If you've seen "Dessa" mentioned around Block's AI work and wondered what it actually is, I put together a short reference: Dessa AI Guide (https://dessaai.org/).

The short version

Dessa is a speech-to-speech model. Instead of the usual pipeline of speech-to-text, then an LLM, then text-to-speech, a speech-to-speech model takes audio in and produces audio out directly. For developers, that matters for a few reasons:

• Lower latency, since you skip two conversion hops.
• Prosody and tone can survive the round trip instead of being flattened into text.
• Fewer moving parts to orchestrate in a voice agent.

What the guide covers

• A plain-language overview of what the model is and what it is meant to do
• How it differs from a cascaded STT + LLM + TTS stack
• Where to find primary sources from Block

The guide is independent and may lag behind official announcements, so check Block's own channels for anything authoritative. Corrections are welcome.

Read it here: Dessa AI Guide

• Window Peeper AI — https://windowpeeperai.pro/
• Plain Game — https://plaingame.fun/

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Why static pages

I chose plain static pages for the wiki, which you can visit at pokebonk.info. Pages are generated ahead of time and served as files, so they load quickly and there is almost nothing to maintain or break.

A 151-entry Pokédex reference

The biggest section is a Pokédex reference with 151 entries. I number them using the main-series order, which makes lookups feel familiar. Every entry has the same page layout, so browsing from one to the next is predictable.

Guides

Alongside the reference there are written guides that walk through the game's general concepts. I only include things I can explain with confidence, and I don't publish in-game statistics.

Four languages

The wiki comes in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. Each language has its own pages and URLs, which means a visitor can share a link in their own language and land on the right version.

Lessons learned

The main lesson was to define a page template for each content type early. With a consistent template, adding a new entry or language is mostly a matter of filling in fields, not redesigning pages.

If you try the wiki, I'd be glad to hear what could be clearer.

2 Minute Drill is a browser American football strategy game about the last two minutes of real NFL games.

Why only two minutes?

Clock management, timeouts and play selection matter most at the end of a game, so that is where I focused.

Design notes

• Decisions over reflexes: you call plays.
• Real-game scenarios give context.
• Quick sessions for fans on a break.

Try it: https://2mindrillgame.org/

Every day you assemble six level-100 Pokemon to beat Red's fixed team. Same puzzle for everyone.

Why a fixed opponent?

It turns battling into a solvable puzzle: type matchups, speed and moves decide the outcome, not luck or grinding.

Design notes

• Level 100 removes progression, so the challenge is only team choice.
• Daily cadence keeps sessions short.
• Shared puzzle means players can compare solutions.

Try it: https://daily-red.app/

Noillirk is a free browser party game where you predict what most people will answer. A round is 7 questions, 15 seconds each.

Why not trivia?

Trivia splits a room into people who know and people who don't. Predicting the crowd levels that out: everyone has an opinion about what 'most people' do.

Design decisions

• 15 seconds forces instinct.
• 7 questions keeps rounds short.
• Everyday topics need no prior knowledge.

Play it at https://noillirk.pro/ and tell me which question surprised you most.

It is a free English geography puzzle. Each round gives you 5 clues. For every clue you pick a country that fits, then drop a pin on the map.

Several answers can be valid

Most clues fit more than one country. Any valid answer counts, but rarer correct answers score more, up to 500 "km" per round. The obvious pick is safe; the clever pick pays off.

Modes

• Daily: one shared puzzle per day
• Classic: 60 seconds per pin
• Wander: untimed
• Unlimited: as many rounds as you like

There are also leaderboards, an archive, challenges and leagues. No signup needed.

Try it and tell me what you think: https://farflunggame.fun/

2 Minute Drill: NFL two-minute strategy

2 Minute Drill puts you in the last two minutes of an NFL game. You manage the clock, timeouts and play calls: spike it, run it, or throw it? Every decision costs seconds, and seconds are the whole game.

Play: https://2mindrillgame.org/

Daily Red (REDLINE): one Pokémon battle a day

Daily Red is a daily Pokémon battle challenge against Red's fixed team. The lineup is identical for every player worldwide, so you can compare approaches afterwards.

Play: https://daily-red.app/

Noillirk: guess what most people would say

Noillirk is a party word-guessing game. Instead of answering correctly, you guess the majority answer. 7 questions, 15 seconds each, and you can host a multiplayer room.

Play: https://noillirk.pro/

Takeaways

• Keep the first 10 seconds self-explanatory.
• Short sessions get replayed more often.
• In the browser, a link is the whole distribution.