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UFO 50 is a collection of 50 retro-style video game from Derek Yu’s1 Mossmouth, and I have been completely engrossed in it since I bought it.

This list is not exhaustive.

I’ve been working on an app for the past few weeks, and I’m happy to report that it’s ready for a full reveal.

(previously, I discussed the difficulty in finding the right metaphors for apps) A good tool empowers its user to easily accomplish feats that are otherwise difficult or tedious.

Designers of user interfaces make frequent use of metaphors to guide their designs.

I rented many video sgames as a child in the early 2000s.

There are many aspects about the ways I use programming tools which are simply not the norm among programmers.

This Tutorial is Outdated!

I check my YouTube subscriptions.

A cheveret desk is a small writing desk with a handful of small drawers.

I’ve previously written a quite unpleasant post about some recurring pain I’d been dealing with that had made it excruciatingly difficult to use a computer for any productive amount of time.

This article has been obsoleted by further developments.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been hard at work on Witch, a program that combines a text editor and a programming REPL, a desire I’ve written about before.

As computer professionals, programmers need to use a lot of software.

Most programmers do at least some of their work inside of a command-line terminal.

2023 is over.

Let’s say, hypothetically, you wanted to paint landscapes, Bob Ross style.1 You buy the materials, learn some techniques, make a space for yourself to work your art, and you get started.

This article was originally titled “I got GNOMEd.”

I play video games a lot.

This post is inspired by a similar guide I wrote at my workplace on how to coordinate with the software engineering team.

My most played game of 2021 is an RPG originally released in 2002.

I’m writing this post using a text editor from 1969.

I made a chiptune cover album of the music from Banjo-Kazooie!

This is the draft transcript of a talk I gave for Google Developer Group Sudbury’s DevFest 2020.

Update (2022-01-22) I’ve written a spiritual follow-up that goes into much greater detail and contradicts some of the advice present here.

This post is about a nerdy, unimportant subject: high-level competitive play of the Pokémon video games.