Dungeon Crawler Carl: A raucous, disordered, and flawed love letter to the heroic spirit

Anyone who has watched a friend fight cancer inside the American healthcare system knows what it is to play a game whose rules were written by someone else, for someone else’s profit. About a month ago, a good friend who is fighting cancer told me he was reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. We had reached the point in his fight where we were running out of things to talk about as he started chemo. Most of his other hobbies were not ones we shared. Despite our friendship, you can only talk about something you know nothing about for so long without sounding like an idiot. ...

October 14, 2026 · Adam Sawyer

Hello

This is my blog. I’m Adam. I live in South Carolina, I work with AI, and I build iOS apps on the side. I’ll write here about what I’m working on and what I learn along the way. Some posts will be about AI, some about code, some about whatever else seems worth writing down. That’s it. Thanks for reading. [Edit added Oct. 30, 2026] This deserves a little bit more elaboration. The truth is I hate writing. I don’t consider myself a particularly decisive or skilled writer. To any of you who know me personally, you know that in person I literally can’t stop talking. But for some reason, as long as I can remember, when I am asked (and in the past, I always had to be asked), I will suddenly become incredibly unsure of what I want to say. There are typos. There are run-ons. Chaos. Pandemonium. You get the idea. ...

September 4, 2026 · Adam Sawyer