Hello! We’re already halfway through the year. I’ve let it get away from me. It’s been busy, both at the day job and otherwise. Not enough hours in the day. And too many projects. Here’s an update on one of them. So I am working on a new book If you follow my work over on Left of the Dev, you’re already aware that I’ve announced a new Rails testing book! I got curious about the state of the modern…
Hi friends, I am back in Saint Louis after nearly two months in California. I got to visit Petroglyphs National Monument and Petrified Forest National Park on the way out, and White Sands National Park coming back. All are amazing, and I hope you have a chance to see them yourself. (Yes, I took lots of photos—read on for more!) It’s nice to get back to my own bed and my own kitchen and my walkable…
Hello! I’m happy to share I’ve released a new Pico-8 game called Some People Call Him the Space Cowboy . You can check it out and play for free at Bandageman Studios , or on the Lexalaffle BBS . I started working on this game last summer. It began with a pixel sketching session, wherein I noodled a little cowboy character. A few minutes later he had a body, and a few minutes after that I decided…
Hello! I am very excited to share my latest source of amusement. For the past several months, I’ve been learning video game development for fun, and you can see my first air-quote published works at Bandageman Studios . Need to be convinced to click a link? In this economy? I get it, man. Here’s what you’ll get for your effort–all for the low, low cost of free: Dream Ghoul Dream Ghoul is a small,…
Boy oh boy, I was pretty ambitious in March . Fast forward to now. Summer was a wash. Here in St. Louis, it rained most of June, and started feeling like fall by mid-August. I love summer. I love the heat and even some humidity. Maybe we’ll get a little last gasp of the season in the next few weeks? Anyway, I didn’t get as much done as I thought I would this time-ish last spring. But let’s not…
The world is a mess, and the country in which I live is extra a mess, and I’m not trying to ignore that by any means. It fucking sucks. But I am riding a small burst of manic productive energy, so stepping back for a sec to think about what I’m working on and what I’ve accomplished in the past couple of weeks. In no particular order: Porting Everyday Rails to Ghost I’ve published Everyday Rails…