iMessage automation. I love technologies so ubiquitous that they end up registering in our brain as “real life.”

We spend so much time texting each other that it has become transparent, so one expects a cute little chatbot or small game to show up, and it delights people!

I recently made a framework to allow playing Twine games through iMessage and people really love it:

https://www.mayer.cool/writings/imessage-text-adventure/

Another one that brought a lot of joy was hooking up a friend’s iMessage to immediately respond to all messages with a chatbot. It was before ChatGPT came out, so it was just convincing enough to have people for a few messages, but scuffed enough to have some very funny off-kilter responses. It sowed a lot of chaos in our group chats :)