer-first/author-second platform and I've leaned into that design. I often use the words, "The Sharpee Way," when talking to Claude. As an exercise

If you hate GenAI, you probably want to skip this episode, though I would assume anyone reading my blog should already know what I do. Sharpee has been stable-ish for a few months. I bumped it to 1.0 and started revising the repository documentation. It occurred to me

Update: Even though the packages are working for most aspects of Sharpee, I am going through an alternate regression process and finding more issues. I'm already bumping it to 1.1.0 and likely to hit 1.2 this week. I restructured the Family Zoo tutorial to act

Even though the platform has been stable for a couple of months, it has shown gaps as I work on stories and extended use cases. One of those use cases was inspired by an intfiction.org thread which asked about multi-user play where two or more people could play

Back in January/February in the midst of porting Mainframe Zork (Dungeon) to Sharpee and burning the rough edges off of the platform, Claude did something weird. It inferred a working version of my envisioned Text Service that was not really my vision. But it was weird because it actually