{"id":170,"slug":"conversational-interfaces","name":"conversational interfaces","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:34:59.994014+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"3e0a7a4c-a35f-4a53-b0ee-ba5acd5adee2","slug":"s07e11-snow-crashing","subject":"s07e11: Snow Crashing","title":"Snow Crashing","publish_date":"2019-10-08T05:40:30.807000+00:00","year":2019,"month":10,"season":7,"episode":11,"episode_label":"s07e11","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s07e11-snow-crashing/","is_premium":0,"word_count":4604,"context":" … Here is a\ngame jam about correspondence / epistolary games\nthat I am very here for, if you’re the kind of person who is in to <mark>conversational interfaces</mark> … ","reading_minutes":23},{"id":"8cf35d59-1b51-4f72-978b-67bbe67967a2","slug":"s3e28-something-is-better-than-nothing","subject":"s3e28: Something is better than nothing","title":"Something is better than nothing","publish_date":"2016-10-19T00:00:00+00:00","year":2016,"month":10,"season":3,"episode":28,"episode_label":"s03e28","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s3e28-something-is-better-than-nothing/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2215,"context":" … server and embodied into the latest Sphero bot? 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