I’m thinking about week notes again. I like the idea, but it is a form I struggle to keep with. To stick to. It feels sorta like a one sided conversation. Broadcast. I’d like to make it more of a conversation. I’ve made two new little games since the start of December. Both are i … | Continue reading
I’ve been working on the broughlike pretty steadily since my last update. The gameplay loop is pretty much unchanged, but I’ve added a fair bit of polish, and fixed a lot of bugs. I think it is honestly sort of boring to play, but I am excited to have this as the starting point f … | Continue reading
The Roguelike Celebration happened this weekend. Every year I think about participating, and every year I let it slip me by. In honor of it, though, this weekend I made a Broughlike…which I’ve creatively named “Eli’s Broughlike.” It runs in the browser. It should work on most any … | Continue reading
This afternoon I put the garden to sleep for the fall; in the past we’ve had some fall and winter vegetables going, but this year that didn’t happen, so, I emptied out the rain barrels, cleaned them out, trundled them to a place where they wouldn’t get blown around by any winds, … | Continue reading
Published October 10, 2024 Tags image northern lights fall | Continue reading
Published October 10, 2024 Tags image northern lights fall | Continue reading
Published October 10, 2024 Tags image northern lights fall | Continue reading
I’ve found myself in possession of a guitar. Actually, the guitar that I had in middle school has come back to me after a decade’s long jaunt with someone else. I don’t really play guitar, but, I figured I should restring it and tune it. I’m really very bad at tuning, so, rather … | Continue reading
I had time to take a walk before running some errands and getting a flu shot and a Covid booster this morning. | Continue reading
I shared some snippets of JavaScript in a recent blog post and was wicked irked that I didn’t have an easy way to share interactive code on my own thing…so…I made a totally static JavaScript playground for running little experiments and sharing scrappy fiddles! It is pretty simpl … | Continue reading
After reading my last post, a friend asked an interesting question that I thought would also be fun to write about! They noted that in the reshape function I declared the variable result as a constant. They asked if this was a mistake, because I was resigning the value iterativel … | Continue reading
In APL the rho, ⍴, called reshape is used to both construct arrays of a given shape (dimensionality), and to reconfigure arrays into new shapes. Sometimes I wish I had reshape in JavaScript…so I wrote it! Here are two functions that, when combined, a la Captain Planet, can stand … | Continue reading
I finished reading Robin Sloan’s Moonbound today. It was fun, and light. The blurb likens it to Narnia, and, while a bold claim, I think that was a correct assertion, but more about the intended audience than the book’s subject matter. If a sequel is ever written I’d most certain … | Continue reading
As we start to round out the summer I haven’t been reading as much, so I don’t have much to report on that front, but I have been keeping busy! I made yet another pixel art drawing tool, pixel pixel pixel pixel pixel pixel allows folks to draw chonky pixel art creations on pretty … | Continue reading
I really like the unpredictable depth of field and color handling of single-use cameras. The day before we left for a little vacation to down east Maine I wrote another weird little camera app, lut cam. Lut cam attempts to simulate some of the aspects of a single-use camera by al … | Continue reading
We took a boat to a teeny tiny island called Bean Island. We walked around the entire edge of the island’s rocky coastline. There were some gloriously regal looking black backed gulls along the shore, as well as a pair of juvenile bald eagles who were making hilariously squeaky n … | Continue reading
In my last post I said that I’ve had a few ideas for other personal experiments I wanna build on those walks, but haven’t actually wanted to do much programming — maybe this fall or winter will be a good time for that? Welp, it wasn’t even an idea when I wrote that, but I made an … | Continue reading
This summer my oldest kid — 8 years old — asked to learn more about programming. They’ve already got about a full time job’s worth of experience with Minecraft’s red stone, Super Mario Maker 2, Logo, and Scratch so I knew we weren’t starting from nil, but, despite having done a b … | Continue reading
“It’s hard for a hungry man to swager” This line from The Tale of Thorleif Earl’s Poet has gotta be one of the greatest lines from all of Icelandic saga literature. | Continue reading
After having dithering-fun making dither it and pico cam I made a little game, currently called “puzzle dungeon,” which I admit isn’t a very good name at all. Puzzle dungeon is part logo, part dungeon crawling rogue-like and it doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with ditherin … | Continue reading
This weekend we traveled 20 minutes to a sort of secret beach. It was a grey, overcast day, and we timed our trip to line up with low tide so that we could walk waaaaaaay far out into the ocean all the way to some little islands. It was fun, and we saw some neat birds, including … | Continue reading
Or at least the story of life as I implemented it in swift recently as a little learning project because I haven’t written any swift since walking away from mobile dev a few years ago (no regrets)! First there was the universe! Well, first there was some requisite boilerplate, bu … | Continue reading
In the span of two posts here I’ve witnessed two astronomical events! First the total solar eclipse, and then more recently the aurora borealis. Both were amazing, especially the aurora. I’d never seen either before and both were pretty incredible to behold. I left my old job at … | Continue reading
Published May 11, 2024 Tags image spring aurora night sky electromagnetism | Continue reading
Published April 18, 2024 Tags image spring bird warbler yellow | Continue reading
Since my last update I’ve read a handful of books. Some standout reads include Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind and The Left Hand of Darkness, all by Ursula K. Le Guin. I’d read them all before, accepted for The Other Wind. I thought I’d read The Other Wind, but hadn’t! Chaos: … | Continue reading
In reply to: Scaling accessibility beyond compliance at VA.gov through community and culture If “accessibility as compliance” is a staircase where outcomes are restricted to the normative limitations of the law, Accessibility Beyond Compliance is an exponential curve. It isn’t li … | Continue reading
Hot on the heals of recently being interviewed by Manu, I was interviewed by Kristen Foster-Marks from the Developer Success Lab. It was a lot of fun! We had a wide ranging conversation, but often came back around to the importance of “learning culture” and how it relates to succ … | Continue reading
I just finished reading The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty. I loved it. When I finished A Memory Called Empire I assumed it’d be my most favorite book of the year — it has already been unseated!? I mean, if I kept track of favorites. As I finished The Adven … | Continue reading
As an undergrad and a grad student I was obsessed with Virginia Woolf. Woolf’s writings appeared in my citations pretty much regardless of the class or subject area I was writing on. I have recently finished reading an engaging and lovely novel by Arkady Martine, “A Memory Called … | Continue reading
It’s been very damp. It was, however, recently sunny for a bit. Here is the proof of the sun’s continued existence. | Continue reading
I’ve had fun playing at implementing a very basic visual programming system over the last few days. I like the direction I’ve started down, but realize I’ve made a few oversights that are gonna necessitate my starting over, which is part of the fun. I’ve implemented toy interpret … | Continue reading
The last weeks of 2023 have been very enjoyable. Other than having to deal with a cascade of car issues, there’s been a lot of time to hang out with the partner and kids, wander around outside, and poke at fun personal projects…and I mean, work, too, but…you know. The other eveni … | Continue reading
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