Home Brew Bike Speedometer
I wrote a speedometer app for an old Android phone to use on my bike.
Hyperlink Your Heart
Until there's nothing left.
Latest posts
Framework Pros and Cons
Framework s recently announced Pro model presents a dilemma.
M’lady Moon
Thoughts on The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
Value and Values
Some reflections on what tech companies actually value, with particular reference to Framework s recent sponsorship choices, but really more generally than that.
The Ministry for the Future
Longtermism as it should be.
The Power of Breaks
Sometimes taking a break makes the solution to a problem obvious when you return to it.
Coming Down
A pixel art portrait of a woman, loosely inspired by the Chemical Brothers song Where Do I Begin .
Treat Mania
I ve been on a diet since last October and my desire for treats is slowly taking over my mind.
Lovely, Dark and Deep
Post-mortem and results for my Ludum Dare 57 entry.
Big Lick
A pixel art painting I did of my brother-in-law and one of my parent s dogs. Also some chat about why I haven t done any art in ages.
COVID Movies
Movies I watched when I was sick.
From Hell’s Heart
A post-mortem of my Ludum Dare 55 entry, From Hell s Heart, a twin-stick shooter.
I Accidentally Visual Scripting
I seem to be accidentally implementing a visual scripting system as part of my tooling
All My Yield()s, Gone!
The removal of yield() in Godot 4 means a new approach is required for some of its use cases.
A Culture of Conspiracy
A book about nonsense.
Syncthing Update
Joplin sync didn t work out long term, but I m still using Syncthing
The Ancaps
HBO s The Anarchists is not really about Anarchists
Nimpressions
First impressions of the Nim programming language
Recent Movie Watchings
Movies I watched recently that I have a bit to say about but not too much.
Sim-Universe
Thoughts on the simulation argument.
Joplin & Syncthing
I recently switched from Evernote to Joplin, using Syncthing to sync my notes between devices.
Out of Road
Just a fancy car that took a wrong turn.
Wrong Turn… into Wokeness
Conservatives fail to understand their own propaganda - but I guess it has the intended effect nonetheless.
Gemini Launch!
All about the launch of my Gemini capsule, and how it is generated and hosted.
iRehabilitation
Attempting to keep an old-ish MacBook useful and interesting with Xubuntu.
Recent Art & Portfolio
Belated art updates from the last 7 months.
Image Optimisation
Image optimisation experiments and a helpful Pelican plugin
Energy Usage Update
An update on the energy efficiency of this blog.
Ludum Dare 48 Results
Results for Ludum Dare 48 are out, and I did less well than last time!
Out of Gas
A post-mortem of my Ludum Dare 48 entry, Out of Gas - a space-road-trip themed narrative/clicker game about a couple of outlaws fleeing their cryptocurrency debts.
Coroutine Callbacks
Using coroutines to call back to the emitter of a signal.
America Wins Again
Or does it?
Cybercentrism
Ready Player One successfully merges cyberpunk with centrist politics, for some reason.
Avocados
A couple of juicy avocados.
Mine
A portrait of my friend Mine.
Anticipation
A dog waiting for a very important letter.
Stars Trek - Failures of Imagination
Wherein I take Star Trek: Picard far too seriously.
Observatory
An animation for Asteroid day 2020.
Celestial
Several pieces inspired by the pixel dailies theme Celestial .
Cosmic Eye
A piece I did for pixel dailies on the theme Eye .
Devs - Spirituality as a Service
Beautiful, and perhaps appropriately predictable, but also frustrating in its conception of causality and the characters blinkered behaviour.
Ludum Dare 46 Results
Results for Ludum Dare 46 are out, and I did pretty well!
Gophers
A post-mortem of my Ludum Dare 46 entry, Gophers - a short adventure game about keeping a gopher network alive after some sort of nuclear event has destroyed civilisation.
For All Mankind
America wins, even when it loses.
Embedding SVGs in Pelican
A static alternative to Font Awesome s dynamic icon embedding.
Runtime Class Modification
Batteries-included package development in Python requires an unorthodox approach when targeting microcontrollers.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Expectations of shortages lead to shortages.
Catnip
An animation of a cat hunting pixels on a 70 s styled computer.
Bad Idioms
A brief investigation of Python s EAFP idiom applied to C#.
Remember Blogs?
The how and the why of this very blog right here.