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As is my wont, I read a fair bit in 2024. Here are the books I tackled this year that I found most interesting, challenging, engaging, and/or compelling: (Note: I get a bit of a commission if you buy any … Continue reading
31.12.2024 13:48My Favorite Reads of 2024Howdy friends, near and far, young and old, those who we haven’t seen this year and those who may feel they’ve seen too much of us, As I write this update, I’m still optimistic that it will get printed, signed, … Continue reading
28.12.2024 23:19Christmas Update 2024Back in 2019, Apple introduced SFSymbols: a rich set of glyphs in a common style designed for developers to use in their apps. At the same time, they added the ability for developers to create their own custom symbols that … Continue reading
26.4.2024 15:50Optimizing SFSymbols with SVGOLast year, Automattic (which runs WordPress.com) acquired an ActivityPub plugin for the WordPress CMS/blogging platform. This caught my eye, as Elon’s sabotage of Twitter was continuing apace, finally giving me impetus to switch over to Mastodon and explore it and … Continue reading
5.3.2024 15:23Integrating WordPress and Mastodon using ActivityPubJohn Dewey suggested that many of the arts are crystallizations of ordinary human experience. Fiction is the crystallization of telling people about what happened; visual arts are the crystallization of looking around and seeing; music is the crystallization of listening. … Continue reading
1.2.2024 16:51On Games as the Art of ExperiencesDear Friends, As the dust settles from this year’s madcap Christmas celebrations, it’s time for us to look back on 2023 and share its high points with all of you with whom we don’t get to spend as much time … Continue reading
31.12.2023 15:022023 Holiday UpdateSome years ago, I wrote a little jig. During a rehearsal last night, we decided to incorporate it into The Happy Out’s version of “All for me Grog”. As I needed to later communicate it to our fiddle player, I … Continue reading
29.11.2023 13:17Beagle at the BarA friend of mine recentlly asked for some recommendations for an upcoming visit to San Antonio. Because one thing I’m never short of is opinions, I wrote up a list of some of my favorite things to do in town. … Continue reading
18.8.2023 15:40San Antonio Travel GuideWhile playing with The Happy Out at the San Antonio Highland Games recently, we were a bit vexed to be utterly drowned out during one of our lilting acapella tunes by the band at the next stage. The musical interlopers … Continue reading
26.4.2023 23:11The Nuclear BodhranI finished reading “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels” this morning. Great read, and an excellent window into the video game industry and the toll it exacts from those working in it. When I got laid off from EA back in 2004 … Continue reading
12.2.2023 16:32Reflection on Making Video Games and Child Rearing