Joel Auterson

Absolutely not the day for it but salvation was eventually found

Celebrated four years together by smashing up some bowls

We live inside a dream

A good big stomp along the Ridgeway today

To quantify “nothing”: DWG has been downloaded around 3,500 times on iOS.

Been quite fun watching Dave’s Word Game fluctuate up and down the charts on the App Store.

Social media adds constant wear and tear to my brain and soul but it’s also the only way I can find out about indie games given few of the websites have the staff to cover them these days.

Got promoted to Staff Software Engineer at the day job and found out someone else is making a game in my game engine so that’s a lovely start to my year professionally

Not much of a view from the top of Binnian but still gorgeous to be out in the Mournes on the first day of the year

I do this every year and I need to stop writing “hope next year is better for the industry!”

This evening I encountered a Christingle for the first time.

This dog keeps alternating between loudly snoring and yelling while walking around

Think that’s a new record for the amount of time it’s taken me to get a response to a GitHub issue

Thank you!

I’ve spent the last few years building my own game engine from scratch.

That’s my WIFE

Random discovery I’ll share in case it helps a future traveller (or future me): the native C++ SDK for Google Play Games hasn’t been updated to support 16KB page size, making it now functionally unusable.

Another fab Algorhthyms, loved the owl theme even if it was slightly frightening

This creature spent 25 minutes yelling at her fishy toy while I was trying to do my Japanese lesson today

This can only end well

Listening to The Veils’ 2016 album Total Depravity and reminded that El-P has not put a foot wrong musically ever

Astro Bloc and Talisk at Metronome in Nottingham.

aron!

After hearing about it on Side Story, Anthology of the Killer has become one of my favourite games I played this year.

Went over the big bridge, very scary, I was brave

Flew over Greenland today, beaut

Made some flapjacks, they fell apart a lil tiny bit but quite pleased with them all the same

Thought this was very good https://codegood.co/writing/why-your-best-engineers-are-interviewing-elsewhere

Had a class time.

Looking forward to my second Algorhythms event this evening!

Back to London we go

Forgiven

Left her with her grandparents for two weeks and now she won’t speak to me

Once again fallen into the trap of finding new ways to make writing on my blog easier instead of spending that time writing on my blog

Last day of honeymoon today!

I had a lovely weekend, thanks

Just did my first 10K in over a decade (a few months after doing my first 5K in about the same time).

Watched the first episode of Frieren and I’m fuckin bawling man

Not been a member of a political party for about five years but I think I’ve seen enough to feel good about changing that today

The Deep Blue Okay by Self Esteem is a song my brain simply refuses to get bored of.

Good lord I’m getting married in two weeks

So there are a lot of Fediverse servers, right.

Went to my first Algorhythms event last night and it was fantastic

Not mushroom left in Lucy’s backpack by the end of the day

Gorgeous day walking on the High Weald and around the (Five) Hundred Acre Wood

The world is full of horrors but, conversely, my cat’s head is really warm when she comes for a cuddle after she’s been sleeping

Went to see me old mate Gecko play with Chris Read and a full band at Folklore in Hackney last night and it was lovely

I am begging you lot not to sleep on Shinobi Art of Vengeance, it’s so so good

How is she so perfect

Oh go on here’s some more