Kari Silvennoinen

Among other projects, I maintain[1] a phpBB based forum about old freeware games, Curly’s World (of Freeware).

Like the Metaverse, Play-to-Earn (P2E) has mostly retreated from the headlines but I’m sure it is one of those zombie ideas that won’t stay dead for long.

As multiplayer games grew in popularity, matchmaking - the backend machinery that decides who plays with whom - became far more noticeable.

A long time ago I saw a presentation by Eric Seufert on Using (Free!)

Fortunately, the Metaverse boom seems to have mostly blown over by now, entirely enclipsed by the AI one.

Ten years ago, I wrote about The Million Ways to Markup Your Content, where I covered the then main ways (HTML5, Microdata, Microformats, OGP, JSON-LD) to mark up one’s content for the semantic web, or more accurately for the search engines.

Vuonna 2011 tein yhdessä parin kaverin kanssa harrasteprojektina Verokuitti-palvelun, jossa käyttäjä kykeni tutkimaan valtion budjettia syöttämällä vuositulonsa ja sivu visualisoi valtion menojen osuuden tälle käyttäjälle kauppakuitin muodossa.

Welcome to the 5th edition of this web log!

Last year I translated DURF, a rules-light dungeon-fantasy tabletop role-playing game to Finnish.

Atom feeds add one burden to the publisher, your entries require a lasting, well-formed unique identifier[1], if you intend to follow the specification.

Since 2020, I’ve been pretty good at completing around 30 books a year[1].

In addition to translating DURF to Finnish, I found myself working on another RPG-related project.

Last year, I ended up reading a bunch of RPG rulebooks.

This year, I ended up reading a bunch of role-playing books.

I have participated in Goodreads’ Reading Challenge since 2011 and last year failed to read my usual annual goal, 10 books.