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seanmcp.com

My name is Sean McPherson or seanmcp, and I work as a software engineer at Khan Academy from Pittsburgh, PA.

This website is a poorly-organized collection of articles that I have written over the years about working in tech, RPGs, games, and miscellany. Someday I may find a good organization system for it all.


Tech RPGs Games Blog
  1. in RPGs
    Inspiration from Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
    Adventures on an archipelago, city wizards, name magic, and more.
  2. in RPGs
    Experience for death in Shadowdark
    Awarding experience points for death and near-death experience has narrative and practical benefits.
  3. in Articles
    What is VS Code doing?
    VS Code broke Intellisense and started misattributing commits to Copilot. I fear for the future of my once-favorite editor.
  4. Silent Sequence
    A cooperative card game where players must place all of the cards in order without speaking.
  5. Atom Smasher
    An educational chemical-compound-building card game