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My ideal Starfleet job would be temporal affairs. Public mechanics, speculative civics, post-HCD, platforms, governance, decision rights. HS 🎾 coach. Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich. ronbronson.com

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Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJul 24, 2026
Developer Notes 7.24.26
Adding a test-score rating and giving Division 4 its own recruiting budget
game development
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 23, 2026
Play To Clinch Ep. 4 Playthrough
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Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 14, 2026
Play To Clinch Tennis Ep. 3 Playthrough
I made a few improvements to the tennis sim that are all just clerical or UI improvements. The national tournaments are now seeded where the Top 16 teams are placed regardless of division. i I also added an archive for past singles/doubles national champions since previously, you could only see the past year's results and they got erased upon a new season. I did this because my last sim was taking over a Monmouth (IL) program that blew through D3 en route to a national title, but then everyone l...
Making Public Work
Making Public WorkJul 14, 2026
Hiring the Right Shape of Designer
Why AI makes service design more valuable, not less
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service designcivic tech
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 10, 2026
Playthrough #2
Okay so it's fall portal time and I need to decide who I want to bolster in the D1 ranks. It would be easier to bring a bunch of 50+ STR players, take over a doormat D1 program and start running up wins and make NCAA tournaments, but I think that'd just be a race towards figuring out the deal to crack into the upper echelons of things, which will be a fun challenge when I get there. What I'd like to do first, at least for a season or two, is become a dominant conference power first. The trick to...
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 10, 2026
Play to Clinch Tennis Developer Playthrough #1
This was a fun runthrough because I actually had to do it and each time I got a week into it, I realized there were things that I needed to fix. Building the tennis game when I had the core pieces already extent and felt okay about the actual game model was interesting. For starters, it's a little too random right now. I think you can judge a game based on outcomes that feel unrealistic, but you need to simulate and observe dozens of games before making sense of really what's going on. I've long...
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex Systems
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex SystemsJul 2, 2026
Mallo
The first advanced-analytics site for pesäpallo, Finland's national baseball variant — league-indexed stats, DARKO-style projections, park factors, and playoff odds, built on the official results API. Online at mallo.fi.
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJun 30, 2026
Developer's Notes 6.29.26
game development
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJun 29, 2026
Developer Notes: 6.27.26
game development
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex Systems
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex SystemsJun 29, 2026
Beachwave
A deployable reference for live audio rooms on ATProto: ATProto OAuth identity, room metadata as records, and LiveKit audio. The demo proves the loop; the repo is the artifact you run yourself.
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex Systems
Ron Bronson — Working Catalog of Complex SystemsJun 29, 2026
Leafroll
A protocol-native professional network built on ATProto. Leafroll centers intentional, bilateral relationships carried by portable identity.
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJun 26, 2026
Developer Notes 6.26.26 - Play To Clinch Tennis Sim
game development