Ben Overmyer's Site

Iron Arachne has been undergoing a lot of changes this year.

My project for the textjam, “akrete,” is now at the point where the hard work begins.

I decided to participate in Jack Harrhy’s “game jam-like” for text-based projects, textjam.

My personal site is a static site built with Zola and stored in git.

So, a few weeks ago I discovered Spirit City: Lofi Sessions on Steam.

Over a decade ago, I used a program made by Microsoft called Windows Live Writer for a couple years to write blog posts before uploading them to whatever blog platform I was using at the time.

Today is the 8th anniversary of the launch of Iron Arachne.

This is part of a blog post title trade with Zachary Kai.

Back in October of last year, I switched from Windows 11 to Linux on my gaming PC.

This is a look into my tech-related plans for January.

2026 is full of promise.

Well then. 2025 did not go as originally planned.

With everything that’s going on in the world right now, I am increasingly sensitive to the security and privacy implications of the tech I use.

Early this year, I started applying to universities in Canada for master’s degree programs.

I haven’t touched tabletop role-playing games in a few months now.

I’m in the process of sunsetting my gemlog.

Well, I’ve been playing Dune: Awakening for about a month now.

Well, 2025 has certainly gone differently than I originally expected on January 1st.

I pre-ordered Dune: Awakening at the highest level.

The last three years have been quite the experience.

As I write this, the new President of the United States is trying to replace the democratic republic form of government with a fascist one.

This is going to be a year of big changes.

2024 was a year of travel, challenges, endings, and beginnings.

2024 has been a hectic year so far.

This year I want to continue my introduction to bodybuilding and round out my fitness regimen with regular cardio.

2023 was a year of important changes and improvements in my life.

For over a month I’ve been working on upgrading the graphics that I generate for stars and planets in the planet, star nation, and star system generators on Iron Arachne.

November’s wellness challenge was a success.

Here we are at November 15, halfway through the wellness challenge that I set for myself this month.

The first week of my November 2023 wellness challenge went well!

Last month, I went over my goals for this year to remind myself what they were and see how I’m doing.

I have a lot of irons in the fire.

Last night I was poking around at the Homebrew Website Club and discovered a site with a “/currently” page.

Someone on Hacker News mentioned that he liked my website’s content and that it inspired him to go find his old sites on the Wayback Machine and add their content to his site.

Today I added a section to the knowledge base portion of this website for coding languages.

I got my first tattoo.

So we’re in the process of immigrating to Canada.

Last month, Iron Arachne turned five years old.

This year I don’t have to worry about an upcoming move or an expensive vacation, so I can focus on other things.

2022 was a year of big changes.

Lately there have been an increasing number of new tabletop role-playing games coming out that are distinctly different from the Dungeons & Dragons retroclones popularized categorized as Old School Rennaissance or Old School Revival.

The world has gotten too big.

So after coming home from a business trip, I finally got to play the new World of Warcraft expansion yesterday.

So, some rich sociopath bought Twitter and seems hell-bent on destroying it.

A few weeks ago, I made the decision to rescind my ban on playing Blizzard games.

It’s been over a year since I swore off of Blizzard games.

When I first rewrote Iron Arachne as a static JavaScript website, I quickly hacked together several name generators using different methods.

This weekend past, I launched the dungeon generator for Iron Arachne.

A few days ago I finished the content for Shadowbringers (the Final Fantasy XIV expansion).

I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky lately.