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Hyperlink Your Heart
All Posts
The Power of Breaks
Sometimes taking a break makes the solution to a problem obvious when you return to it.
📁 Game Development
#godot, #life, #self-care
Coming Down
A pixel art portrait of a woman, loosely inspired by the Chemical Brothers' song "Where Do I Begin".
📁 Art
#pixelart, #portrait, #music, #psychedelia
Treat Mania
I've been on a diet since last October and my desire for treats is slowly taking over my mind.
📁 Life
#diet, #food
Lovely, Dark and Deep
Post-mortem and results for my Ludum Dare 57 entry.
📁 Game Development
#ludum-dare, #godot, #godot4, #pixelart, #music
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.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #portrait, #dogs, #nfts, #politics, #foss, #capitalism, #genai
COVID Movies
Movies I watched when I was sick.
📁 Movies
#fiction, #coronavirus, #star-trek
From Hell's Heart
A post-mortem of my Ludum Dare 55 entry, From Hell's Heart, a twin-stick shooter.
📁 Game Development
#godot, #godot4, #gdscript, #ludum-dare, #music, #pixelart
I Accidentally Visual Scripting
I seem to be accidentally implementing a visual scripting system as part of my tooling...
📁 Game Development
#godot, #godot4, #gdscript, #cutscenegrapheditor
All My Yield()s, Gone!
The removal of yield() in Godot 4 means a new approach is required for some of its use cases.
📁 Game Development
#godot, #gdscript, #godot4
A Culture of Conspiracy
A book about nonsense.
📁 Books
#non-fiction, #politics
Syncthing Update
Joplin sync didn't work out long term, but I'm still using Syncthing
📁 Technology
#foss, #privacy
The Ancaps
HBO's "The Anarchists" is not really about Anarchists
📁 TV
#politics, #anarchism, #capitalism, #socialism
Nimpressions
First impressions of the Nim programming language
📁 Programming
#nim, #python, #c-sharp
Recent Movie Watchings
Movies I watched recently that I have a bit to say about... but not too much.
📁 Movies
#fiction, #politics
Sim-Universe
Thoughts on the simulation argument.
📁 Philosophy
#sci-fi, #religion
Gemican: A Capsule Generator
Following on from my Pelican plugin, I decided that a fork was necessary to introduce full support for Gemini.
📁 Gemini
#python, #pelican, #blogging, #smolnet
Joplin & Syncthing
I recently switched from Evernote to Joplin, using Syncthing to sync my notes between devices.
📁 Technology
#foss, #privacy
Out of Road
Just a fancy car that took a wrong turn, nothing to read in to here.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #politics, #environmentalism
Goodbye Jennifer
Hello Kayla
📁 Gemini
#smolnet, #games
Wrong Turn... into Wokeness
Conservatives fail to understand their own propaganda - but I guess it has the intended effect nonetheless.
📁 Movies
#fiction, #politics
Gemini Launch!
All about the launch of this very capsule, and how it is generated and hosted.
📁 Gemini
#python, #pelican, #blogging, #smolnet
iRehabilitation
Attempting to keep an old-ish MacBook useful and interesting with Xubuntu.
📁 Technology
#mac, #linux, #blogging
Recent Art & Portfolio
Belated art updates from the last 7 months.
📁 Art
#pixelart
Ludum Dare 48 Results
Results for Ludum Dare 48 are out, and I did less well than last time!
📁 Game Development
#ludum-dare, #sci-fi, #music, #pixelart, #godot
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.
📁 Game Development
#ludum-dare, #sci-fi, #music, #pixelart, #godot
Coroutine Callbacks
Using coroutines to call back to the emitter of a signal.
📁 Game Development
#godot, #gdscript
America Wins Again
Or does it?
📁 TV
#not-a-tankie-but, #politics
Cybercentrism
Ready Player One successfully merges cyberpunk with centrist politics, for some reason.
📁 Movies
#fiction, #politics
Avocados
A couple of juicy avocados.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #still-life
Mine
A portrait of my friend Mine.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #portrait
Anticipation
A dog waiting for a very important letter.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #animation
Stars Trek - Failures of Imagination
Wherein I take Star Trek Picard far too seriously.
📁 TV
#star-trek, #picard, #notaneconomist
Observatory
An animation for Asteroid day 2020.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #space, #animation
Celestial
Several pieces inspired by the pixel dailies theme "Celestial".
📁 Art
#pixelart, #pixeldailies, #space, #sci-fi, #animation
Cosmic Eye
A piece I did for pixel dailies on the theme "Eye".
📁 Art
#pixelart, #pixeldailies, #surreal, #space
Devs - Spirituality as a Service
Beautiful, and perhaps appropriately predictable, but also frustrating in its conception of causality and the characters blinkered behaviour.
📁 TV
#sci-fi, #religion
Ludum Dare 46 Results
Results for Ludum Dare 46 are out, and I did pretty well!
📁 Game Development
#ludum-dare, #gopher, #sci-fi, #music, #pixelart, #godot
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.
📁 Game Development
#ludum-dare, #gopher, #sci-fi, #music, #pixelart, #godot
For All Mankind
America wins, even when it loses.
📁 TV
#sci-fi, #not-a-tankie-but
Runtime Class Modification
Batteries-included package development in Python requires an unorthodox approach when targeting microcontrollers.
📁 Programming
#python, #micropython
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Expectations of shortages lead to shortages.
📁 Economics
#panic, #coronavirus, #notaneconomist
Catnip
An animation of a cat hunting pixels on a 70's styled computer.
📁 Art
#pixelart, #animation, #music
Bad Idioms
A brief investigation of Python's EAFP idiom applied to C#.
📁 Programming
#python, #c-sharp