As I continue to grind Valour down into a polished gem ready for publishing, I’m occasionally working in some time on a few smaller designs; it’s nice to have a distraction that feels productive. One of these new designs, I’m calling Potemkin Empire; named after a concept we see around the…
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2016 Retrospective
Twenty Sixteen, everyone’s favorite year to hate in modern memory. I’m not really going to address any of the globally bad shit that went down here, I’m just going to talk about myself. That’s healthy, right? 2016 was a pretty big year of change for me — so a lot of…
NaNoWriMo 2016 “Winner”!
I successfully “wrote” a “novel” in the month of November — at least per the rules of NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writing Month): Written word-count of 50k in thirty days, which averages to at least 1,667 words per day. Since I was a little nervous about being able to consistently put out that quantity amount beyond…
Game Balance: Solving the Brigadier Problem
Once upon a time, I built a web-based MMO called Galactic Impact. This was intended to be an async-multiplayer game in the spirit of such classic computer hits as “Master of Orion” and “Pax Imperia”. Build out your home planet, construct colony and war ships, dispatch them to neighboring planets,…
Announcing Mobility on Demand!
Over the last year, Andrea and I have been hard at work building a project which has been a dream of mine for a while, but she has really pushed it to fruition. We’re thrilled to announce “Mobility on Demand” — a set of well-organized cards for optimizing your mobility work…
Quote: Charles Babbage
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of…
An Institution Goes Dark
Boulder wakes up a different city today. Atlas Purveyors closed their doors last night, leaving many of us wandering the streets aimlessly before heading in to work this morning. Like many, my introduction to Atlas was early in my Boulder tenure, accidental, and unassuming. It was my second full day…
gmail + gdrive = clever
Well this is clever: I tried to email a link to a Google Doc to someone, and before sending it, Gmail identified that the recipient wouldn’t be able to open it and suggested some options.
Once Upon a Friday at Flixmaster
At Flixmaster my development team uses a group chat application called Flowdock to collaborate and discuss bugs and features; basically it helps keep us all on the same page. Jenni does anyone think lori’s bug might be due to the same reason the vids are choppy? Justin possible not sure…
Space Oddity
I can’t imagine what it would be like to get to live in space for months and then have to come home.