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Go · Fiction · Finance
Oct 15, 2025
After a summer of software development, live streaming, and losing more Go games than I care to remember, it's time for a relaxing break. With a successful Vengastream in the books and Air Mirth One landed successfully in Mallorca, this is a fine opportunity.
Unfortunately, this business is unstoppable! As such, open source work will continue with Source Tortoise, and the State of the Mirth Turtle 2025 Powerpoint is still to come. (2024's here) We'll broadcast from the new corporate HQ, chronicling all the successes and failures of the last year. The HQ itself falls under both categories.
Maybe then, this turtle can hibernate for the winter. DO turtles do that? I need to check the Wikipedia. (UPDATE: they brumate, which is similar!)
Sep 22, 2024
With Shimari Go Discipline making Featured Article for September over at Sensei's Library (and thank you to whoever did that), it seems like the company is on the cusp of success. However, more work must be done before I can enjoy a well-earned retirement.
Since Go is still the best game ever, I'm doubling down on my commitment to building software about it. This week, the brower extension got an update with a move-tagging feature: during play on OGS, you can mark a move for later review using a newly-injected button panel. If that doesn't excite you, hopefully the phrase “additional quality-of-life updates” does.
In other news: Air Mirth One continues its reign as the only Go airline, and I encourage you to follow on Twitch if you want to catch the next flight. We've yet to successfully land... but each day is a new opportunity.
May 31, 2023
Nothing kills the momentum of a technology-based business like a lack of dev time, revenue, marketing, in-person appearances, and hope for the future. But once spring returns, along with the sun, there's sure to be a boost in all areas. To leverage this, Mirth Turtle is launching a new Go airline! Let's just hope I have enough runway.
Something else to blame for killing business momentum is the shifting online landscape. With the slow, sad collapse of Twitter and subsequent failures of various Mastodon servers I migrated to, I was lacking a reliable social network on which to post cat pictures and Go memes. But not one to wait around for some billionaire to hack together the next misinformation machine, I built one of my own where only I can post! Along with consolidating underappreciated bangers from years past, it sends out weekly newsletter-style emails so you'll never miss a post because of a corporate algorithm. Now I have reliable microcommunication and I don't have to deal with randos challenging my correct opinions or posting their own.
In more chilling news – this year has brought the grave uncertainty of AI. Now that those electric brains are threatening to upend even my backup careers, it feels timely to look back at my 2015 novel Ghostcrime, in which I predicted an eerie amount of this cold robot future (but not, unfortunately, soon enough to stop it from happening). Here at Mirth Turtle HQ, Dawn's working hard on a new edition with more bonus appendix material, an updated cover from Bruce and even a tabletop RPG! Keep an eye out for that... as well as any genius-level logic machines attempting to steal your livelihood.
