Hyperlink Your Heart

I have a phone mount on my bike, and one of the things I had a notion to use it for was to use my phone as a bike computer or speedometer.

Last month, Framework announced their latest additions to their lineup.

This post contains discussion of violence, sexual assault, and the sexual abuse of children This post contains spoilers for the novel “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A.

I’ve been a Framework enjoyer for a couple of years now.

The first chapter of this book is one of the most brutal and visceral things I have ever read.

A few months ago I was stuck on a particularly frustrating problem in the development of Digression, my dialogue graph editor for Godot.

Something I’ve had in my mind for a while is to do something based on the Chemical Brothers’ song “Where Do I Begin”, which I think captures well the feeling of coming down after a trip; the mix of awe and confusion and the tenuous connection to your sense

I’ve been on a diet since October last year and I’ve lost nearly 14kg so far.

Back in April I took part in Ludum Dare 57, which had the theme “Depths”.

Oh boy, it’s been a while since I posted any art!

Well it happened - I finally caught the ‘rona.

From Hell’s Heart is my entry for Ludum Dare 55, the first Ludum Dare I have participated in since I made Out of Gas for Ludum Dare 48 in 2021.

For some months now I’ve been trying to make some progress on the game I’ve been “working on” for probably the better part of a decade, Just a Robot (yep, 7 years ago was the first post there, and it was already in progress for a few years before that!).

In a previous post I described a way to use the state object returned by a yield() call to control the traversal of a graph - specifically, a graph describing a cutscene or dialogue - where some nodes in the graph require waiting on input from the user or…

I read “A Culture of Conspiracy” by Professor Michael Barkun a few years ago.

In a previous instalment, I described how I used Syncthing to sync my notes in Joplin on my laptop to Joplin on my phone.

Much has been said already about the fact that HBO’s documentary series “The Anarchists” is not really about anarchists, and by people far more capable of making the argument than I.

Python is my go-to language for personal projects, and even client projects when I can get away with it (though usually those are Windows based and within the .Net ecosystem, so I stick with C#).

I’ve watched a lot of movies recently that I have a bit to say about, but not enough for a big post dissecting them on their own, like Wrong Turn and Ready Player One, so I’m just throwing them all together here.

I just done watched Thought Slime’s video about the simulation argument (actually many months ago by the time I’m actually publising this), and it’s a topic about which I’ve had some thoughts myself, so I thought maybe it was time to write some of them do…

I’ve been using Evernote for quite a few years now for keeping work and personal notes, despite never really being happy with it.

I don’t remember where I got the inspiration for this one.

Beyond woke, yet the unintended result is the victims are punished for being woke.

In the olden-times, before the Web became basically synonymous with the Internet itself in many people’s minds, there was another, competing hypertext protocol: Gopher.

I’ve been plagued by temptation lately to buy a Pinebook Pro.

Once again I have become neglectful of updating this blog with my artwork, so let’s do a roundup of the last uh… 7 months?!?!

In the last instalment of my epic blogging saga I recounted my discovery that the index page of this site had grown to over 1.7MB of content when loaded fresh, largely due to the images.

When I started this blog, one of my goals was for it to be lean and efficient, both to improve the reader’s experience and to reduce the power usage involved in serving it.

Ludum Dare 48 results are out a while now, but I forgot to post about them.

Out of Gas is my entry for the recent Ludum Dare 48 game jam.

I’m working on a cutscene/dialogue graph editor plugin for the Godot game engine (I mentioned using it for the Ludum Dare in a previous post).

This post contains spoilers for the TV show “The Queen’s Gambit” I loved pretty much everything about The Queen’s Gambit, and as you’ve probably gathered if you’ve read any of my other posts, I don’t have much to say about things if I’m not complaining ab…

This post contains spoilers for the movie “Ready Player One” I finally gave in and watched Ready Player One, prompted by seeing the Internet dump on the sequel to the novel.

I’m not very good at doing these art posts in a timely manner; I did this still-life of a couple of avocados for pixel dailies back in September!

A portrait I did of my friend Mine a few weeks ago.

I was inspired to create this when I won a postcard and sticker pack giveaway on twitter by my friend Stefanie, and I was eagerly waiting for it to arrive!

This post contains spoilers for the TV show “Picard” Star Trek: The Next Generation, and its follow-ups, Deep Space 9 and Voyager, are some of my favourite TV shows.

An animation I made for Asteroid day to continue my space-themed art streak!

Only a few days after the last inspiring pixel dailies prompt, another one appeared that I couldn’t resist - “Celestial”.

I got back into the pixel dailies a couple of days this week.

This post contains spoilers for the TV show “Devs” I liked Devs a lot.

The Ludum Dare 46 results were published yesterday, and my game did quite well, placing 109th overall and 14th in the “Mood” category, as well as 120th and 121st in graphics and audio respectively.

Gophers is my entry for Ludum Dare 46, the most recent of the bi-annual Ludum Dare game jams.

This post contains spoilers for the TV show “For All Mankind” “For All Mankind” is a strange show.

In my inaugural post I mentioned that one problem I had encountered while designing this blog was styling the SVG icons.

Python is probably my favourite language, so I was excited some years ago when a project appeared on Kickstarter to develop a Python runtime for microcontrollers, and an associated microcontroller board.

We see it in every crisis - somebody posts a picture on social media of a bare shelf or a rumour goes around that the shops are running out of something (such as, to pick a good completely at random, toilet paper), and suddenly the shelves are emptying ev…

I put together an animation over the last few weeks of a cat trying to catch gliders on a 70’s styled computer.

Human languages are full to the brim with idioms - figurative ways of saying things that native speakers trot out without even thinking about them.

I’ve read a lot of articles recently (here’s one) lamenting the state of the web.