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2026-06-03 ๐ŸŒŽ I Rewrote This Site

2026-05-26 ๐ŸŽฎ A Eulogy for Handheld Video Games

2026-05-20 ๐Ÿ“ฆ Lessons in Shipping Real Software

2026-05-08 ๐Ÿ“‹ Stask is a Stack to Track Your Tasks

2026-05-07 ๐Ÿ“‹ Task Management is a Hard Problem

2026-05-06 ๐Ÿ“œ Parchment is Now Available

2026-04-27 โœ๏ธ Advice on Starting a Blog

2026-04-02 ๐Ÿฅฑ Apathy and Indifference

2026-03-30 ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ The Inevitability of Vibecoding

2026-03-20 ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ The Whole Plate: How Nintendo's Sandboxes Are Different

2026-03-06 โŒจ๏ธ Telepipe is Now Available

2026-02-13 โŒจ๏ธ Polishing up Telepipe

2026-01-30 โŒจ๏ธ 5 Weeks of Telepipe Development

2026-01-16 โŒจ๏ธ Telepipe

2026-01-12 ๐Ÿฆ– The Terminal is an Evolutionary Dead-End

2026-01-11 ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ Middle Click Mayhem

2026-01-05 ๐Ÿšซ Betting Against Mindless AI is a No-Brainer

2026-01-01 ๐ŸŽŠ A Look Back at 2025

2025-12-13 ๐Ÿ  Home Sweet Home Alone is Great, Actually

2025-12-09 ๐ŸŽฎ The Game Development Math Doesn't Add Up

2025-11-27 ๐Ÿ Nintendo's Mario Kart Mistake

2025-11-18 ๐Ÿ’Ž Timeless Emerald is a Mod to Remove the Real-Time Clock

2025-11-04 ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ This "AI" Thing is An Embarrassment

2025-11-02 ๐ŸŒฅ๏ธ I am Never Doing Daylight Savings Ever Again

2025-10-10 ๐ŸŒฑ How to Play Forever

2025-10-04 ๐Ÿ“ Stop Wrapping Text by Hand

2025-09-30 ๐Ÿ‘ฃ How to Write a Complete GNOME Application in Lua

2025-08-20 ๐Ÿ‘ค Welcome, Lurkers

2025-07-28 ๐ŸŒ™ Introducing LuaGObject

2025-07-17 ๐Ÿญ Automation Games and the Need to Build

2025-07-09 ๐ŸŒ™ I am forking LGI, Lua's Bindings to GObject

2025-06-03 ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Why "Pride"?

2025-05-26 ๐Ÿ“œ Parchment Status Update

2025-05-18 ๐ŸŽฎ The Video Game Industry's Woes are Self-Inflicted

2025-05-16 ๐Ÿง Loss of Features is Progressive

2025-05-15 ๐Ÿค– Em-Dashes and You

2025-05-13 ๐Ÿ’ฐ Failing Fast at Paid Subscriptions

2025-04-25 ๐Ÿšซ A Simple Request for Users of AI

2025-03-25 ๐Ÿช™ Rewarding Moments in Video Games

2025-03-10 ๐Ÿงโ€โ™‚๏ธ Zelda and Bad User Interface Design

2025-02-07 โ›… I am Skipping Daylight Savings in 2025

2025-01-18 ๐Ÿค Per-Post Character Limits are a Good Thing, Actually

2025-01-16 ๐Ÿ˜ต What is the Point of Customization?

2025-01-14 ๐ŸซŸ Work Fast, Make Problems

2025-01-08 ๐Ÿ’€ Blog Technology: Pick Your Poison

2025-01-06 ๐Ÿ› When an Infestation Strikes

2025-01-01 ๐ŸŽŠ A Look Back at 2024

2024-12-27 ๐Ÿชจ One Year of Failing Fast

2024-12-17 ๐Ÿ“œ Parchment is a Sparse, Spartan Text Editor

2024-11-13 ๐Ÿ›ธ UFO 50 and the Misconception of "Game Over"

2024-09-27 ๐Ÿ‡ A Tally Counter App for Linux

2024-09-09 โœ’๏ธ Avoiding the Wrong (Digital) Superpowers

2024-09-05 โœ๏ธ Finding the Right (Design) Metaphor

2024-09-03 ๐ŸŒฝ Peak Gaming: Harvest Moon (SNES, 1996)

2024-08-30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ Programming Deserves Better than Monospace

2024-07-15 ๐Ÿ–๏ธ It's Too Quiet

2024-07-04 ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Experiments in IDE Simplification

2024-05-31 ๐Ÿž Buying a New Toaster Cured My Chronic Pain

2024-05-07 ๐Ÿ˜ญ Chronic Pain

2024-02-08 ๐Ÿง™ Experiments in IDE Design

2024-01-01 ๐ŸŽŠ A Look Back at 2023

2023-12-26 ๐Ÿชจ Blank Canvasses & Rock Portraits (A Mission Statement)

2023-04-21 ๐Ÿ‘ฃ Switching to GNOME

2022-10-24 ๐ŸŒณ On the Joy of Replaying Childhood Video Games as an Adult

2022-01-04 ๐Ÿณ Review: Pokรฉmon Sapphire (GBA, 2002)

2021-12-28 ๐Ÿ’ป The Charming Allure of ed(1)

2021-09-21 ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Beepy-Kabloopie: A Banjo-Kazooie Chiptune Album

2020-06-09 ๐Ÿ‘พ The OverUsed Pokรฉmon Battle Format is OverHyped