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I’ve been playing a lot on my Analogue Pocket lately.

I first learned how to program at the age of 13, intending to write mods for 3rd generation Pokémon games—which incidentally are still the target of modding efforts today.

To my surprise, I have a new app to announce.

To-do lists are often touted as the solution to task management.

Longtime readers might know of my longtime project to write a text editor to suit my unusual tastes.

So, you want to start a blog.

Hypothetically, let’s say you are an unpopular blogger well over a decade after blogging stopped being something self-styled “serious people” took seriously.

In the world of software development, I am an anomaly.

As my Mastodon followers can attest, I have been playing a lot of Pokémon Pokopia since its release earlier this month.

Telepipe, my grpahical command-line shell for Linux, is now available on Flathub.

Those who follow me on Mastodon know that I have continued to work on Telepipe, my in-development command-line shell for Linux.

Two weeks ago, I introduced Telepipe to the world.

Previously on this blog, I explained why the terminal falls short on delivering a good experience in using the command-line.

A massive subset of software developers, programmers, IT professionals, and computer enthusiasts swear by the terminal.

A strange longstanding Linux-ism is that clicking a mouse’s middle button will usually paste some text at the focused text cursor.

“Embark on the train or be left behind,” say the AI boosters.

It is a tradition on this blog.

Home Alone is a holiday classic.

I’ve been playing Metal Gear Solid recently.

Like many Nintendo superfans, I played a lot of Mario Kart World when it launched alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 game system.

If you don’t care for preamble, the patch can be found here.

If you aren’t already skeptical of this “AI” thing, this article isn’t going to change your mind.

I am writing this on Sunday, the 2nd of November 2025.

Replayability is a common metric when it comes to measuring a video game’s value, usually in terms of monetary value.

Since before computers existed, text has been the primary medium through which computer users have communicated.

Lua is my favourite programming language, and GNOME is my favourite Linux desktop.

The World Wide Web has changed.

In brief: version 0.10.0 of LuaGObject has been released.

A former boss of mine was a big fan of Minecraft and Factorio.

Forking a free software project is often an ill-advised action.

This article discusses recent exterminatory rhetoric and its very real consequences on human lives.

It has been over 5 months since I’ve written about Parchment, my in-progress plain text editor intended for general use as well as programming.

This post is a reaction to ideas presented in a recent article on Game Developer, and one of the posts it was spawned from.

Someone posted again.

Writing has a long history.

When getting things done, or just doing things, failing fast is a great strategy for preventing unnecessary work.

Hello.

Role-playing games have a common gameplay loop.

I’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and its sequel Tears of the Kingdom lately.

Due to popular misconceptions of what the word “daylight savings” means, allow me to explain my understanding.

Hello.

I’m an avid user of Mastodon, a microblogging social network designed to resist centralized control.

A common complaint I see others make about software, particularly for applications and systems that have existed for a long time, is lacking customization or configuration options.

I’m currently developing a text editor, dogfooding1 it as I go by writing computer code and blog posts2.

There are no good technology options for running your own blog.

We begin with a metaphor.

When I initially went to write this post, I was of the assumption that I wouldn’t have much to write about; I though I had not done much this year.

Late last year, I signalled my intent to take a different approach to creative work.

This article follows a previous article on this site.