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Today I upgraded the graphics for the planet generator on Iron Arachne.

It’s been quite some time since I last wrote about the tabletop RPG projects I have in the works.

2022 promises to be a year of big changes.

2021 was an eventful year.

So today I received the new HeroQuest in the mail.

It’s been an eventful few months.

The last three years has been a slow, awful death spiral for Blizzard.

<div class="caption">Hrenovuha, horseradish liquor</div> A few months ago I watched an episode of The Booze Traveller set in Siberia.

The first session was about neuroaesthetics and user experience.

I’ve been designing games for almost as long as I’ve been playing them.

I’m working on several tabletop RPGs at once right now.

Stitch Fix posted an article on their blog yesterday entitled “Move Slow and Make Things.”

Way back in 2013, I posted an article talking about what I wanted from a hypothetical sequel to Star Wars: Galaxies.

I switched the static site generator used for this site from Hugo to Zola over the weekend.

Three years ago, I was working on the last project I would touch at Silver Gryphon Games.

Silver Gryphon Games shut its doors in 2019.

This year will hopefully be much better for humanity than 2020 was.

Last year I didn’t write a retrospective.

As soon as the pre-expansion patch launched, I fired up World of Warcraft with the intent to create my new main character and begin my adventure anew.

Today I reworked my site’s CSS a bit to add more color.

I just finished reading a blog post entitled The Forever Project by Scott Turner of Here Dragons Abound.

The Shadowlands expansion for World of Warcraft comes out next month.

I read Rubenerd’s post about seriousness, and it got me to thinking.

We try to do what’s right in the best way we can.

After years of using a CSS framework for my site, I’ve now dropped it entirely.

Note: this was a draft I never completed.

This post is inspired by a thread from Hacker News.

I’ve been a vim user for somewhere around 10 years.

This post is a response to “News Websites are Dumpster Fires”, which rails against the current business model of most news websites.

It’s been awhile since I blogged about Iron Arachne.

I’ve been frustrated lately with the writing side of Hugo.

As a result of my one-year boycott of Activision-Blizzard, I found myself without any of my usual games to play.

Having a blog built using a static site generator was nice from a maintenance perspective, but from a writing perspective, it’s a bit of an inconvenience.

It’s been a dry spell for Iron Arachne for the past couple months.

The Unix philosophy guides the development of both Unix and its derivatives.

As 2018 comes to a close, I’m looking back on the year and reflecting.

Over a month has passed since I last posted about Mysteries of a Broken World.

I like cooking.

This is part three in a series of posts about designing a new OSR game.

This is part two of a series on a new Old School Renaissance tabletop role-playing game that I’m designing.

As one of the founders of Silver Gryphon Games I have a fondness for gryphons.

So lately I’ve been delving back into the world of OSR role-playing games.

When you play a role-playing game, you adopt the persona of someone other than you.

Previously, I was spending most of my attention on the Uncharted Worlds projects that I’ve been working on.

I’ve been looking at what’s coming up on the ballot for this midterm election.

Since the last entry, I’ve made several changes to both the program logic and its features.

The topic of what “DevOps” is has been a source of contention since the term first arose.

This iteration had some dramatic changes.

Awhile back I noted that I was beginning to work on a random fantasy setting generation project.

One of my favorite things to think about is the procedural generation of fantasy settings.