Ross Karchner

A one-button endless runner where you need to grab electricity to keep going.

Post micro.blog, I’m using the infosec.exchange BookWyrm instance to track reading.

Finished reading: The Stoneshore Register by G.

A while back I set a rule for myself– no more short game jams, a weekend just isn’t enough for me to make something satisfying while still getting enough sleep and being a functioning member of the household. … and then I spent much of today waffling over…

Finished reading: Next Level Making Games That Make Themselves by Michael Cook 📚

Finished Listening: The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear 📚 A really interesting, not well-known slice of tech history.

At my employers suggestion, I studied for and passed the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations.

Finished reading: John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 4: The Family Man by Jamie Delano 📚 For vacation reading, I brought along Dungeon Crawler Carl and Steven Van Zandt’s memoir, Unrequited Infatuations.

The kiddo has given me an assignment to write a Marvel Multiverse adventure that fits these parameters, for him and a friend to play:

It’s kind of jarring to be listening to a song, and hear some sampled audio from something that just happened a few weeks ago.

Mission accomplished for now: next steps are recognizing when a certain threshold has been met and advancing to the next level.

I saw this on my walk tonight.

huh, ross dot karchner dot com is no longer a top result for the search “Ross Karchner”.

Harsh

Currently listening: The Friendly Orange Glow The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear 📚 I’m not very far into this, but one detail that makes me smile: the early PLATO keyboards had an “aha” key.

Finished Listening: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon 📚 Actually: The Steal Like An Artist Audio Trilogy

From today’s trip to NASA Goddard Space Center’s open house

Finished reading: Wicked + The Divine Volume 4: Rising Action by Kieron Gillen 📚 (also volume 3. 5-9 are waiting for me at the library)

My current work-in-progress is leaving me a bit uninspired, so I’ve been tinkering with something a little different– a Jezzball-like: The next challenge is detecting areas that are sealed off and displaying them differently.

Finished reading: The Wicked + the Divine, Volume 2 by Kieron Gillen 📚

Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?

Finished reading: The Wicked + the Divine The Faust act by Kieron Gillen 📚 Decided to re-read the series.

Finished Listening: Crusaders by Dan Jones 📚

The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs: an enormous machine converting human ambition into noise

March was not a productive month for me, gamedev-wise.

Finished reading: The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail 📚 Not quite a “whodunit”– the forger in question is known right from the beginning.

Currently reading: The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail 📚

Someone reached out a few days ago, trying to sell me “dctechevents.com”– which once upon a time was the domain for my DC Tech Events site.

Finished Listening: Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris 📚 I really enjoyed this combined history of The Graduate, Bonnie & Clyde, In The Heat of The Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and Dr.

My day is always improved by Lice.

The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 1: The Priest’s Treasure I’m a sucker for “Holy Blood, Holy Grail”-style lore.

My first run at Becoming Saint did not go well…

Finished Listening: Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee 📚

Repairing our microwave by replacing the fuse?

I have a theory about creation with AI.

From the Smithsonian American History museum

Finished reading: Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 3 by Ed Brubaker 📚

So, instead of putting the SpinDoc level editor aside, I dug in and now the thing generally works.

Finished reading: Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker 📚

Finished Listening: Box Office Poison by Tim Robey 📚

Moderately satisfying: fixing a home appliance Supremely unsatisfying: attempting to fix a home appliance, and failing

Finished reading: Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker 📚

I’ve been working through Complete Blender Creator 3: Learn 3D Modelling for Beginners , and the first project was this lighthouse scene.

Bird Bonkers ranked 234 out of 699 (that received ratings) in the GitHub Game-off.

According to itch.io analytics, on most days, at least one person visits Brakes Escape.

DC Tech Events is now on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Finished reading: Fishflies by Jeff Lemire 📚

Finished reading: ERASED by Loo Hui Phang 📚

Thinking about SpinDoc since I mentioned it yesterday.