Blogs on Evil Trout Inc.

Saving game data is easy.

Evil Trout’s second game, The Incident at Galley House, is out now on Steam!

During the last Steam Next Fest, I played a demo of a puzzle game called DEG that was getting a lot of buzz.

Background Our next game, The Incident at Galley House, is an adaptation of a text-based game called Type Help.

The Roottrees are Dead was released on January 15, 2025 and it did much better than I ever expected.

Last year I broke my elbow.

Note: The Secrets of Skellig is on indefinite hold now while I work on other things.

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been posting a series of videos about early PC gaming and programming on my YouTube Channel.

I have two 4K TVs at home, one in the bedroom and one in my living room.

I recently moved into a bigger condo which had a wall mount pre-installed in the bedroom for a TV, so I decided to take advantage of it and bought a second TV.

Once in a while, I daydream about being thrown back in time.

It’s been over a year since I wrote a blog entry!

Back in September, Codinghorror wrote a popular post on the state of android Javascript performance on Discourse’s Meta forum.

Recently I became enamored with The Witness and after thinking about the game for a long time decided to sit down and record a little essay about it.

Recently I became infatuated with TIS-100, a game which aptly describes itself as “the assembly language programming game you never asked for!”

Previously I posted notes and links for my talk about “Ember at 10 feet” from the Embergarten Saturday Symposium.

Over the weekend I spoke at the Embergarten Saturday Symposium, which was an awesome mini conference on Ember in Toronto.

Recently I fell in love with Pretender, the mock server library in Javascript, so I decided to record a screencast showing how to use it in an Ember.js integration test: The source code for the login application is on github.

I’ve found that a lot of people don’t know how powerful the Chrome Developer Tools are, especially when paired with the Ember Inspector.

Once upon a time it used to be difficult to create integration tests in Ember.js.

Time for another screencast!

One of my more popular blog entries is on using Ember.js without Ember Data.

Javascript is a fantastic example of how something, despite having visible warts and very poor design, can dominate the tech landscape.

How many times has the following happened to you?

Everything you render in a browser, whether it’s a blog post or a tweet or a video, has a performance cost.

One thing I’m really proud of is that when we launched Discourse, we had first class Internationalization (i18n) support ready to be used.

I learned very quickly while working on a large open source project is that it is important to make my code hard to break.

Back in February, I gave a presentation on Discourse and client side MVC at TechTalksTO.

Computed Properties By design, Handlebars templates don’t allow complex expressions.

Important Update (May 25, 2014): Google has started parsing and indexing Javascript.

Recently I got together with some local developers to discuss client side MVC frameworks.

Trade offs As a developer you’re constantly faced with issues of choice: What library is best?

Update May 26, 2014 The concepts in this article are still true, but I’ve recorded a screencast showing how to use ember without ember data using ember-cli and the latest version of Ember.

Recently we ported Discourse from CoffeeScript to plain old Javascript.

Shortly after we began working together on Discourse, Jeff wrote a post about infinite scrolling.

This week, I was delighted to finally reveal Discourse, the app I’ve been working on for most of the last year in secrecy with awesome people.

ShitRedditSays and The Downvote Brigades of Reddit (note: if you’re familiar with reddit and ShitRedditSays, you can skip to the next section.)

A story of a game exploit Once upon a time I developed a somewhat popular web game called Forumwarz.

Turbolinks Turbolinks is a new Ruby library, enabled in Rails 4 by default, that is designed to speed up your web applications.

Recently, I wrote a short essay on privilege and programming.

When I was in grade 6, I handed out a couple of 3 1/2" floppy disks to a couple of friends in my class whose parents had recently purchased PCs.