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Workroom Playtime 041: Ah, um...

Dec 3, 2025

This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 4 December at 4pm London time. That's 4pm. 4.

I pre-announced this session as something on exploratory interfaces... but when I want to work, I thought that I was delivering a new puzzle. Colour me confused.

As it turns out, the puzzle hasn't worked well. Soo...

We'll gather on Zoom to ... play. I'll announce what we're playing with tomorrow morning (London time), but I can't get closer tonight.

These exercises are for everyone, for free. Subscribers get to play together every week. If you can see a joining info section below, then that gives you access to the Zoom etc. for the workshop. If you'd like to bring a friend, you can do that. I'll say yes until I've got too many.

Here's a rough plan of what I plan to cover in the rest of the year:

  • 041 4 December: Building exploratory interfaces
  • 042 11 December: a New Blackbox puzzle
  • 043 18 December: Going meta – let's build short exercises!

I don't think we'll do 25th December, or 1 January (you might have something planned, yourself). So that's a full year of Workroom PlayTime – thank you for coming on this journey.

In 2026, we'll do more puzzles, more stuff for speakers, more thinking... and maybe fewer tools. I'll re-run some exercises, and experiment more with timings and lengths.

signed-in subscribers will see joining info and links below

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James Lyndsay

Getting better at software testing. Singing in Bulgarian. Staying in. Going out. Listening. Talking. Writing. Making.